Aug 27
First day introductions; classroom procedures, course syllabus, class website, and textbook website
Aug 28
American Lit timeline, (quiz on Sept. 7) Native American storytelling, myth and symbolism
Aug 29
Continue with Native American unit: discussion questions for "The Earth on The Turtle's Back" assigned and due Friday Aug 30
Aug 30
Turn in discussion questions: discuss and assign parts of speech project "The Coyote and the Buffalo"
Aug 31
Earth on Turtle questions, Blue Bonnet myth, Iroquois Constitution
Sep 4
Iroquois Constitution continued, Native American stereotypes
Sep 5
Native American stereotypes continued
Sep 6
Early exploration literature
Sep 7
Time line quiz, William Bradford
Sep 10
Puritan culture
Sep 11
The Crucible
Sep 12
Reading "The Crucible" assign edmodo questions for Act I and II
Sep 13
Reading The Crucible
Sept 14
Projects due
Sep 17 Crucible Act II questions due
Sep 18
Finishing the Crucible
Sep 19
Act III questions due
Sep 20
McCarthyism and The Crucible
Sep 21
Act IV due and The Crucible final test
Sep 24
Archetypes in literature, connecting genres
Sep 25-28
Connecting film to literature archetypes the hero quest