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  Jennifer Everitt

 
1st Six Weeks - "Long Road Home"
August 27, 2007 - October 5, 2007
Novel-To Kill a Mockingbird (Independent Reading)
Short Story-
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Katherine Anne Porter
The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner
A Worn Path, Eudora Welty
Salvador Late or Early, Sandra Cisneros
Poetry-
Kathy Appelt, Terri Fields, Karen Hesse
Mechanics
Usage
Vocabulary
2nd Six Weeks - "I've Been Redeemed"
October 8,2007 - November 16, 2007
Novel-The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Puritans
The Enlightenment
Phrases
Vocabulary
3rd Six Weeks - "Mass Hysteria"
November 19, 2007 - December 21, 2007
Drama-The Crucible, Arthur Miller
McCarthyism
Clauses
Documentary Project
AR Novel/Book Club
Vocabulary
4th Six Weeks - "Who Will Save Your Soul"
January 7, 2008 - February 22, 2008
Poetry-
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickenson, E.E. Cummings, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes
Transcendentalism
Sentences
AR Novel/Book Club
Vocabulary
February 19, 2008 - ELA Exit Level TAKS
5th Six Weeks - "The American Dream"
February 25, 2008 - April 11, 2008
Novel-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Drama-12 Angry Men
AR Novel/Book Club
Research Paper - Due March 28, 2008
Vocabulary
6th Six Weeks - "The Age of Innocence"
April 14, 2008 - May 29, 2008
Novel-Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolpho Anaya
AR Novel/Book Club
Vocabulary

The information above is subject to change at the instructor's discretion.
 
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