Syllabus

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 * 4/1/13 || Welcome Back – Introduce Slaughterhouse-PFive (review Bunyan) || Read Vonnegut Chapter 1 (1-29) ||
 * 4/2/13 || Discuss Vonnegut – Introduce Assessment #6 || Read Vonnegut Chapter 2 (30-65) ||
 * 4/3/13 || Discuss Vonnegut || Chapter 3 (66-90) ||
 * 4/4/13 || Discuss Vonnegut || Draft Assessment #6 ||
 * 4/5/13 || Peer Review/Writing Workshop || Revise Assessment #6 ||
 * 4/8/13 || Assessment #6 DUE (Grammar Day – Modifiers) || Chapter 4 (91-109) (recommend that you read to 125-130) ||
 * 4/9/13 || Discuss Vonnegut || Chapter 5 (110-172) ||
 * 4/10/13 || Passage Analysis in class – Introduce Assessment 7 || Chapters 6-7 (173-205) ||
 * 4/11/13 ||  || Chapter 8 (206-232) ||
 * 4/12/13 || Discuss Vonnegut || Chapters 9-10 (233-272) ||
 * 4/15/13 || Writing Workshop || Draft ||
 * 4/16/13 || Peer Review || Revise ||
 * 4/17/13 || Assessment #7 DUE - Introduce The Laramie Project || Laramie Act 1 (1-38) ||
 * 4/18/13 || Discuss Laramie || Laramie Act 2 (41-72) ||
 * 4/19/13 || Discuss Laramie || Laramie Act 3 (73-101) ||
 * 4/22/13 || PBA Work In Class (Assessment 8) || PBA Preparation ||
 * 4/23/13 || PBA Work in Class || PBA Preparation ||
 * 4/24/13 || Performance Day 1 || Outline PBA Essay (Assessment 9) ||
 * 4/25/13 || Peformance Day 2 || Draft Assessment 9 ||
 * 4/26/13 || Overflow Day for Performances/Peer Review || Revise Assessment 6 ||
 * 4/29/13 || Assessment #9 Due – Grammar Day (Modifiers) || Chomp Chomp Modifiers Exercises 1 and 2.
 * 4/30/13 || Introduce //The Reluctant Fundamentalist// through consideration of WTC Attack || Hamid Chapters 1-2 (1-30) ||
 * 5/1/13 || Discuss Hamid || Hamid Chapters 3-4 (31-61) ||
 * 5/2/13 || Discuss Hamid || Hamid Chapters 5-6 (62-92) ||
 * 5/3/13 || Passage Analysis In Class || Hamid Chapters 7-8 (93-122) ||
 * 5/6/13 || Discuss Hamid || Hamid Chapters 9-10 (123-154) ||
 * 5/7/13 || Discuss Hamid || Hamid Chapters 11-12 (155-182) ||
 * 5/8/13 || Introduce Culminating Assessment || Homework Overflow Day ||
 * 5/9/13 ||  || Credo Brainstorm ||
 * 5/10/13 ||  || Credo Outline ||
 * 5/13 ||  || Credo Draft ||
 * 5/14 ||  || Credo Revision ||
 * 5/15 || CULMINATING ASSESSMENT DUE ||  ||

5/22/13 – Delivery of Credos will occur during the examination period. Attendance will be required for this event.

Below you will find the Whitman presentation schedule. Please read and annotate the selected cantos on the day they will be presented. Both Mr. Freeman and the presenters reserve the right to check for annotations or to give a vocabulary quiz on their selected canto. Otherwise, work on your research for the iSearch essay.

Jack Harper – Canto 32 || Andrea – Canto 26 Chase – Canto 29 || Alec – Canto 38 || Lydia – Canto 34 David – Canto 35 || JCO – Canto 41 || Nick – Canto 38 Caroline – Canto 40 || Madeline – Canto 43 || Ben – Canto 41 Austin – Canto 44 || Claudia – Canto 45 || William – Canto 49 || Brooke – Canto 47 ||  || Jake – Canto 49 ||  ||
 * Date || B Block || D Block ||
 * Thursday, 1/31 || Catherine – Canto 26
 * Friday, 2/1 (half day) || Juan – Canto 34 || Grant – Canto 32 ||
 * Monday, 2/4 || Allyson – Canto 35
 * Tuesday, 2/5 || Amal – Canto 40
 * Wednesday, 2/6 || Lauren Lowe – Canto 42[[file:///C:/Users/jfreeman.CAMPUS1/Documents/canto%20presentation%20schedule.docx#_ftn1|[1]]]
 * Friday, 2/8 || Samantha – Canto 44
 * Monday, 2/11 || Allie – Canto 46
 * Tuesday, 2/12 || John Monroe – Canto 48
 * Wednesday, 2/13 || Hayes – Canto 50 ||  ||

 Mr. Freeman is absent on Wednesday 2/6 (B) and Friday 2/8 (B and D). While most of your grade will be peer generated, another English teacher will be present to give you feedback on those days.

