Monday 29 January: "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday 30 January: snow delay Wednesday 31 January: Fireside poets, intro to "Thanatopsis" Thursday 1 February: "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant Friday 2 February: No class, First Friday Mass; argument paper revisions due Monday 5 February: No school, Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 6 February: Dickinson paper due by midnight, uploaded to Jupiter; Whitman (in class) Wednesday 7 February: Snow day; read Walden excerpts Thursday 8 February: Prep for in-class writing on Transcendentalism Friday 9 February: In-class writing on Transcendentalism Monday 12 February: "Bartleby the Scrivener," pt. 1 (pp. 103–116); these are the study questions. Tuesday 13 February: "Bartleby the Scrivener," pt. 2 (pp. 116–129); these are the study questions. Wednesday 14 February: "Bartleby the Scrivener," pt. 3 (pp. 129–end) Thursday 15 February: Bartleby in-class activity; begin reading Anderson texts (see Tuesday 20 Feb.) Friday 16 February: Bartleby performances; vocabulary discussed Monday 19 February: No School: Presidents' Day Tuesday 20 February: Romanticism to Modernism; Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: "The Book of the Grotesque," "Hands," make sure you've read "The Strength of God" for Wednesday Wednesday 21 February: (AP OOCM: "Billy Budd" due for AP students; go over rhetorical terms part 1; test in 2 weeks) "The Strength of God" Thursday 22 February: Hemingway: "Soldier's Home" Friday 23 February: "Big Two-Hearted River," pt. 1 Monday 26 February: "Big Two-Hearted River," pt. 2; Tuesday 27 February: Finish "Big Two-Hearted River"; short story project assigned *****For more Anderson stories, read "Sophistication" and "Tandy" *****For more Hemingway, choose "The Battler," "The End of Something," "The Three-Day Blow" Wednesday 28 February: As I Lay Dying, reading 1 (through p. 13) Comments are closed.
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