Honors English/Powell Syllabus: February 6-10

Relevant quotes to ponder on the folly of greed:

  • “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
  • “There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
  • “So the unwanting soul
    sees what's hidden,
    and the ever-wanting soul
    sees only what it wants.”
    ― Lao Tzu
  • “Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
    ― Horace Mann

M-6: Before: Review vocabulary

During: Vocabulary Test

Writer’s Notebook topic: respond to one of the quotes of the week.

Finish guided notes. Complete anticipation guide for “The Devil and Tom Walker.”

HW: Read the first four pages of “The Devil and Tom Walker”; write jot notes on questions 1-4 on post-it notes as you read.

T-7: Before: Respond to the following: Tom Walker goes to extreme lengths to acquire wealth. Are there things in life that are worth paying any price for? If so, what are they, and what are the consequences of seeking them?

During: Vocabulary handout for short story unit

Finish reading the story. In pairs, work on the questions and plot diagram. Discuss.

HW: Locate the answers to the remainder of the reading questions and mark them with post-it notes.

W-8: Before: Parallelism and its effect in “The Devil and Tom Walker”

During: Literature: Complete the reading guide on “The Devil and Tom Walker” and write a topic sentence and response to the writing prompt.

Grammar: Practice using commas and semicolons correctly, and use parallel elements in topic sentence.

HW: Dialectical Journal for “The Devil and Tom Walker”: Choose quotes that relate to the writing topic.

Th-9:3rd period does not meet today.

HW: Dialectical Journal for “The Devil and Tom Walker”: Choose quotes that relate to the writing topic.

F-10: Before: Write commentary for selected quotes (modeled)

During: (Practice): Write effective commentary on the dialectical journal for “DTW”

Handout of “Young Goodman Brown”; read (aloud); students annotate the first page.

HW: Finish reading the story.

Next week:

  • “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • “The Fall of the House of Usher”
  • “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow