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Monday May 4
descriptive observations
read ch. 41-42 in EE
Block 1
SSR
watch EE video and do worksheet
Read ch. 43-44 in EE
Block 2
SSR
descriptive poetry/poem
Read ch. 45-48 in EE
Monday April 27
District writing assessment/ 2nd semester
Read ch. 34
Block 1
SSR
work on Theme activity for EE, poster/present on block 2
Read ch. 35
Block 2
SSR
present theme posters for EE
Poetry activity
read ch. 36-38
Monday March 30
MM: trading places
Modifiers #1, #2 due Block 1
Block 1
SSR
Correct/collect modifiers worksheets
Found Poems
Read EE ch. 18-19
Block 2
SSR
Present Found Poems
New vocab
2nd: assembly
Read ch. 20-22 over break; quiz on part 2 on April 13
Monday March 23
collect/discuss Ars Poetica examples
MM: on board
Block 1
SSR
Assembly
Steinbeck movie
Found Poem
Block 2
SSR
EAP Star essay
Read ch. 16-17 in EE
Monday March 16
MM: good/evil
apostrophes worksheet #2
Read EE pg. 61-93
Block 1
SSR
Vocab 1 quiz
Vocab 2 new words East of Eden vocab list 2.doc
group/class discussion EE
Read rest of Part 1
Block 2
SSR
Part 1 Quiz
Review Part 1
Ars Poetica
Research one of the following: Marianne Moore, Dylan thomas, Frank O'Hara, Mark Strand, Denise Levertov
Find one example of ars poetica. Analyze devices in poem. Evaluate poem: how is it an example of ars poetica? What is is saying about good poetry/bad poetry, writing, reading, understanding, etc.?
Read ch. 12-15 in EE
Monday March 9
Mandatory Monday: using Wallace Stevens' poem "13 Ways..." as a template/model, write your own poem called "10 ways of looking at __________________.
Collect grammar: apostrophes and correct in class
Block 1
SSR
EE vocab #1 test block 1 next week
finish correcting grammar
"cain and abel"
check out books
Diction/tone handout
Read page 1-31 in EE
Block 2
SSR
Finish diction/tone packet and collect
discuss pages 1-31
Read pages 31-61
vocab test on block 1
Monday March 2
Mandatory Monday: connections (see Trykar if you missed)
Vocab List 3 test Block 1
Block 1
SSR
Vocab List 3 Test
13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird assignment
Block 2
SSR
Finish 13 ways and present
"East of Eden"
Monday February 23
Vocab 2 test
finish "Prufrock" presentations
Background "Jilting"
Mandatory Monday: connecting to your life on page 1034
HW: Read "Jilting" pg. 1034-1042
Block 1
SSR
Small group discussions: "Jilting" questions
Southern Goithic
Faulkner
"A Rose for Emily"
Block 2
SSR
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem poets including Langston Hughes
Monday February 16
Holiday/ no school
Block 1
SSR
Vocab List 1 Quiz
Vocab List 2 Quiz on Monday
Imagism notes/ TS Eliot notes
"Love Song"
Questions 1-7 on handout
Block 2
SSR
Discuss questions 1-7
Critical Interpretation assignment
Presentations
Monday February 9
Finish Peer Edit of essays
Final draft + first draft + peer edit sheet all due on Thursda
Block 1
SSR
Vocab List 1 Moderns: test on Block 1
transition packet
Read intro material 992-994 and 996-999
Robert Frost poetry and questions
Modified Thursday (all classes)
Essay due
finish transition packet: due block 1
finish Frost poetry
Monday Febrary 2
Review Modernism
Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"
Read in groups. Questions.
