Syllabus | Third Quarter's Assignments Revised: Mar. 16, 2009
[First Quarter's Assignments] [Second Quarter's Assignments]
Week of January 19 to 23 (Beginning of Second Semester and Third Quarter)
Mon	No School: MLK, Jr. Day
Tues	Review history of American lit to this point. Read "The Minister's Black Veil" (pp. 266-275), by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hmwk: Finish reading "The Minister's Black Veil."
Wed	[PUC Basketball Tournament] Journal #11 (What is the moral message of this story? How would you express this moral message?) Continue with "The Minister's Black Veil." How could you portray the "parable" message of the story? No hmwk.
Thur	[PUC Basketball Tournament] "The Minister's Black Veil." Journal #12 (Secrets, external appearance vs. internal character). Do qstns. #1-10 (p. 276) OR a visual response to the story. No hmwk.
Week of January 26 to 30
Mon	Begin Evangeline. Research the historical background of the story. 1 page of notes (in your own words, in your own writing, and include complete source/s info). Hmwk: Finish research.
Tues	Evangeline. Go over Irving test. Finish "The Minister's Black Veil" questions or visual project. Help basketball people get caught up. Distribute copies of Evangeline. No hmwk.
Wed	Evangeline. Working on vocab (through break on p. 7). Write vocab definitions in the margin of the poem--right next to the word. You are responsible for the definition that is appropriate for the word as used in the context of the poem. Hmwk: Complete vocab (through break on p. 7).
Thur	Check off vocab. Begin reading Evangeline. Work on vocab through break on p. 13. No hmwk.
Week of February 2 to 6
Mon	Evangeline. Continue working on vocab through break on p. 13. Continue reading (through top break, p. 14). Begin working on vocab through break on p. 18. Hmwk: Finish vocab through break on p. 18.
Tues	Continue reading Evangeline (through p. 21) and working on vocab (through break at the top of p. 26). Hmwk: Finish vocab through break on p. 26.
Wed	Continue reading Evangeline (to p. 26) and working on vocab (through to end of poem). Hmwk: Finish vocab through end of poem.
Thur	Finish reading Evangeline. No hmwk.
Week of February 9 to 13
Mon	No School: Staff Development Day
Tues	Evangeline. Intro literary terms and figurative language worksheet. Begin working on definitions for figurative language terms. (Our lit text glossary is a useful resource for this.) Hmwk: Continue learning vocab word meanings and usages.
Wed	Evangeline. Continue working on literary terms and figurative language worksheet. Continue working on definitions and identifying examples in Evangeline. Hmwk: Continue working on vocab and finding examples of figurative language.
Thur	Evangeline. Continue working on literary terms and figurative language worksheet. If you've gone as far as you can go without teacher assistance on the worksheet, work with a partner on learning the vocab words. No hmwk.
Week of February 16 to 20
Mon	No School: Presidents' Day
Tues	Evangeline. Go over literary terms and figurative language worksheet and notes on board. Identify and share examples of figurative language in the poem. Hmwk: Prepare for Evangeline test.
Wed	Evangeline. Finish going over literary terms and figurative language worksheet. Test review. Hmwk: Prepare for Evangeline test. Literary terms and figurative language worksheet due at time of test.
Thur	Continue with test review. On your assigned page in Evangeline, find: A simile. What are the two points of comparison? What is the setting for your page? Pick a line and analyze the meter by marking the scansion. Can you find an example of onomatopoeia? Alliteration? Does your page have a Biblical allusion? To what story? A classical allusion? Look for an example of personification. Identify caesura, end stopping, and enjambment. Look for an example of inversion. Bonus round :-) metonymy or synecdoche? Or an example from 21st century life. Hmwk: Make sure your literary terms and figurative language worksheet AND today's review activity are finished before class starts on Monday.
Week of February 23 to 27
Mon	Check off literary terms and figurative language worksheet AND Thursday's review activity. Go over review questions from Thursday. If there is time remaining in the class period, study for the vocab portion of the test. Hmwk: Complete preparation for test (story line, vocab, figurative language).
Tues	Test: Evangeline. (Test adjusted because of fire drill.) No hmwk. [Literary terms and figurative language worksheet due at time of test.]
Wed	Complete last page of Evangeline test. No hmwk.
Thur	[Choral Festival] Begin Huck Finn. Distribute books and assign reading. Reading period. Hmwk: Read through p. 22 (by Monday) [Search for Huck Finn @ LibriVox.org] [woman's voice] [man's voice] [in-progress recording]
Week of March 2 to 6
Mon	Huck Finn. Hmwk: Read through p. 47. Recordings @ LibriVox.org: [woman's voice] [man's voice] [in-progress recording]
Tues	Huck Finn. Reading quiz (through p. 47). Watch movie: Mark Twain's America (available at PUC library: VTR PS1331 .M374 1990). Distribute Study and Discussion Questions. (Consider #1-3) Hmwk: Read through p. 65.
Wed	Huck Finn. Read aloud Steve Turney's speech in The Day They Came to Arrest the Book (pp. 161-164). Hmwk: Read through p. 88. Recordings @ LibriVox.org: [woman's voice] [man's voice] [in-progress recording] [There is also a free podcast available from iTunes.]
Thur	Huck Finn. Journal #13 (How do we determine the value/worth of a person? How does Huck determine value/worth? Does this change? Why? How?). Begin viewing Mark Twain by Ken Burns--intro section (available at PUC library: VTR PS 1331 .M37 2001). Discuss Study and Discussion Question #9 (Grangerford episode as social satire and tragedy). Hmwk: Read through p. 109 (by Monday).
Week of March 9 to 13
Mon	Huck Finn. Reading quiz (through p. 109). Go over quiz answers. Continue viewing Mark Twain by Ken Burns--"Old Voices" section (available at PUC library: VTR PS 1331 .M37 2001). Hmwk: Read through p. 128.
Tues	Huck Finn. Hmwk: Read through p. 147.
Wed	Huck Finn. Reading quiz (through p. 147). Hmwk: Read through p. 169.
Thur	[Band Festival @ SAA] Huck Finn. Journal #14 (Huck's moral dilemma: How can he be so wrong about being so right?). Hmwk: Read to end of novel (by Monday).
Week of March 16 to 20 (End of Third Quarter)
Mon	Huck Finn. Reading quiz (through end of novel). Continue viewing Mark Twain by Ken Burns--Huck Finn section (available at PUC library: VTR PS 1331 .M37 2001). Hmwk: Journal #15 (untimed): Respond to #13 and 16 in Study and Discussion Questions.
Tues	Huck Finn. Discuss #13 and 16. Test essay question will be #18 in Study and Discussion Questions. Discuss ways to tackle the essay question. Review for objective portion of test. Review how to write good "significance" responses. Hmwk: Prepare for test.
Wed	Huck Finn. Test. No hmwk.
Thur	No class: Week of Prayer meeting.
March 23 to 27: Spring Break