Weekly Agenda for AMERICAN LITERATURE
JANUARY 18th - JANUARY 22nd:
Monday, January 18th:
No school today in observance of Martin Luther King Day.
Tuesday, January 19th:
Go over your grammar homework on appositives.
Continue to go over your “The Cask of Amontillado” handouts
Break into groups of three or four and create short skits showing verbal, dramatic and situational irony.
Wednesday, January 20th:
Present your skits on verbal, dramatic and situational irony.
Your “Cask of Amontillado” handout is due today.
Thursday, January 21st:
Warm-ups: Write five sentences with appositives using your Unit 4 vocabulary.
Read “The Black Cat”
Present “The Black Cat” as reader’s theatre piece.
Friday, January 22nd:
Warm-ups: Write five sentences with appositives using your Unit 4 vocabulary
“The Raven”
Examine what makes “The Raven” so effective: internal rhymes; feminine rhyme scheme; rhythm; imagery; mood.
Answer questions on “The Raven”.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Saturday, January 09, 2010
WEEKLY AGENDA FOR AMERICAN LITERATURE
JANUARY 11th - JANUARY 15TH
Monday, January 11th:
Read WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau
Examination of maxims, figurative language, etc.
Tuesday, January 12th:
Shortened day!
Please bring your vocabulary book with you today. Unit 4 will be assigned today. This will be due on Friday, January 15th.
Finish up WALDEN
Wednesday, January 13th:
Please bring your grammar book to class today. Appositives will be assigned; THE WRITER'S CHOICE; pages 515 - 516; exercises 4 and 5. This will be due on Tuesday, 19th.
Begin unit on Gothic Literature:
Biography on Edgar Allan Poe
Thursday, January 14th:
Read “The Cask of Amontillado”
Pass out vocabulary/literary handouts for “The Cask of Amontillado”.
Your unit 4 vocabulary is due today. Go over in class.
Once we go over in class, you cannot turn it in late.
Friday, January 15th:
Read “The Cask of Amontillado”
Go over the vocabulary/literary handouts for ‘The Cask of Amontillado”.
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