Mr. Dittes's English 11 class @ SCHS

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Color Guide: Homework * Major Project * Groupwork * Quiz * Classwork * Multimedia * Active Learning

Bonus Opportunity: Read the National Geographic Adventure article, "What Happened to Everett Ruess?"

Even though he lived in the 1930s, he was an excellent reminder of one of the American eras we studied this year: Classical, Romantic, Realistic, and Modern. What was he? Give 5-7 details from the article to support this claim (include one quote from Ruess). More importantly, enjoy reading one of the most fascinating magazine feature articles ever written. Then read how scientists finally identified his body, 75 years after his death.

**May 11 to 15: We Prepare for our Final Research Paper, the Position Paper**
Cite and review: Handout teen drinking and drug statistics View video on teenage alcohol abuse	Cite and review: Handout illegal immigration statistics	Cite and review: minimum wage and/or coal mine Go over Rubric: the Position Paper	Time in the library for research & writing	Time in the library for research & writing 1st Draft: Position Paper Due

**May 4 to 8: We study 20th Century Poetry and complete our Statistical Research**
Read "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" pp 644-651 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking p 651 Work in class on 2nd Draft of Character Profile	Statistical Research due Lecture: Art moves into the modern Slang as it is Slung activity, p 642 Poems of Ezra Pound 660-661 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking p 661	Read "The Imagist Poets" pp 654-663 Do Comprehension _ 2 of Critical Thinking pages 661 & 663 HW: Final Draft Statistical Research due Friday	Review modern art, paintings Read e.e. cummings and W.H. Auden, pp 692-697 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, pp 695 + 697	Poems of Robert Frost

**April 27 to May 1: We descend into the Gruesome Statistics of World War I**
Go over Rubric: the Character Sketch Watch World War I, the Death of Glory, part 1 Identify numbers and statistics used to describe the war.	Handout: WWI Statistics Finish: World War I, the Death of Glory. Identify three assumptions about the war. Support each with two or more facts, images or statistics.	Read e.e. cummings and W.H. Auden, pp 692-697 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking pp 695 & 697 Discuss statistics that we use in our daily lives: sport cars consumer products Develop a thesis that you believe you can prove through statistics Time in the library to research statistics	View part 1 of the World War I movie, Gallipoli Movie worksheet Go over Rubric: Statistics Paper Work on Statistics Paper	Finish World War I movie, Gallipoli Movie worksheet Time for work on statistics papers 1D Statistics Paper due

**April 20 to 24: We learn how Writers bring Characters to Life**
Go over Historical Narratives Practice for ACT HW: Final Draft Historical Narrative due Wednesday	Looking at modern profiles (handout) Read "The Story of an Hour" pp 590-595 Do Comprehension _ 2 of Critical Thinking pp 595-96	ACT Exam 1st & 2nd Blocks Wew will watch the video, Ethan Fromme based on the book by Edith Wharton	Looking at modern profiles (handout) Read "A Wagner Matinee" pp 612-619 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, p 619-20	Looking at modern profiles (handout) Read propile oems, "Luke Havergal," "Richard Cory," "Lucinda Matlock," and "Richard Bone" pp 604-09 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking pp 607 & 609

**April 13 to 17: We Spend a Week with American Author, Mark Twain**
Go over Outlines/Notecards from before break Conference with Mr. Dittes on Historical Narrative Read "To Build a Fire," pp 554-565 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, p 565-66 HW: Final Outlines/Notecards due Thursday HW: 1st Draft Historical Narrative due Thursday	Introducing: Mark Twain Read "The Boys' Ambition from Life on the Mississippi" pp 521 to 524 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, p 524 Creative: What is a Boys' Ambition/ Girls' Ambition? Use detail to inject humor into your reflection.	Read "from Huckleberry Finn" Chapter 20 Translate phrases from Huck Finn into modern, 21st-century English	Go over Historical Narrative essays Read "from Huckleberry Finn" Chapters 21 & 23 Translate a selection from Shakespeare for class presentation Friday	We take a practice ACT Reading Test "Redneck Shakespeare" presentations

