4/11 = The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 (HAVE YOUR BOOK TODAY for 20 points! Also show your Salinger Book for 20 points!)
4/12 = Ch. 2: Going about a chapter a day. Homework is to work on your major writing paper ALL WEEK! 4/13 = Ch. 3 RETURN TEXTBOOKS ANY DAY THIS WEEK FOR 40 POINTS ON LAST UNIT TEST! 4/14 = Ch. 4 RETURN TEXTBOOKS ANY DAY 4/15 = Ch. 5: More EOC review! Be thru chapter 5 in TGG by Monday! Also, 4 pages of Major paper due MONDAY! TYPED! MLA! 4/18 = Ch. 6: Major Writing Draft Due, at least 4 FULL pages (40 participation points to combine with the 60 for final draft)! 4/19 = Ch. 7 RETURN TEXTBOOKS ANY DAY 4/20 = Ch. 8 MORE EOC info: https://deca.dekalb.k12.ga.us/Downloads/Am%20Lit%20practice%20test.pdf 4/21 = Ch. 9 MORE EOC info: http://www.gaexperienceonline.com/ 4/22 = Clicking through the EOC reminder! Movie Day! Major Writing Due, 7 FULL pages (graded 60 points)! 4/25 = Quiz on The Great Gatsby (Voc/Misc. Grade, combines with 40 points for having books on 4/11) 4/26 - 4/28 = American Lit EOC (20% of Grade/Exam) 4/29 = Modernism Intro with a few poems (Cummings, Borden, Auden) 5/2 = AP/ (Traits of Modernism, Continue poems, Williams, Auden) 5/3 = AP Psych noon/ Poem Review 5/4 = AP/ Borden/Foo's "The Real Decoy" https://www.thisamericanlife.org/603/once-more-with-feeling/act-two-0 5/5 = AP/ Hemingway "In Another Country" https://mt15000219.schoolwires.net/cms/lib/MT15000219/Centricity/Domain/97/In%20Another%20Country.pdf 5/6 = APUSH 8am/ Review Day 5/9 = AP/ The Catcher Please bring your book to class every day now! Chapters 1-4 5/10 = AP/ The Catcher Chapters 5-8 5/11 = AP/ The Catcher Chapters 9-12 ALL MAKE UPS DUE TODAY IN CLASS (TGG/Hemingway/Anything past) 5/12 = AP/ The Catcher Chapters 13-16 5/13 = AP/ The Catcher Chapters 17-20 5/16 = The Catcher Finish Book! 5/17 = Metacognition Exercise (Minor Writing Grade) 5/18 = Modern Times 5/19 = Modern Times 5/20 = 1st Exam (Unit Test Grade on Modernism, 60 points on Modernism/40 points for turning in your textbook) 5/23 = 4 & 6 Exam (Unit Test Grade on Modernism, 60 points on Modernism/40 points for turning in your textbook) 5/24 = 3 & 5 Exam (Unit Test Grade on Modernism, 60 points on Modernism/40 points for turning in your textbook) 5/25 = 2 & 7 Exam (Unit Test Grade on Modernism, 60 points on Modernism/40 points for turning in your textbook) Last Unit Grades: 1. 4/11 and 4/25 = Misc. Grade on The Great Gatsby/having books 2. 4/12 and on to exam day = 40 points toward final unit test for bringing in textbook/final unit test = 60 points (13% of total grade) 3. 4/18 and 4/22 = Major Writing Grade on Personal Narrative (10% of total grade) 4. 4/26-28 = EOC Final Exam Grade (20% of total grade) 5. 5/17 = Minor Writing Grade on TBA Prompt 14-18 Feb: Murray. Hand back EOC TIDIDE
NOTE: Online Elective Registration is from 18 Feb-11 Mar: 21-25 Feb: ENJOY BREAK! 28 Feb: Stanton, Chopin "A Pair of Silk Stockings," Hand out Voc 4, quiz will be Thursday 3/10 1 Mar: Chopin "Desiree's Baby" 2 Mar: Chopin, "Story of an Hour" "Emancipation" Piercy's "Baby Doll" 3 Mar: Finish Piercy to classes I need to. Go over Unit Test; Opportunity for 2 point gain. Poster Candy! 