Junior English
Honors AP English 3: American Literature
2007-2008 Syllabus

December 1
Monday
day 5

H English 3 Document Folder

Hawthorne, "Rappacini's Daughter"

Hawthorne, "Rappacini's Daughter"

Due: Norton Reader essay for the Writer's Journal: Terry Tempest Williams "The Clan of the One-Breasted Women," p. 636 Style--family history of larger historical issue.

(be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Poe and Hawthorne

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) "I felt a funeral in my brain" and "Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant—" (marginalia not due today)

Dickinson powerpoint

Dickinson vocabulary list

Dickinson continued

December 8
Monday
day 4

Dickinson "I'm nobody, who are you?" "I Heard a Fly Buzz—when I died," "A Bird Came Down the Walk" and "This was a Poet, It is That"

AM Assembly (mass)

Dickinson continued

Review for the Midterm Exam

Pep Rally Schedule

End of Second Quarter

January 5
Monday
day 1

Welcome back and storytelling

H English 3 Document Folder

Sarah Orne Jewett's "The White Heron" (1886)

Grammar and Writing Self-Assessment 2

Bring to class: Your computer and Elements of Style (marginalia on the foreword and the introduction of Elements)

Jewett powerpoint

Regionalists vocabulary list

Continue with Jewett's story

Introduction of AP examination format and content

We will look at the AP essay 1 (analytical), which will then be due next Monday: Rhetorical analysis of essay on pp. 38 of Barron's (It's okay to read the commentary if you wish, but when you begin studying the essay in earnest, start a time clock so you can assess your length of time in writing it. You eventually want to get your time down to forty minutes).

Bring to class: Your Barron's AP English Language and Composition 2007 book, Elements of Style (with labeled tabs on items that aren't perfectly known already for chapter 1) and your computer

AP Language and Composition Terms

Mary Wilkins Freeman's "A New England Nun"

Bring to class: Elements of Style (with labeled tabs on items that aren't perfectly known already for chapter 2) and your computer.

Freeman powerpoint

Continue with Freeman's story

Pronoun review

Quiz on Jewett and Elements of Style (using the book).

Bring to class: Elements of Style (with labeled tabs on items that aren't perfectly known already for chapter 3) and your computer.

Due: Norton Reader essay for Writer's Journal: Aaron Copeland "How We Listen" p. 1105 (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

PM Pep Rally Schedule

January 12
Monday
day 6

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"

Bring to class: Elements of Style (with labeled tabs on items that aren't perfectly known already for chapter 4).

H English 3 Document Folder

Gilman powerpoint

Continue Gilman story

AP Essay 1 (analytical) due by class time (pp. 38). See home page for instructions on length, format, etc. Scoring session in class. Each essay read and "scored" by at least two readers.

Bring to class: Elements of Style (with labeled tabs on items that aren't perfectly known already for chapter 5).

Continue Gilman story

Split Infinitives and Dangling Modifiers

Bring to class: your computer.

Twain vocabulary list

Dickinson poetry continued

Bring to class: Your copy of the text with marginalia

Due: Norton Reader essay for the Writer's Journal: Brent Staples "Black Men and Public Space" p. 369 (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

Quiz on one section of an AP test.

Bring to class: Your Barron's AP English Language and Composition 2007 book

PM Pep Rally

January 19
Monday

AM Assembly (mass)

Samuel Clemens (1835-1914) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), chapters 1-5

AP Essay 2 (persuasive) due by 4:oo (Barron's pages 194-195)

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 6-8

AP Practice Quiz (one section of an AP test).

Due: Norton Reader essay for the Writer's Journal: Vladimir Nabokov "Good Readers and Good Writers" (1025) (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

January 26
Monday
day 3

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 9-12

Diversity week

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 13-16

Punctuation Review

Diversity week

Career Day

Special Schedule

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 17-18

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 19-20

AM Assembly schedule

February 2
Monday
day 2

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 21-23

Assignment of the American Literature essay

Progress Notices due

Assignment sheet for American Literature essay

H English 3 Document Folder

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 24-26

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 27-29

Embedding Quotations Review

AM Assembly schedule

Solidarity Day

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 33-36

AP Practice Quiz (one section of an AP test).

