1/18/11

(F)

EXAMS: B-1, B-2

1/20/11

(B)

1/24/11

(D)

1/26/11

(F; 1:10)

Finish "Valediction"

Discuss "Still to be Neat"

Read and annotate carpe diem poems

1/28/11

(B; Advisee Mtg)

Snow Day

2/1/11

(D)

 CHECK EMAIL and complete homework for A Modest Proposal

Even if we are not in school, read A Modest Proposal (you can find it online), and answer the following questions:

Consider the following questions as you read and analyze Swift’s rhetoric (i.e., persuasive writing strategies).
 

1. “A Modest Proposal” is an ironic essay: the author deliberately writes what he does not mean.  What is the real thesis?  Is there more than one?
 
 

2. A clear difference exists between Swift and the persona who makes this proposal.  Characterize the proposer.
 
 

3. Would it be possible to read this essay as a serious proposal?
 
 

4. Look closely at paragraphs 4, 6, and 7, and study how the appeals to logic are put in mathematical and economic terms.  Underline those words and phrases.
 
 

5. When does the reader begin to realize that the essay is ironic?  Before or after the actual proposal is made in paragraph 10?
 
 

6. Which groups of people are singled out as special targets for Swifts’ attack?  Are the Irish presented completely as victims, or are they also to blame?
 
 

7. Does the essay merely function as a satirical attack?  Does Swift ever present any serious proposals for improving conditions?  If so, where?
 
 

8. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?

Type Thesis for essay (check email for assignment)

2/3/11

(F; Diversity Day 1:10 Assembly)

Thesis conferences

Discussion of A Modest Proposal (in groups)

Writing about poetry and thesis handout

Primary source (typed for research paper) due next class

First draft of essay due 2/9

2/7/11

(B)

PRIMARY SOURCE DUE

Finish discussing handout from last class

Tone exercise

"To the Virgins" and "To His Coy Mistress" discussion

First draft due next class (typed)

Study for rupt/cide vocabulary quiz

2/9/11

(D)

Rupt/cide vocabulary quiz

First draft of essay due!

Peer-edit

Transitions

Intros and conclusions

Revise essay for 2/15

Study for vocabulary quiz (string, vor, viv)

Read and take notes on pages 614 to 621

2/11/11

(F)

Revise essay and submit to turnitin.com

Print out a copy before class, and make sure to attach all drafts, peer-editing sheet, and rubric

2/15/11

(B)

Essay due: submit to turnitin BEFORE class, and bring all drafts, peer editing sheet, and rubric

Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

Robert Burns

Finish worksheet

Answer questions 2, 4, and 6 on page 628

2/17/11

(D)

Finish discussing Burns (Romanticism worksheet and tone)

Begin Blake

Prepare debate based on the side you were assigned in class

Enjoy your vacation!

WINTER BREAK!

2/28/11

(F)

Wordsworth

debate & reflection

SAT practice: Critical Reading

Work on thesis handout

Read and take notes on pages 662-665

Type thesis for next class!

Vocabulary Quiz: Tort/Vict/Fract/Omni on 3/4

3/2/11

(B; Noon)

THESIS DUE

"The World Is Too Much With Us"

"London, 1802"

Vocabulary Quiz: Tort/Vict/Fract/Omni next class

Read: "Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric" at

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/farrell/documents/Greater%20rom%20Lyric.pdf

Read "Tintern Abbey" on pages 667-671

Type a response to the following: How would you apply the three-stage pattern from M.H. Abrams (link above) to "Tintern Abbey"?

3/4/11

(D; First Friday)

Vocabulary Quiz: Tort/Vict/Fract/Omni

Collect "Tintern Abbey"

Introduction to Coleridge and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (guilt, Romantic view of nature...)

Read Part I together

Finish "Mariner" and answer questions

3/8/11

(F)

Finish Mariner discussion

Evaluating a source

Byron background

Finish Works Cited (MLA style)

Read "Don Juan" and answer questions 1, 2, 3, and 5 on page 726

3/10/11

(B)

WORKS CITED DUE

NO HOMEWORK FOR NEXT CLASS, SO WORK ON LONG TERM ASSIGNMENTS!!!

• Note cards due 3/18

• Work on projects due 3/22

3/14/11

(D; Spirit Week)

Review questions from last class

Keats and "When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be"

Romanticism review guide:

• Characteristics

• Industrial Revolution background

• French Revolution

• Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

• Burns: "To A Mouse"

• Blake: "The Lamb" and "The Tyger"

• Wordsworth: "Expostulation and Reply," "London, 1802," "The World is Too Much With Us," "Tintern Abbey"

• Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

• Byron: "Don Juan," and "She Walks in Beauty"

• Shelley: "Ozymandias"

• Keats: "When I Have Fears"

Work on projects

STUDY!!!

