M: Student Holiday
T – W: In groups, the students will explicate The Raven, recognizing the sound devices alliteration and repetition, and the four recurring themes in the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
Th – F: The students will do research to write a proposal to produce a movie version of The Raven. The proposal will include setting and location, casting, music, set decoration, and props.
M: Student Holiday
T: The students will view the video of Hawthorne’s life, New England’s Puritan Son, complete its accompanying questions, define allegory, and complete the vocabulary for Young Goodman Brown.
W – F: The students will read the allegory, Young Goodman Brown.
M: The students will complete a test on sound devices and will read The Raven.
T & W: The students will explicate The Raven.
Th: The students will read and take notes about the biographical sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne and discuss the inherited guilt aspect of his work.
F: The students will view the video of Hawthorne’s life, New England’s Puritan Son, define allegory, and will complete the vocabulary for Young Goodman Brown.
The Crucible
M – W: The students will view The Crucible motion picture, comparing and contrasting the play to the screenplay, both of which were written by Arthur Miller.
W: Why I Wrote “The Crucible” commentary analysis due.
Th: The students will demonstrate knowledge of The Crucible in a major test.
F: The students will complete the SAT-based vocabulary exercise, QUACK! Lesson 5.
The Crucible
M: The students will file graded papers and complete the Act IV Vocabulary Builder.
T: The students will read pages 1217 – 1225, citing examples of John Proctor’s role as the tragic hero.
W: The students will read pages 1226 – 1229 and discuss Proctor’s main concerns in this passage.
Th: The students will read pages 1230 – 1233, discuss how Proctor’s statements reflect those of a tragic hero, and complete the Act IV study guide.
F: The students will view the motion picture, The Crucible, with the view of writing a review of it at the conclusion.
The Crucible
M: The students will complete the reading of Act III and discuss the theme of vengeance.
T: The students will complete the Act III study guide.
W: Completion Day – the students will complete and turn in any unfinished assignments.
Th: The students will complete the Nine Weeks Test.
F: The students will begin the semester exam review.
The Crucible
M: The students will read pages 1174 – 1181 and complete the Act II study guide. Discuss the irony of John repeating the Ten Commandments and Elizabeth and John’s responses to the existence of witches. Announce Character Test for Thursday.
T: Assign Act III Vocabulary Builder. The students will read pages 1187 – 1195 and discuss Giles’ motivation for interrupting the court, the characterization of Danforth through stage directions, and the continuing conflict between Putnam and Parris.
W: The students will read pages 1196 – 1205, discussing the irony and motivation behind Ruth Putnam’s witchcraft accusation against George Jacobs, and Danforth’s argument as a faulty premise.
Th: Act III Vocabulary Builder due. The students will complete the Character Test.
F: The students will complete SAT prep Lesson 10.
The Crucible
M: The students will complete a quiz over Act I.
T: The students read pages 1168 – 1181, discuss allusions, and make the following predictions:
The Crucible
M: The students will identify the motif of resentment and discuss the conflicts of: Nurse vs Putnam, Proctor vs Parris, Parris vs church and Procter vs Putnam.
T: The students will complete the Act I Vocabulary Quiz and read pages 1151 – 1155.
W: The students will complete the Act I study guide; assign roles for Act II. Announce Act I Quiz for Friday.
Th: The students will define and discuss allusion and read and discuss pages 1161 – 1170. Assign Act II Vocabulary Builder.
F: The students will complete the Act I Quiz over the concepts of stage direction and dialogue.
M: Counselor Jack Hale will be in all classes to distribute and discuss the ASVAB results.
T: The students will take notes and discuss The Crucible character guide.
W: The students will define the Act I vocabulary. To help establish setting and characterization, show the first ten minutes of The Crucible motion picture. Assign character roles for Act. I.
Th: The students will will discuss stage direction and read The Crucible pages 1126 – 1134. Announce Act I Vocabulary Quiz for Tuesday, November 17.
F: The students will read The Crucible pages 1135 – 1142 and discuss Abigail’s deflection of suspicion when it falls on her.