AM Assembly schedule

February 9
Monday
day 1

Thesis and topic sentences of the American literature essay due to me by 8 o'clock. Double space the sentences and use an MLA heading.

Writing Workshop in class: By class time, you should have your copy of your first draft of the American literature essay in hand. (need MLA heading and headers on each page)

H English 3 Document Folder

Writing Workshop Edit Sheet 1

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 36-40

Review of Analysis of Quotations

Huckleberry Finn, chapters 40-end

Parent-teacher conferences 5:30-7:30

Regionalism Exam

AM Assembly schedule (late start)

February 16
Monday

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) "Declaration of Sentiments," Seneca Falls 1848 and Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) "Ain't I a Woman?" (read both short texts. They will be treated in the film and then we'll discuss them in class)

Film on the Suffrage Movement in America featuring the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Not For Ourselves Alone

Due: Norton Reader essay Writer's Journal: Annie Dillard "Sight and Insight" p. 1180 (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

Stanton and Truth powerpoint

Literature of Dissent vocabulary list

Review of Ellipses and other Emendations of Quotations

Writing Workshop in class on your second draft of your American Literature essay (make sure you have the paper printed out and stapled by class time; attach the first draft and the thesis and topic sentences to the back).

Writing Workshop Edit Sheet 2

Stanton and Truth and film continued

Stanton and Truth and film continued

We will look at AP essay 3 (persuasive), which will be due next week on Monday: Barron's page 40.

Noon Schedule

February 23
Monday
day 4

Finish film and discuss Stanton and Truth

AP essay 3 (persuasive) due, Barron's page 40.

PM Assembly Schedule (early dismissal)

H English 3 Document Folder

No school. TAPPS competition at SAA

Booker T. Washington (c. 1856-1915) excerpt from Up from Slavery

AM Assembly (mass)

Washington powerpoint

Continue with Washington

Analytical Tools Review

W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963) excerpt from The Souls of Black Folks

AP Practice Quiz (one section of an AP test).

Due: Norton Reader essay for the Writer's Journal: Lars Eighner "On Dumpster Diving" (22). (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

Dubois powerpoint

March 2

Monday
day 3

Continue with Dubois

Bring to class your text with marginalia

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Continue with Dubois

Bring to class your text with marginalia.

American literature essay due (see homepage for turnitin.com code)

Checklist for American Literature Essay

Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938) excerpt from Impressions of an Indian Childhood

Zitkala-sa

Continue with Zitkala-sa

AP Practice Quiz (one section of an AP test).

PM Pep Rally

End of Third Quarter

March 9
Monday
day 2

Edith Maud Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (1865-1914) "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian"

Grades due

AM Assembly schedule

Eaton powerpoint

H English 3 Document Folder

Introduce modernism

March
16-20

March 23
Monday
Day 1

Eliot powerpoint

Modernism vocabulary list

H English 3 Document Folder

Continue with Eliot's poem

Continue with Eliot's poem

AM Assembly Schedule (mass)

Continue with Eliot's poem

Extra credit for quarter four: A Prufrock poem!

Continue with Eliot's poem

AP Practice Quiz (one section of an AP test).

Due: Norton Reader essay for the Writer's Journal: Aldo Leopold "Marshland Elegy" (613) (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

AM Assembly schedule

March
30
Monday
day 6

Gertrude Stein (1899-1961) "Gertrude Stein in Paris," from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933

Stein powerpoint

Modernism vocabulary list

H English 3 Document Folder

March 31
Tuesday
day 1

Continue with Stein

PM Assembly schedule

Continue with Stein

Continue with Stein

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Eliot's poem and Stein's narrative

William Carlos Williams "The Red Wheelbarrow” and “The Dance (‘In Brueghel’s great picture, The Kermess’)”

