| Monday |
10 December |
Continue to respond to the Poe stories, and visit the wiki to continue or tidy up your annotations ... or to complete your Wiki Activity Log. Please note that I have also listed the Douglass vocabulary words that will be liable for use on the semester exam. |
| Friday |
7 December |
Respond to "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Read and Respond to "The Masque of the Red Death." |
| Thursday |
6 December |
Compose and type a paragraph that tries to answer the question: If "The Minister's Black Veil" is really a parable, what is the unspoken lesson of it? Be sure to have a copy of Poe's The Gold Bug and Other Tales for class. |
| Wednesday |
5 December |
Read and Respond to "The Minister's Black Veil". |
| Tuesday |
4 December |
A finished copy of your "The Devil and _____" is due. |
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Please Note: To continue to qualify for an A on the discussion board, you must have 30 credited posts by midnight Tuesday, December 11. |
| Friday |
30 November |
Prepare your section of Whittier's "Snowbound" for oral performance. |
| Wednesday |
28 November |
Re-read poems by four New England poets (275-288). |
| Tuesday |
27 November |
Load your story into the class wiki. Do some revising of your story and your partner's story about you. Start with the paragraphing. |
| Monday |
26 November |
Join the class wiki. Come to the computer lab with an electronic copy of "The Devil and ________". |
| Wednesday |
21 November |
Compose and type a good first draft of "The Devil and ________". |
| Monday |
19 November |
Complete "The Devil and ________" worksheet, and compose a great first sentence for your story. |
| Wednesday |
14 November |
Read and Respond to "The Devil and Tom Walker" (258-268). |
| Tuesday |
13 November |
Compose a 2-page essay in which you explore this question: "What, if any, value is there in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass for a 21st century reader?" Is it merely a historical document, or does it still speak to contemporary readers? |
| Wednesday |
7 November |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (to the end of ch. 11). |
| Tuesday |
6 November |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (to the end of ch. 10). |
| Monday |
5 November |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 10, through the top paragraph on page 52). |
| Friday |
2 November |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 10, to the top of page 44). |
| Thursday |
1 November |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 9). |
| Wednesday |
31 October |
Finish your index cards. Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 8). |
| Tuesday |
30 October |
Compose your new sentences for each of your assigned words. |
| Monday |
29 October |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 6-7). Define your assigned words from your group's master list. |
| Friday |
26 October |
Find ten more challenging words (and their sentences) from chapters 1-5. |
| Thursday |
25 October |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 5). Continue to mark the difficult words you encounter. |
| Wednesday |
24 October |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 4). Identify one of the most beautiful or interesting sentences in the chapter. |
| Tuesday |
23 October |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 3). |
| Monday |
22 October |
Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 1-2). |