11th Grade English: American Literature

Jump to This Week

September • October • November • December • January

MLA format in brief + headings

AP level novels

Literary Tone

 

 


 
http://www.freerice.com
A vocabulary site online that helps others as well as you.

FREE E-BOOKS

TurnItIn

Student info for TurnItIn

 

back to top

September  2008

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

 

3

4

5 advisory schedule

 

 

Introduction to course

Essay Assignment (due Friday)

Chronology

Part I: In Harmony with Nature - small group work

Essay due

Small Group Presentations will be due on Monday

Homework: read selections

 

8

9

10

11

12 AM assembly schedule/gym

Group presentations

 

HOMEWORK: READ "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" and "Deer Woman"

Group presentations

Overview of book, part I

discussion of part I

HOMEWORK: READ pp. 80-84

Discussion

Worksheet

 

 

Homework: think about #2 on the second worksheet you got today. You'll be writing an in-class essay tomorrow.

Essay assignment: #2 on the worksheet; write in class and personalize it

Turn into the drawer at the end of class.

 

Homework for Friday:

Bring a book or magazine you are reading now to class.

 

Homework for Monday (sorry we didn't get to it on Friday):

Bring a book or magazine you are reading now to class.

Revise the essay for Monday.

15

16 Advisory Schedule

17 2-hour late start

18

19

Discussion of what people read, American attitude, etc.

Homework: Who are the Puritans? What were their values? What were the Salem Witch Trials? Look up information for these questions in your history books, on line, etc.

The Puritans; the Salem Witch Trials

read: Twice Hanged Mary (handout)

Twice Hanged Mary

Question: what people would you accuse of being witches if you were living in the times of the Puritans? Why?

Homework: reread the poem and look for clues to continue our discussion

"We aren't superstitious" by Stephen Vincent Benet. (pp. 169-180)

We read part of it in class and will finish the rest tomorrow.

Finish reading and write the answer to #6 on Page 181, essay form. Turn it in when you are finished. If you don't finish, it's homework.

 

22

23

24

25

26

Discussion of homework

Writers in the time of the Revolution, pp. 202-204,

p. 223-226 "What is an American?" + Benjamin Franklin

Homework: Read Patrick Henry's speech in the Virginia Convention again

and write a summary in your own words.

 

 

 

 

Discuss homework.

Homework: page 213, ex. 6 (one page)

 

EC. Alternative Activities (due Friday)

 

 

 

 

29

30

 

 

 

 

back to top

October  2008

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

1 2-hr late start

2

3

 

 

 

 

 

6

7Advisory Schedule

8

9

10

 

 

 

Career planning with Mr. Erdman

 

13

14

15Advisory Schedule

16

17

 

 

 

 

20

21

22-hr. early release

23 2-hr. early release

24- no classes

 

 

 

 

 

27

28

29

30

31

 

 

 

 

 

back to top

November  2008

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

3

4

5

6

7

 

10

11- no classes

12

13

14

 

Veterans' Day

 

 

 

17

18

19

20

21

 

 

 

 

 

24

25

26

27

28

 

 

Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

back to top

December  2008

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

1

2

3 - 2-hr. late start

4

5

 

 

 

 

 

8

9

10

11

12

 

 

 

 

 

15

16

17

18

19

 

 

 

 

22

23

24

25

26

Winter Break

until January 5th

 

 

 

27

28

29

30

31

 

 

 

 

 

back to top

January 2009

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

5

6

7

8

9

 

 

 

 

 

12

13

14

15

16

 

 

 

 

 

19 - no classes

20

21

22

23

Martin Luther King Day

 

 

 

26

27

28

29

30

 

 

Semester Finals

Semester Finals

if no snow days, Semester Break