The Great Gatsby
packet
1. Pre-Reading
Questions
2. Cluster
map
3. First
impressions
4. Fitzgerald
Bio (I collected this at the end of the period).
5. Bell—1/18—The
Great Gatsby and setting
6. Ch
1 and 2 handout
7. Bell
chart 1/22/08
8. SAT
Vocab
9. 1920’s
Vocab Story w/partner (I collected
this)
10.
Bell—List about Gatsby 1/25
11.
Bell 1/28/08
12.
Dorothy Parker
13.
Fitzgerald’s style
14.
Descriptive Writing Assignment (I collected
this)
15.
Bell 2/1
16.
Character handout (I collected this)
17.
“When the Negro Was in Vogue”
18.
“How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
19.
Harlem Renaissance poetry
20.
Final Questions
The Sun Also Rises
and 1920’s packet
1. “A
Soldier’s Home”
2. Hemingway
Bio + paragraph (I collected this)
3. Quick-write
2/20 or 2/21
4. SAR
Ch 1-5 handout
5. Lost
Generation notes
6. SAR
Vocab
7. Bell—2/26
8. Intro
to modernism (I collected this)
9. e.e.
cummings poem (I collected this)
10.
Bell 2/29
11.
Metaphor poem
12.
Bell 3/3
13.
Frost/Floyd
14.
T.S Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
15.
Response to Prufrock (Quick-write)
16.
Modern day Prufrock (I collected this)
17.
Bell 3/10/08
18.
SAR handout
19.
Hemingway’s “On Writing”
20.
SAR 3/13
21.
Raymond Carver group activity (I have this)
22.
Themes in SAR
23.
Characterization Group activity (I have this)
24.
Bell 3/17
25.
SAR Vocab #2
26.
Partner activity (I have this)
Catcher Packet
1. Pre-Reading
Questions (handout)
2. Bell—4/1
(on-line)
3. Group
activity: Slang and your generation
(on-line) (I collected this)
4. Bell—4/2
(on-line)
5. Catcher
SAT Vocab (handout)
6. Quick-write
(Allie/grief) on 4/3 or 4/4 (on-line)
7. Object
poem (You were supposed to turn this in)
8. Bell
4/7 (on-line)
9. Vocabulary
written Holden-style (on-line)
10.
Updike’s “A & P” (story is on a handout,
prompt is online)
11.
Quick-write 4/9 or 4/10 (on-line)
12.
Chart (Handout)
13.
Bell 4/11 (on-line)
14.
Extended Definition of Phony (handout)
15.
Holden, School and You (handout) (I collected
this)
16.
Bell 4/15 (on-line)
17.
School Plan (handout) (I collected this)
18.
Bell 4/18/08 (on-line)
19.
Minor characters (handout)
20.
Bell 4/21/08 (on-line)
21.
Interior Monologue (on-line) (I collected this)
22.
Mind map
23.
Final Questions (on-line)
1. Kate
Chopin’s “Story of an Hour”
2. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper”
3. Quick-write
4/30 or 5/1
4. Anne
Sexton/Sylvia Plath
5. Bell
5/2
6. Marge
Piercy’s “Barbie Doll”
7. Poem—male
stereotypes
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
1. Anticipation
Guide
2. First
impressions
3. Chart
4. Quick-write
5/7—5/8—Similes and Metaphors
5. The
Thing You Carry (I collected this)
6. Dialectical
Journal—“On the Rainy River”
7. Bell
5/12
8. Quick-write
5/1---5/15
9. Sequel
to “Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong” (I collected this)
10.