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MONDAY
1/18
MLK Holiday

"I Have a Dream"
(Click to hear this famous speech.)

TUESDAY
1/19
Beginning of Quarter 3
Return papers, hand out grades
Review "The Raven" 
Students will use the interactive Raven online to review subject and techniques

WEDNESDAY 
1/20
Complete "The Raven"
Group work on comparison chart and poetic techniques.
Charting:  Similarities and  differences in Bryant's "Waterfowl" and  Poe's "Raven."
HW:  Complete charts.

THURSDAY
1/21
Examples of parodies
Students will respond to questions about a parody of Poe's "The Raven"
HW:  "What Troubled Poe's Raven"
Interactive Raven
Raven Parody 1
Raven Parody 2
FRIDAY
1/22
In-class writing
Group work on "The Raven"
Emerson Letters
HW: Complete letter from Emerson
Emerson PP
Thoreau PP
Walden PP