Schedule
Monday: 8.10 - 9.25
Tuesday 9.35 - 10.50 
Thursday 8.10 - 9.25

Week 1:
6.4 Monday: No class
7.4 Tuesday: Introduction (meet at 10 am on Google Meet for 30 min):
readings: The General History of Virginia by John Smith; Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
9.4 Thursday: No meeting today
Readings: The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano  

Week 2
13.4 Monday: No class Easter Monday
14.4 Tuesday:Meet at 9.35 - Socrative quiz on the General History, Plymouth Plantation, Declaration of Independence and Olaudah Equiano
1) Watch this video on slavery
Take notes while you watch it on Classroom

Read: 
From the Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, From Letters from an American Farmer by Crèvecoeur
Last paragraph of this page

16.4 Thursday:  Meet at 8.45 Unit 6 Vocabulary quiz Socrative: , Grammar p. 208-18, NoRedInk site.

Week 3
20.4 Monday:(NO CLASS) Readings

Spirituals: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Go Down, Moses p. 530-534 

Listen to Go Down Moses

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

My Bondage and my Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) p. 519. 

Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Reading time: 3 minutes (700 words)

21.4 Tuesday: Class: reading quiz on 

• Ben Franklin
• Crèvecoeur
• Spirituals
• Frederick Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln
  New texts to start reading: 
  See Google Slide
  1) Edgar Allen Poe
  2) Ambrose Bierce
  3) Jack London

23.4 Thursday: Meet at 9.15Unit 7 vocabulary quiz. NoRedInk is due, Grammar Rules p. 218-230

Week 4
27.4 Monday: NO MEET: DO the three texts: on Google Slides
28.4 Tuesday: NO MEET: do the three texts on Google Slides
30.4 Thursday: MEET: 8.45
Unit 8 quiz, grammar, p. 230.245 . Give new assignment on Willa Cather, A Wagner Matinée

Week 5
4.5 Monday: No class
5.5 Tuesday: MEET AT 9.35 - go in depth into Wagner Matinée and introduce the Ice Palace
7.5 Thursday: Meet at 8.45 Unit 9 quiz, Grammar p. 245- 264

Week 6
11.5 Monday: Makeup quizzes at 9.00 Unit 8, Unit 7
12.5 Tuesday: Online class
14.5 Thursday: Unit 10 quiz, check grammar

Week 7
18.5 Monday: Makeup quizzes, reading quizzes
19.5 Tuesday: prep for Final: In class do Martin Luther King, Jr. assignment

22.5 FINAL EXAM: Exam includes Grammar from Grammar Rules and Readings

 

Grading:

Grammar exercises 10% (all four)
Vocabulary quizzes 15% (all five)
Reading 1  10%
Reading 2. 10%
5 stories (Google forms) 30%
Final exam 25%