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Ms. Donna Gordon

D. Gordon's American Literature

NEWNAN HIGH SCHOOL

NEWNAN, GA 30263

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Last updated Tuesday, Dec. 2

End of Course Tests - 1st block - Monday, Dec. 8
                      2nd block - Tuesday, Dec. 9
                      3rd block - Wednesday, Dec. 10
                      4th block - Thursday, Dec. 11

Nine Weeks Exams - 1st & 3rd exams Wednesday, Dec. 17
                   2nd & 4th exams Thursday, Dec. 18

Homework:

1) By Friday, write a review/critique of a book, movie, CD, television series, play, etc.

2) My Skills Tutor assignment due Monday, Dec. 8:
     Reading - Word Knowledge

   My Skills Tutor assignment due Monday, Dec. 15:
     Reading - Reading Comprehension

Log in to www.myskillstutor.com.  Click on assignment for the week.  Do at least 5 lessons on correct assignment making 70 or above.  Pretests, Posttests, and Quizzes do not count.  Lessons logged onto more than twice do not count.  You may do assignments as early as you wish but not after the deadline.
      Log in information:
      www.myskillstutor.com
      username = your new student number
      password = your new student number
      site = newnan02
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Extra Credit Opportunities for Second Nine Weeks:

Do five lessons making 70 or above on the lessons below on www.myskillstutor.com by Thursday, Dec. 4 deadline for extra 100.

Workforce Readiness Skills - Employability Skills
Workforce Readiness Skills - Life Skills

Come after school and read in my presence for one hour and answer questions on your reading material.  You may do this up to five times for five extra 100's total.  Deadline for completion:  Thursday, Dec. 11.

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Makeup Work for ---

Tuesday, Dec. 2

    Items so marked were taken up.

    proofreading – week 3 day 1

    voc. prefixes 1 quiz      [skipped in 2nd block]

Present drawings of scene from “The Pit and the Pendulum”     [skipped in 1st block]

Define Romanticism.

Discuss the Fireside Poets.

Read p. 220 Bryant “Thanatopsis”

Read p. 225 Holmes “Old Ironsides”

    worksheet – Holmes’ “The Chambered Nautilus”   (also on p. 226) [2nd block only]

Monday, December 1

handout - Romanticism & Transcendentalism (Define, read, and discuss)

background info - the Spanish Inquisition

Read p. 292 Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum¨

homework due tomorrow - Draw a scene from the short story to present and explain tomorrow in class. (- had about 5 mins. to start this in class)

Read p. 307 CD review of Closed on Account of Rabies

homework due Friday (Dec. 5) ¡V Write a review / critique of a movie, CD, television series, etc.

Friday, Nov. 21

ƒæ    Items so marked were taken up.

ƒæ    voc. SAT list 2 test

ƒæ    Literary Terms ¡V Figurative Language Test  (open notebook test)

ƒæ    comma with interrupters quiz  (¡§Bob a true gourmet . . .¡¨)

Present Literary Terms Posters [1 day late] (1st block ¡V no time for)

Thanksgiving word find and word scramble puzzle (for fun)

Review end rhyme, internal rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance.

Read & listen to p. 287 Poe ¡§The Raven¡¨

Thursday, Nov. 20

ƒæ    Items so marked were taken up.

commas with appositives

sentence combining with appositives & commas

ƒæ    Present Literary Terms Posters

commas with interrupters #1

Wednesday, Nov. 19

commas and semicolons with parenthetical expressions

Review EOCT practice test

Tuesday, Nov. 18

ƒæ    Items so marked were taken up.

ƒæ    commas and direct address (Write 10 sentences using commas in direct address.)

ƒæ    voc. SAT list 2 quiz

Define Literary Terms ¡V Figurative Language [definitions due by Friday]

Work on Literary Terms poster (if student has poster board) ¡V [due Thursday]

Work on Skills Tutor (if student chooses to do literary terms definitions for homework)

Fireside Poets Power Point (continuous loop)

Read p. 219 Bryant ¡§To A Waterfowl¡¨

2nd block ¡V AIDS assembly for 11th graders (1 hour)

Monday, Nov. 17

symbolism 6-9

Timed magazine reading (15 minutes)

Timed writing - Reader Response Sheet for Independent Reading (15 minutes)[turned in for grade]

Read p. 266 Hawthorne "The Minister's Black Veil"

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