*First day

*Assign books

*Review syllabus

*Silent reading

*Diagnostic test

*Allusion presentations

*Homework: Read pgs. 18-22

*Allusion presentations

*Homework: Read pgs. 24-31 (complete "Reader's Notebook" chart as you read and do questions #1-4, including Comprehension Check)

*Review story, "The World on the Turtle's Back"

*Review questions

*Read Building Background, "Coyote Stories" (pg. 39)

*Read "Coyote and the Buffalo" (pg. 40)

*Discuss questions #1-3 (pg. 42)

*Read "Fox and Coyote and Whale" (pg. 43)

*Complete questions #1-4 (pg. 46)

*Silent reading

*Language of Literature Book, Writing Options Assignment #2, "Updated Trickster Tale" (pg. 47)

*Review questions from "Fox and Coyote and Whale"

*Sharing of "Trickster Tales"

*Test review and study

*Silent reading

*Native American Mythology Test

*"Coyote Stories" film clip

*Read background on "The Harlem Renaissance" (pgs. 914-923)

*Read Langston Hughes background (pg. 924)

*Read poem, "I, Too" and answer questions #1-3 (pg. 925)

*Read "Harlem" and answer questions #1-3 (pg. 926)

*Vocabulary quiz

*Video on the 1920's

*Review tests

*FCAT Writes

(early release)

*Read "The Weary Blues" (pg. 927)

*Answer questions #1-6 (including the Comprehension Check) (pg. 928)

*Paired activity on "Mood" (pg. 928

*Writing or Drawing Activity (pg. 929)

*Silent reading

*Read "from Love Langston" (pg. 931)

*Discuss mood, author's purpose, identifying main ideas and supporting details

*Read "When the Negro was in Vogue" (pg. 932)

*Complete questions #1-4 (pg. 937)

*Review questions

*Read "Thoughts on the African-American Novel" (pg. 973)

*Complete questions #1-6 (including Comprehension Check questions) (pg. 976)

*Test review

*BRACE visit

*Silent reading

*Test on "The Harlem Renaissance" Unit

*Review tests

*Biography project

*Silent reading

*Biography project

*Vocabulary quiz

*Biography project

*Silent reading

*Begin Puritanism

*Read "The Examination of Sarah Good"

*Guest speaker

*Review questions

*Read "When Commercialism Clashes with History"

*Silent reading

*Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

*Review

*Journals due

*Complete biography project presentations

*Finish presenting biography projects

*Puritanism test

*Silent reading

*Vocabulary quiz

*Finish reading "Act I" of The Crucible

*Read "Act II" for homework

*Review "Act II"

*Read "Act III"

*Silent reading

*Continue reading The Crucible

*Silent reading

*Mid-term essay

*Silent reading

*Review day

*Assign books

*Pre-reading questions

*Background video on The Scarlet Letter

*Begin reading the intro (pgs. 1-17)

*Background info on author (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

*Finish reading the intro (pgs. 17-34)

*Answer novel guide questions

*Review intro and take "ethics survey"

*Read Ch. 1-3 (pgs. 35-52)

*Answer novel guide questions

*Classwork assignment

*Review Ch. 1-3

*Read Ch. 4-5 (pgs. 53-66)

*Answer novel guide questions

*Classwork assignment

*Review Ch. 4-5

*Read Ch. 6-7 (pgs. 67-81)

*Answer novel guide questions

*WEEKEND HOMEWORK: -Read Ch. 8-9 (pgs. 82-98)

-Answer novel guide questions

*Vocabulary quiz

*Review Ch. 6-7

*Classwork assignment

*Review Ch. 8-9

*Read Ch. 10-11 (pgs. 99-112)

*Answer novel guide questions

*Classwork assignment

*Review Ch. 10-11

*Read Ch. 12-13 (pgs. 113-128)

*Answer novel guide questions

*Imagery activity

*Review Ch. 12-13

*Read Ch. 14-16

*Answer novel guide questions

*Review Ch. 14-16

*Read Ch. 17-19

*Answer novel guide questions

*"Another Symbolic Letter" Activity

*Review Ch. 17-19

*Read Ch. 20-21

*Answer novel guide questions

*"Conflict" activity

*Review Ch. 20-21

*Read Ch. 22-24

*Answer novel guide questions

*Classwork activities

*Review Ch. 22-24

*Extra questions for review

*Review day

*Begin watching film version of The Scarlet Letter

*Finish watching film version of The Scarlet Letter

*Early release

*The Scarlet Letter Test

*Journals due

*Vocabulary quiz

*Begin Gothic Literature Unit

*Read "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (by Hawthorne)

*View film biography on William Faulkner

*Read "A Rose for Emily" (pg. 516)

*Chapter questions #1-8 (pg. 525)

*Review questions on story

*View film of "A Rose for Emily"

*Writing activity

*Read "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (pg. 528)

*Chapter questions # 1-8 (pg. 539)

*Essays due

*Assign research paper topics

*Background video on Poe

*Info on research paper (guest speaker)

*Info on research paper

*Video on unexplained phenomena

*Begin Poe (pgs. 450-453)

*Video on unexplained phenomena

*Read "The Masque of the Red Death" (pgs. 454-462)

*Read "Danse Macabre" (pgs. 464-465)

*Read "The Raven" (pgs. 466-471)

*Chapter questions

*Poe activity

*Study for vocabulary quiz

*Silent reading

*Vocabulary quiz

*Poe video ("The Masque of the Red Death")

*Read "The Fall of the House of Usher" (pgs. 473-496)

*Finish reading "The Fall of the House of Usher"

*Review for Gothic test

*Poe video ("The Fall of the House of Usher")

*Gothic test

*Silent reading

*Read "Life on the Mississippi" (pgs. 669-675)

*Chapter questions

*View "Life on the Mississippi" video

*Read Mark Twain's epigrams (pg. 678)

*Read "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (pgs. 679-683)

*Read "The First Jumping Frog" (pg. 684)

*Chapter questions (pg. 685)

*Review for Twain test

*Twain test

*Silent reading

*No school

(planning day)

*Memorial Day

(no school)

*Finish poems (pgs. 756-760)

*Chapter questions

*Dickinson video

*Read Dunbar (pgs. 835-838)

*Chapter questions

*Poetry review

*Vocab. quiz

*Final essay

*Poetry test

*Silent reading

*Final exams

*Final exams

*Last day for students

*No school

(planning day)