American Literature Assignments


Week 1
Mandala
Silent Exchange
Constructed and negotiated meaning
William Stafford "Traveling Through the Dark"
Michael Ondaatje "Application for a Driving License"

 

Week 2
"Death of a Salesman" -Arthur Miller
reading logs
Socratic Seminar

Week 3
Read & discuss "Death of a Salesman"
supplementary material for "Death of a Salesman"
write essay on reading related topic
Reading logs due

learn names of fellow students

Week 4
finish reading "Death of a Salesman"
complete 6th and final reading lab
practice improvisation
quiz on pp.70-99
essay on topic generated from "DOAS" due
flow writing
reading workshop

Week 5
Flow writing
Collage of voices expressing motifs in "DOAS"
Essay test
Reading workshop

Week 6
Begin "Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
a little help with "Farenheit 451"
homework-10 local resources for potential suicides' frriends and family-phone# and addresses (due Friday)
Reading logs to page 60
flow writing
reading workshop

Week 7
Flow writing
Reading logs 60-80-100
Dictation
Seminar-"Uru and the Tower"
Reading workshop

Week 8
Flow writing: The Value of Books
Create production of scene between Montag and Beatty
Dover Beach
Dictation-Fahrenheit 451 ,pp.100-150
Reading workshop

Week 9
finish Fahrenheit 451
quiz on end of book
Flow writing
Choral reading with style analysis
Plan production of scene between Beatty and Montag. Analyse the film.
Write a paper-1ptds of a better interpretation of the film

Week 10
Create a Literary Devices Booklet
Collect essays on Fahrenheit 451
Start Style Analysis presentations

Week 11
Begin One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
collect Style Devices Project
Dictation
New Improved Reading Logs
Reading Workshop

Week 12
Flow writing
Dictation & Discussion
Read-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Reading workshop

Week 13
Read Chapters 7-18 -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Reading Log
Reading workshop

Week 14
Flow writing
Reading Logs for OFOTCN-part 1 (to p.128)
Read OFOTCN -part 2 (to p. 173)
Dictation
HWK- research the decade before OFOTCN was written (1952-1962)
Reading workshop

Week 15
Flow
illustrated timeline
The Christ metaphor and the fishing trip
End-of-the-year letter
"Much Madness is Devinest Sense"

Winter Break

 

Week 17
Review-OFOTCN
Flow writing
Review Style Analysis terminology
Dictation
Shared Inquiry: Racism in OFOTCN
Reading workshop

Week 18
Finish reading-OFOTCN
Discuss Racism in book
Essay-The Hero's Journey
English Notes
Monologues

Week 19
The Hero's Journey in OFOTCN
Presentations
Dickenson poem memorized
Reading workshop

Week 20
Review
2 Essay questions-OFOTCN, Reading workshop

Spring Semester

Week 1
Begin The Crucible
Flow
Dictation
HWK-Essay "Coveting"
Reading workshop
To help you understand
The Crucible

Week 2
The Crucible-Act3,Act4
Flow-Rewrite 1ptds
Subtext practice

Week 3
Flow- How I Handle Conflicts
Read The Crucible-Act 3
Research-Best way to handle conflict(2 sources, summarized & bibliography)
Testing

Week 4
Testing
Read The Crucible
Presentations- The Hero's Journey

Week 5
Finish The Crucible
The Hero's Journey-presentations
Memorize "Invictus" by Henley

Week 6
Senior registration
Final essay test-The Crucible
Begin Catcher in the Rye
Reading workshop

Week 7
Flow
Reading Logs
Dictation
Continue reading Catcher in the Rye(to p.80)
Help with Catcher in the Rye

Week 8
Flow-If you ran away from home
Read Catcher in the Rye
Music presentations
Personification essay due Friday
Reading workshop

Week 9
Flow
Music presentation
Quotation Illustration
Dictation
Reading Workshop

Week 10
Finish Catcher in the Rye
Essay exam
Shared inquiry
Reading workshop
Memorize "To a Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman

Easter Break

Week 12
Flow
Review skits-symbols,events- 3 minute Catcher in the Rye
Humor book
HWK-1 ptds (due Friday) 5 objects that are symbols to you

Week 13
Monday & Tuesday-Read, Discuss Of Mice and Men
Dictation
Flow
W-Fri.-STAR Testing

Week 14
Humor book
Reading workshop

Week 15
Final essay-Of Mice and Men
film to track George's" Hero's Journey"
Reading workshop

Week 16
Humor book





 

 

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