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week fourteen

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Word of the Day:
primeval
venerable
Seer
yawp

Quote of the Week: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." - Walt Whitman
Website of the Week: Walt Whitman's Poetry (at UVA's Electronic Text Center)

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Form V English: American Literature

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N.B.: The Whitman-Dickinson Essay is due on Monday, December 12!

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55. Monday, Nov. 28: Read from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," pp. 214-225
Read from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," pp. 246-275
56. Tuesday, Nov. 29: Read from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," pp. 225-246
*57. Wed./Thur., Nov. 30/Dec. 1: Read from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," pp. 225-246; work on Whitman/Dickinson essay in the Johnson lab
58. Friday, Dec. 2: Revising Prose – write a sentence that is over fifty words, seems to be profound, but actually says nothing or very little; bring your sentence to class with you.

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Form VI English: Southern Literature and Culture

XIV.

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56. Monday, Nov. 28: Read and write
57. Tuesday, Nov. 29: Read and write
58. Wed./Thur., Nov. 30/Dec. 1: Blues Presentation - Country brings Country Breakfast!
59. Friday, Dec. 2: Read and write

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week thirteen

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Word of the Day:
torpor
surfeit
cornucopia

Quote of the Week: "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." - Emily Dickinson

Website of the Week: Emliy Dickinson's Poetry

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Form V English: American Literature

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XIII.
52. Monday, Nov. 21: Read "A narrow Fellow in the Grass," pp. 288-289, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant," p. 295, "Much Madness is divinest Sense," p. 306, "'Faith' is a fine invention," p. 292, "Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!" p. 294, "My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun --" p. 307, and "This is my letter to the World," p. 304
53. Tuesday, Nov. 22: Emily Dickinson: Read "Because I could not stop for Death," p. 302-303, "I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died," p. 305, "There's a certain Slant of light," p. 296
54. Wednesday, Nov. 23: Grandparents Day, 12 pm dismissal; Read all other poems by Dickinson in The Pearson Custom Anthology of American Literature
Thursday, Nov. 24: Thanksgiving Day
Friday, Nov. 25: No School

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Form VI English: Southern Literature and Culture

XIII.
1.-3. Read as far as you can in Strange Fruit and Light in August; Review Assignment Sheet for next essay
4. Thursday, Nov. 24: Thanksgiving Day
5. Friday, Nov. 25: No School

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week twelve

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Word of the Day:
racketeering
vagrancy
sabotage
extortion

Quote of the Week: "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
- Mark Twain

Website of the Week: poets.org

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Form V English: American Literature

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XII.
44. Monday, Nov. 14: Read chapters 28-30 in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, pp. 135-157 by Mark Twain
45. Tuesday, Nov. 15: Read chapters 31-34 in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, pp.158-179 by Mark Twain
46. Wed./Thur., Nov. 16/17: Finish Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
47: Friday, Nov. 18: poetry introduction: find a bad poem on the internet and bring it to class

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Form VI English: Southern Literature and Culture

XII.
1.-5. Read as far as you can in Strange Fruit and Light in August
Nov. 16 (AX): Country Presentation / Blues group provides a Country Breakfast

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week eleven

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Word of the Day:
malapropism
bowdlerize
tantalize

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Quote of the Week: "Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven." - Mark Twain

Website of the Week: McSweeney's

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Form V English: American Literature

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XI.
Monday, Nov. 7: Tunstall Olympiad
41. Tuesday, Nov. 8: Read Chapters 13-18 in Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, pp. 53-88
42. Wed./Thur., Nov. 9/10: Read Chapters 19-21, pp. 88-109 in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; in class: some more time with the short answer section of The Scarlet Letter test
43. Friday, Nov. 11: Read Chapters 22-27, pp. 109-135 in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Form VI English: Southern Literature and Culture

XI.
1.Tunstall Olympiad
2.Finish Strange Fruit; bring Light in August by William Faulkner to class
3./4.Read as far as you can in Light in August
5.Read as far as you can in Light in August

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