Unit 1
Colonial
Week 1 / Day 1
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- Class intro.
- Rules,
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- Native American introduction
- Creation stories
Background in text or on unitedstreaming.
Discuss culture clash
Show Native American myths on united streaming. / Day 3
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- Coyote stories, etc.
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- Rowlandson narrative
Show or discuss captivity narrative background
Listen to audio
Analyze attitude of author
Analyze Puritan attitides / Day 5
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- Rowlandson narrative
Review clash of cultures
Quiz
Unit 1
Colonial
Week 2 / Day 6
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- Equiano Narrative
Show unitedstreaming video “The Slave Ship”
List and define Persuasive techniques / Day 7
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- Equiano narrative
Listen to audio of narrative
Student keep notes on persuasive techniques / Day 8
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- Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God
Listen to audio / Day 9
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- Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God
In groups students find examples of imagery, diction, tone and keep a list of exact quotes. / Day 10
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- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
- Analysis
Using essay outline write a literary analysis using quotes as evidence
Unit 1
Colonial
Week 3 / Day 11
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- Huswifery
- Burning of Our House
Use Power Point for Huswifery
In groups students paraphrase Burning of Our House and divide into 3 different attitudes of speaker. / Day 12
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- Plymouth Plantation
Listen to audio and complete guided notes / Day 13
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- Plymouth Plantation
Review and test over Puritan literature / Day 14
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- The Crucible
- Anticipation and introduction
Show or discuss background
Give Agree or Disagree anticipation quiz over themes of play / Day 15
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- Miller intro
- Salem and McCarthyism
- Crucible Prologue
Unit 1
Colonial
Week 4 / Day 16
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- The Crucible
Read aloud or listen to audio.
Keep character motivation chart / Day 17
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- The Crucible
Read aloud or listen to audio.
Keep character motivation chart / Day 18
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- The Crucible
Quiz Act I / Day 19
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- The Crucible
Read aloud or listen to audio.
Keep character motivation chart / Day 20
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- The Crucible
Read aloud or listen to audio.
Keep character motivation chart
Unit 1
Colonial
Week 5 / Day 21
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- The Crucible
Quiz Act II / Day 22
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- The Crucible
Read aloud or listen to audio.
Keep character motivation chart / Day 23
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- The Crucible
Read aloud or listen to audio.
Keep character motivation chart / Day 24
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- The Crucible
Quiz Act III / Day 25
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- The Crucible
Read aloud or listen to audio.
Keep character motivation chart
Unit 2
Revolutionary
Week 6 / Day 26
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- The Crucible
Read aloud or listen to audio.
Keep character motivation chart / Day 27
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- The Crucible
Quiz Act IV / Day 28
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- The Crucible film
Discuss play as a whole
The title, themes, motivation, conflict / Day 29
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- The Crucible film
As students watch video have them keep notes on choices made in the film. / Day 30
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- The Crucible exam
Unit 2 Revolutionary
Week 7 / Day 31
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- Ben Franklin
Show unitedstreaming clip of Ben Franklin as background
Read or listen to The Autobiography / Day 32
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- Ben Franklin
In groups students develop Teen’s Commandments based on Franklin’s precepts / Day 33
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- Speech to the Virginia Convention
Create chart with list of persuasive devices to be filled in after listening / Day 34
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- The Speech to the Virginia Convention
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- Persuasion Topic Research
Picking a topic
Unit 2 Revolutionary
Week 8 / Day 36
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- Persuasion Topic Research
Go to library to search topic / Day 37
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- The Crisis, Carrie Catt (or other speech)
- Review persuasive speech
After listening to the Crisis, students complete persuasive techniques analysis handout / Day 38
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- .Declaration of Independence
Listen to Declaration and list persuasive techniques on analysis handout / Day 39
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- Letter to John Adams, Abigail Adams
- Research topic due.
Read Letter
Constructed Response-What argument does Abigail Adams advance for granting rights to American women? / Day 40
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- Declaration of Sentiments
Show women’s suffrage movement video from unitedstreaming.
Are “All men created equal”? Students write and editorial analyzing your ideas of freedom and equality.
Unit 2
Persuasion
Week 9 / Day 41
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- Visual argument Power Point
Go to computer lab to Find pictures to create visual argument / Day 42
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- Visual argument Power Point
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- Visual argument Power Point
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- Visual argument Power Point
Students complete peer evaluation forms / Day 45
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- Persuasion-
Unit 2
Persuasion
Week 10 / Day 46
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- Persuasion topic Rhetorical Strategies and Devices lesson
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- Persuasion topic Research
Go to library/ computer lab to gather evidence and write argument / Day 48
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- Persuasion topic Research
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- Persuasion topic Research
- First Draft due
Unit 2
Persuasion
Week 11 / Day 51
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- Listen to JFK speech and analyze
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- Listen to I Have A Dream and analyze
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- Persuasion topic
MLA format lesson / Day 54
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- Persuasion topic
Works Cited lesson / Day 55
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- Persuasion topic
Unit 2
Persuasion
Week 12 / Day 56
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- Students bring examples of passive resistance protest to class and share
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Lesson:
Show “I Have a Dream video that has Civil Rights background.
