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School Closed: Weather |
2-17 |
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2-02
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2-18 |
School
Closed: Presidents' Weekend |
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2-03
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2-19 |
American
Gothic: Portrait of a Tormented Soul; PowerPoint
Discussion and Notes |
| 2-04 |
Polyvision Interactive White Board Roll Out with
Projector; Experiencing 21st Century Learning;
Reading Apprenticeship: "Devil and Tom Walker"
Literary Conventions and Vocabulary; Commentary
on changing morals and increasing consummerism;
Quiz
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2-20 |
American
Gothic: Crimes of Passion and Gothic Jigsaw |
| 2-05 |
Introduction to Romanticism;
Bryant's "Thanatopsis": Our Own View of
Death (flashlight circle) connecting the poem to
the present and the experiences, both personal
and vicarious, to death in our lives
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2-21 |
American
Gothic: Jigsaw with various stories by Poe;
Reading Apprenticeship: Identify and Analyze
elements of fiction and correspondence to short
stories using Think Aloud and Talking to the Text |
| 2-06 |
Understanding the
Informational Essay Format; Understanding
and Identifying PAT: Prompt, Audience, Thesis
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2-22 |
Catch Up
from PSSA Testing and Make Up Testing; Begin Gothic
Jigsaw Project Presentations |
| 2-07 |
Understanding Text-Based Informational Essay:
direct quotations, paraphrasing, lead into and
follow up; Practicing the Text-Based Informational
Essay Formula using
www.gomyaccess.com
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2-23 |
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Understanding the
Persuasive
Essay Formula; Understanding the Persuasive
Essay using Nomos, Logos,
Ethos, and Pathos; Practicing
the Persuasive Essay Formula using
www.gomyaccess.com
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2-24 |
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2-25 |
Continue Gothic Project
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2-26 |
Guidance
Registration; Experiencing "The Tell-Tale
Heart"; Respond to and discuss a film adaptation of
Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart" and discuss guilt and
confession |
| 2-11 |
PSSA
Mechanics/Editing Testing; The Era of American Firsts;
Introduction to American Gothic as the Torment of
the Soul; "Starry Night" (image and song); "The New
Year" by Death Cab for Cutie; "Irvine" by Kelly
Clarkson |
2-27 |
Examining a
Culture of Horror through Film: Why is our society
obsessed (or not) with horror throughout history?
Why do we enjoy (or not) being scared?
Reading Apprenticeship: Creating a time line
using a Web 2.0 tool, citing examples of where
horror intersects with and deviates from Poe's
elements of gothic story telling |
| 2-12 |
PSSA
Writing Test; Weather Early Dismissal: 10:30 |
2-28 |
Poe's
Influence on Hitchhock |
| 2-13 |
School
Closed: Weather |
2-29 |
Poe's
Influence on Horror Films; Conclusion of Gothic Unit |
| 2-14 |
Introduction
to Psychological Criticism: Dreams, Nightmares, The
Subconscious v. The Conscious and Poe's life,
fears, accomplishments, dreams, and nightmares |
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School
Closed: Presidents' Weekend |
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