WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR
AMERICAN LITERATURE
NOVEMBER 1, 2004


MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST:

The first draft of your third and fourth paragraphs will be due today.

If I have not given specific approval to do short stories from the anthology, do not assume that it’s all right for you to choose short stories and turn those in for your literary analysis. It will SERIOUSLY IMPACT YOUR GRADE IF YOU MAKE THAT ASSUMPTION!

Also do not even think that you are going to substitute a short story....say the excerpt from BLACK BOY to be found in the anthology by....say, Richard Wright ....and try to pass it off as a full fledged literary analysis (where you actually read the 344 page autobiography which you didn’t because you only read a four page excerpt from the book). A few years ago someone else tried to do that and that person wound up failing the class.

So be honest! If you didn’t bother reading anything, shame on you, but come to me and we will work something out.



TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND:

The first draft of your fifth, sixth and final paragraphs will be due today.

If all goes according to plan - and it never does - I will finish grading all of the rough drafts of your literary analysis by Friday. I will then return your graded rough drafts to you. You will then rewrite them - incorporating the corrections into the final draft - and turn the final draft, the rough drafts and your reading logs
into me by Monday, November 8th AT THE LATEST!

If you turn them into me early, I will make every endeavor to grade them and give them back to you as soon as possible.

DO NOT TURN IN A FINAL DRAFT WITHOUT GIVING ME THE INDIVIDUAL ROUGH DRAFTS OF THE PARAGRAPHS FIRST!

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD:

Please bring your vocabulary book. Unit 5 will be assigned to you today, and it will be due on Tuesday, November 9th.
We will read Benjamin Franklin’s “Eyewitness Account of a Witch Trial”.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH:

Please bring your grammar book today. An assignment will be given and will be due by Wednesday, November 10th.
We will start reading The Crucible.


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH:

Your final draft of your literary analysis is due, along with your reading log and your CORRECTED rough drafts. Don’t even think about turning in a final draft I haven’t taken a look at.

We will have a relatively easy day today of just reading The Crucible. Please be sure to start a reading log.






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