Read and analyze Letter / Day 58
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- Civil Disobedience
Read and analyze / Day 59
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- Resistance to Civil Government
Read and analyze / Day 60
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- Resistance to Civil Government
- Letter From Birmingham Jail and Civil Disobedience test / writing
Unit 2
Persuasion
Week 13 / Day 61
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- Emerson – American Scholar
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- Teacher Choice persuasive writing analysis
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- Persuasion topic
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- Persuasion topic
completion / Day 65
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- Persuasion topic
Final Draft Due
Unit 2
Persuasion
Week 14 / Day 66
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- Give Persuasive speeches
- Students Use form to evaluate each other
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- Give Persuasive speeches
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- Give Persuasive speeches
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- Give Persuasive speeches
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- Give Persuasive speeches
Unit 3
Romanticism
Week 15 / Day 71
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- The Elements of Romanticism
- The Devil and Tom Walker
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- The Devil and Tom Walker
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- Thanatopsis
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- Nature
- Self-Reliance
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- Walden
Unit 3
Romanticism
Week 16 / Day 76
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- Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
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- Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
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- The Minister’s Black Veil
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- The Minister’s Black Veil
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- Poe Background, The Raven, Alone
Unit 3
Romanticism
Week 17 / Day 81
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- Poe
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- Poe
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- Poe
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- Poe
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- Poe – Literary Analysis
Unit 3
Romanticism
Week 18 / Day 86
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- Whitman and Dickinson Poetry
- Assign Huck Finn
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- Whitman and Dickinson
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- Whitman and Dickinson
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- Whitman and Dickinson
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- Whitman and Dickinson
Unit 3
Romanticism
Week 19 / Day 91
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- Writing a Short Story
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- Writing a Short Story
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- Writing a Short Story
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- Huck Finn
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- Huck Finn
Week 20 / Day 96
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- Huck Finn
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- Huck Finn
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- Huck Finn
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- Huck Finn
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- Huck Finn
Unit 4
Test Prep
Week 21 / Day 101
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- Test Prep – ACT English
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- Test Prep – ACT English
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- Test Prep – ACT English
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- Test Prep – ACT English
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- Test Prep – ACT English
Unit 4
Test Prep
Week 22 / Day 106
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- Test Prep – ACT Reading
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- Test Prep – ACT Reading
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- Test Prep – ACT Reading
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- Test Prep – ACT Reading
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- Test Prep – ACT Reading
Unit 4
Test Prep
Week 23 / Day 111
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- Test Prep – On-Demand Writing
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- Test Prep – On-Demand Writing
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- Test Prep – On-Demand Writing
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- Huck Finn completion
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- Huck Finn test
Unit 5
Realism
Week 24 / Day 116
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- Slave narratives: Douglass, Jacobs
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- Slave narratives: Douglass, Jacobs
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- Slave narratives: Douglass, Jacobs, spirituals
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- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Unit 5
Realism
Week 25 / Day 121
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- A Mystery of Heroism
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- War Is Kind
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- Connected Civil War readings: Lee letter, Ballou letter, Gettysburg, …
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- Civil War Readings
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- Civil War Readings Essay
Unit 5
Realism
Week 26 / Day 126
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- The Celebrated Jumping Frog
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- The Lowest Animal
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- The Lowest Animal
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- Satire
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- Satire test
Unit 5
Realism
Week 27 / Day 131
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- To Build A Fire
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- To Build a Fire
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- A Pair of Silk Stockings
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- A Pair of Silk Stockings
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- The Story of an Hour
Unit 5
Realism
Week 28 / Day 136
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- Richard Cory and Miniver Cheever
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- A Wagner Matinee
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- A Wagner Matinee
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- Realism test practice The Red Badge of Courage and Camouflaging the Chimera
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- Realism test analysis The Red Badge of Courage and Camouflaging the Chimera
Unit 5
Realism
Week 29 / Day 141
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- Of Mice and Men
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- Of Mice and Men
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- Of Mice and Men
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- Of Mice and Men
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- Of Mice and Men
Unit 5
Realism
Week 30 / Day 146
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- Of Mice and Men
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- Of Mice and Men
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- Of Mice and Men
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- Of Mice and Men
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- Of Mice and Men
Unit 6
Moderns / Contemporary
Week 31 / Day 151
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- Modernism background
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- Pound
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- T.S. Eliot
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- Williams
- Cummings
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- Write a poem
Unit 6
Moderns / Contemporary
Week 32 / Day 156
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- Assign The Things They Carried
- Begin Winter Dreams
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- Winter Dreams
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- A Rose For Emily
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- A Rose For Emily
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- The Things They Carried
Unit 6
Moderns / Contemporary
Week 33 / Day 161
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- The Worn Path
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- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
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- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall and The Worn Path
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- A Soldier’s Home and The Things They Carried
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- A Soldier’s Home – and The Things They Carried
Unit 6
Moderns / Contemporary
Week 34 / Day 166
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- Hughes and Frost poetry
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- Hughes and Frost poetry
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- Hughes and Frost poetry
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- O’Connor – The Life You Save may Be Your Own
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- O’Connor – The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Unit 6
Moderns / Contemporary
Week 35 / Day 171
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- The Things They Carried
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- The Things They Carried
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- The Things They Carried
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- Review of skills
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- Review of skills
Final Exams
Week 36 / Day 176
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- Final exams
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- Final Exams
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- Final Exams
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- Final Exams
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- Final Exams