4 Mar: Wharton Day 1: Chapter One of The Age of Innocence (Weekend Bonus Opp = Grade #1 for Unit 2) 7 Mar: Work on Vocab 4 Unit day/Early Release 8 Mar: Wharton Day 2: Movie 9 Mar: Wharton Day 3: Movie 10 Mar: Voc 4 Quiz (Voc 4 = Grade #2 for Unit 2): Cather reading (self directed, finish for homework on page 651) 11 Mar: Wharton Day 4: Finish? ELECTIVE REGISTRATION DUE ONLINE! (Weekend Bonus Opp = Grade #1 for Unit 2) 14 Mar: A few videos and a bit of discussion (Wharton and Cather). London 15 Mar: Robinson; Masters; Walls Walls pages 17-19 here: https://www.houstonisd.org/cms/lib2/tx01001591/centricity/domain/17638/the_glass_castle.pdf 16 Mar: Review Game Day 50 point day (Misc. Grade = Grade #3 for Unit 2, first half) 17 Mar: Harlem Renaissance; Hughes/Cullen 18 Mar: Hand back Research Report; Start Play 21 Mar: In-Class Writing for Realism Unit 2 (Minor Writing = Grade #4 for Unit 2) 22 Mar: Play Day 1 (In class reading) 23 Mar: Play Day 2 (movie today) 24 Mar: PDF of play: https://khdzamlit.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/2/6/11261956/a_raisin_in_the_sun_-_lorraine_hansberry.pdf 25 Mar: Play Day 4 28 Mar: Finish Play 29 Mar: Unit 2 Test (Unit Grade = #5 for Unit 2) 30 Mar: Major Writing Assignment Lab Day, Starting draft only (Minor Writing = Grade #6 for Unit 2) 31 Mar: EOC Review/Prep Work 50 point day (no phones out)! (Misc. Grade = Grade #3 for Unit 2, second half) 1 Apr: TBA ENJOY SPRING BREAK! COME BACK WITH a COPY of THE GREAT GATSBY and THE CATCHER IN THE RYE! 1/5 (W): Moby Dick (Keep your plot questions; plot/character questions will be on all subsequent tests!)
1/6 (Th): Moby Dick (Plot questions are also a 10 point participation grade) 1/7 (F): Moby Dick 1/10 (M): Moby Dick 1/11 (T): Burks 1/12 (W): Burks 1/13 (Th): Burks 1/14 (F): Research report topic discussion; Burks 1/18 (T): Lab Day, 307! MD questions due 1/19 (W) : Lab Day, 307! Burks summary due; topic due) 1/20 (Th): Voc 3 unit work; Huey; Montagne (TODAY I check for Melville, Burks, Topic) Huey = https://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_huey_america_s_native_prisoners_of_war?language=en Montagne = https://www.npr.org/transcripts/16516865 1/21 (F): Lab Day, 307! Narrowed topic due (YOU SHOULD BE TYPING THE PAPER TODAY) 1/24 (M): Lab Day, 307! Working outline due (YOU SHOULD BE TYPING THE WORKS CITED TODAY/FINISHING DRAFT) 1/25 (T): Voc 3 unit work; Erdrich/Bruchac (TODAY I check for narrowed topic and working outline) Bruchac = https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/ellis-island Erdrich = https://www.oneida-boces.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1719&dataid=1933&FileName=The%20Red%20Convertible.pdf 1/26 (W): Last Lab Day, 307! (W/C draft page due printed at class end for grading 25 pts) 1/27 (Th): Douglass/Dunbar Part of the Douglass account is on link below (press next page, too); (google the Dunbar poem titles found on your unit sheet) = https://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Frederick_Douglass/The_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass/Chapter_X_p4.html 1/28 (F): Full draft due for editing at start of class; formal outline due to turn in at start of class 1/31 (M): Final paper due! Truth/Videos (Google the Truth titles found on your unit sheet for online copies) 2/1 (T): Crane (found in textbook). Voc 3 unit work 2/2 (W): High Tops in M/C; Harper and Voc 3 Study (Google the Harper titles found on your unit sheet for online copies) 2/3 (Th): Voc 3 Quiz; Wilson 2/4 (F): High Tops in M/C: War Poetry (Google the Crane, Whitman, and Sandburg titles found on your unit sheet for online copies) 2/7 (M): Bierce (found in textbook) 2/8 (T): Lincoln/Whitman 2/9 (W): Review Day/Re-read Day/Sidewalk Chalk 2/10 (Th): Lab 307 Minor Writing on Realism I: EOC Simulation 2/11 (F): Unit Test/Realism I 1-25 = Multiple Choice over Romanticism II (Review Works on Romanticism II Unit Guide)
