***AGENDA (2nd trimester)
January 6-11
6-7—Snow days!
8—Get brains moving! Go over Scarlet Letter test
9—Vocab test units 7-9; create an outline for Realism (pgs. 494-501)
10—Hand in Realism outline; discuss Reflective essay and begin prewriting
January 13-17 (Vocab 10)
13— Continue prewriting/freewriting; discuss Realism; read Walt Whitman (pgs. 508-509, read 510 and do lit questions 1-3, read 512-515 and 1-3 questions, read 516-517 and complete 1-10 on pg. 519
14—Reflective essay rough draft due at the end of the hour
15—Editing day; discuss all of Whitman; read Emily Dickinson 524-532, do quickwrite on pg. 525; read "Because I could not stop for Death--", "Success is counted sweetest" and literary analysis 1-3, "My life closed twice before its close--", I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--" and #4 on pg. 534
16—Discuss Dickinson; final draft due at the end of the hour
17—Read "from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (pgs. 536-547) and do questions 1-9 on pg. 548
January 20-24 (Vocab 11)
20— MLK Jr. Day/No school
21— Read Harriet Jacobs info and “from Incidents from the Life of a Slave Girl” (pgs. 550-557) and complete questions on pg. 558
22— Quick writes on “from Incidents” (see attached); hw: read Ambrose Bierce info and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (pgs. 580-592) and do questions 4, 5, 7, 8 on pg. 593
23— Discuss “An Occurrence…” Begin grammar Unit IV, lesson one: agreement
24—Snow day!
January 27-31 (Vocab 12)
27— Snow day!
28— Snow day!
29— (QPD) Correct lesson one: agreement; assign lesson two: pronoun/antecedent agreement
30— Correct lesson two: pronoun/antecedent agreement; assign agreement review exercise; vocab work
31— (1/2 day) Vocab flashcards due for E.C.; begin unit IV—discuss Naturalism—create an outline.
February 3-7
3— Lesson three: misplaced modifiers; read “The Open Boat” (710)
4— Lesson four: dangling modifiers; discuss “The Open Boat”
5— (QPD) Mastery test review; read “The Law of Life” (744)
6— Grammar test unit IV; Discuss “The Law of Life”
7— Watch “Into the Wild”
February 10-14
10—Vocab test 10-12; continue “Into the Wild”
11— Continue “Into the Wild”
12— Impromptu Essay; discuss Regionalism
13— Read “The Autobiography of Mark Twain” and “The Notorious Jumping Frog…”
14— Mid-Winter Break!