**March 30 to April 3: We Finish the Civil War and Focus on the Historical Narrative**
Read Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address," Second Inaugural Address"480-482 Read Robert E. Lee, "Letter to His Son" 482-483 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, p 483, Literary Focus p 484.	Time in the Library to research notecards for the Outline/Notecard research activity HW: Notecards & Research Outline due Thursday	Time in the Library to research notecards for the Outline/Notecard research activity	Time in the Library to research notecards for the Outline/Notecard research activity	No Class: School Carnival Have a great Spring Break! See you Monday, 13 April
Bonus Assignment: this week, the New York Times is publishing a series of articles about a Union Soldier who died at Gettysburg. He held no personal identification save a picture of three young children. Who was he? How did they find the family? What happened to the wife and kids? These questions are answered brilliantly by writer/director Errol Morris. For each of the five installments, write a 100-word reflection on what you learned. Be sure to refer to two of the facts or pictures Morris uses in your reflection. Five bonus points each for a total of 25 points.

**March 23 to 27: The Civil War Continues All Around**
Bibliography activity: correct errors in bibliographies Note card activity: prep for Civil War Voices Read Civil War Voices, pp 495-503. Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, p 503. HW Bring Note Cards on Wednesday	Note Card activity: bibliography and facts. Choosing the research question/focus. Read Robert E. Lee, "Letter to his Son" pp 482-483 Read Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address" and "Second Inaugrual Address" pp 480-482	Read Handout: Alice Williamson and Gallatin in the Civil War Map Activity: defend Gallatin against the Yankees!	Mr. Dittes will be at Youth Legislature Worksheet Watch Part 1 of the movie, Glory	Mr. Dittes will be at Youth Legislature Worksheet Watch Part 2 of the movie, Glory

**March 16 to 20: We plunge into Civil War**
Review rules of the class and 2nd 9 Weeks goals Read "An Episode of War" pp 440-446, Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, p 447 Watch a video about the book, The Red Badge of Courage.	The page that is key to bibliography Read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," pp 466-475. Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking questions, p 475 In class we will create a comics page of IOCB	We spend the firsr half of the block in the library, completing our bibliography assignments. Lecture: Realism replaces Romanticism in American Art HW: Final draft Bibliography due Friday	Review Realism Watch Part 1 of the movie, Glory	Complete the movie, Glory. Discuss the Stephen Crane poem, "War is Kind."

**March 9 to 13: We examine Slavery and we take midterms**
Master Plan: Identify your grade and any missing major assignments. Negro Spirituals: pp 450-453 Practice writing a spiritual Listen to some spirituals	Understanding Analogies, p 392 Read "from My Bondage" pp 456-463 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinknig, p 456	First person slave stories: Frederick Douglass's escape from Slavery Slavery separates an African-American Family The brutality of a Southern Plantation The return of an escaped slave For each identify (1) name of the slave, (2) nature of slavery, (3) slave owner or enslaver, (4) an act of violence, (5) a quote that describes the horros of slavery.	Slavery as seen by Southerners--the music of Stephen Foster We will write the final drafts of our Moby Dick essays in class as a midterm exam.	No School Midterm Break

**March 2 to 6: We take One Last Dance with the Romantics before Civil War**
Ralph Waldo Emerson Read "from Nature" and "from Self-Reliance" pp 362-367 Library: we complete a 2nd Inspiration project--ways that something in Nature inspires us.	Nature Walk/ Think/ Write Understanding Connotation and Denotation, p 184 HenryDavid Thoreau read "from Walden" pp 372-379 Do Comprehension _ 2 of Critical Thinking, pages 379 Go over Rubric: Outline to Essay HW: 1D Outline to Essay due Thursay	Human Walk/ Think/ Write EmilyDickinson I heard a fly buzz--when I died--, My life closed twice before its close--, The Soul selects her own Society--, There is a certain Slant of light, There is a solitude of space, The Brain--is wider than the Sky--, Water, is taught by thirst. Do Comprehension _ 2 of Critical Thinking, pages 397, 399 and 401 Isn't it Romantic? Preview	Outside: we walk and do an "I see--I feel" activity Go over 1D Outline-to-Essay Walt Whitman from Song of Myself; I Hear America Singing; A Noiseless Patient Spider, and When I Heard the Learned Astronomer	Isn't it Romantic?

