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Mon, 30 Sept:  Final of Journals A and B due; review parameters of Group Presentation; groups finalize and practice presentations

Tue, 1 Oct:  Group Presentations; patterns of arrangement exercise (these patterns are connected to literary terms -- read passage and identify type of organization)
HOMEWORK:  author sign up Thu 10/3 starting at 7:45 am; literary terms quiz Thu 10/3; typed evaluation of group project due Thu 10/3

Thu, 3 Oct:  Author Sign Up at 7:45 am and in class; evaluations of group project due;  literary terms quiz (90-90); 1st author novel assignment; author biography; librarian talk on biography research; to library for Everything's An Argument
HOMEWORK:  get your first novel and start reading and taking notes (check with teacher on novels you plan to read -- refer to list); author biography research due 14 Oct; read Chapter 6 in Everything's An Argument for Tue Oct 8; if needed, terms quiz Oct 8

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Mon, 23 Sept:  Journal A check -- I will check for ten appropriate author entries; peer review and revision of Journal A in class
HOMEWORK:  Finalize Journal A; select top three authors, read additional short story or chapter(s), write journal entries -- Final Journal A and B due Mon 9/30

Tue, 24 Sept:  Finish first set of literary terms; start on Group Project with Great American Short Stories
HOMEWORK:  Journal A and B due Mon 9/30; group project

Thur, 26 Sept:  Work in class on group project
HOMEWORK:  Journal A and B due Mon 9/30; group project presentations Tue 10/1

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Mon, 16 Sept
Discuss "Young Goodman Brown" literary criticism; Discuss "Bartleby" in small group and class, receive literary criticism; exit slip
HOMEWORK:  Read "Bartleby" literary criticism; read and mark "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather in short story book for Tue, 17 Sep; continue work on author journal


Tue, 17 Sept
Warm Up; discuss "Bartleby" criticism;  Discuss "Paul's Case" in small group and class; start Literary Terms
HOMEWORK:  Read and mark short stories by Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald for Thu 19 Sept

Thur, 19 Sept
Discuss Twain and Fitzgerald in small group and class; continue with Literary Terms
HOMEWORK:  Author journal check on Mon 23 Sept -- I will check to make sure you have ten authors for Journal A done -- this is a complete draft.  I will collect the final Journal A and B on 30 Sept.

Friday, 6 Sept:
- Syllabus, introductions, summer reading ?s; ID photos
HOMEWORK:  Read syllabus and have questions about class Mon 9/9; signed agreement about class expectations due Mon 9/9; Summer Reading assignment due Tue, 9/10

Mon, 9 Sept:
- Signed agreement due; questions about course; start author selection process for yearlong Author Study; receive copy of Great American Short Stories ($5 donation for book)
HOMEWORK:  summer reading assignment due Tue, 9/10 - be ready for discussion; Read Hawthorne short story in Great American Short Stories (GASS) - mark text and be ready to discuss - for Thur 9/12;

Tue, 10 Sept:
- Finish going over author selection, if necessary; Summer Reading due - class discussion;  library to check out copies of The Language of Composition and Write Source - keep these two books at home
HOMEWORK:   Read Ch. 1 and pp. 35-47 of Ch. 2 in LofC for Thur 9/12; read and mark text of Hawthorne short story for Thur 9/12; work on author journal

Thur, 12 Sept:
- discuss Hawthorne short story and check text marking; activity/discussion about Ch. 1 of Language of Composition (LofC)
HOMEWORK:  Read and mark text of Melville short story in GASS; work on author journal (check on 9/23 - journal due on 9/30)