Be ready to discuss answers on Block 1
Bring Lit. Books Block 1
Block 1
SSR
Discuss "Hills"
Poetry: Sandburg, Masters, Robinson, Williams
Questions
HW: Read pages 992-994
Read "Winter Dreams" pg. 840-858
Block 2
SSR
Discuss "Winter Dreams"
Pop Quiz on poets from Block 1
Robert Frost poetry
Monday January 26
Vocab List 4 test
Great Gatsby book test
work on essay
Journal work due on Block 2
Essay due on Block 1 of next week
Block 1
SSR
Harlem Renaissance video + notes
intro. paragraphs of novels exercise
Block 2
SSR
Collect Journal work
Hills Like White Elephants + Hemingway
Essay due Block 1
Monday January 19
Holiday no school
Block 1
SSR
Vocab 3 quiz
Vocab 4: quiz on Monday
Review proper commentary: simile worksheet, tone packet
Review Hughes' essay + assignment, collect
Review ch. 7
Read ch. 8
Block 2
SSR
theme, color, weather, symbolism
Finish book; book test on Monday with vocab test
January 12
Vocab 1 quiz
vocab 2 quiz on Thursday
Review Gatsby
Block 1
SSR
Gatsby homework: read chapter 6
Tone packet
Work on book journal assignment
Block 2
SSR
vocab 2 quiz
handout vocab 3 and 4 lists
Quiz on vocab 3 on Tuesday
Langston Hughes essay and questions
complete questions on a separate sheet of paper...if you don't know what a question is asking, put a star next to the question and we will go over it on Tuesday. All
questions due completed on Tuesday
Monday January 5
Modernism notes
Mandatory Monday: "American Dream"
Block 1
SSR
Background notes on F.Scott Fitzgerald
Vocab lists 1-2
quiz on list 1: Monday
GG Journal assignment
Read ch. 1
HW: Read ch. 2; quiz on ch. 1-2 Block 2
Block 2
SSR
Quiz ch. 1-2
discuss ch. 1-2
Read ch. 3
Tone packet
HW: ch. 4
Monday December 1
Review Thanksgiving reading
Collect questions and work
Realism/Naturalism Review and notes
SL Essay due Block 1
Block 1
SSR
Collect SL Essays
Turn in SL books and check out Huck Finn
Watch short Huck Finn movie and movie guide
Read ch. 1-10 for Block 2
Study Guide
Quiz on chapters 1-10 on Block 2
Block 2
SSR
Quiz on chapters 1-10
Study guide due
New study Guide
Read chapters in class
Read chapters for homework
Check Reading Schedule 
reading schedule.doc
Homework to be done for December 1st!!!
Read the reading assignments and answer the questions reading assignment.doc
Link for Jack London's "To Build A Fire" To Build A Fire.doc
Write Scarlet Letter essayThe Scarlet Letter Essay Topics.doc
Email if you have questions: jtrykar@eduhsd.k12.ca.us
Remember to bring both your lit book and your Scarlet Letter book on Mon. Dec. 1
Monday November 17
Scarlet Letter vocab #3 test
Scarlet Letter book test
Block 1
SSR
per. 2 watch movie
ABC poem due Block 2
per. 4 ABC poem due Block 2
assembly: Macbeth
Block 2
SSR
Reading Assignment for Break: Realism
Essays back
Assign Scarlet Letter Essay: DUE DECEMBER 2
Monday November 10
reading quiz ch. 9-17
vocab quiz Scarlet Letter #2
HW: read ch. 18-20
Wednesday November 12
reading check ch. 18-20
New vocab lists 3/4; quiz on 3 on Monday
discuss ch. 18-20
work on Themes/symbols worksheets
HW: ch. 21-22
Block 1(Thurs)
SSR
Reading check ch. 21-22
discuss ch. 21-22
Transitions packet: due Monday
Dante's Inferno...jigsaw and discuss in small groups
HW: finish book; book quiz on Monday
Monday November 3
Quiz Scarlet Letter: CH through ch. 8
SL vocab #1 Test
New Vocab SL List #2: vocab test next Monday
Read ch. 9-11
Block 1
SSR
Group Discussions: 6 questions for ch. 9-11
Read ch. 12-14
Block 2
SSR
Discuss ch. 12-14
Theme discussion
Read ch. 15-17
Monday October 27
Review Custom House
Finish reading Custom House
HW: Read ch. 1-2 and study guide
Quiz block 1
Block 1
SSR
Quiz: Minister's Veil vocab
New vocab: Scarlet Letter #1: test Monday
The_Scarlet_Letter_Vocab_1-2_list[1].doc
Discuss ch. 1-2
Collect Study Guides
New study guides
study guide ch. 3-5.doc
Read ch. 3-5
Grammar: Work Cited and Parenthetical Citations
Block 2
SSR
Finish Grammar
Discuss ch. 3-5
Collect Study guides
Read ch. 6-8
Quiz Monday vocab
Monday October 20
MM: How does Masque of the Red Death function as an allegory?
Notes: Masque of the Red death/allegory
HW: rewrite MM
Block 1
SSR
vocab: Minister's Black Veil: quiz on Monday
Read Minister's Black Veil in small groups.
