Week of February 23 - 27

• Student Path Survey's
• Library to check out Literary Circle book (Animal Dreams, A Lesson Before Dying, Love Medicine, On the Road, The Dharma Bums)
• Go over all questions from Romanticism and Transcendentalism and overview of unit.
• Read Elizabeth Gilbert's The Last American Man and complete one page in class essay (use as writing sample)

Week of February 17 - 20 NO SCHOOL MONDAY 2/16

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• hand-out with all reading and q's for Romanticism and Transcendentalism unit
• read Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" p. 213, 232-246 q's p. 247 & 248
• Entry #11 under what circumstances would you be willing to rak a fine, punishment, or even jail for a moral or political principle? Can you name anyone that has endured physical suffering in order to demonstrate their commitment to an idea?
• discuss chart on page 247
• read "The Last American Man" by Elizabeth Gilbert and one page essay connecting Eustace Conway to Emerson and Thoreau's philosophy - use examples...

Week of February 9 - 13

Man is a stream whose source is hidden - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Edgar Allan Poe packets due
• watch The Tell-Tale Heart
• watch Edgar Allan Poe documentary
• 10 facts from documentary notes
• turn in "Understanding, Interpretation, and Analysis"
• Entry #10 What does it mean to be 'self-relient'? Are you?
• read excerpts from; Self-Relience and Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson p. 203-212
• answer q's p. 212 and 213 write about 'aphorisms' or Emerson's Philosophy

Week of February 2 - 6

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. - Anthony Robbins

• Entries #5 Have you ever found yourself at a crossroad? A fork in the road?
• Entry #6 - 9 from Kokology
• The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving (q's p. 186 & 187 1 - 11)
• Robert Johnson and the "curse of the crossroad"
• scene from Dr. Faustus
• discuss "selling your soul to the devil" theme in literature and movies
• Entry # 10 from Kokology
• Read and listen to The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, and Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
• Poe packet
• hand-out "Understanding, interpretation, and analysis"

Week of January 26th - 30th FINALS WEEK

UNFORTUNATELY I WAS OUT BOTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY OF THIS WEEK.

• FINAL UNIT QUIZ FOR The Crucible
• ALL ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE FIRST SEMESTER MUST BE TURNED IN BY THURSDAY JANUARY 29TH. GRADES POSTED ON MONDAY.
• Read "American Romanticism" in orange Holt. Pages 156 - 186 includes "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving. Questions page 186 & 187 1 - 11

Week of January 19th - 23rd NEXT WEEK IS FINALS!!

JANUARY 19TH/MONDAY IS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY

• Reading from the Holt pages 67 - 77 "from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" questions page 77 1-8.
• Reading from the Holt pages 157 - 185 questions pages 186 & 187 1 - 11 and Writing "stereotypes"
• catch up on assignments
• assignments returned
• Character Analysis due 1/23 Friday
• journal entries due by 1/26 (#1 - #7)

January 12 - 16 CHALLENGE ASSIGNMENT DUE

• watch movie Guilty by Suspicion 
• notes on movie and connection to The Crucible
• re-read "Why I Wrote The Crucible"
• work on completing assignments
• Witchcraft article
• CHALLENGE ASSIGNMENT DUE AND QUIZ

January 5 - 9

Happy New Year 2015

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning against the railing, holding the universe together". JD Salinger "A Girl Knew"

• TEDtalks "The Puzzle of Motivation"
• Entry #4 what motivates you?
• Entry $5 why is reputation so important to John Proctor? Why doesn't he want to sign his name?
• finish The Crucible
• finish the movie
• Questions Act 4
• Vocabulary sheet #3
• character analysis assigned (due 1/23)
• CHALLENGE ASSIGNMENT DUE JANUARY 16TH (must take quiz over your book and get 70% on quiz to receive credit for challenge assignment)
• DIALOGUE JOURNALS FOR The Crucible DUE 1/12
• FINAL JOURNAL CHECK BY 1/28
• FINAL ASSESSMENT 1/28

December 15 - 19 PROGRESS REPORTS DUE TUESDAY DECEMBER 16TH

• Read Act 3 watch movie and read up to Act 4
• questions Act 3
• vocabulary #3
• character motivation chart
• character retrieval chart
• character analysis assigned after the break

HAPPY WINTER BREAK

December 8 - 12

• Reading The Crucible and watching the movie (Act 1 and Act 2)
• questions for Act 1 and Act 2
• vocabulary sheet #1 and #2
• entry #1 word bomb (island, butter, stench, cranberry, time)
• entry #2 word bomb (coffee, ashes, purple, horn, waves)
• entry #3 reputation is a major theme in The Crucible. How might you see this being played out in the story? what might you predict may happen in terms of the characters?