**February 23 to 27: It's Whaling Week!**
Time in the library to complete Bibliography project Historic Poems: "Old Ironsides" p 262-63; "Concord Hymn" p 369; "O Captain, My Captain" HW: 1D Bibliography due Tuesday	Read handout: "from In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" 52 Outline Video: The Real Moby Dick	Video preview: Moby Dick Read Moby Dick, pp 330-337 52: Captain Ahab	Read Moby Dick, pp 337-445. Dramatic Reading 52 Portfolio Project--do independently. Go over Inspiration Program	Inspiration activity in the library Outside: Harpoon activity

**February 16 to 20: America Expands Westward**
No School President's Day	Go over the 5-2s outline, using details from 218-223 Read "Crossing the Great Divide" pp 276-277 Watch "Lewis & Clark, Great Journey West" New 5-2: What was the Voyage of Discovery like?	Read "Heading West" pp 544-550 view "Into the West, Wagon Trail" on DVD" Write an additional diary entry describing the trip	Gold Rush Day "Gold Rush Letters" hand-out activity Go over Rubric: Annotated Bibliography Time in the Library to complete bibliography on a 19th-century life	Music: Sweet Betsey from Pike Time in the Library to complete annotated bibliography

**February 9 to 13: Gothic Week**
Review first drafts of declaration essays. Pop Quis: America in the 1st half of the 19th Century Move around lecture: America 1800-1850 Introduction to the 5-2s Outline, use the history text 218-223	Grammar from papers Lecture: American Romanticism HW: Final Draft Declaration Essay due Friday	Review artwork of assigned readings Read "The Raven" pp 309-310	Analysis Activity: Movie Reviews Read handout: "The Devil & Daniel Webster" 5-2s: "D&DW is a Gothic tale"	Write a modern Gothic Tale Video: Sleeping Beauty Bonus Assignment: watch a Gothic Movie and write a review
Weekly homework: read your choice of "The Devil & Tom Walker" pp 236-245; "The Fall of the house of Usher" pp 297-308; or "The Minister's Black Veil" pp 318-327.

**February 2 to 6: Seeking Liberty**
OSU Essay #3, 2nd draft Prep for TCAP Exam Go over Rhetorical Devices and Super Bowl Commercials	TCAP Exam 1st Block Find evidence for Thomas Paine's motivation from biography Read "The Crisis, Number 1" pp 144-145 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, p 145-46	Rhetorical Devices: magazine advertisements Motivation: Patrick Henry Read "Speech in the Virginia Convention" pp 168-171 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, p 171	Rhetorical Devices: our Widget Choose from "Letter to Her Daughter from the New White House" or "from Letters from an American Farmer" pp 192-199 Do Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, pp 197 + 199 Go over Rubric, The Declaration Essay	In class: work on 1D Declaration Essay Time with Yankee Doodle HW: First Draft Delcaration Essay due Monday

**January 26 to 30: The Birth of the American Nation**
OSU Essay #2, 1st draft Assessing a writer's motivation, p 211, Letters to the Editor	SNOW	ICE	OSU Essay #2, 2nd draft Assessing a writer's motivaton: Obama's Inaugural Speech Read "The Declaration of Independence" pp 140-143 Complete a details outline	OSU Essay #3, 1st draft

**January 19 to 23: The Birth of the American Nation**

**January 12 to 16: America before the Colonies**
Thesis ranking activity Vocabulary activity from Journeys narratives (33-39 (definition, clues, thesaurus, use) Introduction to Read?Read, Read! Read: "from The General History of Virginia" pp 66-70 Outline activity or Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking p 70	Vocabulary activity from Virginia Read?Read,Read! Plymouth Read "from Of Plymouth Plantation" pp 71-75 Outline activity or Comprehension + 2 of Critical Thinking, p 75	Vocabulary activity from Plymouth Read?Read,Read! Ouladah Read "from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" pp 44-47. Do Literary Focus, p 48 Outline activity Watch scene from Amistad describing the Middle Passage	Vocabulary activity from Ouladah poems Oregon State essay: leadership Read?Read,Read! Sinners Read "from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Outline activity Go over Socratic Circle: Salem Witch Trials	Socratic Circle: Salem Witch Trials Review OSU leadership essay (ranking, editing)