Planner: this, again, is tentative

September

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
NO SCHOOL	4 9th Grade Orientation	5	6 Introduction to course:  review course polices and syllabus HW:  look up glossary terms and convert to flashcards by 9/12	7
10 Assessment Discuss summer reading?	11	12 Flashcard check Read Hemmingway stories and annotate for terms	13 Juxtaposition and irony are elements of Modernism	14 Groups:  discuss Hemmingway stories:  how many of your annotated terms affect meaning? Begin Style Paragraph
17 NO SCHOOL	18	19 Junior Groups in Little Theater Distribute The Old Man and the Sea; begin reading	20 NOTE:  finish text and annotations for 9/28	21 Review unit materials Continue reading in class; annotate text for literary and rhetorical elements
24	25 Distribute excerpts on Hemmingway and Fitzgerald; read in class HW:  Finish packet for next Tuesday	26 NO SCHOOL	27	28 In class writing on Hemmingway:  discuss HOW a literary or rhetorical element directs the meaning of the piece

English 11 AP / Honors

October

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
1 Revised Hemingway paragraph due	2 (half day) Discuss Hemingway and Fitzgerald packet:  who were / are these authors? Distribute Gatsby:  read Gatsby for the 9th	3	4 Read and distribute article on Mockingbird :  discuss as a class Review Gatsby annotating assignment	5 (early release; interim reports due)
8 NO SCHOOL	9 Pair-to-Group discussions of Gatsby Finish Gatsby and dialectical journal for the 22nd	10 (interim reports available online)	11 Review vocabulary acquisition activity from syllabus Group discussions / reading	12
15 Group discussion / reading	16	17 Group discussion / reading	18	19 Group discussion / reading Writing assignment for unit due on November 5th  (from syllabus)
22 In class writing on Gatsby:  critical lens essay	23	24 Begin “The Curious Case” Finish story for	25	26 Midnight in Paris Seminar discussion on Hemingway and Fitzgerald

October and November

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
29	30 Midnight in Paris	31	1 Seminar discussion on Hemingway and Fitzgerald	2
5 Collect UNIT writing assignment Review and discuss Bloom’s Taxonomy HW:  Read The Crucible for the 20th—locate key scenes that indicate the use of language as a political and social tool	6	7 Review AP materials:  sample essays from 2010	8	9 Finish analysis of essays and exemplars
12 NO SCHOOL	13	14 AP:  multiple choice sections	15	16 Discussion of AP format and focus for the year
19	20 Discuss key scenes in The Crucible	Thanksgiving Break:  no homework