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Homework
5th- Finish The Great Gatsby
6th- TEST on Gatsby *80 Questions- multiple choice*
7th- Great Gatsby Extravaganza (Period 7)
8th- Start Gatsby Thesis Essay
9th- Vocabulary quiz
14th- Starting Emily Dickenson Poetry Unit (Going over poetry terms)
16th- Rough draft of Gatsby paper due
20th- Great Gatsby Thesis Paper Due!!!
22nd- Huck Finn Game!
23rd- Review poetic terms; poetic readings of "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death, He Kindly Stopped for Me"
26th- Last day of second marking period
27th- "The Soul Selects Her Own Society-Then Shuts The Door"
29th- Test on poetic terms; "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" and "I'm 'wife'- I've finished that-"
30th- "Poetry fest" (you'll either be reading your poem or commenting on The New York Times article on "doulas")
February 2004:
2nd- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
4th- Thoroughly Modern Millie field trip
24th- Mardi Gras event to finish The Awakening
25th- Test on The Awakening; vocabulary words due
26th- Begin Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
27th- Vocabulary quiz; Twelfth Night reading
March 2004:
1st- Webquest project due
12th- Silly Sock day- Period 2
15th- Silly Sock day- Perod 7
15th-19th- Read Acts III, IV in class
19th- Vocabulary quiz
April 2004:
5th- Shakespeare's Director's Notebook
5th-8th- Independent Reading Projects (click link to see when you're scheduled to go)
19th- Start Night Thoreau Spent in Jail in class; HW- read "Economy" in Walden
20th- Quiz on "Economy"; HW- read "American Scholar Address" by Emerson
22nd- Discuss vocab; HW- "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"
23rd- Quiz- reading/ vocab; HW- "Solitude" by Thoreau
26th- Read Emerson's "Self Reliance"
27th- Discussion on "Self Reliance"/ quiz
28th- Read "Civil Disobedience"
29th- "Huckleberrying"
30th- Quiz
May 2004:
3rd- Read "The Village" from Walden
4th- Read "Reading" from Walden
5th- Quiz on 2,3,5,8. Read "Conclusion" to Walden
6th- Quiz on "Conclusion"; Finish Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; Essay project for Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman handed out.
7th- Walt Whitman- "When Lilacs Last by the Dooryard Bloomed"
