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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Trimester 1 Outline


First Trimester

Literature

Genre Study
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” - Ambrose Bierce
“Stopping by Woods” - Robert Frost
“Nature” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A Psalm of Life” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“To Helen” - Edgar Allan Poe

Colonial Period
“Of Plymouth Plantation” - William Bradford
“Huswifery” - Edward Taylor
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Johnathan Edwards

Revolutionary Period
from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
from Poor Richard’s Almanac - Benjamin Franklin
“Speech to the Virginia Convention - Patrick Henry
“Letters from an American Farmer” - de Crevecoeur

The Romantic Period
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Vocabulary
Units I, IV

Spelling
Lists 1-13

Grammar
Chapters 12-19