26-32 = Match term to example of that term (Terms given on back of Dickinson classwork) 33-55 = Match quote or summary of work to author last name, Romanticism I and II (Rom I & II Guides/Review Works/Flashcards) 56-70 = Match trait or work to AGE (Puritan, Age of Reason, or Romanticism) (Study Important Handout & Back of Dickinson Sheet) 71-90 = Match quote or summary of work to author last name, Unit 1 (See Unit Guide/Review Works/Flashcards) 91-100 = 2 written replies, @5 points W 11/17 = Transcendentalism Definition and Walk
Th 11/18 = Emerson F 11/19 = Bryant (2nd, 5th, 7th) BREAK! ENJOY THANKSGIVING! DO YOUR INTERVIEWS (see post dated 11/11 below)! M 11/29 = Writing Day; Online Draft due on FRIDAY (at LEAST 2 full pages)! 10 points that day! T 11/30 = Bryant (1st, 3rd); Thoreau #1 W 12/1 = Equiano; DEADLINE tomorrow. See board in classroom. Th 12/2 = Douglass; Thoreau #2; DEADLINE to sign up for alternate bonus. MUST prove you cannot attend 3 or 4 Dec. perfs. F 12/3 = BONUS PLAY THIS WEEKEND (paper for it due on Thursday, 9 December) 10 point Major Paper DRAFT DUE! M 12/6 = 4 Page Interview Paper due AT THE TARDY BELL FOR YOUR CLASS! Dickinson T 12/7= Whitman W 12/8 = Whitman/Review Romanticism (see back of Dickinson handout/Also see Whitman-Dickinson worksheet) Th 12/9 = (BONUS paper due)/Start movie, Little Women F 12/10 = Movie, Little Women (Bonus papers returned if revisions needed) M 12/13 = Movie, Little Women (finish) ALL GRADES WILL BE IN BY 9pm Little Women summary if you missed a day: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110367/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl T 12/14 = Transcendental Walks or Study Hall or 7th Exam (Full day) W 12/15 = 1st Exam (Short day) Th 12/16 = 2nd Exam (Short day) F 12/17 = 3rd, 5th Exam (Short day) ENJOY BREAK! Major Paper Assignment Due 12/6 = Interview your oldest family members for family stories you don't know yet. What was his or her first car? First date? What is his or her first memory of school, first job? How did he or she celebrate holidays as a young child? What was his or her favorite present, favorite pet, birthday celebration? Did they take vacations? Does one particular event stand out? Did this person serve our country (military experience is a touchy topic. Some want to talk; some don't. Just take cues from your relative.)? These are just suggestions...just let the stories flow! One day, you may be happy you asked these things and wrote them down. You just may enjoy listening to your relatives spin tales from their American (or other culture's) past! Everyone has interesting stories to tell. For this assignment, your paper must be in perfect MLA format and at least 4 full pages long. Do a great job! You will be proud of this paper, I promise! The week after Thanksgiving, we will have a computer lab for one day. This paper will not have a Works Cited page or direct quotes. You will use first person in the first and last paragraph to set the stage (tell me who you talked to and where you were), and third person when telling about him or her or they. The last paragraph will be first person again and will summarize your experience doing this assignment. What can we learn from listening to others? What can we learn from our nation's past? Is the past different from the present? Are our goals and wants of today different from those of the past? Email me with any question any time.
