December 13th
Weekly Schedule for
American Literature

WE ARE THUNDERING DOWN THE HOME STRETCH!

Monday, December 13th:

We will continue reading Emerson’s “Self Reliance” and doing group presentations. This is for a grade! You obviously cannot get a grade if you are not present! So be present - for your life!

A list of essay topics over Emerson’s “Self Reliance” and Thoreau’s “Walden Pond” and “Civil Disobedience” will be handed out to you. The essay will be due on Thursday, December 16th. Do not turn in your essay late. I will not have time to grade it after Thursday!

The notebook organization will be given to you today in preparation for turning your notebook in on Wednesday, December 15th.

Brief review for final.

Tuesday, December 14th:

Shortened Day!

We will then move on to the excerpt from Thoreau’s WALDEN POND. We will read it and then make class presentations - for a grade. If you are not present, you cannot get a grade. So be present!

Brief review for final.


Wednesday, December 15th:

We will then move on to “Civil Disobedience”. We will read it and then make class presentations - for a grade. If you are not present, then you cannot get a grade. So be present.

Brief review for final.

Your notebook is due today! We will not have time to work on your notebook in class so please work on it at home on Monday and Tuesday night.

Final:

Thursday, December, 16th:

7:40 pm:

You will be given a brief test over grammar.

You will be given a brief test over THE CRUCIBLE and you will turn in your essay over Emerson's “Self Reliance” or Thoreau’s WALDEN POND or “Civil Disobedience”.

IF YOU CANNOT DEMONSTRATE GRADE LEVEL (OR IN THE BALLPARK THEREOF) WRITING AND READING SKILLS THEN YOU WILL NOT PASS. So don’t scrawl in five minutes a badly written essay in pencil on a crumpled piece of paper, tear it out of your notebook and hand it into me confident that you will pass because you did, after all, turn in an essay. The essay must be either neatly written in pen or printed out by computer and accompanied in both cases by a rough draft. And of course, the work must be yours. Plagiarism is seven consecutive words not properly credited to its source.

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