This syllabus is current as of 1/4/13. Exam Review Introduce Assessment #1 || Get a Folder Essay Collation || Library Day || Grammar Worksheet Poetry Brainstorm || How do we read a poem? What are the features of “Song of Myself?” || Read and annotate Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” and Hughes' "I, Too". Write a one paragraph comparison/contrast of the two poems. || Continue discussion of poetry explication || Whitman Cantos 9-12 || Introduce Assessment #3 - Teach a Canto || Whitman Canto 24 || Student Led Discussions x 2 || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] || 25 Notecards Due (Noodletools) || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] || Introduce //The Pilgrim’s Progress// || Read and annotate the Author’s Apology || Discuss TPP || Bunyan 11-41 ||
 * **DATE** || **In Class** || **Homework** ||
 * 1/7/13 || Welcome Back
 * 1/8/13 || Finding Patterns in Our Writing – In Class Workshop || Outline Assessment #1 ||
 * 1/9/13 || Introduce iSearch Project – Discuss parameters and expectations || Draft Assessment #1 ||
 * 1/10/13 || Writing Workshop: Making Precise Claims || Revise Assessment #1 ||
 * 1/11/13 || Assessment #1 Due
 * 1/14/13 || What do we remember about how to read a poem?
 * 1/15/13 || Discuss Annotations and poem. Read, annotate, and discuss Canto 1 in class. || Whitman Cantos 2-4 ||
 * 1/16/13 || Discuss 2-4 and explore features of poem || Whitman Cantos 5-8 ||
 * 1/17/13 || Discuss 5-8 and introduce model of poetry explication || Draft Research Question and Rationale. ||
 * 1/18/13 || Research Question and Rationale Due.
 * 1/22/13 || Discuss 9-12 || Whitman Cantos 13-19 ||
 * 1/23/13 || Discuss 13-19 || Whitman Cantos 20-23 ||
 * 1/24/13 || Discuss 20-23 || Compose Description of Sources and Methods ||
 * 1/25/13 || Description of Sources and Methods Due (through Noodletools)
 * 1/28/13 || In Class Explication of Canto 21 (Assessment #2) || Read Cantos 25-50 and choose one to teach ||
 * 1/29/13 || Harkness Seminar: Canto 24 || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] ||
 * 1/30/13 || Student Led Discussions x 2 || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] ||
 * 1/31/13 || Student Led Discussions x 2 || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] ||
 * 2/1/13 || Thesis Statement and Rationale Due
 * 2/4/13 || Student Led Discussions x 2 || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] ||
 * 2/5/13 || Student Led Discussions x 2
 * 2/6/13 || Student Led Discussions x 2 || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] ||
 * 2/7/13 || No Class – Parent Conferences || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] ||
 * 2/8/13 || Student Led Discussions x 2 || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] ||
 * 2/11/13 || 50 Notecards Due (You should finish your research by this date) - Student led discussions continue. || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] ||
 * 2/12/13 || Writing Workshop: Using Evidence Effectively || [Read the two cantos under discussion and work on essay research] ||
 * 2/13/13 || Assessment #4 Due - Canto 51 in class || Read and annotate Canto 52 ||
 * 2/14/13 || Sound Barbaric Yawps
 * 2/19/13 || Review Outline Expectations
 * 2/20/13 || Discuss TPP || Compose Outline ||
 * 2/21/13 || Revise Outline in class || Continue revising outline for HW ||
 * 2/22/13 || Assessment #5 – Outline Due || Bunyan 41-79 ||
 * 2/25/13 || In-Class Essay – Passage Analysis || Bunyan 79-111 ||
 * 2/26/13 || Discuss Bunyan || Bunyan 11-140 ||
 * 2/27/13 || Drafting Time in Class || Work on Draft ||
 * 2/28/13 || Drafting Time in Class || Work on Draft ||
 * 3/1/13 || Assessment #6 – Full Draft Due || Bunyan 140-165 ||
 * 3/4/13 || Finish Discussion of TPP || Revise Assessment #7 ||
 * 3/5/13 || Revise iSearch – Introduction and Thesis || Continue Revision ||
 * 3/6/13 || Revise iSearch – Body Paragraphs, Unity, Organization, Precision || Continue Revision ||
 * 3/7/13 || EDIT iSearch – Style, Clutter elimination, Grammar || Edit iSearch ||
 * 3/8/13 || Assessment #7 – iSearch Essay due || Work on iSearch Presentations ||
 * 3/11/13 || Assessment #8 - Presentations Day || Work on iSearch Presentations ||
 * 3/12/13 || Assessment #8 - Presentations Day || Work on iSearch Presentations ||
 * 3/13/13 || Assessment #8 - Presentations Day || Work on iSearch Presentations ||
 * 3/14/13 || Assessment #8 - Presentations Day || Work on iSearch Presentations ||
 * 3/15/13 || Assessment #8 - Presentations Day || NO HOMEWORK – Interim and Spring Break ||