28 Oct (Th) = Irving Pre-Reading Activity 29 Oct (F) = Irving Video 1 and 2 (make ups during x block 11/11 or any morning but Tuesdays or 11/4 at 7:45) 1 Nov (M) = Irving Story after finishing video 2; BONUS PAPERS DUE! YOU SHOULD HAVE SHOWN ME THE SELFIE 10/25! 2 Nov (T) = No School! Reread Irving story and fill out worksheet p. 227 3 Nov (W) = "The Black Cat" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYFZTEDVDRY 4 Nov (Th) = "The Fall of the House of Usher" Read and fill out worksheet p. 293 5 Nov (F) = NO SCHOOL! BUT, finish "The Fall of the House of Usher!" 8 Nov (M) = Discuss symbolism in Irving and Poe: "The Raven" groupwork 9 Nov (T) = "The Raven" Day 2; Fireside Poets Day 1 HW = Read a couple of poems! 10 Nov (W) = Fireside Poets Day 2 (Should be finished with unit this day! "In School Days" = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1bJc4yHuf8 and https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45487/in-school-days 11 Nov (Th) = In Class Writing (for those out for parade...makeup prompt will be given to you tomorrow, due by midnight Sunday) 12 Nov (F) = FINISH UNIT: Major Writing Information/KaHoot/Review Day/Unit 1 Review.... 15 Nov (M) = Unit 3 Review Day 2; NOTE: Vocab 3 is moved to next semester! 16 Nov (T) = Unit Test OUTLINE FOR UNIT TEST 3: 1-15 = M/C on Romanticism readings 16-54 = Character id/plot id/quote id matching to author last name Romanticism ONLY. Also includes how to punctuate titles of the works (books in italics/poems and short stories in quotes). 55-60 = matching literary term to example of use of that term 61-62 = general “gimme” questions I always have where students promise to not tell others what is on the test 63-80 = Identify the writer of the summary or the quote from Unit 1 or Unit 2 1-10: The Crucible character identification
11-16: The Crucible multiple choice 17-35: Identify who said this quote from The Crucible 36-43: Identify the character in the movie, The Last of the Mohicans Free on Amazon Prime Summary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104691/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl 44-93: Identify the character in the description, or who said this quote from The Scarlet Letter (3 bonus questions) Most quoted chapters = 3, 4, 8, 10, 17, 23 90-100: Having your book on 10/4 (ALL students earned these 10 points this day!) Attend one of these Pope plays, either Property Rites (22-23 October) or Tuck Everlasting (3-4 December), and write a review as directed on the instruction sheet found on the door of my room. If you are in the play, see me about different instructions. You must stay for the entire play and provide proof of attendance (selfie after the performance in the lobby/ticket/screenshot of ticket receipt/etc). Paper due date TBA. 100/100 grade in any category you request IF you write a serious/quality paper that follows ALL instruction AND includes proof of attendance. Please remember, the bonus is meant for you to "bump" your own grade by completing a worth while assignment, so I expect a job very well done. This assignment can only be done for one play, and there will be no other bonus opportunity this semester. If there is no way possible that you can attend either play, and you wish to participate in this bonus opportunity, speak to me in class ASAP (well BEFORE the FIRST play in October), and provide proof that you cannot attend either play/any performance. This assignment is posted on 8 October, so make plans now. I will not listen to any sob stories in November or December about how you cannot do this assignment because you didn't plan ahead.
