Week Eleven
Monday, 10/13/25
Vocabulary List Eight.
Essay Two due.
Review for Unit Test Three.
Slides & Worksheet: Introduction to Unit Four.
Tuesday, 10/14/25
Unit Test Three.
Assign Essay Three: Persuasive Argument & Oral Presentation.
Paper & Slides due Monday, 11/5.
Oral Presentations begin Tuesday, 11/6.
Begin reading Twain, Mirrors & Windows pp. 247-TBD.
Wednesday, 10/15/25
Vocab Exercise Eight.
Distribute copies of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn.
Finish reading Twain, Mirrors & Windows pp. TBD-264.
Work on drafting CE Three and/or Essay Three.
Club Day meetings, Block Three.
Thursday, 10/16/25
Vocab Quiz Eight.
Read Tom Sawyer, Ch. 1-3.
Work on drafting CE Three and/or Essay Three.
Week Ten
Monday, 10/6/25
YPF final drafts due by the end of the day.
Work on Essay Two and/or CE Three drafting.
Tuesday, 10/7/25
Midterm exam review.
Club Day meetings, Block Three.
Wednesday, 10/8/25
Midterm exam.
Work on Essay Two and/or CE Three drafting.
Thursday, 10/9/25
Terms Worksheet: Alliteration, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron, epic poetry, epic theme, free verse.
SOL practice items.
Friday, 10/10/25
Complete the SOL practice items, if necessary.
Work on Essay Two and/or CE Three drafting.
Reminder: Essay Two is due Monday.
Week Nine
Monday, 9/29/25
Vocabulary List Seven.
Discuss the Voice of Democracy contest.
Finish reading YPF drafts, if necessary. Final drafts due one week from today.
Read Bierce, Mirrors & Windows E-Selections pp. E94-E102.
Work on YPF revision and/or CE Two drafting.
Cultural Event Two due by the end of the day.
Tuesday, 9/30/25
Read Lincoln, Mirrors & Windows pp. 192-197.
Read Lee, Mirrors & Windows E-Selections, pp. E105-E106.
Assign Essay Two, due Monday, 10/13.
Assign Cultural Event Three, due on Monday, 10/27.
Begin essay planning and drafting.
Wednesday, 10/1/25
Reminder: speech is meeting during fourth block.
Vocabulary Exercise Seven.
Read Jacobs, Mirrors & Windows E-Selections, pp. E110-E113.
Work on YPF revision and/or drafting Essay Two and CE Three.
Club Day Meetings, Block Three.
Thursday, 10/2/25
Terms Worksheet: figurative language, metaphor, synecdoche, imagery, analogy, types of poetry (narrative, dramatic, and lyric), rhyming lines (couplets, tercets, cinquains, quatrains, and sestets).
Read Whitman, Mirrors & Windows pp. 203-213.
Work on YPF revision and/or drafting Essay Two and CE Three.
Friday, 10/3/25
Vocabulary Quiz Seven.
Read Dickinson, Mirrors & Windows pp. 218-224.
Work on YPF revision and/or drafting Essay Two and CE Three.
Reminder: YPF final draft due Monday.
Week Eight
Monday, 9/22/25
Reminder: YPF drafts due to Canvas by the end of the day.
Vocabulary List Six.
Slideshow & Worksheet: Introduction to Unit Three: Slavery and the Civil War.
Unit Test Two: The New England Renaissance.
Read the introduction to Unit Three, Mirrors & Windows pp. 177-182.
Tuesday, 9/23/25
Begin reading YPF drafts x 2.
Wednesday, 9/24/25
Reminder: scholastic bowl is meeting during fourth block.
Vocabulary Exercise Six.
Continue reading YPF drafts x 1.
Club Day Meetings, Block Three.
Thursday, 9/25/25
Continue reading YPF drafts x 2.
Begin reading Douglass, Mirrors & Windows pp. 183-189.
Friday, 9/26/25
Finish reading Douglass, Mirrors & Windows pp. 183-189.
Vocabulary Quiz Six.
