Walt Whitman- An American Bard PLUS Carpe Diem! Dead Poets Who Live!!!!

Friday - April 29, 2016 PLUS EOC Week (May 1-5)


Monday - May 2, 2016 Walt Whitman, Continued... and a Few Dead Poets... give life to the live poet in you!

Tuesday - Dead Poets Society - see ppt for Question for Further Inquiry - you might see it on an essay test, oh.... Friday.

Wed/Thursday - EOC!!!!!

Friday: Dead Poets Society Essay Test


Monday!!!! We begin The Catcher in the Rye!!!!!!

I love my Juniors!!!!

Emily Dickinson: Pondering Life, Death. Questioning the Afterlife.

Monday: Transcendentalism Test

Tuesday/Wednesday: Emily Dickinson

Thursday- Emily Dickinson Continues... and she really does. 

Transcendentalism.... A Decade for a Lifetime.... + Junior Project Presentation Template

We now begin covering my favorite era of American Literature... and indeed History.... the Transcendentalists were men and women who thought boldly, and acted with care upon that boldness. We could all learn a great deal from these individuals.... 

Friday - April 15, 2016 - Introduction to the Transcendentalists.... 


Monday/Tuesday - April 18/19, 2016 - Emerson



Mini-Senior Junior Project Template

You may be creative with this... not crazy, just creative. Normal fonts.... but, pictures and graphics.... choose your own color schemes... think of how it will look to your audience.


Wednesday-Thursday - Henry David Thoreau

Friday- Civil Disobedience 

The Fall of the House of Usher.... Goths.... Double Entendres ... Grammar and So Much More!!!

This week.... The Fall of the House of Usher.... A Really Scary Story with a Psychological Twist.... 


There are loads of resources and extra grading opportunities included!!!!

Wednesday: Psychology Connection (to use with chart in PPT)

Thursday - Gothism Test.... Students will expand upon our two questions "for further inquiry" and discuss these in association with Poe's "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher".

Friday: Introduction to the Transcendentalists..... 

Also- Proposals are due to my gmail account by midnight Friday.... these are (of course) to be typed. They will be graded for neatness of appearance, consistency of font, adherence to MLA. 

I am not kidding. 

Friday before Spring Break.... Movie Day? No Way!!! To the Media Center - Mini-Senior Project Proposals!!!

Today we meet in the media center to begin work on our proposals. Here are our learning objectives for today:


1. Brainstorm ideas for product or service to mediate proposed research topic. 

example: If you researched the correlation between teen homelessness and dropout rates, you could propose obtaining permission from a local business, library, church, or community center to provide a place for tutoring services. The second leg of this proposed product would be to recruit volunteers. 

2. Discuss what it means to measure data. This can be quantitatively (numerically- using charts, graphs, etc) or qualitatively (through narrative, anecdotal, or video documentation). 


3. Discuss other questions on proposal and how they are predicated upon actual proposed product.

4. Discuss the overall objective of this project: To Give Juniors a Head Start on Next Year's Senior Project. **** YOU WILL THANK ME NEXT YEAR. THAT IS A PROMISE <3


Students need to download to their flash or google drives the following:

Junior Mini-Senior Project Proposal Template

Sample Junior Mini-Senior Project Proposal 


Students will be monitored today for what they actually accomplish and will receive a grade based upon quantity as well as quality of time spent in media center.