Property Rites: https://www.popetheater.org/oapropertyrites SEE POSTER IN MY ROOM FOR TICKET PURCHASE INFO Tuck Everlasting: https://www.popetheater.org/sdtuckeverlasting 9/7 T Rosh Hashanah (make ups not required) = LC Webquest/ The Crucible Background Information
9/8 W Rosh Hashanah (make ups not required) = Video/Salem Trials (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7CO3ZJmk6w) 9/9 Th = Summary; Start the Play 9/10 F = Continue In-Class Reading 9/13 M = Continue In-Class Reading; Hand back Writing 3 to prepare for first Major Writing (due on 9/23, Wednesday!) 9/14 T = Guidance Lesson 1 (Read text at home at your own rate) 9/15 W = Movie 1:00-31:53 or 38:00 (Read text at home at your own rate) Yom Kippur 9/16 Th = Movie (Read text or not) Yom Kippur REMINDER: YOU MUST HAVE THE SCARLET LETTER (10 points on 10/4) 9/17 F = Movie (Read text at home at your own rate, but be finished and ready for Monday's In-Class writing!) TEST YOURSELF: pages 1157-8, 1181-2, 1213-4, 1233-4 9/20 M = In Class Writing Day, TIDIDIDE with a Works Cited page 9/21 T = Editing Day. Be ready with a COMPLETE TIDIDIDE PAPER IN HAND WITH A WORKS CITED PAGE! OR lose points 9/22 W = The Last of the Mohicans HW = Be sure of your paper. This is the first paper for the "Major Writing" category! 9/23 Th = The Last of the Mohicans; Paper Due! (Major Writing 1, The Crucible TIDIDIDE with a Works Cited page) 9/24 F = The Last of the Mohicans ENJOY FALL BREAK! HAVE THE SCARLET LETTER (10 unit test points) WITH YOU WHEN YOU RETURN! 10/4 M = Intro to Romanticism/The Scarlet Letter (10 unit test points ALL OR NOTHING) 10/5 T = Continue TSL, Chapter 2, Voc 2, Voc Quiz will be Tuesday 10/19! 10/6 W = Continue TSL, Chapter 3, Voc 2 10/7 Th = Continue TSL, Chapters 4 to 5, Voc 2 10/8 F = Continue TSL, Chapters 6 to 7, Voc 2 Review (Quiz will be on 10/19) 10/11 M = Chapters 8-9 10/12 T = Chapters 10-11 10/13 W = PSAT, HW = Voc 2 10/14 Th = Chapters 12-13, Meet in room 78 for 2nd Guidance Lesson 10/15 F = Chapters 14-15, HW = Voc 2 10/18 M = Chapters 16-17, HW = Voc 2, Early Release Day? 10/19 T = Chapters 18-19, Voc 2 Quiz TODAY! 10/20 W = Chapters 20-21, GET BACK MAJOR PAPER/Grammar Presentation 10/21 Th = Chapters 22-23, Picture make up day? 10/22 F = Chapter 24, Discussion, What can I study for the Unit Test? GO TO THE PLAY; DO THE BONUS! SELFIE THERE!!!! 10/25 M = In-Class Writing! Have your book with you! Room 307 SHOW ME YOUR SELFIE TODAY! 10/26 T = Unit 2 TEST! Covers The Crucible, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Scarlet Letter! 10/27 W = Writing Exercise in Room 307 Upcoming/Dates of Importance: TBA You will need The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne by mid-September! Get a copy NOW so you will be ready! Try used bookstores.
Welcome to Honors American Literature!
