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Term II, 2010-2010

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Grades Close Exams Regular Schedule
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Date August Assignment

8/25/10

(A; Noon)

Syllabus and Introductions

Writing Contest

Read and take notes on 224-230

 

 

8/27/10

(C; 1:10)

  • Review background

  • Advice columns in pairs

    •

  • Review 234-235: Spenser and Sidney, sonnets (Petrarchan), iambic pentameter, sonnet sequence, paraphrasing

  • Together: Read and annotate Sonnet 1 (Spenser); identify rhyme scheme

Read and annotate Sonnet 35

 

 

Prepare for background quiz

8/31/10

(E)

  • Background quiz

  • Review Sonnet 35

  • Together: 75 and 39

    •

  • SAT: timed essay

Vocabulary exercises: Chapter 4 (phobia, phil, mis, dys, eu, pages 107-112). Test 9/13

 

Read page 244

Read and annotate page 245

 

Summer Reading Test on 9/1: Bring pencil and loose leaf

Date Class Topic Assignment

9/2/10

(A)

  • Review vocabulary exercises

  • Review Pastoral Poetry

  • Peer edit SAT essay

Read Shakespeare background on pages 250-251

 

Read "Sonnet 29" and "Sonnet 106" and complete handout

 

Renaissance TEST on 9/9

 

 

9/7/10

(C)

  • Discuss Shakespeare sonnets

  • "Sonnet 130" together

  • Review for Renaissance Test

  • SAT sentence completion exercises

Study for Renaissance Test!

9/9/10

(E)

  • Renaissance Test

  • Sat exercises

    •

Study for vocabulary test!

9/13/10

(A)

  • Vocabulary TEST!

  • Macbeth anticipation guide

Read, take notes, and study for background quiz (290-293; 296-299)


Vocabulary exercises macro/micro/a/mono/poly (TEST on 9/20)

9/15/10

(C; Advisee Meeting)

  • Background quiz

  • Review macro/micro/a; mono/poly exercises

  • Begin Act I

  • SAT sentences?

    •

Study for vocabulary test

9/20/10

(E)

  • Vocabulary TEST (macro/micro/a/mono/poly)

  • Continue Act I

    •

Read scene iv

Summarize each character's lines

9/22/10

(A)

  • Finish Act I

Prepare for Act I quiz

Complete vocabulary exercises: LOGY

9/24/10

(C; Mid-Quarter Reports)

  • Act I quiz

  • Review vocabulary exercises

  • Begin Act II

Study for vocabulary quiz

9/28/10

(E)

  • Vocabulary quiz: LOGY

    •

  • Dagger speech with worksheet

  • Continue Act II with study guide

    •

Finish Act II + study guide

LAL consent form

9/30/10

(A)

  • Discuss Act II

  • Read Act III through scene iv (with study guide)

  • Stage scene iv as a class

    •

Vocabulary exercises: BIO, TOM, POD

 

Prepare for Act II quiz

 

Finish Act III and complete study guide
Date Class Topic Assignment

10/4/10

(C)

  • Act II quiz

    •

  • Finish staging scene iv/discussion

  • Macbeth clips

    •

Prepare for vocabulary quiz: Bio, Tom, Pod

10/6/10

(E; Class Mtg)

  • Review vocabulary exercises

  • Vocabulary quiz: Bio, Tom, Pod

    •

  • How did you stage scene iv as compared with film?

  • Review Act III study guide

  • LAL

    •

Prepare for Act III quiz

 

10/8/10

(A)

  • Act III quiz

    •

  • Begin Act IV with study guide

  • Assign and discuss projects

Finish Act IV and prepare for quiz

10/13/10

(C; Noon)

 

PSAT

 

10/15/10

(E)

  • Act IV quiz

  • Begin Act V

Work on projects

Optional: memorize soliloquy for quiz grade

10/19/10

(A)
  • Recite soliloquy (optional)
  • Finish Act V
  • Final discussion: Who is to blame?
  • LAL worksheet

Projects due next class!

10/21/10

(C)

  • Projects due

  • Finish LAL correspondence worksheet

  • Review for test/guide

  • Clips of final scene

  • Assign Beowulf seminar

    •

Study for Macbeth test

10/25/10

(E)

  • Macbeth test!

    •

 

 

Get the Burton Raffel version of Beowulf

 

Seminar next class

10/27/10

(A)

  • Socratic seminar

    •

Complete vocabulary exercises: homo/hetero

 

Study for vocabulary quiz on 11/2

 

Read and take notes on page 8 -10; 12; 36-37. Be prepared for a quiz on this information.

 

Bring the  Burton Raffel version of Beowulf to next class.

10/29/10

(C)

  • Background quiz

  • Review vocabulary

  • http://beaudwinbeowulf.wikispaces.com/

    •

  • Audio clip in Old English

  • Review Beowulf background

  • Begin Beowulf (note comitatus, feudal system, A.S. earthly virtues)

Prepare for vocabulary quiz: homo/hetero

 

Read and take notes through canto 2

 

Respond on wiki

 

 
Date November

11/2/10

(E)

Vocabulary quiz

Discuss wiki comments

Continue Beowulf (note kennings, characteristics of an epic hero, Hrothgar as ring-giver, Beowulf as Jesus figure, dichotomy of heaven and hell)

LAL work

Bring first draft of LAL next class

 

Read canto 7 and respond on wiki

11/4/10

(A)

LAL peer-edit w/rubric

 

Continue Beowulf through canto 12 (wergild, woman as hostess, characteristics of an epic hero, epic boast)

Study for Beowulf quiz!

