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Week of Tuesday 1/18 For Day 1 (Note: In light of the missed week, I don't know if we'll run our usual schedule on Tuesday, so please plan to have this work completed n Tuesday.) 1. Bring journal entry for portrait assignment 2. Also go ahead and write one rough paragraph in which you take some of the details from your journal entry to begin working on your portrait. Rules for this paragraph: use NO "to be" verbs and show instead of tell, which means you need to focus on details of appearance, mannerism, voice, action etc. 3. Read back over "Picnic, Lightning" in your poetry book. We will look back at the big pieces of paper we took notes on, but I want you to work on interpreting the poem on your own. Take some notes in your book in preparation for discussion. ,If you remember anything from the exercise in class, you can refer to it as you work on your own analysis.

For Day 2 Read "Birches" by Frost (128) and "Dover Beach" by Arnold (14)

For Day 3 Rough draft of portrait due (may be more than a page, but final may not) Continue to bring poetry book to class each day.

Week of 1/24 For Day 1 Portrait assignment due--1 page due in class, printed when you arrive

For Day 2 Read "anyone lived in a pretty how town" (79) Read it at least 3 times and, like we do in class, mark phrases that catch your attention. Read "Facing It" and "We Never Know" (193-194) Journal entry: Take one of these poems by Komunyakaa and pair it with another we have read. What does the pair reveal? How do they speak to one another?
 * Start reading //The Great Gatsby:// Finish chapter two by Day 3 of next week.**
 * F**or Day 3

For Day 4 Read "Diving into the Wreck" (257)

Week of 1/31

For Day 3 In class writing on poetry For Day 4 Chapters 1-2 of //Gatsby// finished

Week of 2/7 For Day 1 Chapter 3 of //Gatsby// finished For Day 3 Chapter 4 finished For Day 4 Vocabulary quiz

Week of 2/13 For Day 1 Chapter 5 finished For Day 3 Journal entry: Spend some time looking at the painting "Girl Before A Mirror" by Pablo Picasso (hit the Gatsby tab in right hand colum) then in a one or more page journal entry, write about what you see. What does Picassso want to convey? What details seem most important to notice? While you can see that Picasso is depicting the divide between perception and reality, consider a specifc way the painting corresponds to or sheds light on an element of GATSBY. For Day 4 Chapter 6 finished

Week of 2/21 Monday--no school For Tuesday: Chapter 7 finished Journal entry: Write for two pages about your possible research topic(s). Consider all the ways you might explore your topic and list the questions you might pursue. You should come with a topic or two to which you've given significant thought. Deaedline for topics is coming closer.

Day 4 Chapter 8 finished, Research Proposals due

Week of 2/28 For Day 1 //Gatsby// finished

Week of 3/14 For Day 2 Work on bibliography and debate prep For Day 3 **Reread 175-80 of GATSBY. Mark key passages and reflect upon what Nick seems to realize and articulate in these final pages. Note your questions and impressions so that you're prepared to discuss them in class.** In class, you will have some time to prepare with your group for the debate.

Week of 3/21 For Day 1 DEBATE For Day 2 Annotated bibliography DUE In Class For Day 3 Email rough draft to yourself (you should have AT LEAST two body paragraphs WITH quotations included!) For Day 4 Bring hard copy of full rough draft AND email to self

Week of 3/28 From now on, bring //Othello// every day! Day 2 GATSBY paper due IN CLASS Day 4 Journal entry on jealousy: write approximately 2 pages about your own experiences of jealousy. Reflect on specific incidents or recount a story. Consider what jealousy is like for you. Are you often jealous? rarely? what about jealousy can be most difficult to ignore? You might come up with a metaphor to describe your relationship with or experience of jealousy.

Week of 4/4 Reading //Othello// in class Working on Thesis and Outline for HW

Week of 4/11 For 4/11: Thesis and Outline Due Bring Othello By Day 2 Bring journal entry on a personal experience of jealousy. If you wrote a more general entry, please add to it with at least a page of personal experience. For Day 4 (Friday): Vocabulary quiz

Week of 4/18 and 4/25 Working on researrch project at home; Reading //Othello// in class

Week of 5/2 For Day 1 Rough draft of research paper due For Day 3 Journal assignment For Day 4 Test

Week of 5/9 Start Research mini-classes

Week of 5/16 Continue mini-classes Last Day: Farewell letters: As my email to you indicates, I would like you to write a letter to our class to read on Friday.