I am the only teacher to teach this class, and I love it: I hope you will, too! Below is the class syllabus. I post the calendar almost daily, so if there is a snow/ice/tornado/whatever day, keep up! You can always contact me at [email protected]. GRADING: Unit Tests/Bonus = 40% Major Writing = 20% Minor Writing/Participation = 10% Vocabulary/Summer Reading = 10% Final Exam = 20% This is an EOC class, so second semester, the EOC will count 20% of the grade. HOMEWORK: We read MOST things in class the first time through; however, to succeed in this class, you will need to re-read everything, perhaps twice at home. You will not receive an "A" if you do not do this. Your homework nightly is to study vocab and to reread what was read in class. You should spend at LEAST 20 minutes a night doing this. Many stories/works can be accessed on YouTube. TEXTBOOK: Textbook will be issued the first or second week of school to be taken home. You will NOT need to tote the book back and forth. You will need to return to the book prior to receiving your EOC score at year end. Other works not contained in the the textbook that we read in class can be googled online or a link will be provided. UNITS: (full information can be found on your AmLitReads sheet in your notebook) 1. Introduction--The Help--Analysis Paragraph 2. Native American/Puritan Age/Age of Reason--The Constitution (yes, we will read and understand every word of it) 3. Romanticism--The Scarlet Letter (You will need your own copy) and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (I have a class set/LC too) --. Historical Fiction Book of Your Choice--Research Paper (book must deal with America prior to 1970, unless approved) 4. Realism I--Runs with Horses (I have a class set) 5. Realism II--Raisin in the Sun (I have a class set/LC too) 6. Modernism--The Great Gatsby (You will need your own copy) 7. Post-Modernism--The Catcher in the Rye (I have many copies, but you may want your own because you are going to love it) LATE WORK: All unexcused late work will be docked 25% per day. To be considered on time, projects and papers are due BY THE TARDY BELL on the due date. Do not ask me to print anything. I don't care if the LC/MC/Lab is closed the morning a paper is due. Do not email me anything. I only accept hard copies of papers BY THE TARDY BELL on any due date. Don't test me on this. I close and lock my door AT THE TARDY BELL every day for every class, even for 1st period. MAKE UP WORK: All make ups must be completed before the unit test. Unit tests need to be made up within a week. You can come before school (I am here by 7:35 each day) or during your lunch period (any lunch period) or after school (I can usually stay until 4:30). You do not make an appointment: just show up. I keep a make up folder, so if you arrive to my room and I am out, just get your test, take it, and leave it on my desk. ALL OTHER QUESTIONS/POLICIES: Please see your classroom contract which you initialed and your parents signed the first week of class. You should be reading Stockett's The Help! Keep a character list as instructed.
For instructions, click on the "LINKS" button above right. Then click on "HAmLitSummRead2021." It is the first blue button. Don't forget to watch the movie and do your T chart. A few students asked me if they had to do chapter summaries in the book. You may keep a separate sheet of chapter summaries, but keep it short for each chapter. I look forward to meeting you very soon! We will watch Modern Times first, then move on to our last (and my favorite) text, The Catcher in the Rye!
Have this book by Thursday 5/6. If you are f2f, I do have copies of the book you may borrow in my classroom. You may think this is a simplistic book at first read, but remember, in American Lit, everything is symbolic! Salinger studied the writings of Hemingway, so ICEBERG read this book! I look forward to see if you "get it" in your ctls responses.... M 5/3 = Modern Times, F2F students can return texts this week any day for 50 points on last assessment T 5/4 = Modern Times = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gLa4wAia9g W 5/5 = RETURN TEXTBOOK and ANY BORROWED BOOK DAY (worth 50 points on last assessment) For virtual students ONLY, drive thru return at school from 12:30-1:30 today, same place where you picked it up. (Face to facers can return the book to me any day this week in class.) Th 5/6 = The Catcher, Chapters 1-3 F 5/7 = 4-6 Remember, ICEBERG read this! Copies, first-come-first-served, in blue crate in front of PPO for virtual students! M 5/10 = 7-9 EOC MAKE UP DAY! T 5/11 = 10-12; Assignment for Wed. by midnight will be posted at some point today. W 5/12 = 20 point assignment due on ctls by midnight. RETURN TEXTBOOK and ANY BORROWED BOOK DAY (worth 50 points on last assessment) For virtual students ONLY, drive thru return at school from 12:30-1:30 today, same place where you picked it up. (Face to facers can return the book to me any day this week in class.) Th 5/13 = 13-15 F 5/14 = 16-18 M 5/17 = 19-21 T 5/18 = 22-End W 5/19 = 20 point assignment due on ctls by midnight. RETURN TEXTBOOK and ANY BORROWED BOOK DAY (worth 50 points on last assessment) For virtual students ONLY, drive thru return at school from 12:30-1:30 today, same place where you picked it up. (Face to facers can return the book to me any day this week in class.) Th 5/20 = TBA F 5/21 = 1st period last assignment due (virtual day) M 5/24 = 3rd & 4th periods last assignment due (virtual day) T 5/25 = 6th period last assignment due (virtual day) W 5/26 = 7th period last assignment due (virtual day) Email me if you have any questions as you study for this test! I am at my computer all day Friday.