Continue reading YPF drafts x 2.
Reminders:
Cultural Event Two due Monday, 9/29.
YPF final drafts due Monday, 10/6.
Week Seven
Monday, 9/15/25
Reminder: YPF drafts due next Monday; Cultural Event Two due in two weeks.
Vocabulary List Five.
Terms Worksheet: meter, foot, parable, ambiguity, symbol, Gothic literature, and theme.
Read Poe, Mirrors & Windows, pp. 139-163.
Work on YPF and/or CE Two drafting.
Tuesday, 9/16/25
Finish reading "The Fall of the House of Usher," if necessary.
Read Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" in Canvas.
Work on YPF and/or CE Two drafting.
Wednesday, 9/17/25
Vocabulary Exercise Five.
Open-note quiz: Edgar Allan Poe.
Work on YPF and/or CE Two drafting.
Club Day Meetings, Block Three.
Thursday, 9/18/25
Read Hawthorne, "The Minister’s Black Veil,” Mirrors & Windows E-Selections, pp. E76-E85.
Work on YPF and/or CE Two drafting.
Friday, 9/19/25
Vocabulary Quiz Five.
Review for Unit Test Two: The New England Renaissance.
Homework: Turn in YPF draft into Canvas by the end of the day on Monday.
Week Six
Monday, 9/8/25
Vocabulary List Four.
Open-note quiz on The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 20-24.
Review highlights from Ch. 20-24.
Read Hawthorne scholarship.
Reminder: YPF drafts due in two weeks; Cultural Event Two due in three weeks.
Tuesday, 9/9/25
Read sample YPF plays.
Work on YPF and/or CE Two drafting.
Wednesday, 9/10/25
Underclass photo day.
Vocabulary Exercise Four.
Read Thoreau, Mirrors & Windows pp. 112-115.
William & Mary visit.
Thursday, 9/11/25
Read Thoreau, Mirrors & Windows pp. 116-122.
Read Irving, Mirrors & Windows pp. 127-137.
Friday, 9/12/25
Vocabulary Quiz Four.
Review English 111: Common Errors.
Worksheet: connotation vs. denotation.
Work on YPF and/or CE Two drafting.
Week Five
Tuesday, 9/2/25
Open-note quiz on The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 10-14.
Review highlights from Ch. 10-14.
Assignment: read The Scarlet Letter Ch. 15-19 by Thursday.
Wednesday, 9/3/25
Make-up quizzes, as necessary.
Continue reading The Scarlet Letter independently.
Reminder: open-note quiz tomorrow on Ch. 15-19.
If finished with your reading, continue YPF drafting.
Thursday, 9/4/25
Open-note quiz on The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 15-19.
Review highlights from Ch. 15-19.
Assignment: read The Scarlet Letter Ch. 20-24 by Monday.
Read Emerson, Mirrors & Windows pp. 103-110.
Begin reviewing the SOL Pre-Assessment.
Friday, 9/5/25
Continue reviewing the SOL Pre-Assessment.
Continue reading The Scarlet Letter independently.
Reminder: open-note quiz Monday on Ch. 20-24.
If finished with your reading, continue YPF drafting.
Week Four
Monday, 8/25/25
Check Canvas registration.
Reminder: Cultural Event due in Canvas tomorrow.
Review handout: "Expectations for College Writing."
Vocabulary List Three.
Open-note quiz, The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 1-5.
Review highlights from The Scarlet Letter Ch. 5.
Read The Scarlet Letter Ch. 6 to p. 64.
Homework: continue drafting CE One, Essay One, and/or the YPF Play.
Tuesday 8/26/25
Cultural Event One due.
Finish The Scarlet Letter Ch. 6 (from p. 64) and Ch. 7.
Assignment: read The Scarlet Letter Ch. 8-9 by Thursday.
Wednesday, 8/27/25
Vocabulary Exercise Three.
SOL Pre Assessment in Mastery Connect.
Thursday 8/28/25
Assign Cultural Event Two, due Monday, 9/29, and review the Arts Array calendar.
