Bradbury, Ray. Is It 2007 Or 2053? Time. 21 September 2007: 105-7. Big Chalk. 28 September

2007 Wed. (Sept 26) Research. Use AHS sites. Try key words like human rights, cooperative governments, economic development. List three sources you have consulted under the title Bibliography. Write notes after each source’s entry. Use this format for magazines reprinted in web sites: Last name, first name. “Title of article.” Magazine. Day month year: pages. Search engine. URL. Date of access. Bradbury, Ray. “Is it 2007 or 2053?” Time. 21 September 2007: 105-7. Big Chalk. www.bigchalk.com 28 September 2007. Hw for Mon. (9/24) Sequel to F451. Length 500 words+ Play, short story or essay. Follow format (Double space, 12 point font; title; name, class, date in upper left corner) grammar Be memorizing--Know 20 prepositions, know 15 subordinate conjunctions which introduce adverb clauses, know the coordinate conjunctions which link compound sentences (FANBOYS), and punctuate these clauses correctly.

Unit 2a Romanticism 2007 For Test on 2a-b: Know biographical info about authors (Where lived, what wrote, who married) Be able to ID quotes. Know lit terms and be able to apply them. Know vocab. (Remember you can get vocab drill on Holt’s website.) Notice the difference between the spelling of words ending in –ance and – ence.

MON Oct 1 Day 1 Characteristics of Romanticism Intro 132-150 Bryant “Thanotopsis” (165+) Participles (-ing or –ed verbs used as adjectives) Paraphrase one section, iambic pentameter, personification, influence of Latin study on images, title, theme. Poetry terms

Day 2-3 Irving “Devil and Tom Walker” (150+) vocab 152 and usurer, ostentatious, farthing Plot pyramid, frame story, archetype/stereotype, Faustian motif, folktale Reflection of greed on colonial frontier (usury, land speculators), criticizing of Puritanism Verbal irony

Rom 2b: Transcendentalism Nature and Self-Reliance Day 4 Emerson “Nature” and “Self-Reliance” (181-88) voc (181 and ex 188) aphorism

Day 5-6 Thoreau Walden (189-205) voc (191 and ex 207) paraphrase, parable, aphorism, attitude toward nature, curiosity

Day 7 Oct 18 TEST?