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9 WW—Dandelion Wine

 

What is America?

 

H.W.—blue book; Hunting Song, Song of Sky Loom (31-34); Of Plymouth (88-95); Bradstreet (148-151).

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Student Free Day

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Style Essay Due

Get Green books

Fishbowl: What America was, what America is...

 

14      Bradstreet and Wheatley through lenses.

 

 Two “Stuff” articles

HW: Edward’s sermon (160-165)

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Visualize metaphors

 

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Writer’s Workshop:

Extended Metaphor

Assign Analogy Paper

HW: Ben Franklin (226 in Blue; 130 in Green)

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Franklin and Edwards—comparisons

 

H.W. read assigned Romantic story

 

20 Collab. Sched.

 

Introduce Romanticism (read Blake)

Introduce and work on presentations

21     WW: Portfolio Goal Setting

 

Work on presentations

 

H.W. Read Cooper & Irving

22  Analogy Paper due

 

Cooper’s A Rescue from The Deerslayer (164 in Green Book)

 

Start Irving

 

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Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker (276 in Blue Book)

 

Start Poe’s The Masque of Red Death (356 in Blue Book)

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Finish Romantic Stories

Modern Rom. Paper?

Literary Movements

 

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WW-imitate Romantics

 

H.W. Read Longfellow (273) and Whitman (313)

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Longfellow & Whitman comparison

 

Modernize “I Hear America Singing”

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Diction creating tone in Poe

WW-orange with tone

H.W.-Read Dickinson poems

 

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Introduce Pop-Up Poetry Project.

 

Work on presentations

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Ghost soldiers...Red Death...spiders...boo!

1 NOVEMBER

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Writer’s Workshop Due

 

Work on presentations

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Present Pop-Ups

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Present Pop-Ups

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Finish Pop-Ups

Assign Dickinson essay

6 Work on  Dickinson essay

 

Have Scarlet Letter by Monday

 

Book Club Logs Due