| JUNIORS - ALL TEXTBOOKS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN MAY 23rd!
05/19/2008 - 05/23/2008
05/19 McCullers, Safire, Frazier background and vocabulary p.1110-1111
The Mortgaged Heart p.1112-1114 #1-7
Onomatopoeia p.1115-1117 #1-6
Coyote v. Acme p.1118-1122 #1-5
05/20 James Baldwin background and vocabulary p.1146-1147
The Rock Pile p.1148-1156 #1-6
05/21 Hersey, Jarrell background and vocabulary p.1160-1161
Hiroshima 1162-1172 #1-7
05/22 Losses p.1173
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner p.1174 #1-6
05/23 Gwendolyn Brooks background and vocabulary p.1178-1179
The Explorer p.1182 #1-5
05/12/2008 - 05/16/2008
05/12 The Harlem Renaissance p.910-911
Zora Neale Hurston background and vocabulary p.912-914
Dust on the Tracks p.914-920 #1-6
05/13 Langston Hughes background and vocabulary p.924-925
The Negro Speaks of Rivers p.926
Ardella p.927 #1-7
Dream Variations p.928
Refugee in America p.929 #1-6
05/14 TEST Steinbeck, Welty, Hurston, Hughes
05/15 Flannery O'Connor background and vocabulary p.970-971
The Life You Save May Be Your Own p.972-982 #1-5
05/16 Robert Penn Warren background and vocabulary p.1012-1013
Gold Glade p.1017-1018 #1-5
Alice Walker background and vocabulary p.1054-1055
Everyday Use p.1056-1064 #1-6
05/05/2008 - 05/09/2008
05/05 Chopin background and vocabulary p.632-633
The Story of an Hour p.634-638 #1-7
05/06 Robinson background and vocabulary p.664-665
Richard Cory p.668 #1-6
05/07 TEST Twain, Chopin, Robinson
05/08 Steinbeck background and vocabulary p.766-767
The Grapes of Wrath p.768-770 #1-6
05/08 Eudora Welty background and vocabulary p.807-808
A Worn Path p.820-828 #1-7
04/28/2008 - 05/02/2008
04/28 Bierce background and vocabulary p.506-507
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge p.508-516 #1-7
04/29 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge movie
Written response paper
04/30 PROGRESS REPORTS - if your are failing you must have your progress
report signed by your parent and return it to me on 05/01
05/01 TEST Spirituals and Owl Creek Bridge
05/02 Twain background and vocabulary p.562-563
Life on the Mississippi p.564-568 #1-6
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County p.569-574 #1-6
04/21/2008 - 04/25/2008
04/21 Stephen Crane and Stephen Foster p.474-475 background and vocabulary
An Episode of War p.476-480
Willie has gone to War p.481-482 #1-7
04/22 Review and Assess p.483-484 ALL
04/23 TEST Crane and Foster
04/24 Spirituals p.486-487 background and vocabulary
Swing Low Sweet Chariot p.488-489 #1-6
Go Down, Moses p.490 #1-5
04/25 Review and Assess p.491-492 ALL
04/14/2008 - 04/18/2008
04/14 Walt Whitman Song of Myself p.436-439 #1-6
Astronomer p.440
Bivouac p.441 #1-6
04/15 I Hear America Singing p.442-443
A Noiseless Spider p. 444 #1-7
Review and Assess p.445-446 ALL
04/16 TEST Whitman
04/17 I, Too by Langston Hughes p. 448-449
To Walt Whitman by Angela de Hoyos p.450-451 #1and2
04/18 Begin Unit 4 p.460-473 history, timeline and context
There will be a book check in all of Ms. Jensen's on Friday 04/18/08. If
your book has been lost, stolen or misplaced IT IS 100% YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
to go to Ms. McClendon and pay for the book (or have your parents arrange a
payment plan with the book keeper) and have another book reissued. You may
not continue to sit in my class without the required text. Students who
fail to bring their book to class will receive referral to the dean.
04/07/08 - 04/11/08
04/07 Emily Dickinson p.418-419 background and vocabulary
Because I could not stop for Death p.420-421 #1-5
I heard a fly buzz - when I died p.422-423 #1-5
04/08 There's a certain slant of light p.424
My life closed twice p.424
The Soul selects her own Society p.425 #1-6
The Brain-is wider than the sky p.426
There is a solitude of space p.427 #1-6
Water is taught by thirst p. 428 #1-3
04/09 Review and Assess p. 429-430 ALL
Create study guide.
