November/December 2008
Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
9	10 No School 11/6 - Introduction The Tempest	11 No School 11/7 Act 1 Scenes	12 C Schedule The Tempest Act One Sketches Due Act 2	13 C Schedule Understanding “The Tempest” through Plot/Structure Acts 3 & 4	14 C Schedule Understanding “The Tempest” through Character/Conflict Act 5	15
16	17 Assign Literary Analysis essay on The Tempest Due Nov. 26th The Tempest Reading Quiz	18 Intro – Humor Unit Twain, “Lost in the Snow” HW: Bring in Something Funny to Share Tempest	19 Intro – Humor Unit Twain, “Lost in the Snow” HW: Bring in Something Funny to Share Tempest	20 Shopping Schedule Share Something Funny “Lost in Snow” Work due Class/Homework: Read Part I “Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg”	21 Shopping Schedule Share Something Funny Home/Classwork: Read Parts II & III “Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg”	22
23	24 C Schedule Self-Revision Protocol – Tempest Drafts Irony in Twain	25 Assembly Schedule Twain Irony Due	26 Early Release Tempest Essay Final Due	27 No School	28 No School	29
30	1 Class/Homework: Read Jean Shepherd, “Endless Streetcar”	2 “Streetcar” Due  Read James Thurber, “The Catbird Seat” Character Profiles (10 pts) Mr. Martin Ulgine Barrows	3 “Streetcar” Due  Read James Thurber, “The Catbird Seat” Character Profiles (10 pts) Mr. Martin Ulgine Barrows	4 “The Catbird Seat” Character Profiles Due Sniglets, Neologisms, Puns	5 Sniglets, Neologisms, Puns	6
7	8 Early Release Wordplay Due	9 Read Donald Barthelme “Private Paul Klee Loses an Aircraft” Irony Satire	10 Read Donald Barthelme “Private Paul Klee Loses an Aircraft” Irony Satire	11 “Klee” Work Due Swift, “Modest Proposal” Origins of Satire	12 Assign Modest Proposal Essay Contemporary Satire	13
14	15 Swift, “Modest Proposal” Work Due	16 Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron” Satire Work Go Over Humor Exam	17 Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron” Satire Work Go Over Humor Exam	18 Humor Unit Exam	19 Early Release Modest Proposals Due	20