Lisha Wood

Honors American Lit - Week of April 28-May 2

Monday, April 28

1. Vocab 13 words
2. Discuss Jack London's "To Build a Fire" - elements of Naturalism, foreshadowing, irony
3. Discuss Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour" and "Desiree's Baby" - elements of Regionalism and irony

HW: Read Mark Twain's "Story of Bad Little Boy"; EOCT practice for extra credit - www.usatestprep.com

Tuesday, April 29

1. Discuss Twain's "Story" - satire, regionalism, criticism - discuss society's ways of teaching us to be "good"
2. Twain's sayings - satire - explain relevance

HW: Read Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poems - "Douglass" and "We Wear the Mask"; Study for Realism/Naturalism test

Wednesday, April 30

1. Discuss Dunbar's poetry - Realism
2. Realism/Naturalism test
3. Complete Mondernism background handout, syllabus, and F. Scott Fitzgerald bio
4. The Great Gatsby - anticipation guide (yes, no, maybe)

HW: Finish handouts

Thursday, May 1

1. Fitzgerald bio
2. Discuss Y/N/M - Gatsby anticipation guide
3. Read ch. 1 in The Great Gatsby - write questiosn as we read

HW: complete Ch. 1-3 by Tuesday, May 6th

Friday, May 2

1. Vocab 13 Quiz
2. Modernism background
3. Imagism - Ezra Pound & William Carlos Williams

9th Honors A-Day - Week of April 28-May 2

Tuesday, April 29

1. Vocab 15 Words
2. Go over Animal Farm background notes
3. Animal Farm - groupwork - create your version of a utopia

HW: Finish Ellen Foster creative myth projects

Thursday, May 1

1. Ellen Foster creative myth projects Due!!
2. Share projects
3. Animal Farm - groupwork - share utopias
4. Read Ch. 1 together

HW: Extra credit - EOCT practice on www.usatestprep.com; read Ch. 2 for Animal Farm

9th Honors Y - April 28-May 2

Monday, April 28

1. Vocab 13 words
2. Watch The Odyssey

HW: Ellen Foster  "When you were 11" handout

Tuesday, April 29

1. Finish watching The Odyssey
2. Poetry terms handout
3. Technology survey

HW: Finish terms handout; find lyrics to favorite, school appropriate song

Wednesday, April 30

1. Discuss "When you were eleven" handout
2. Read Ellen Foster chapter 1
3. Poetry intro activity - read and respond to poems
4. Look for poetic devices in song lyrics (if time)

HW: Read Ellen Foster ch. 2-3

Thursday, May 1

1. Finish discussing poems
2. "I Believe" Poem
3. "Seven Ages of Man"

Friday, May 2

1. Vocab 13Q
2. Ellen Foster 1-3Q
3. Discuss symbolism/characters
4. Read ch. 4

AP Language - Week of April 28-May 2

Monday, April 28

1. Vocab 27 words - evanescence,
2. Review multiple choice tests and evaluate test answers

Wednesday, April 30

1. Unvanquished quiz - Sections II-III
2. Multiple Choice AP practice test

Friday, May 2

1. Vocab 27Q
2. Discuss Free Response essay
3. Discuss multiple choice

HW: take home AP synthesis essay practice

Honors American Lit. - Week of April 21-25

Monday, April 21

1. Vocabulary 12 Words
2. Huck Finn final Test
3. Walt Whitman - Bio and poems

HW: Whitman SOAPSTone

Tuesday, April 22

1. Finish Whitman poems; discuss SOAPStone
2. Emily Dickinson bio
3. Dickinson poems - in groups

HW: Realism/Naturalism notes & syllabus; get a copy of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by Wed. of next week.

