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October 2009
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Thursday
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5 DUE: The Bluest Eye & MWDS
(reading QUIZ)
*receive TBE Socratic Seminar groups and questions
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6 *TBE discussion and activities
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8 SOCRATIC
SEMINAR: The Bluest Eye
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12 No School, Teacher Work Day
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*TBE Style Analysis
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15 *read "Greenleaf" by Flannery O'Connor
*write 1 page analyzing style of story (can be dropboxed)
*receive Their Eyes Were Watching God
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19 No Class: Even Day
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20 *Senior Guidance Visits
*review Vocab
2 words
* IN CLASS ESSAY:poetry timed writing
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22 Baby Girl's due date!
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26 QUIZ: Vocab 2
*receive Their Eyes Were Watching God formal essay
assignment
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27 Read and take notes on Musical Devices (p661) and Rhythm and
Meter (p674) of Perrine (5th, purple edition). Choose one poem from list and
do focused read. Write brief summary of poem.
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September 2009
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Thursday
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7 No School, Labor Day
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8 *Course Introduction
*Find open-ended questions for Major Works Data Sheets (MWDS)
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10 DUE: MWDS, dialectical journal, Bloom WS
*Go over Bloom WS
*READING QUIZ: Invisible Man
*Laptop Distribution
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14 *DUE: letter of introduction
*receive optional novel essay assignment (due Sept 29/30)
*review sample essay
*discuss Invisible Man
*Existentialism handout
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15 *Thesis instruction and practice in groups
*Invisible Man: Applied Practice Passages 1-6
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17 DUE: Finish IM passage (first 3 columns)
*receive The Bluest Eye (due Oct. 5)
*IN CLASS ESSAY/ Timed Writing: Invisible Man
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21 QUIZ: Vocab 1
*Read "Aunt Jane," Sound and Sense p. 121
*IM Groups share answers
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22 *Finish IM group answers
*Review PTCASTing and Sound and Sense, "Bad Poetry and Good"
*Compare "To His Coy Mistress" and "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time"
*SchoolSpace Discussion
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24 DUE: SchoolSpace Discussion by the end of class
*PTCAST "Snapping Beans"
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28 No School, Teacher Work Day
(Pace yourself; you should be more than half-way done with The Bluest
Eye by today.)
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29 PAPER DUE: optional novel essay due (must be printed before
class and turned in at start of class)
*Read "Kiss and Tell" AP Prompt
*Review AP Essay Scoring
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1 Oct DUE: Sample AP exam essay ranking (Fill out Quia
Survey)
*Fill in literary
movements and historical periods chart
*introduce new words journal
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