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Sept. 10

 * syllabus
 * picture interpretation
 * Why are there so many versions?
 * Homework: bring back syllabus signatures
 * 5 pts
 * due Wed., Sept.15
 * student questionnaire
 * 16 pts.

Mon., Sept. 13

 * student handbook - attendance
 * Nursery rhyme interpretation
 * Read Little Miss Muffet example from Lit Crit book
 * Hand out assignment to write in class
 * 10 pts.
 * due Tuesday, Sept. 14

Tues., Sept. 14

 * discuss lenses we use with texts
 * Puritan reading and questions
 * in class assignment
 * 14 pts.
 * Gov. Winthrop vocab and word familiarity
 * 15 word vocab assignment
 * write definitions on half sheet for words with asterisk
 * write paragraph using those words
 * due Tuesday, Sept. 21
 * 22 pts.
 * 22 pts.

Wed., Sept. 15

 * read aloud some nursery rhyme responses
 * Discuss Puritan article and Puritan world
 * go over Gov. Winthrop vocab
 * words with asterisks are vocab assignment!
 * Gov. Winthrop
 * reading aloud
 * answer questions as we go
 * due Thurs., Sept. 16
 * 10 pts.
 * show examples of how speech is used

Thurs., Sept. 16

 * go over Winthrop questions on blue sheet
 * group work on big questions on half sheet
 * due Thurs. Sept. 16
 * 8 pts.
 * answer questions individually
 * then discuss with group
 * whole class discussion of questions

Fri., Sept. 17

 * hand out timeline/lit vocab sheets
 * put on Anchor Dates
 * put on Winthrop, Bradstreet
 * Literal vs. Figurative meaning
 * Look at Anne Bradstreet
 * take notes all over it!
 * The Author to Her Book
 * extended metaphor
 * what other lit terms relate to this poem?
 * Read aloud "On the Burning of Our House"
 * homework: write the literal meaning of the poem, one sentence per stanza
 * 9 pts.
 * homework: write the literal meaning of the poem, one sentence per stanza
 * 9 pts.