Eng.+11+Oct.+2014


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Due: [|Commercial Dig]--EX. CREDIT

Review literary movements

[|Vocabulary]

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NWEA Testing || Oct. 1

Quiz over lit. periods

Read and annotate W. Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker"

Imagery which supports mood, plot, characterization, and theme || 2

NWEA Testing || 3

Vocabulary quiz and grammar

Emily Dickinson and Whitman poetry ||
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[|Vocabulary]

Create flashcards

Discuss poetry from Dickinson and Whitman poetry || 7

NWEA || 8

Read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" p. 291-294

How does is this piece a good example of Transcendentalism?

Choose your favorite aphorism from the text. Explain why it is significant to you and support with examples from life. || 9

Read p. 352-354 background on Gothic. Lit.

[|Read CNN article]

[|Read NY Times article]

Begin reading Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" p.357 || 10

Vocabulary quiz

Finish reading Poe's piece

Compare the articles to the reaction to the contagion in the literature ||
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[|Vocabulary]

Read [|"The Cask of Amontillado"] || 14

Finish reading and annotating [|"The Cask of Amontillado"]

[|Create cartoons with partner based on vocabulary] || 15

[|Review vocabulary]

Read [|"The Fall of the House of Usher"] or Pearson Realize p. 292-310 || 16

[|Review vocabulary]

ACT English Practice

Finish reading [|"The Fall of the House of Usher"] or [|Pearson Realize] p. 292-310 || 17

Vocabulary Quiz--moved to next Tuesday

ACT English Practice

Writing from p. 320 [|Pearson Realize] ||
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Look at [|Learning Goals]

[|Review vocabulary]

Finish reading and write [|summary]

[|Knowing Poe]

Quick Response to p. 320 of Pearson text || 21

Vocabulary Quiz

[|Group analysis of Poe's work] || 22

[|ACT questions]

[|Group analysis of Poe's work]

Quick Response to p. 320 of Pearson text

[|Poe Project] || 23

Continue [|Poe Project] || 24

Continue [|Poe Project] ||
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[|Poe Project]

[|House Listing] || 28

[|Poe Project]due

Share using P-Q-S xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx || 29

Notes over lit. periods

[|Web quest] || 30

Work on [|web quest]

Begin novel xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx || 31

Share info. from [|web quest] ||