English 9 - Semester Outline
LITERARY FOCUS: AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
January 3-24
- intro to class
- introduction to Transcendentalism
- read Emerson ("Self-Reliance") and Thoreau ("Resistance to Civil Government")--in text
- Reading strategies
- Dialectical Notebooks
- SOAPS
- writing response to Transcendentalists
- thematic tie to M.L. King
- "I Have a Dream" and "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
- rhetorical, persuasive devices
- Better Sentence: Chapter 6.1-4
- Vocabulary: Lesson 1, 2
January 27-February 9
- Poetry: Dickinson; modern poets
- poetry analysis project: recognizing literary elements and historical ties
- Better Sentence: finish workbook
- begin diagramming: basic elements
- review essay problems, rewrite MLK essay
- Vocabulary: lesson 3, 4
- introduction to The Great Gatsby
February 13-27
- reading The Great Gatsby
- complete The Great Gatsby journal
- continue diagraming basic elements
- Vocabulary: lessons 4,5
February 28-March 10
- finish reading The Great Gatsby
- complete The Great Gatsby journal
- midterm review and exam
- Vocabulary: lesson 6
- review essay problems from midterm
March 13-24
- assign The Great Gatsby essay (take-home)
- thesis and forecasting; outlines
- writing summaries
- continue diagraming basic elements
- Vocabulary: lesson 7
April 3-13
- research essay
- MLA format for research
- Read "A Rose for Emily"
- continue diagraming basic elements
- background on SteinbeckMay
April 18-May 4
- turn in research essay
- begin Of Mice and Men
- continue diagraming basic elements
- Vocabulary: lessons 8, 9
- timed writing
- essay corrections on Great Gatsby