Answer questions individually
Questions due at the end of class.
Turn questions and story in
HW: Essay due Block 2
Block 2
SSR
Collect Essays
Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne notes, custom house notes
Read Custom House and ch. 1-3
Monday October 13
Rom/Trans. Vocab Test
Collect/go over Whitman/Longfellow packet
no homework
Block 1
SSR
Review Whitman/Dickinison
Finish Dickinson poems
HW: Essay Due Block 2 next week; Oct. 23Essay Prompt.doc
Read Edgar Allan Poe in Lit Book: The Raven and Fall of the House of Usher
Complete Usher Reading guide
The Fall of the House of Usher.doc
Block 2
SSR
Poe background
Review Rom/Gothic/Trans.
Discuss Raven and Fall of the house of Usher
Collect Usher guide;
HW: Read Masque of the Red Death
Consider how it is an allegory
Monday October 6
Romanticism/Transcendentalism
Devil and Tom Walker: pg. 360--due Block 1
new vocabulary: quiz Monday
HW: read pg. 364-366, 370-376, 382-391
Block 1
SSR
Collect pg. 360
Discuss Self-Reliance, Civil Disobedience, Walden
Personal Response: experience focusing on nature using Emerson and Thoreau as examples
due block 2
Block 2
SSR
peer edit personal responses
Rom/Trans. poetry
Whitman
Dickinson
Monday September 29
New vocab: 16-30 Writers of the Revolution
Discuss Chief Speckled Snake
Mandatory Monday: Is the argument Chief Speckled Snake presents effective? Why/Why not? Give specific details, explanations, and commentary. This goes in your writing folder.
Block 1
SSR
Small Group Rhetorical Analysis of a Text
Rhetorical Analysis.doc
Block 2
SSR
Small Group Presentations
Vocab test
If time: essays back
Crucible tests back
Monday September 21
Vocab Writers of the Revolution: Quiz 1-15 Block 2
discuss Intro to Rhetorical Devices
Handouts
Block 1
SSR
Finish Handouts
Notes: Rhetorical Triangle & Rhetorical Toolbox
Declaration of Independence
Block 2
SSR
Vocab Quiz
25 minutes: Finish Dec. of Independence
Discuss
HW: Chief Speckled Snake
Monday September 8
Review Act III Quote worksheet and collect
Review Vocab List #3--quiz on Block 2
Mandatory Monday--"witch hunts"
Block 1
SSR
Group Round Robin reading of Act IV
Image/Simile worksheet
Eliminating Be Verbs worksheet (if time)
Homework: complete study guide for Acts III and IV
Block 2
SSR
Review Act IV
Essays back
"How to fix them"
Rewrites due next Block 2
Monday September 1
Holiday; No School
Block 1
SSR
Collect Act 1 Quiz corrections
Act III study guide 
study guide acts 3 and 4.docx
Begin Act III
Vocab #2 Quiz Block 2
Agreement worksheet due Block 2
Block 2
SSR
Vocab #2 Quiz
Assign Vocab 3 list
Correct and Collect Agreement worksheet
Finish Act III
Themes
Quote worksheet & study guide homework due Monday
Monday August 25:
- Review Essay issues
- Vocab List #1 Quiz on Thursday
- Study Guide for Act II due Thursday
- Begin Act II
Block 1:
- SSR
- Finish Act II + study guidestudy guide act 2.docx
- Essay due--collect
- Vocab Test on Thursday
- Read "Why I Wrote the Crucible"--link in sidebar--have notes and be ready for discussion
Block 2:
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SSR
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Vocab Test List 1
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Collect Act II study guides
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Discuss article, Act II, Lecture, notes
Monday August 18:
Block 1:
Block 2:
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SSR
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Crucible--review Act 1
- Quiz Act 1
- vocab list #1--Quiz next Thursday
Monday August 11:
- rules, regulations, policies, blah, blah, blah
- HW: SSR book
Block 1:
- Check SSR book
- check out LOL books
- Native American Literature
- Iroquois Creation Story
- "Hunting Song"--read and answer questions 5-7 on page 37 with a partner
HOMEWORK: Read trickster tales (pages 40-45). Write one page comparing and contrasting trickster tales with creation myths. Use evidence from the tales/myth to support your ideas.
Block 2:
- Review NA Literature
- collect c/c writing
- Puritan beliefs/ideas
- Begin Puritan Poetry
HOMEWORK:
Huswifery.docx
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