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Schedule Changes:
Mon 10/19 = Even, Mon 11/2 = Odd, Mon 11/23 = Even, Wed 11/25 = half day,
periods 1-4
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October 2009
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Monday
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Wednesday
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Friday
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5 DUE: The Bluest Eye & MWDS
(reading QUIZ)
*receive TBE Socratic Seminar groups and questions
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7 *TBE notes
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9 SOCRATIC
SEMINAR: The Bluest Eye
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12 No School, Teacher Work Day
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14 Seniors arrive at 10 a.m.
*TBE Style Analysis
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16 *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
Even Day
*Senior Guidance visit
* IN CLASS ESSAY: poetry timed writing
*review Vocab
2 words
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21
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23
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26 QUIZ: Vocab 2
*receive Their Eyes Were Watching God formal essay
assignment
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30
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November 2009
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Monday
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Wednesday
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Friday
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2 Odd Day, no class
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4 Due: Their Eyes Were Watching God..
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Read ch. 12-16. Complete imagery and tone definitions posted in docs.
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6QUIZ: poetic and literary terms.
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9 QUIZ: Vocab 3
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11 Last Day of MP1
PAPER DUE: Their Eyes Were Watching God paper (must be
printed before class)
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13
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16
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18
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20
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23 Even Day
QUIZ: Vocab 4
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25 Half Day, Periods 1-4
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27 Thanksgiving Break
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December 2009
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Monday
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Wednesday
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Friday
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30 Nov.
QUIZ: Vocab 3
MWDS discussion.
PPT group work
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2
Aristotilian literary genres.
(Devine Comedy; Odyssey; Romeo and Juliet; O Brother, Where Art Thou). Define
genre and works cited.
Situational Comedy. Fawlty Towers: Communication problems. Q: What are
the specific communication problems?
Modest Proposal summaries due.
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4
TEWWG #2 DUE.
Modest Proposal discussion.
Humor. Garrison Keillor
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7 QUIZ: Vocab 4
Discuss college applications
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9 PPT Rehearsals
Hand out scoring rubrics.
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11 Group PPT Presentations
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14 DUE: College Application Essay (from Common
Application or Application of your choice)
*Conference with teacher on Applications
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16 *Conference with teacher on Application Essays
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18 *Conference with teacher on Application Essays
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January 2010
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Monday
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Wednesday
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Friday
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4
Return Vocab Review Quizzes.
Discuss Sense and Sensibility. Themes include Money, Love, Fate
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6 Mock AP Exam in Library
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11
QUIZ: Vocab 6
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13
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15
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18 No School, MLK Jr. Day
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20 DUE: formal essay
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22
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25-29 Exam Week: Monday: Review; Tuesday: 1st and 2nd;
Wednesday: 3rd and 4th; Thursday: 6th and 7th; Friday: 5th
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Previously This Semester
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September 2009
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Monday
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Wednesday
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Friday
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7 No School, Labor Day
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9 *Course Introduction
*Find open-ended questions for Major Works Data Sheets (MWDS)
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11 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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16 *Thesis instruction and practice in groups
*Invisible Man: Applied Practice Passages 1-6
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18 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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23 *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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25 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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30 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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2 Oct DUE: Sample AP exam essay ranking (Take Quia
Survey)
*Fill in literary
movements and historical periods chart
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