I won't have a help session Friday, but I will answer any question you ask (within reason). 1-8 = MC, Wharton movie 9-19 = Match quote to character, Hansberry movie 20-26 = Misc. T/F 27-46 = Match quote to character, Fitzgerald book 47-61 = Misc MC and T/F 62-85 = Match quote to author (Modernism unit) 86-92 = Misc literary terms 93-100 = MC, Fitzgerald M 12 April = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8zpu1i70Kg, Borden, "At the Somme: The Song of the Mud" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57329/at-the-somme-the-song-of-the-mud
T 13 April = Hemingway, "In Another Country" (801 in textbook) Hemingway video W 14 April = "Soldier's Home" http://www.somanybooks.org/eng208/SoldiersHome.pdf CTLS ASSIGNMENT DUE AT 4pm AND Interview: "The Real Decoy" (Interview) = https://www.thisamericanlife.org/603/once-more-with-feeling/act-two T 15 April = BONUS DUE BY MIDNIGHT ON CTLS! Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby F 16 April = HW = Read Chapters 1 and 2 The Great Gatsby M 19 April = Chapters 3 & 4 CTLS ASSIGNMENT DUE AT MIDNIGHT #2/5 "Fitzgerald Ch. 4" T 20 April = Chapters 5 & 6 CTLS ASSIGNMENT DUE AT MIDNIGHT #3/5 "Fitz Ch. 6" (Me = EOC training in PAC today.) W 21 April = Chapters 7 & 8 & 9! FINISH IT TONIGHT! T 22 April = Finish TGG. 5 poems: Williams "This is," Cummings "old age," Auden "The Unknown," Frost "Stopping," Stephens "Disillusionment." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43429/disillusionment-of-ten-oclock THAT'S IT! END OF UNIT! F 23 April = Re-read all works for understanding. Learn who wrote what. Study. Email me any questions! M 26 April = Unit test over Modernism. T 27 April = EOC (0.01% of grade; if it helps your grade it is 20%, if you take a zero it will not be on the transcript) W 28 April = R&R Th 29 April = EOC (0.01% of grade; if it helps your grade it is 20%, if you take a zero it will not be on the transcript) F 30 April = EOC (0.01% of grade; if it helps your grade it is 20%, if you take a zero it will not be on the transcript) MLA Instructions for Word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qza5pk78vJc WATCH IT!
MLA Instructions for Google Docs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7JQAgQVBmg WATCH IT! WATCH Possessives: family's vs. families' My brother's baseball... My cat's bowl (1 cat) vs. My cats' bowl (more than 1 cat) WATCH Introductory Commas: Before I went to school, I went to the orthodontist. (You need the comma) WATCH Fanboy Commas: If it is a sentence before and after the FANBOY, you need the comma. If not, no comma! Watch Caps: I went to high school. (correct) I went to Pope High School. (correct) YES! "high school" is two words! Watch Caps: My mom helped me. (correct, do not cap if it is describing the relationship) Then, Mom helped me. (correct, cap when it is the name used for the person) Spell out numbers that are small! Google it! R.A.V.E.N. = Remember, Affect is a Verb, Effect is a Noun PROOFREAD YOUR PAPER OUT LOUD IF YOU CAN. READ EVERY WORD AND LOOK AT EVERY PUNCTUATION MARK! * In ctls, I need you to submit BOTH your Wharton and Hansberry (not posted until 3:30pm 4/1) theme statements by 1 April midnight.