Due: Norton Reader essay for the weekend Writer's Journal: Roland Barthes "Toys" p. 325 (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

April 6
Monday
day 5

Continue with Williams' poetry

Progress reports due

H English 3 Document Folder

Assignment sheet for
Synthesis essay

Continue with Williams' poetry

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) The Great Gatsby, chapter 1

The Great Gatsby, chapter 2

AM Assembly schedule (prayer service)

Good Friday holiday

April 13
Monday

Easter Monday

H English 3 Document Folder

The Great Gatsby, chapter 3 and 4

The Great Gatsby, chapter 5

The Great Gatsby, chapter 6

Reading Quiz on Fitzgerald 1-5.

AM Assembly schedule

The Great Gatsby, chapter 7 (first half only)

Due: Norton Reader essay for the Writer's Journal: Debra Dickerson "Who Shot Johnny?" (383) (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

Pep Rally schedule

April 20
Monday
day 1

The Great Gatsby, chapter 7 (second half of chapter)

First draft of Synthesis essay due for teacher review by 8 AM

H English 3 Document Folder

Assignment sheet for
Synthesis essay

The Great Gatsby, chapter 8

Continue discussion of Gatsby 9

Exam on Modernism

Arthur Miller (b. 1915) Death of a Salesman

AP Practice Quiz (one section of an AP test).

Due: Norton Reader essay for the Writer's Journal:  E.B. White "Once More to the Lake" (82) (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

Near Noon Schedule

Miller powerpoint

April 27
Monday
day 6

Continue Miller

Continue Miller

Continue Miller

Continue Miller

AP Practice Quiz (one section of an AP test).

Due: Norton Reader essay for the Writer's Journal: Joan Didion "On Keeping a Journal" (90). (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

AM Assembly Schedule

May 4
Monday
day 5

Martin Luther King (1929-1968) "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (no marginalia checks this week)

Begin review of AP Terms (if you've lost your AP terms sheet, print it out here)

King powerpoint

American Identity vocabulary

H English 3 Document Folder

AP examination format and content

AP Language and Composition Terms

Continue with King's letter

Review of AP Terms (if you've lost your AP terms sheet, print it out)

Re-written Synthesis essay due by the end of the day

Assignment sheet for
Synthesis essay

Continue with King's letter

Review of AP Terms and Essay Writing Strategies

Continue with King's letter

Review of AP Terms and Essay Writing Strategies

Continue with King's letter

May 11
Monday
day 4

Helena Maria Viramontes "The Moths"

Review of AP Terms and Essay Writing Strategies

Viramontes powerpoint

AP examination format and content

H English 3 Document Folder

Continue with Viramontes

Review of AP Terms and Essay Writing Strategies

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) "Eating Alone" and "Eating Together" Lee's "This Room and Everything in It"

Continue with Lee's poetry

H English 3 Document Folder

Exam on American Identity Literature

August 18
Monday
day 1

Their Eyes Were Watching God powerpoint (the full power point won't be posted until after the summer reading exam; this one introduces the author and her aesthetic context)

Hurston introductory notes

H English 3 Document Folder

August 19
Tuesday
day 2

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Bring your book to class

Eleventh grade class meeting fourth period (Sky misses class)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Chapter 1 of Trimble (show that you have read the homework by writing marginalia)

Bring your book to class

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Trimble, chapter 2 (show marginalia)

Bring your book to class

August 25
Monday
day 6

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Bring your book to class; also bring your computer to class. If it isn't functioning, print out this grammar self-assessment and bring the print out to class (add extra space between items for your handwriting)

Grammar and Writing Self-Assessment

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Trimble, chapter 3 (show marginalia)

Bring your book to class

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Trimble, chapter 4 (show marginalia)

Bring your book to class

Review of Analysis of Quotations

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Bring your book to class

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz (this quiz will give you a chance to see what a typical weekly quiz will be like. It will include a short writing section (explication is close analysis of the techniques and devices a writer chooses to create meaning or nuance of feeling), multiple choice questions (these will relate to the discussion of the novel with some detail of reading comprehension and retention) and a few vocabulary words from the writing handbook.

