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pg. 885 # 1, 2
Read: Frost's "Acquainted with the Night" complete questions #1, 2 on page 886
Read: Amy Tan's essay "Mother Tongue" on page 1409. Be prepared to discuss in class.

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Due: "Smartphone" article three-quarters of a page response. Please type if possible,

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Rhetorical Precis: See me for a copy of the article we read and annotated in class today. You must have this by the start of class Wednesday.

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Emily Dickinson worksheet: analysis of the following poems:
"My  Life Closed Twice": The Parodox of Death
"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass": A Nature Riddle
"A Word is Dead": The Power of Words
 
If you missed the class for an AP test, see me to pick up the handouts. Thank you.

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Emily Dickinson worksheet: analysis of the following poems:
"My  Life Closed Twice": The Parodox of Death
"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass": A Nature Riddle
"A Word is Dead": The Power of Words
 
If you missed the class for an AP test, see me to pick up the handouts. Thank you.

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Due: read Walt Whitman bio in textbook: pages 422-423
Read "Leaves of Grass" pages 424-425
Read "from Song of Myself" pages 428-430
Be prepared for a quiz

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Due at 11:59 pm TPS-FASTT Emily Dickinson "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" pg.408

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The Great Gatsby Socratic Seminar. Come into class having read the attached articles:
"Consumed"
"Excerpts from The Culture of Excess" by Jay Slosar
"Internet of Things" Op-Ed 2016
"Our Destructive Love of Stuff"
"Young and Beautiful" Lyrics

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Literary Device for The Great Gatsby. We will do this in class. Bring your literary device handout.

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The Great Gatsby chapter 3 questions
Answer questions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 using complete sentences and text support.
Submit to Google Classroom by Tuesday, March 20th 11:59 pm
 
 
       

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Due: The Great Gatsby chapter 3. Please review the questions although we will answer them in class. 

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Read The Great Gatsby chapter 1. We will do the questions in class. 
We will also do a rewrite of your Caplan essay response in class.

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“The World Might Be Better Off Without College For Everyone”: Students Don’t Seem to Be Getting Much Out of Higher Education

Bryan Caplan: The Atlantic: January/February 2018

due on GoogleClassroom at 11:59 pm March 8th

 

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Summarize at least two of the key arguments made in the reading and analyze and evaluate that argument, explaining why you agree or disagree with it, using relevant material from those readings, class discussion, or your own work, experiences and/or research.

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Emerson: "Self-Reliance" pg 369-370 complete critical reading questions #1-4
"Concord Hymn" pg. 371 complete critical reading questions #1-4
Due at 8:00 am on Turnitin.com

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Due: The Scarlet Letter video project

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Due: Review pages 360-368 Transcendentalism and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Read "Nature" and answer Critical Reading Questions #1-3 using complete sentences and text support.

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The Scarlet Letter-in class essay. Bring a copy of the novel. 
Review attached document.

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Review the poems: from "The Song of Hiawatha" and "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant and "Old Ironside" by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Due: The Scarlet Letter: chapters 20-24
Also due: writing assignments 1 and 2 (see attached file)

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Due: The Scarlet Letter: chapters 16-19 analysis
Submit to TurnItIn.com by 6:00 a.m. It will be late at 6:01 a.m.
Also due: writing assignments 1 and 2 (see attached file)

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Finish The Scarlet Letter chapter 6 Commentary Passage
Read: "The Tide Rises" on page 260.

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Due: The Scarlet Letter: chapters 11-15
Also due: writing assignments 1 and 2 (see attached file)

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Due: Bean Trees passage A. Please print out a copy for me. 

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Due: The Scarlet Letter: chapters 7-10
Also due: writing assignments 1 and 2 (see attached file)

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Turn in "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven" Literary Analysis worksheets if you have not already done so.

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Due: The Scarlet Letter: chapters 3-6
Also due: writing assignments 1 and 2 (see attached file)

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due the Scarlet Letter chapters 1 and 2.
Follow the Yellow worksheet I gave you (we will work on the pink worksheet) in class.

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Due: The Scarlet Letter: read the Custom House

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"The Minister's Black Veil" essay rewrite is due tonight 11:59 p.m.

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Due: "Where is Here?" by Joyce Carol Oates pages 323-332