* In ctls, I need you to submit your School Days paper by 2 April 4pm. Come to class on Friday for last minute grammar/punc. hints. Neither of these assignments can be emailed to me. Neither will be accepted late. MLA must be perfect on School Days! These deadlines are OFFICIAL deadlines. Paper MUST be 7 FULL pages. If ridden with errors, you will NOT make an A.
As I stated in class, I am not downloading your research reports and converting them to be able to highlight, comment, and then return them to you as I did for your exams last semester. I would need a clone to be able to do that. CTLS is far too unwieldy to allow this for 138 papers of this size. It is yet another casualty of virtual learning. Returning physical papers to physically present students is far easier and less time consuming (and more helpful to learning) than what CTLS can provide. Understandably, many of you want to know why you scored average or below average on this report. It will be necessary for you to analyze your own report based on the information below. Another good thing for you to do is perhaps look at my comments on all previous papers you have submitted to me. Are you still making the same errors? This is second semester, and I have already addressed ad infinitum and ad nausium several MLA, grammar, and punctuation issues that I am no longer excusing. I am counting off heavily for anything I have presented to you thus far in instruction. Codes for these errors will appear on your ctls comments after Monday 3/15.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PAPER. If you have ONE error in these requirements, you have probably scored a 70 or lower. See the PowerPoint provided after the first paper last semester and the Quoting Handout provided to you as well as any document provided with your returned exam from last semester. * A clearly stated thesis statement at the end of an introduction that was at least 5 sentences long. (I) * Two complete TIDIDE body paragraphs with parentheticals punctuated precisely in MLA format. Sometimes students leave off the E or the transition words, and OFTEN, students are not punctuating the parentheticals correctly. This is inexcusable. (BP) * All three types of lead ins (b, ss, and s) must be present in the body paragraphs, punctuated precisely as instructed. (Q) * Both right and left headers and margins in precise MLA formatting. Any error here is inexcusable and sadly common. (M) * Correctly formatted only-double-spaced Works Cited page with hanging indent. In alphabetic order NOT using "A" or "The." (WC) PUNCTUATION/GRAMMAR. If you have TWO of any of these, you probably scored a 70 or lower. See the Georgia State writing error doc and the PowerPoint you have been provided with in class as well as attachments to your returned exam. * Run-ons (RO) * Fanboy errors (FB) * Introductory comma errors (IC) * Commas after the quotations for a referenced article instead of being included inside the quotes along with the article name (C) * Agreement errors (AG) * Use of first person (I, we) or second person (you) (P) * Misspellings (SP) * Possessive errors (POSS) * Punctuation/Grammar/Clarity errors resulting in logical flow failure (LOG) * Capitalization errors (CAP) * Literary present errors (LP) The above represent the majority of errors I have found on the papers graded so far. I have vowed to have all of these papers graded and loaded in to Synergy before the end of the 2nd 6 weeks. Thank you for your patience, and please realize that all grading of papers, this one and all in-class writings, is done after school hours on my own personal time as work time is taken up by a plethora of other duties, many of which are due to the new virtual environment. Also, because I am swamped with grading these, from now on I will not be able to respond to your emails after hours or on weekends. Be sure you have read each work at least 3 times and you understand each work. Be sure to be able to match what that work is about/characters/settings to the author's last name! Study and re-read and understand! Know the authors of each work!
I plan to start each test 5 minutes before the class period starts, so DON'T be late. The test ENDS with the class-end bell unless you have extended time allowances. 1-21 = Match Quote to Author 22-65 = Multiple Choice on traits of the ages, definitions, and plots of the works including Moby Dick 66-92 = Match quote to Author It is a 4 page test on ctls. If you are an extended time test-taker, and you need the extra time, just continue to test into the next class period. I will write you excuses after you submit your test. You will not share any information from this test from class period to class period. You will study and do your best. You will not use any other device to assist you during this test. You will be honorable honors students, remembering that you reap what you sow! Go to CTLS sessions for your class.
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