Open-note quiz, The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 6-9.
Review highlights from Ch. 8 & 9.
Assignment: read The Scarlet Letter Ch. 10-14 by Tuesday (Open-note quiz on Ch. 10-14 scheduled for Tuesday).
Essay One due by Monday.
Finish the SOL Pre-Assessment Test, if necessary.
Friday, 8/29/25
Vocabulary Quiz Three.
Read Longfellow, Mirrors & Windows pp. 96-99.
Reminders:
Essay One due by Monday.
The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 10-14 due Tuesday.
Week Three
Monday, 8/18/25
Vocabulary List Two.
Read Silko, Mirrors & Windows pp. 15-16.
Read Bill of Rights, Mirrors & Windows pp. 67-68.
Review for Unit Test One.
Work on drafting CE One and/or Essay One.
Tuesday 8/19/25
Distribute amended syllabus.
Assign the playwrighting project for Barter Theatre's Young Playwrights' Festival.
Drafts due for workshop on Monday, 9/22.
Final plays due Monday, 10/6.
YPF RESOURCES:
Unit One Test.
Wednesday, 8/20/25
Vocabulary Exercise Two.
Slideshow & Worksheet: Introduction to Unit Two.
Read the Introduction to Unit Two, Mirrors & Windows pp. 82-88.
Work on drafting CE One, Essay One, and/or the YPF Play.
Thursday 8/21/25
Read Hawthorne biography and The Scarlet Letter Ch. 1-3.
Work on drafting CE One, Essay One, and/or the YPF Play.
Friday, 8/22/25
Vocabulary Quiz Two.
Review key moments from The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 3.
Read The Scarlet Letter Ch. 4-5.
Work on drafting CE One, Essay One, and/or the YPF Play.
Reminders:
An open-note quiz on The Scarlet Letter Ch. 1-5 is scheduled for Monday.
Cultural Event One due Tuesday.
Essay One due next Friday.
Week Two
Monday, 8/11/25
Vocabulary List One.
Terms Worksheet: Oral tradition, myth, chronological order, and archetype.
Read "Creation Myths," Mirrors & Windows pp. 7-11.
Assignment: write your own creation myth (200-300 words--> approximately 1 page, handwritten), explaining how something came to be; due tomorrow.
Open-note quiz tomorrow on the Introduction to Unit One.
Tuesday 8/12/25
Open-note quiz: Introduction to Unit One.
Share/turn in creation myths.
Assign Cultural Event One, due Tuesday, 8/26.
Assign Essay One, due Friday, 8/29.
Work on Essay One and/or C.E. One drafting.
Wednesday, 8/13/25
Vocabulary Exercise One.
Reading assignments:
Vaca, Mirrors & Windows pp. 18-22.
Smith, pp. 24-29.
Bradford, pp. 30-32.
Continue Essay One and/or C.E. One drafting.
Thursday 8/14/25
Reading assignments:
Edwards, Mirrors & Windows pp. 34-38.
Franklin, Mirrors & Windows pp. 42-49.
Continue Essay One and/or C.E. One drafting.
Friday, 8/15/25
Vocabulary Quiz One.
Terms worksheet: Puritan style, syntax, inversion, oratory, rhetorical devices (restatement, repetition, parallelism, rhetorical questions, allusions), persuasion, audiences.
Readings assignments:
Henry, Mirrors & Windows pp. 50-53.
Paine, pp. 56-59.
Jefferson, pp. 62-67.
Continue Essay One and/or C.E. One drafting.
Week One
Thursday, 8/7/25
Complete college applications, as necessary.
Distribution and review of the English 111 course syllabus.
Register students in EMC Textbook Portal (Mirrors & Windows) & Canvas.
Friday, 8/8/25
Review the VHCC Plagiarism Guide.
Create an MLA template file for English 111/112 papers.
Slideshow and Worksheet: Introduction to Unit One.
Read “Introduction to Unit 1, Shaping the New World, Origins of the American Tradition to 1800,” Mirrors & Windows pp. 1-6.