Friday, December 1st

Huckleberry Finn
1. Quiet reading time--40 minutes to do HOMEWORK reading
HOMEWORK:
--Finish your Walden Reading assignment, including finding the rest of your 25 quotes, which are due on Wednesday, when you hand in your Walden Poster and your Walden journal responses (if you don't have the assignment, borrow one from a neighbor)
REMEMBER, read pages 1-64 and 206-216
-- Read Huck Finn chapters 5-10.
2. Huckleberry Finn Vocabulary--Quizlet deck, Huck Finn
"yawl"--"candid"
Memorize the first 15 words for a quiz on Monday.
Use phones or Chromebooks to look up example sentences for the five words you find most difficult and write them down. You do not have to hand them in, but hold onto them and use them to study
3. Watch Mark Twain Biography video--His Amazing Adventures
As you watch, take notes for a Jeopardy game with the following categories:
His Life    His Writing   His Adventures   Mystery/miscellaneous
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Try to come up with enough notes to write 5 questions for each category. Because we will not be pausing the video, just do your best! Start with this quote from Ernest Hemingway about Twain:
"All modern American literature comes from one book, by Mark Twain, called Huckleberry Finn"

Monday

1. Red Anthology--The American Experience
Homework: Read pages 239-257. Write 10 quiz questions to submit Wednesday. 
Quiz over reading Wed.
2. Check out Walden.
Read in class
3. Read "Self-Reliance," by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes from Self-Reliance (5)
Quotes from Walden 12 this week
4. Scarlet Letter. In what ways does Hester redeem herself throughout the novel?
Scarlet Letter test Friday






Finish Lottery essays during lunch or after school, if you haven't already finished

Moon day

HOMEWORK:
1. Finish Lottery essays

2. Review The Crucible. You will have a test over the book on Wednesday. Be SURE to know who's who, who said what, and the significance of the most important lines. You can find significant lines online, as well as a list of characters. Some students even go to chat rooms and sites  where people discuss the book. Google "What is the significance of the title "The Crucible" and you find this 
And connections to McCarthyism are found here: McCarthyism in the Crucible
Significant quotes are explained here: Quotes, Act 1
In the future you can do your own research. It's not all that hard or time consuming.
3. Read Scarlet Letter. Next weekend you will FINISH the novel (sorry)

4. Watch The Scarlet Letter

Here's the online text for The Crucible: The Crucible

Freya's day

HOMEWORK:
1. (optional) Read the parts of The Crucible that correspond to the parts of the movie that we watched in class today.
2. Over the weekend, review The Crucible. You will have a test over the book on Wednesday. Be SURE to know who's who, who said what, and the significance of the most important lines. You can find significant lines online, as well as a list of characters. Some students even go to chat rooms and sites  where people discuss the book. Google "What is the significance of the title "The Crucible" and you find this 
And connections to McCarthyism are found here: McCarthyism in the Crucible
Significant quotes are explained here: Quotes, Act 1
In the future you can do your own research. It's not all that hard or time consuming.
3. Read Scarlet Letter. Next weekend you will FINISH the novel (sorry)

CLASS TODAY:
1.  Work on Lottery essay

2.  Watch The Crucible

Here's the online text for The Crucible: The Crucible

Wednesday, October 25

HOMEWORK:
1. Read Scarlet Letter. Over the weekend, FINISH CHAPTER 17 (sorry)
2. (optional) Read the parts of The Crucible that correspond to the parts of the movie that we watched in class today.
CLASS TODAY:
1. Scarlet Letter vocab chapter 9-12
Quiz today
Next Friday: Scarlet Letter chapters 13-16
The following week: Scarlet Letter vocab 17-24
Here's the online text for The Crucible: The Crucible
2. Watch The Crucible

Monday, October 24, 2017

HOMEWORK:
1. Read Scarlet Letter. Finish chapter 14
2. (optional) Read the parts of The Crucible that correspond to the parts of the movie that we watched in class today.
CLASS TODAY:
1. Scarlet Letter vocab chapter 9-12
Here's the online text: The Crucible
2. Watch The Crucible

Monday, October 16

HOMEWORK:
Read Scarlet Letter. Finish chapter 12.

CLASS TODAY:
1. Scarlet Letter vocab chapter 9-12
10-15 min to study vocabulary. With a partner, students will use Chromebooks to find example sentences for words they do not know how to use. Wordsinasentence.com
"exemplary" to "scurrilous" for quiz Wednesday, October 18th
2. Read The Crucible
Here's the online text: The Crucible