Quarter+Two

Tuesday 18 December Finish reading "The Fall of the House of Usher."

Monday 17 December Read the first half of "The Fall of the House of Usher" up to the poem.

Friday 14 December Finish reading "The Pit and the Pendulum."

Thursday 13 December Complete your floorplan for "The Masque of the Red Death."

Monday 10 December Continue to respond to the Poe stories, and visit the wiki to continue or tidy up your annotations ... or to complete your Wiki Activity Log. Please note that I have also listed the Douglass vocabulary words that will be liable for use on the semester exam.

Friday 7 December Respond to "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Read and Respond to "The Masque of the Red Death."

Thursday 6 December Compose and type a paragraph that tries to answer the question: If "The Minister's Black Veil" is really a parable, what is the unspoken lesson of it? Be sure to have a copy of Poe's //The Gold Bug and Other Tales// for class.

Wednesday 5 December Read and Respond to "The Minister's Black Veil".

Tuesday 4 December A finished copy of your "The Devil and _" is due.

Please Note: To continue to qualify for an A on the discussion board, you must have 30 credited posts by midnight Tuesday, December 11.

Friday 30 November Prepare your section of Whittier's "Snowbound" for oral performance.

Wednesday 28 November Re-read poems by four New England poets (275-288).

Tuesday 27 November Load your story into the class wiki. Do some revising of your story and your partner's story about you. Start with the paragraphing.

Monday 26 November Join the class wiki. Come to the computer lab with an electronic copy of "The Devil and ".

Wednesday 21 November Compose and type a good first draft of "The Devil and ".

Monday 19 November Complete "The Devil and " worksheet, and compose a great first sentence for your story.

Wednesday 14 November Read and Respond to "The Devil and Tom Walker" (258-268).

Tuesday 13 November Compose a 2-page essay in which you explore this question: "What, if any, value is there in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass for a 21st century reader?" Is it merely a historical document, or does it still speak to contemporary readers?

Wednesday 7 November Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (to the end of ch. 11).

Tuesday 6 November Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (to the end of ch. 10).

Monday 5 November Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 10, through the top paragraph on page 52).

Friday 2 November Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 10, to the top of page 44).

Thursday 1 November Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 9).

Wednesday 31 October Finish your index cards. Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 8).

Tuesday 30 October Compose your new sentences for each of your assigned words.

Monday 29 October Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 6-7). Define your assigned words from your group's master list.

Friday 26 October Find ten more challenging words (and their sentences) from chapters 1-5.

Thursday 25 October Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 5). Continue to mark the difficult words you encounter.

Wednesday 24 October Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 4). Identify one of the most beautiful or interesting sentences in the chapter.

Tuesday 23 October Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 3).

Monday 22 October Read and Respond to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (ch. 1-2).