Bring Pride and Prejudice for a book check for next class

Note Cards due 3/18

Work on projects due 3/22

3/16/11

(F; Spirit Week)

Romanticism Test (1 hour)

Mini lesson on note cards

Check Pride and Prejudice

Note Cards due next class!

I will be checking that you have a hard copy (book version) of P&P

Begin presentations on 3/22

3/18/11

(B; Spirit Week)

NOTE CARDS DUE

P&P book check

Anticipation guide for P&P

Brainstorm / discuss today's "rules of behavior" that men and women are expected to follow in society

Finish presentations!

Have P&P chapters 1-6 read for 3/24

3/22/11

(D)

Presentations

Read chapters 1-6

Entry 1: In chapters 1-3, pay attention to dialogue and the words of the narrator uses, as they reveal assumptions about the culture in which the story is set.

2. By contrast, how can the characterization of Mrs. Bennet at the end of the first chapter ("The business of her life was to get her daughters married. . .") be supported by the woman’s word and actions?

Entry 2: After finishing chapter 6, make a list of your first impressions of Elizabeth, Jane, Darcy, Bingley.  List at least one quote to support your opinion of each character.

A fun link for P&P: http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html

3/24/11

(F)

In class journal response: To what extent does the narrator reflect the general attitudes of most people living in the Bennet community? Is it credible that after the ball, "everybody hoped that [Darcy] would never come there again"?  How important is public opinion in the setting of the novel?

In groups: Discuss homework entries.  Discuss initial impressions of the various characters in the novel. 

Chart characteristics of Elizabeth, Jane, Bingley, Darcy.  Add round or flat to each character.  Predict who will change.

Finish Outline!

Read through 23 for 3/31

3/28/11

(B)

OUTLINE DUE

After finishing chapter 12, respond to the following in the writing prompts section of your journal.  Make sure to write 2-3 paragraphs with topic sentences and specific references to the text: Darcy says of himself, "I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself...My good opinion once lost is lost forever." Have Darcy's actions to this point in the novel supported this claim?  Explain. What might Elizabeth be led to believe from this statement?

Read through 23 (end of Volume I) for 3/31

Be prepared for background / Volume 1 quiz on 3/31

Discuss previous journal entries  (narrator reflecting attitudes of community, people hating Darcy, importance of public opinion, Darcy's quote).

In groups: Compare and contrast importance of public opinion in novel with today. Think back to the presentations, list of current rules and behaviors, and forms of communication in Austen's time and today.  Compare the lives of young people in the 18th / 19th century to those of teens today; list similarities and differences.  Which differences are positive and which are negative?

Read through 23 (end of Volume I)  and be prepared for background / Volume 1 quiz

In your journal, write ONE paragraph with TWO examples to explain how Mr. Collins is presented comically.

3/31/11

(D; Class Mtg)

Volume 1 quiz (plus relevant background)

In-class journal and discussion: First impressions of Wickham

Discuss description of Mr. Collins

In-class journal:  Which of your initial impressions has changed the most so far? Explain.

In your journal, write a 3 paragraph response to the following: In what way is the external conflict between Elizabeth and Darcy related to the internal conflict faced by each character? What event marks a turning point in the conflict between Elizabeth and Darcy? What effect does this event have?

4/4/11

(F)

Discuss journal entry

Notes on characterization, caricature, satire, irony

Work on rough drafts (intro and conclusion  PP)

Continue through Volume III, chapter 4 (46). Be prepared for a quiz on the reading.

After finishing Volume II, respond to ONE of the following in your journal:

1. Characterization. What sense of Lydia's character do you get from her actions in the scene in which she meets Jane and Elizabeth in town? What do her thoughts and actions in regards to her trip to Brighton reveal about her character? What do you learn about Lydia from Mr. Bennet's and Mrs. Bennet's attutudes toward her?

2. Caricature and Satire. What qualities are exaggerated in Mary? in Lydia? in Mrs. Bennet? What is Austen satirizing by creating these caricatures? Based on these caricatures, predict what you think the future may hold for these three characters?

3. Irony. Find an example of dramatic irony and an example of verbal irony up to this point in the reading.  Explain how your examples satisfy the requirement for irony.  What effect does this example have on the reader?

4/6/11

(B)

Reading quiz

P&P discussion

Work on rough drafts

Finish Rough Draft if you did not do so in class!

Read through volume 3, chapter 13 (55) for 4/12

Finish P&P for 4/14

4/8/11

(D)

ROUGH DRAFT DUE

Peer-edit

Begin revising

Read through vol. 3, chap 13(55) and respond to each of the following questions with about 3 sentences each, including at least 1 specific detail from the text in each response.

1. Think about the news Elizabeth receives from Jane. Why does Elizabeth share this news with Darcy and what does she assume he is thinking of her?