04/10 TEST on Dickinson
04/11 Review test and begin Whitman p.432-433 background and vocabulary
03/24/08 - 03/28/08
03/24 Continue Transcendentalism with
Thoreau p.400-401 background and vocabulary
Walden p.402-407
03/25 Walden p.407-411 #1-6
Civil Disobedience p.412-413 #1-5
03/26 Review and Assess p.414-415
Create study guide.
03/27 TEST on Transcendentalists
03/28 Review test and possible movie
03/17/2008 - 03/21/2008
03/17 Happy Saint Patrick's Day
Review and Assess p.371-372 ALL questions
Prepare notes for TEST tomorrow
SILENT Reading p.374-376 Where is Here?
HOMEWORK!! Study for test on Moby Dick
03/18 TEST on Moby Dick
03/19 Begin Transcendentalism p.384-387 and vocabulary
03/20 Emerson p.388-396
Nature p.390 #1-7
Self-Reliance p.392 #1-6
Concord Hymn p.393 #1-5
The Snowstorm p.396 #1-5
03/21 NO SCHOOL - Good Friday!
Your POETRY INTERVIEW PROJECT/PAPER was DUE 03/11/08
03/03/08 - 03/07/08
03/03 Herman Melville history and vocabulary p.352-353
03/04 LIBRARY DAY finish researching your poet. Write your interview!
03/05 Moby Dick read aloud p.354-370 #1-8 in COMPLETE sentences
03/06 Review and Assess p.391-392 ALL
03/07 TEST on Melville and Moby Dick
02/25/08 - 02/29/08
02/25 The Raven p.326-330 #1-6 MEMORIZE THIS POEM!!
02/26 Present The Raven aloud in class from memory
02/27 Review and Assess ALL questions
02/28 Poe Test - you may bring one sheet of notes.
02/29 Possible Movie - The Fall of the House of Usher
02/18/08 - 02/22/08
02/18 Edgar Allen Poe p.306-307 & vocabulary
Fall of the House of Usher p.308-317 read
02/19 Fall continued p.317-325 #1-5 due
02/20 LATE START DAY
The Raven p.326-330 #1-6
Start memorizing!
02/21 Review & Assess p.331-332 ALL
Presentations of The Raven memorized!
02/22 TEST on Poe
Writing Assignment #4
02/11/08 - 02/15/08
02/11 Go over grades. Guidance in class.
02/12 FCAT Writes Late Start Day for 11th and 12th Grades 4,5,6,7 only
02/13 Black History Month Movie "A Place at the Table". Guidance in class.
ALL Make-up Work is due today NO EXCEPTIONS!
02/14 Black History Month Movie "One Survivor Remembers"
Writing Assignment #4 on Love. Guidance in class.
02/15 PROGRESS REPORTS GO HOME TODAY!
Black History Month Movie "The Children's March"
PLEASE PICK UP ANY AND ALL PROJECTS YOU HAVE TURNED IN THIS YEAR IN ROOM 227
BY THE END OF THIS WEEK! Any projects that are not claimed will be thrown
out.
02/04/08 - 02/08/08
02/04 Catch-up Day - turn in All work owed from last week!
02/05 Summarize A Psalm of Life, The tide Rises, Thanatopsis, Old Ironsides,
The First Snowfall, and Snowbound using 3-5 COMPLETE sentences for each poem.
Lewis & Powell p.284-285 read aloud and vocabulary
02/06 Crossing the Great Divide p.286-288 #1-5
The Most Sublime...p.289-292 #1-6
02/07 Review and Assess p.293-295 All
02/08 TEST on all poetry to date
01/28/08 - 02/01/08
"A Psalm of Life" p.256-259 #1-5
"The Tide Rises" p.260 #1-5
Review and Assess p.261-263 all questions
Bryant, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier p.264-266 and vocabulary
"Thanatopsis" p.267-269 #1-5
"Old Ironsides" p.270-271 #1-5
"The First Snowfall" p.272-273 #1-7
"Snowbound" p.275-280 #1-5
Review and assess p.281-283 all questions
01/22/08 - 01/25/08
Begin Unit 3 p.228-238 timeline and history
Vocabulary handouts
"The Devil and Tom Walker" p.239-252 #1-7
Pre-registration with Mrs. Wells
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