1. Vocab quiz
2. Review voacab for Friday's quiz
3. Study Autumn Poems and begin memorizing one for Friday (yes, four days from now)

Bring a hard copy of your summer reading essay
Bring the novel you read over the summer (annotated)

Wednesday

TODAY

Read A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Follow directions for in-class writing assignment

DUE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD
For your reference, I  have included a link to a good list of themes
     Themes in Literature
     More Themes

SUMMER READING is DUE FRIDAY.

  Turnitin.com  info:

      Class code for 1st period: 8665177
       Password: southsaxons
      Class code for 2nd period: 8665208
       Password: southsaxons
  
Scarlet Letter vocabulary, Quizlet deck 2  Memorize first 13 for Friday's quiz

Autumn Poems--select poem to memorize for Friday the 26th         }: }  Hehe

Discuss Scarlet Letter (we didn't get to this today, but be ready to discuss the first five chapters Wednesday)


Homework: Read The Scarlet Letter, chapter 6 (to page 195 in the Kaplan edition. And don't complain too much considering that "page 195" is really page 53 for you guys and we've been on this for awhile

Tuesday, September 16

TODAY

Read A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Follow directions for in-class writing assignment

DUE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD
For your reference, I  have included a link to a good list of themes
     Themes in Literature
     More ThemesDUE FRIDAY..
   SUMMER READING     Turnitin.com  info:
      Class code for 1st period: 8665177
       Password: southsaxons
      Class code for 2nd period: 8665208
       Password: southsaxons
  
Scarlet Letter vocabulary, Quizlet deck 2  Memorize first 13 for Friday's quiz

Autumn Poems--select poem to memorize for Friday the 26th         }: }  Hehe

Discuss Scarlet Letter (we didn't get to this today, but be ready to discuss the first five chapters Wednesday)

Read A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Follow directions for in-class writing assignment
For your reference, I  have included a link to a good list of themes
     Themes in Literature
     More Themes
Homework: Read The Scarlet Letter, chapter 4

Monday, September 15

SUMMER READING     Turnitin.com  info:
    Class code for 1st period: 8665177
    Password: southsaxons
   Class code for 2nd period: 8665208
    Password: southsaxons
 
Scarlet Letter vocabulary, Quizlet deck 2  Memorize first 13 for Friday's quiz

Discuss PSAT problems

Autumn Poems--select poem to memorize for Friday the 26th  }: }  Hehe

Discuss Scarlet Letter (we didn't get to this today, but be ready to discuss the first five chapters Wednesday)

Read A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Follow directions for in-class writing assignment
For your reference, I  have included a link to a good list of themes
     Themes in Literature
     More Themes
Homework: Read The Scarlet Letter, chapter 4

1.Vocabulary quiz, words 1-25
2.Pass back PSAT scores
50% of questions right is AVERAGE for college-bound students. In other words, just because all sorts of people in this class scored around 12/24 doesn't mean that you shouldn't be in Honors English. It does mean, however, that The Scarlet Letter will be very difficult for you to read. Walden (our second book, will be very tough, too. The only book second semester that is a challenging read is The Great Gatsby, and it will be difficult (I'm guessing) for students who scored less than 13/24. By the way, this is all meaningless if you didn't pace yourself right on the test. Another rule of thumb is OAKS tests. If you "Exceed" on those tests, the difficult books that we're reading won't be too terribly challenging for you.
3. Summer reading. (Yeah, yeah, that was a sentence fragment.)
Your summer reading must be submitted to Turnitin.com by next Friday. I'll set up the account soon.
HOMEWORK: Read chapters 1,2, 3 of  The Scarlet Letter.

Young Goodman Brown Analysis

Find something in the Sparknotes analysis of the story that you disagree with: Themes and motifs in Young Goodman Brown
Feel free to read the eNotes analysis of themes in the story and make your comments on what is written there instead of on the Sparknotes analysis.
OR focus on this paper, which is full of assertions that you might be able to respond to: Symbolism YGB

Then go to the following Google Doc and write 50-100 words (max) telling me why you disagree. Support your ideas with specific evidence from the story.
NOTE: There is a doc for 1st period and another one for 2nd period
Taking Issue with Sparknotes Young Goodman Brown FIRST  PERIOD
Taking Issue with Sparknotes Young Goodman Brown SECOND  PERIOD


For your reference: Quizlet deck of Themes in Literature
(not all that great. See if you can find a better one. If so, feel free to add it to the top of the Google Doc you're working on :)

Friday, September 5

Quizlet review and quiz
Write first three lines of Song of the Open Road
Hand in essays (ok, three paragraphs) explaining what Bruce, the Boss, Springsteen has to say about the American dream in his song "Born to Run."
Exchange papers.
In groups of four, read to group and then write down comments made by members of the group. Three things that were done well, three things that could have been improved.
Summer reading due Friday, September 19th

Homework this weekend:
Read Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Young Goodman Brown
Print it and bring to class Monday
As you read, underline what you think are the five most important sentences, and at the top of the printed story, write one of the themes. This theme only needs to be one sentence.
See you Monday!