JUNIOR ENGLISH JUNIOR ENGLISH
Welcome to Junior English!!! This year will be the study of American literature--no Shakespeare! We will begin with John Smith and the founding of Jamestown and hopefully end the semester with the American Renaissance and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. We will also spend much time preparing for the Writing Assessment in February.
Needed supplies for this class are a three-ring notebook; white, loose-leaf paper, and blue or black ink pens
Week of August 10-14
Monday--went over make-up procedure; general knowledge test
Tuesday--introduction to American literature; Common Mistakes worksheet--complete for homework
Wednesday--take up Common Mistakes work; Anticipation Guide for the settlement of America; notes--The Beginnings of the American Tradition
Thursday--Read The General History by John Smith
Friday--finish reading the excerpt from The General History; correct the Common Mistakes paper for another grade
Week of August 17-21
Monday--Pocahontas video
Tuesday--finish Pocahontas
Wednesday--notes over John Smith; open-book test over Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Thursday--finish open-book test; began talking about pronouns in compound construction
Friday--worksheet: Pronouns in Compound Construction; discuss Of Plymouth Plantation and William Bradford
Week of August 31-September 4
Monday--Re-take Pronoun quiz; pronoun discussion
Tuesday--return and go over essays; literary terms hand out--test soon
Wednesday--Prounoun review; rhyme scheme explanation
Thursday--Pronoun Test # 2; go over sentences from Common Mistakes--re-submit them for yet another grade
Friday--finish going over Common Mistakes--turn in when finished
Week of September 7-11
Monday--NO SCHOOL--Labor Day
Tuesday--explanation of meter; rhyme scheme test
Wednesday--reading day
Thursday--open-note quiz; continuation of meter
Friday--finish going over poetic literary terms
Week of Septemberr 14-18
Monday--
Tuesday--practice literary terms test; began Anne Bradstreet
Wednesday--Literary terms test; Bradstreet--"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
Thursday--Bradstreet--"Upon the Burning of Our House"
Friday--six weeks ends; Edward Taylor--"Preface to God's Determinations"
Week of September 21-25
Monday--2nd six weeks begins; Edward Taylor--conceit in "Huswifery"
Tuesday--Edward Taylor--"Upon a Spider Catching a Fly"
Wednesday--review for unit test tomorrow
Thursday--Unit Test over Colonial Literature--counts three times
Friday--The American Revolution--lecture and discussion
Week of September 28-October 2
Monday--read Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Tuesday--finish Franklin's Autobiography--quiz
Wednesday--re-quiz over Franklin's Autobiography; set up behavior chart
Thursday--discuss Franklin's Autobiography and proverbs from Poor Richard's Almanack
Friday--finish Franklin's proverbs
Week of October 5-9
Monday--figurative language in Franklin's epitaph
Tuesday--Vocabulary exercise in class; make up during lunch within 3 days
Wednesday--Patrick Henry's speech--find 3effective rhetorical questions, 3 effective figures of speech, 2 allusions, and 2 key points that are repeated
Thursday--finish the assignment from yesterday; go over Patrick Henry's speech
Friday--Thomas Paines's speech, The Crisis, Number 1: find 3 aphorisms, his personal experience, and his argument by analogy
Week of October 12-16 Upcoming reading assignments: "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving; an excerpt from The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper; the poem "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant
Monday-Patrick Henry's speech--find 2 appeals to logic, 3 emotional appeals
Tuesday---go over Paine's speech--find 3 aphorisms, his personal experience, and his argument by analogy; What is an American?
Wednesday--Notes on Classicism, Romanticism
Thursday--Volunteer Electric presentation--information for an essay contest in which we will participate--One RCHS student will win a wonderful, all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. next summer!
Friday--discuss Paine's speech; read the Declaration of Independence
Week of October 19-23
FALL BREAK--NO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Week of October 26-30
Monday--"What is an American?" discussion
Tuesday--hand out and discussion: Classicism and Romanticism
Wednesday--open-note quiz over Classicism, Romanticism, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper
Thursday--issue literature books; Read "The Devil and Tom Walker"--quiz tomorrow
Friday--quiz over "The Devil and Tom Walker"; discussion of satire; discussion of the Faust story with hand out: EXTRA CREDIT assignment--Find examples of Washington Irving's mockery of women, white people, and religious people--more extra credit will be given for an oral presentation of this material
Week of November 2-6
Monday--discussion of Irving's satire of women, white people, and religious people in "The Devil and Tom Walker"
Tuesday--comma exercise in class
Wednesday--read "Rip Van Winkle" in class and complete an open-book test
Thursday--discuss "Rip Van Winkle"
Friday--went over comma worksheet and Rip Van Winkle open-book test
Week of November 9-13
Monday--open-book test over The Prairie
Tuesday--finish open-book test and discuss
Wednesday--"To a Waterfowl" by William Cullen Bryant
Thursday-Write a statement for each stanza in "To a Waterfowl" that tells what each stanza is about and turn in
Friday--discussed the Spanish Inquisition and the events in "The Tell-Tale Heart" EXTRA CREDIT assignment: research the torture methods used during the Spanish Inquisition--additional points will be given for an oral report on these methods
Week of November 13-17
Monday--"Thantopsis" Read and find 3 positive and 3 negative things about death in the poem
Tuesday--"Thanatopsis"--Does the poem contain a religious message?
Wednesday--quiz over "The Pit and the Pendulum"; discuss Poe's life
Thursday--quiz over "The Fall of the House of Usher"--discuss the story
Friday--prove or disprove the dual hallucination theory in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Week of November 23-24
Monday--continue discussion of the dual hallucination theory; begin "The Raven"
Tuesday--read "The Raven" in class and discuss
Wednesday--NO SCHOOL
Thursday--NO SCHOOL
Friday--NO SCHOOL