Mr. Dittes's English 11 class @ SCHS

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**September 6 to 10: Gothic Week**
No School: Labor Day	History work, Story of the Times
If you missed a day, you may make up the work by doing all Comprehension questions and any two Critical Thinking questions at the end of the assigned reading. Bonus: Activities 1 and 2, page 126 help you to learn more about the development of American English as it gained independence from the mother tongue. Five points each.

**August 30 to September 3: We're Goin' West!**
Read "Crossing the Great Divide" pp 276-277 Watch "Lewis & Clark, Great Journey West" Outline: Lewis & Clark, Your own Unexplored Territory	Participial Phrases, p 282 Read "Heading West" pp 544-550 View "Into the West, Wagon Trail" on DVD Write an additional diary entry describing the trip of the Wheelers Go over Rubric: the Liberty Essay HW: Liberty Essay due Thursday	Music: Sweet Betsey from Pike Complete "Into the West, Wagon Trail" on DVD Find 1st-hand accounts of the Oregon Trail to verify the facts of the film See Link for First-Hand Accounts Citing sources activity HW: Liberty Essay due Thursday	Review 1st Drafts A&E We're Goin' to California! Review "suitcases." Make assumptions Map activity: Getting to California Read "Gold Rush Letters." Identify details Outline: I'm goin' to California!	Western Day
If you missed a day, you may make up the work by doing all Comprehension questions and any two Critical Thinking questions at the end of the assigned reading.

**August 23 to 27: Seeking Liberty and Independence**
Huckleberry Finn: Jim & Witchcraft Toward a Better Conclusioin Pop Quiz: America History questions: read page 120-125 to find the answers Outline Final Draft: OSU Essay #3, Overcoming a challenge.	Using Vocabulary References, p 113 Vocabulary Activity: the Declaration of Independence We go to the media center to examine early drafts of the Declaration of Independence Research reasons for Declaration	Vocabulary Activity: the Declaration of Independence Read "The Declaration of Independence," pp 140-143 Outline Brainstorming activity: I would be free, if only...	Vocabulary References: The Crisis, Number 1 Watch President Obama's Inaugural Address for links to "The Crisis" Read from "The Crisis, Number 1" Outline Brainstorming: what is a crisis you face in your family/country	Huckleberry Finn Quiz Video: Jefferson Socratic Circle: sayings of Thomas Jefferson
If you missed a day, you may make up the work by doing all Comprehension questions and any two Critical Thinking questions at the end of the assigned reading. Bonus: Activities 1 and 2, page 126 help you to learn more about the development of American English as it gained independence from the mother tongue. Five points each. Bonus: go further with Thomas Paine for a first-hand look at political conditions during the Revolutionary War. See Mr. Dittes's class blog for more details.

**August 16 to 20: The Birth of the American Nation**
Grammar from Papers Support Activity Pop Quiz: America: Beginnings to 1750 ArtLook: the map on Page 1 . 2nd Draft, OSU Essay #2	Read from Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 2 Discussion: ghosts and the afterlife. Groups: read "The Story of the Times" and apply to Native Americans, New Englanders or Southerners AE: Poster: Come to Ole Virginia! Describe to other groups the problems, hopes and lifestyles of that culture	Writer's Motivation: p 211 Our fears activity/discussion Read from "The General History of Virginia" and from "Of Plymouth Plantation" pp 64 to 75 How Bad Was It? 1st Draft, OSU Essay #3	Writer's Motivation: Letters to the Editor A&E Describe a Perfect Place/Terrible Place Read from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" pp 96-101 Describe the kinds of detail that Edwards used in his sermon	Witchcraft Assign handou, The Trial of Martha Corey, for reading and annotation Watch video on Salem Witch Trials Socratic Circle
If you missed a day, you may make up the work by doing all Comprehension questions and any two Critical Thinking questions at the end of the assigned reading. Bonus: find ten places in Tennessee--cities, towns, mountains, or bodies of water--that have Native American names. See page 10 for more information.

**August 9 to 13: Native American Week**
School/Class Rules Activity Complete the First Rubric OSU Essay #1: Personal Goals Time on the COW for a BisonScribe activity	School/Class Rules Activity Tennesssee Back in Time: Vision Activity AE: Create an Aboriginal Image Read "The Earth on Turtle's Back," "When Grizzlies Walked Upright," and from "The Navajo Origin Legend" pp 20 to 27 Retell the Stories to the Class (Charade) FD: OSU Essay 1	Artifacts Activity AE: find two artifacts that would have existed in Tennessee before European settlement. From the picture of Columbus on San Salvador, describe objects from a native American perspective. Read from "Journal of the First Voyage to America" pp 12 to 17 OSU Essay #2	Grammar from papers Read "A Journey through Texas" pp 34-37. Make assumptions about the Indians Cabeza de Vaca describes. Evaluate myths from other native tribes, Identify. Prepare for dance production Friday.	We will develop native dances in the auditorium.
Huckleberry Finn resources: The University of Virginia has posted the whole book online. You can read chapter by chapter If you have a library card, you can download an MP3 of the book--or a copy of the book to read on your computer--from R.E.A.D.S. Librivox.org has thousands of free titles to listen to, they also have an app for Android and iPhone which makes it easy to listen on your phone. Download it free from iTunes--there are also copies of the audiobook that you can purchase, if you wish.