Week(s) of 11/21 through 12/2

Periods 1 and 7:

The Scarlet Letter essay #1 will be due on Tuesday 11/29. We will be finishing the book for Friday.

Graded discussion Friday (may carry over into Monday).

  Online version of the book found here: http://www.bartleby.com/83/

Essay #2 ("The problem of the 'example'") will be due Friday 12/9.

The Scarlet Letter symbolism project will be due Friday 12/16.

In the midst of these deadlines we will be starting and reading The Crucible.



Period 3:

Reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and studying Mark Twain's use of satire in these chapters.

Chapters 17 and 18 questions and section of satire worksheet for Thursday.
Reading chapters 19 and 20 Thursday. Chapters 21-22 Friday.

Audio version https://archive.org/details/huckleberry_mfs_librivox
Online text version: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/76/76-h/76-h.htm


Period 5:

Viewing the documentary Freakonomics for the purpose of continued research.

Rough draft of Cause/Effect Research Essay due Friday 12/9.

Final draft due Friday 12/16.



Period 6:

Researching for annotated bibliographies (source summaries) for Cause/Effect research essays. Annotated bibliography due Monday 12/5.

Freakonomics research project due Monday 12/12.

Rough draft of Cause/Effect Research Essay due Friday 12/16.

Final draft due Thursday 12/22.