Ms. Denise Wright Peters

Your assignments are posted below each week and you are expected to keep up with them.  The policies are in my handouts. You need Models for Writers everyday, and you need the vocab book on Fridays. AP workbooks can remain on my shelves.

Week of January 25:

Jan 26: You need your copy of The Soloist

Jan 28: You need to have your AP workbook with you--it can't be a used one

Week of Feb. 1:

Feb 1: Read and take notes on thesis, organization, diction, syntax, rhetorical devices in "Unforgettable Miss Bessie" and "I Just Wanna Be Average"

Feb 3: Lit terms--a to didactic quiz, spelling, definitions, examples (tentative)

Feb 5:  you need to have your vocabulary book with you and the fill ins the first two chapters completed

Week of Feb 8:

Feb 8: Soloist project is due.  See handout.

Feb 10: lit terms quiz

Feb 12:  Voc 1-2 assessment/quiz; units 3-4 fill ins completed

If we are off from snow on Wed the 10th we will have lit terms quiz on 11th. If we are off the 11th from snow, we will do lit terms on the 12th and hold the voc 1-2 quiz for Friday, the 19th.

 Week of Feb 15:

Feb 16:  Sullivan Ballou letter analysis due--later than Tue means ten points off each day you are late

Feb 17: Voc 1-2 quiz (from Friday), go over 3-4

Feb 19: Voc 3-4 quiz, go over 5-6

Week of Feb 22

Feb 23:  You should be prepared to finish your group work in 30 in on Monday and be ready to do the worksheet/organizer on Pliny, pages 546-550

Feb 24:  In class writing continues--finish Pliny graphic organizer

Feb 25: You should read Tacitus, pages 538-44--in class writing

Feb 26:  In class writing continues--finish Tacitus graphic organizer

Feb 27: Have your lit book and vocab book 

Week of March 1:

Mar. 1 : Pliny essay

Mar 2: Tacitus essay

Mar 3:  Should have read Orwell's "A Hanging" in your Models for Writers book

Mar 5:  Voc 5-6 quiz  and going over 7-8, 7-8 quiz on March 18

 

Week of January 25:

We will start class with The Soloist so please bring that on Tuesday, Jan 26.  Start reading The Crucible now.

Jan 26: The Soloist

Jan 29: You should have read and taken notes on pages 2-15 in your text. 

Week of Feb. 1:

Feb 2:  Answer the questions on the discussion board site for the colonial period

Feb 3:  Read and take notes on Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation," pages 22-32, looking for the ways God controls people

Feb 4:  Read and take notes on Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" pages 54-59, looking for the relationship between people and humanity

Feb 5:  You should have completed the fill ins and critical reading in your vocabulary book for chapters 1-2. Next Friday we will have a quiz/test on 1-2 (spelling, definition) and go over 3-4

Feb. 8: The Soloist project due, read Equiano's "The Interesting Narrative of Oludah Equiano" in texbook and take notes

Feb 9:  Go to handouts and weblinks and paste the following into your notebooks:  a picture of a spinning wheel with its parts, a picture of a loom with its parts, the poem "Huswifery," and the poem "Upon What Base"

Feb 10: You should have finished reading The Crucible

Feb 11 or Feb 15: Tentative date for Colonial Period test

Feb 12:  Voc 1-2 quiz on spelling and definitions, go over 3-4

Week of Feb 15:

2/17: Crucible...

Tentative date for Colonial Test is now 2/18

2/19:  Voc 3-4 quiz, 5-6 due

Week of Feb 23:

Feb 23:  Starting The Crucible--you need to have read it or know more about it than you have so far... and you need that book with you daily for now

Feb 24:  Test on the Colonial writers and period

Feb 25: Crucible again until Friday

Feb 27:  voc 5-6 quiz, 7-8 due

Week of March 1:

Mar 1: Voc 5-6 quiz, go over 7-8

Mar 2-4: Crucible

Mar 5:  voc 7-8 quiz with 9-10 due

Week of March 8:

March 12:  Voc 9-10 quiz, 11-12 due

 

Hi and welcome to second semester.  This is the first time Literature and Culture: The Twentieth Century and Beyond has been offered. I hope you will enjoy some of the things I have planned.

 

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Week of Jan 25:

 

Jan 26: The Soloist--How does the movie director try to make sound visual?  What parallels are drawn between Lopez and Ayers?  Is Ayers being exploited by Lopez? What changes were made to Lopez's character and why? 

 

Feb 8:  The Soloist Project due--listed in the  handout section

 

Feb 10:  You need 5 movie posters from any one genre that you pick with you on Wed.

 

Feb 12:  Test on Twelve Angry Men--combination of objective and essay--you need a pencil

 

Week of Feb 15:

 

Feb 17-18: meet in media center--bring any laptops, bring yor 5 movie posters

 

Week of Feb 22:

 

Feb 23:  Analyzing Movie poster Project due

 

Reading assignments will be announced in class

Week of March 1:

 

Mar 1: Read "The Cat, a Goldfinch and the Stars," "Bees and People," and "Araby"--group work

Mar 2: Finish group work on stories and discuss. Read "Rhinoceros"

Mar 3: Finish group work on "Rhinoceros" and discuss

Mar 4: Read "Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu" and "No Witchcraft for sale" and start group work

Mar 5: Finish above stories.