2. Do you think Elizabeth's assessment of Darcy's thoughts here is accurate?

3. Explain why Lydia's experience with Wickham has failed to alter her character in any way.

4. What detail about Lydia's marriage surprises Elizabeth? What additional details does she learn from Mrs. Gardiner, and why is Elizabeth surprised by this news?

Finish P&P for 4/14

Journal due in my mailbox by 2:10 on 4/15 or it is late!

4/12/11

(F)

P&P discussion through chapter 55

Work on revising rough drafts

Finish P&P and respond to the following questions:

1. In what way is Lady Catherine's attitude toward Elizabeth similar to the attitude expressed earlier by Mr. Darcy?

2. Why has it taken Elizabeth and Darcy so long after he returned to Longbourn to understand each other's feelings? In what way is each to blame for their long separation?

3. What were Mrs. Bennet's hopes at the beginning of the novel? Has she been satisfied? With which marriage is she happiest? Explain.

Journal due in my mailbox by 2:10 on 4/15 or it is late!Your final prompt is: What attitude does Austen express toward her own society in this novel of manners? What elements of this society do you believe Austen may have wished to reform? What elements did she value?

4/14/11

(B; Senior Mid-Quarter Reports)

Final discussion

Journal due in my mailbox by 2:10 on 4/15 or it is late! Make sure you include the final prompt (above)!

Enjoy your vacation!

SPRING AND EASTER BREAK!

4/26/11

(D)

Introduction to Victorian Era and Earnest (PP)

Begin Act I

(http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/)

REVISE RESEARCH PAPER

4/28/11

(F)

FINAL DRAFT DUE

Finish Act I and view clips

Finish Earnest (Act II and Act III). Answer the following questions.

1. How do Miss Prism and Cecily describe Jack? How does this connect to what Gwendolen says about the name Jack?
2. Give one example of Wilde criticizing the church through Dr. Chasuble.
3. How does Wilde criticize women in Act II-III? Give at least 3 examples to support your claim.
4. What is Jack’s true identity?  What is his true name? How is this ironic?
5. What play on words exists in the title of the play? 

5/2/11

(B)

Read and annotate:

"The Princess" (page 827)

I will be checking the work from today and the Earnest questions next class

Obtain a copy of 1984 for 5/6

Vocabulary quiz (flect/ten) on 5/6

5/4/11

(D; Mid-Quarter Reports for all)

Wrap Up Earnest

Bring 1984 for a book check

Study for a vocabulary quiz (flect/ten)

5/6/11

(F; First Friday)

Flect/ten vocabulary quiz

Start studying for Victorian Quiz (will be on 5/12)

5/10/11

(B)

Discuss "My Last Duchess"

1984 anticipation guide

5/12/11

(D)

Look up Definitions: imperialism, bureaucracy, Stalinism, socialism, communism, propaganda

Read 1984: Part I, 1-5

1 confusing section

1 helpful section

1 question for discussion

5/16/11

(F)

Begin discussing 1984: Part I: 1-5

·         Discussion of two minutes hate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55j_L9E2Ld0) , mob mentality, hate week, slogans, telescreens, Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink

• Discuss party slogan, "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."

  Writing history: Columbus

  Discuss how one event may be viewed or interpreted depending on the observer

Finish Part I and be prepared for discussion

Prepare for reading quiz

5/18/11

(B; 1:10)

Read Part II through chapter 7

5/20/11

(D)

·         http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005274

5/25/11

(F)

Discussion

1. ·      http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/obama-adminis-5.html

2. ·       http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/apr/30/swine-flu-biden-tells-family-stay-commercial-airli/

3. ·         Hillary Clinton says it was a mistake

4. ·         Iraq-Iran War and the role of the U.S.

5. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/95235-democrats-spark-alarm-with-call-for-national-id-card

6. http://www.npr.org/2011/04/28/135803878/your-smartphone-is-tracking-you-but-dont-worry?ft=1&f=1019

5/27/11

(B)

SAT grammar practice

Discuss1984

Finish novel including the Principles of Newspeak

6/1/11

(D)

Final discussion!

• Review Anticipation Guide (Do you feel the same now as you did at the beginning?)

• List modern technology mentioned in the book

• Discuss prophetic nature of 1984

Study for final vocabulary quiz (mon.mand.cred.fid)

6/3/11

(F; First Friday; Grades Close)

Final vocabulary quiz (mon.mand.cred.fid)

Prepare for exam

120 multiple-choice @ 0.7 points each, based on the following:

-all works from Donne through 1984 (see website for exact titles)

-all vocabulary from rupt-fid

-SAT grammar packet

1 essay @ 16 points based on 1984

Prepare for Final Exam

Syllabus 

Research Paper Packet

Extra Credit