AM Assembly schedule (late start for students)

finish discussion of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Bring your book to class

Due: Norton Reader essay for the Writer's Journal: Chang-Rae Lee "Coming Home Again" (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

AM Assembly schedule (mass)

September 1
Monday

Hurston

Hurston

Follow Daughter's schedule at 7:00

Conclude discussion of Hurston

AM Assembly schedule (late arrival all)

"Prayer of the First Night Male Shooting Chant Evil"

AM Assembly schedule (late start for 11th grade)

continue discussion of Iroquois story

First Peoples powerpoint

September 8
Monday
day 3

Continue with Navajo chant discussion and begin Iroquois Creation Story

H English 3 Document Folder

Colonialist powerpoint

Colonialist vocabulary

In-class writing (bring your computer) Personal Essay on Journey in America

Trimble, chapter 5 (show marginalia)

Library visit to begin research

Trimble, chapter 6 (show marginalia)

Finish First Nations tales and begin Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) "An Author to Her Book"

School closed

September 15
Monday
day 2

school closed because of storm

Progress Reports due

H English 3 Document Folder

school closed because of storm

school closed because of storm

school closed because of storm

school closed because of storm

September 22
Monday
day 1

Finish chant and begin Bradstreet

Bradstreet's "Contemplations"

Due: Norton Reader essay for Writer's Journal: Edward Abbey "The Serpents of Paradise" 589 (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today)

Counselor visit

Assignment of American Rhetoric Essay

H English 3 Document Folder

Finish Bradstreet

Trimble, chapter 7 (show marginalia)

Split Infinitives and Dangling Modifiers

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Trimble, chapter 8 (show marginalia)

Parent-teacher conferences 5:30-7:30

National Founders powerpoint

Founders vocabulary list

Edwards marginalia

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) "The Way of Wealth" and Franklin, "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" (no marginalia till Friday)

AM Assembly schedule (late start)

First People, Colonialists, and Founders Exam Study Guide

Notes on the American Identity in-class essay

Continue Franklin (marginalia) and begin Jefferson. (No marginalia due on Jefferson yet)

September 29
Monday
day 6

Thomas Jefferson (1724-1826) "Notes on the State of Virginia"(with marginalia due)

Embedding Quotations Review

H English 3 Document Folder

Thesis and topic sentences due for teacher review by 8 AM (typed, double spaced, MLA formatted). (p.s. if you have printer/computer problems, send it to your email address, then use the library computers, which are connected by cable to the printers there. Let me know if you're having these problems; in that case, it'll be okay to turn it in anytime during the day). (click here for a sample of a formatted Thesis and topic sentences sheet).

Continue Jefferson

October 1
Wednesday
day 2

Counselor Visit

Trimble, chapter 9 (show marginalia)

Finish Jefferson

Examination on Colonial and Founding Periods

PM Pep Rally schedule

First People, Colonialists, and Founders Exam Study Guide

October 6

Monday
day 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "Self Reliance" (read the full text of six pages)

Punctuation Review

H English 3 Document Folder

Transcendentalism vocabulary

Emerson powerpoint

Continue Emerson, "Nature" pp. 7-9

For class: First Draft of American literature essay due for Writing Workshop (typed, double spaced, MLA formatted; attach to the back thesis/topic sentences draft. To receive the full Writing Workshop grade of 100 points, you must have it already printed and stapled on your desk at the sound of the bell)

Pronoun review

For teacher review at 8 AM: the first body paragraph (only) with all the quotes in place and analyzed (MLA and double spaced). Don't give me the whole thing—only the single paragraph; print it out separately.