Wednesday, April 23

1. Finish Dickinson poems
2. Realism/Naturalism background
3. Spirituals

HW: Read Frederick Douglass - bio and "My Bondage, My Freedom"; bring in five quotes that sum up the theme of his autobiography

Thursday, April 24

1. Extra credit - sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" - discuss symbolism of code songs
2. Discuss bio and quotes from Douglass - "MB,MF"
3. Realism/Naturalism notes
4. Stephen Crane bio
5. Crane poems

Friday, April 25

1. Vocab 12 Quiz
2. Jack London's bio & read "To Build a Fire" - answer questions

HW: Kate Chopin - "Story of an Hour" & "Desiree's Baby"

9th Honors A Day - Week of April 21-25

Monday, April 21

1. Ellen Foster test
2. Ellen Foster creative writing project - Due May 1st
3. Social Worker handout
4. Vocab 14 sentences due
5. Return Ethan Frome essays and discuss improvements - Rewrites Due Friday

HW: Animal Farm anticipation guide and notes. Read the notes to answer the questions on your handout - Download AnimalFarmBackgroundNotes.doc  Get Animal Farm by Tuesday.

OOPS! Turn in extra credit Wed.

Wednesday, April 23 (1 hour class - extended advisement)

1. Turn in extra credit
2. Vocab 14 Quiz
3. Animal Farm anticipation guide

HW: Propaganda handout - Due Monday. Copy of Animal Farm  by Tuesday.

9th Honors Y - Week of April 21-25

Monday, April 21

1. Vocab 12 words
2. Finish Odyssey Part I Download odyssey_part_i.pdf
3. Comic Strips with partners

HW: Study Odyssey Part I for test

Tuesday, April 22

1. Finish comic strips - 15 minutes
2. Share comic strips
3. Odyssey Part I Test
4. Odyssey Part II

HW: Vocab sentences

Wednesday, April 23

1. Odyssey Part II
2. Ellen Foster anticipation guide

Thursday, April 24

1. Odyssey Part II - review for test
2. Discuss Ellen Foster  anticipation guide (1/2)

Friday, April 25

1. Odyssey Part II Test
2. Vocab 12 Quiz
3. Watch The Odyssey

AP Language - Week of April 21-25

AP MANDATORY BUBBLE SESSIONS:

Wed., April 23 - 7:45 in LGI

Thur., April 24 - 3:30 in LGI

Fri., April 25 - 7:45 in LGI

Tuesday, April 22

1. Vocab 26 words
2. Unvanquished - Ambuscade Quiz
3. AP Practice Multiple Choice test

HW: Unvanquished - Sections II-III (Retreat & Raid) by Wednesday, April 30th 

Thursday, April 24

1. Vocab 26 Quiz
2. AP Practice Essay - Free Response
3. Discuss Multiple Choice

HW: Unvanquished - Sections II-III (Retreat & Raid) by Wednesday, April 30th

End of Course Test Dates

Here are the End of Course Test Dates:

Honors American Literature - May 7th & 8th

9th Honors A-Day - May 15th & 19th

9th Honors Y - May 15th & 16th

Remember you may visit the test prep website I gave in class to practice.

Honors American Literature - Week of April 14-18

Monday, April 14

1. Vocab 11 words
2. Annotate and evaluate own timed writing using rubric
3. Dark Romanticism syllabus and poetry packet - Poe bio, terms, and background notes - complete for homework

HW: Poe bio and background notes; poetry packet due Wed.

Tuesday, April 15

1. Huck Finn 23-32 Quiz
2. Discuss 23-32 - themes, motifs, & conflicts
3. Poe bio and composition notes - discuss terms Download dark_romanticism.ppt
4. Read beginning of "Fall of the House of Usher"
5. Read "The Raven" - apply philosophy of poetry to the poem
6. Extra credit opportunity - write at least a 4 stanza poem emulating Poe's form in "The Raven." You must use his rhyme scheme, internal rhyme pattern, and form. It must be typed. Due Friday.

HW: finish Poetry packet; "Hop Frog"

Wednesday, April 16

1. "Hop Frog" quiz
2. Discuss story - apply philosophy of short story
3. Discuss poetry packet; Look at Poe's works through biographical criticism

HW: "The Black Cat," Melville bio

Thursday, April 17

1. "Black Cat" quiz
2. Discuss "Black Cat"
3. Melville & Anti-Transcendentalism
4. Journal
5. Read "Lancelot's Hey"
6. Discuss story

Friday, April 18

1. Vocab 11 Quiz
2. Dark Romanticism Test
3. Huck Finn discussion
4. Whitman/Dickinson biographies