Tourtellotte Memorial High School

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

American Literature

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NOVEMBER POSTINGS

 

2-Intro to American Gothic, vocab packet 6

3- “Rip Van Winkle” annotate first nine paragraphs after foreword, note unfamiliar vocabulary

4-Vocab sentences due, study guide for Rip

5– Summaries, Guiding questions for Rip

6-EARLY RELEASE, quiz, reflective essay due

 

9-Rip questions due tomorrow-No vocab this week

10– analysis of “Rip Van Winkle” as a political statement

11– NO SCHOOL

12-Ethan Frome vocab handout-quiz next Friday

      “Young Goodman Brown”

13-Allegory, symbolism, analysis

 

16-Conclude Hawthorne, Romantic Period,

17-assign literary analysis essay

18-Begin Poe “The Fall of the House of Usher,”

19– Read up to paragraph 1 page 5, paraphrase assigned passage

20-vocab quiz, Frome 1-29, Poe con’t

 

23-vocab Frome 30-58, thesis exercise

24-essay outline

25-vocab quiz

26- NO SCHOOL

27–NO SCHOOL

 

30-vocab Frome 59-87

Dec 1-

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4-Vocab quiz

 

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11-***Literary Analysis Essays Due****

I want a hard copy and an electronic copy sent to Turnitin by midnight