Writing Workshop Edit Sheet

Edit Notes from workshop

How to tell an Argument from a Fact

Continue Emerson "Nature" pp. 9-end

Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) excerpts from Summer on the Lake

Review of Ellipses and other Emendations of Quotations

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Emerson and vocabulary 1-20 of Transcendentalism list

End of first quarter

PM Pep Rally

Assignment sheet for Research paper

Checklist for Rhetorical Analysis Essay

October 13
Monday
day 4

Library visit for the research paper cancelled

Fuller

Due: Norton Reader essay for Writer's Journal: Paul Theroux "Being a Man" (233) (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today

Grades due

H English 3 Document Folder

Checklist for Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Fuller

Writing Workshop Edit Sheet 2

Edit notes for second workshop

Second draft of American literature essay due for Writing Workshop (typed, double spaced, MLA formatted; at least three pages for the full credit; attach to the back the first workshop draft, final version of thesis/topic sentences draft, and the edited paragraph.

To receive the full Writing Workshop grade of 100 points, you must have it already printed and stapled on your desk at the sound of the bell)

Nothing is due to me in the morning. Just bring your draft to class.

October 17
Friday
day 1

Fuller; begin Thoreau

October 20
Monday
day 2

Day in library for research

Trimble, chapter 10 (show marginalia)

H English 3 Document Folder

Transcendentalism Exam Study Guide

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "Resistance to Civil Government" (pp. 1-9) (see film clips from Ghandi and U.S. civil rights organizing footage).

Trimble, chapter 11 (show marginalia)

AM Assembly schedule

October 22
Wednesday
day 4

Excerpts from Thoreau's Walden (11-28)

Thoreau's Walden (29-end)

Continue with Walden

American Rhetoric Essay due (submit it in hard copy, in keeping with the check list, and also turn it in to turnitin.com)

October 27
Monday
day 1

Examination on the Transcendentalists

H English 3 Document Folder

Transcendentalism Exam Study Guide

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. Read pages 1-20.

Douglass powerpoint

Douglass, Jacobs and Whitman vocabulary list

Continue with Douglass' Narrative, pages 21-30

Thesis statement and topic sentences of research paper due for teacher review by 8 AM. See sample to check format.

Continue with Douglass (read to the end)

AM Assembly schedule

Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897) excerpts from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Jacobs powerpoint

November 3
Monday
day 6

Continue with Jacobs.

Progress notices due

Analytical Tools Review

Due: Norton Reader essay for Writer's Journal: Lani Guiniere "The Tyranny of the Majority" p. 885 (be ready to discuss the text. The journal itself can be submitted by the end of the day today

H English 3 Document Folder

First Draft of the research paper due for Writing Workshop (at least three pages with quotations from primary text (three per body paragraph) already incorporated and at least three secondary sources incorporated; have it already printed and stapled by the time of the bell; attach thesis and topic sentences to the back. Make sure you include only the version of your thesis and topic sentences that has received a final check from me)

Also turn in at 8 AM one body paragraph for my review.

Writing Workshop Edit Sheet 1 For Research paper

Continue with Jacobs

Continue with Jacobs

SAA Open House

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) excerpts from Song of Myself. Read pages 1-10 for today.

AM Assembly (Late start)

November 10
Monday
day 5

Continue Whitman's poem. Read pages 11-16 for today.

H English 3 Document Folder

Continue with Whitman, pages 17-end

AM Assembly schedule

Annotated bibiliography and source copy file due for the research paper in MLA format; include a marginalized copy of your primary (literary) text (photocopies of the source listings [labled with bibliographic information]).

Whitman continued.

Parent-teacher conferences 5:30-7:30

Edgar Allen Poe's "Ligeia" (1838)

Marginalia not due today

AM Assembly schedule (late start)

Poe powerpoint

Romanticism vocabulary list

Checklist for American Literature Research paper

Poe's "Ligeia" (no marginalia due today)

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Whitman, and 21-38 of Abolition vocabulary

Draft two of research paper due for Writing Workshop (at least six pages with all quotations incorporated from primary text and all sources incorporated; have it already printed and stapled by the time of the bell; attach thesis and topic sentences to the back as well as first draft)

AM Assembly schedule

Writing Workshop Edit Sheet 2 For Research paper

November
24
Monday
day 5

Hawthorne powerpoint

Checklist for American Literature Research paper