MARCH 22, 2010 - MARCH 26, 20010
WEEKLY AGENDA
FOR CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION

Monday, March 22nd:
Finish working on your compare and contrast essay on “Women: Now and Then”.

Tuesday, March 23rd:
Your essay is due today.
Begin reading The Harlem Renaissance (page 512)
Langston Hughes
Arna Bontemps
Claude Mckay
Countee Cullen
Zora Neale Hurston”s “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

Wednesday, March 24th:
Brown bag collage for “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Please bring your WRITER’S CHOICE grammar book to class; pages 519 - 520,“Gerunds and Gerund Phrases”, exercises 9 and 10 will be assigned and will be due on Friday, March 26th.

Thursday, March 25th:
Warm-ups: Write five sentences with gerund phrases using five of your Unit 6 vocabulary words.
Read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams

Friday, March 26th:
Same as Thursday, March 25th

MARCH 22, 2010 - MARCH 26, 20010
WEEKLY AGENDA
FOR CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION

Monday, March 22nd:
Finish working on your compare and contrast essay on “Women: Now and Then”.

Tuesday, March 23rd:
Your essay is due today.
Begin reading The Harlem Renaissance (page 512)
Langston Hughes
Arna Bontemps
Claude Mckay
Countee Cullen
Zora Neale Hurston”s “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

Wednesday, March 24th:
Brown bag collage for “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Please bring your WRITER’S CHOICE grammar book to class; pages 519 - 520,“Gerunds and Gerund Phrases”, exercises 9 and 10 will be assigned and will be due on Friday, March 26th.

Thursday, March 25th:
Warm-ups: Write five sentences with gerund phrases using five of your Unit 6 vocabulary words.
Read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams

Friday, March 26th:
Same as Thursday, March 25th

MARCH 8, 2010 - MARCH 12, 2010
WEEKLY AGENDA FOR CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION

Monday, March 8th:
Culminating assignment for “The Revolt of Mother”:
“From Barn to Home”: Using the description of the new barn, imagine you are an architect and draw up a blueprint for turning the barn into a home.
Or for those of you not so graphically inclined:
Using quotations from Sarah, Nanny, Sammy, Adoniram and the minister, write a front page news story about the revolt of the mother.
The culminating assignment will be due on Wednesday, March 10th.

Tuesday, March 9th:
Shortened day.
Your Unit 6 vocabulary homework will be due today.
Read in LITERATURE: An Integrated Study: “Within Limits”, pages 495 - 497; “The Sexual Politics of Sickness”, pages 498 - 499; and “Language History”, page 500.

Wednesday, March 10th:
The culminating assignment on “The Revolt of Mother” is due today.
Read in LITERATURE: An Integrated Study: “Crusade for Justice” by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; pages 482 - 488.
INTEGRATED STUDIES; pages 501 - 506. Compare and Contrast essay: “Update: Women Then and Now”.

Thursday, March 11th:
Work on compare and contrast essay; “Women Then and Now.”

Friday, March 12th:
Finish typing essay in the library.