This Week: October 30- Nov. 3

Monday: We will review the close reading questions on "An Overture" and do a first close reading of another non-fiction piece by Miller called "Journey to the Crucible." If you need a copy, click HERE.
Tuesday-Wed: Text analysis assigned for Miller's "Journey to the Crucible." Today you will brainstorm, outline and draft. If you need a copy of the assignment, click HERE.
Thursday: Completed text analysis is due at the end of the period.
Friday: Act I of The Crucible. Vocabulary in class.

This Week: Oct 23-27
Monday: We finish Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention." UNIT TEST TOMORROW!
Study: Bradford, Bradstreet, Edwards, Henry. NO VOCABULARY.'
 Tuesday: UNIT TEST Part I
Wednesday: UNIT TEST Part II
Thursday: An introduction to Arthur Miller's The Crucible
If you need the notes, click HERE for the power point.
Friday: Close reading of "The Overture" with questions.
HOMEWORK: Complete the questions on "The Overture" sheet. If you need a copy, click HERE.

This Week: Oct. 16-20

We finish our unit on Puritan literature
Monday: We will continue closely reading Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and working on the close reading questions. If you are absent and need a copy of the questions, click HERE.
Tuesday: We will review the appeals used by Edwards in his sermon, and compare all three authors we have studied so far. You must complete the following TWO handouts by tomorrow
APPEALS
SUMMARY CHART
Wednesday-Thursday: We begin looking at the "Speech in the Virginia Convention" by Patrick Henry. If you need a copy, click HERE.
Friday: Close reading questions on the speech. Click HERE for a copy.

This Week: October 10-13
Tuesday - Continuation of Puritan literature. We will be looking at the poetry of Anne Bradstreet, the first female poet to be published in America.
Wednesday - Continuation of Bradstreet and her work.
Homework - Poetry Analysis. Complete the poetry analysis form for Bradstreet and the summary questions. If you need a copy of the poems, click HERE. For the analysis assignment, click HERE.n For the summary questions click HERE.
Thursday - We will review last night's homework. 
Homework: Vocabulary for "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." If you need a copy of the vocabulary handout, click HERE. And for a copy of the literary analysis assignment, click HERE.

Friday - We will finish our examination of Puritan literature with a look at the sermons of Jonathan Edwards.

This Week: Oct 2-6

We finish up our first piece of Puritan literature.
Monday - "Examining the author's purpose" ...We will review a summary handout in preparation for tomorrow's quiz. If you are absent, you can get the handout by clicking HERE.
Homework: Study for quiz. Including, vocabulary, Puritan Age handout, and "Of Plymouth Plantation."
Tuesday: QUIZ
Wed-Friday; FILM