11/8/10

(C)

Beowulf quiz!

Continue Beowulf 13-17

LAL due next class!

 

11/10/10

(E; Class Meeting)

LAL due

Continue Beowulf through canto 23 (note mother's motivation, what mother takes from Herot, who leads them to Grendel's home, what Unferth gives Beowulf, what Beowulf thinks the noblest of goals is, what fails Beowulf in his battle with Grendel's mother, kennings used for G's Mother, what protects Beowulf in battle, how Beowulf defeats G's mother, examples of comitatus, what Beowulf brings up from the swamp)

 

11/15/10

(A; 90-Minute Delay)

Beowulf 24-26 (note examples of Anglo-Saxon earthly virtues and Hrothgar's warning)

 

Outline and stage the action:

Group 1. Grendel vs. Danes: 115-144

Group 2. Grendel and Beowulf:710-836

Group 3. Mother and Danes: 1251-1320

Group 4. Mother and Beowulf: 1492-1650

Prepare for quiz on 18-26

 

Complete hyper/hypo vocabulary exercises

11/17/10

(C; 1:10)

Quiz on 18-26

 

Review vocabulary

 

Assign boast (due 11/23)

 

Beowulf: 27-31

Study for vocabulary quiz

 

Read and take notes on 32-33

 

Epic boast due 11/23

 

Beowulf test 12/1

11/19/10

(E)

Hyper/hypo vocabulary quiz

 

Continue Beowulf 34-38

Read and take notes on 39-40

 

Epic boast due next class

 

Beowulf test 12/1

11/23/10

(A; Thanksgiving Prayer Service)

Finish Beowulf

 

Final discussion

 

Epic boast due!

 

Study Guide for Test

Happy Thanksgiving!

11/29/10

(C)

NO SCHOOL!

Don't forget about your Beowulf test!

 
Date December

12/1/10

(E; Class Meetings)

 

Beowulf Test

Complete endo.exo.archy exercises

 

Read and take notes on pages 90-93; prepare for quiz

12/3/10

(A; First Friday)

Review vocabulary

Review direct and indirect characterization

In groups: Think about your own culture and society. What character types do you observe? If Chaucer was writing The Canterbury Tales now, what is one “character type” he’d be sure to include?

Describe this character.  Consider what this character type looks like as well as his/her positive and negative personality traits.

Utilize both direct and indirect characterization in your character sketch. Share with the class.

Audio clip in Middle English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU

 

And again with a different spin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc8XPv_qstA&feature=related

 

 

Begin The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue

Study for vocabulary quiz

 

Outline characters through line 166

12/7/10

(C)

Vocabulary quiz: endo.exo.archy

 

Discuss descriptions of the Knight, Squire, Yeoman, and Nun (Prioress)

 

Assign characters: Monk, Friar, Pardoner, Wife of Bath, Summoner

 Prepare to present pilgrims

Complete Geo/Path exercises

12/9/10

(E)

Review Geo/Path exercises

 

Students present Monk, Friar, Pardoner, Wife of Bath, Summoner

 

http://chompchomp.com/handouts.htm

 

Parallel structure, dependent and independent clauses, comma splices, run-ons

Complete exercise 3 in packet

 

Prepare for quiz on background and Knight, Squire, Yeoman, Nun (Prioress), Monk, Friar, Pardoner, Wife of Bath, Summoner

12/13/10

(A)

Background/Pilgrim quiz

 

Review exercise 3

 

Continue packet

 

Interactive quizzes:

http://chompchomp.com/handouts.htm

 

Begin "Pardoner's Tale"

 

Prepare for writing quiz

 

12/15/10

(C; Noon)

Writing quiz

Finish "Pardoner's Tale"

Finish The Pardoner's Tale; answer questions 4b, 5, 6, and 8

 

Prepare for geo/path quiz

12/17/10

(E)

Finish discussion and review questions

Assign Canterbury project (due 1/6)

Here is your Midterm Guide

 

Merry Christmas!
CHRISTMAS RECESS!
Date January
1/4/10
(A)

Work on projects

 

Finish project

 

Study for quiz

 

Complete morph/peri exercises
1/6/10
(C)

Canterbury Project due

Review morph/peri exercises

Quiz: geo/path

 

Study for morph/peri quiz

 
1/10/10
(E; Grades Close)

Quiz: morph/peri

 

Review for midterm

Prepare for Exam
1/11/10
(A1, A2)		 Exams A1, A2  
1/12/10
(A3, A4)		 Snow Day  
TERM 2 BEGINS
Date Class Topic Assignment

1/19/11

(A;Class Meetings)

 Exams B3, B4

 

 

 

1/21/11

(C)

Snow

 

1/25/11

(E)

 

Introduce Research Paper

 

Trip to the library! 

 Read and take notes on pages 410-418

 

1/27/11

(A)

SNOW DAY

 

 

  

1/31/11

(C)

Discuss background information

 

Introduce John Donne

 

Analyze "Song" together

Read "Holy Sonnet 10"

Answer questions 1-5 on page 427

 

Prepare for a rupt/cide vocabulary quiz on 2/2

 

 
Date February

2/2/11

(E; Advisee Mtg during Break + 15)

Note characteristics of an epigram

 

Read "On My First Son," Still to Be Neat," and "Song: To Celia"

 

If we do not have school, you are still responsible for reading the above selections. You must also complete questions 2 and 3 on page 437; 2 and 3 on page 439; 1, 2, and 3 on page 440.

 

2/4/11

(A; First Friday)

Rupt/cide quiz

 

Review characteristics of an epigram

 

Discuss "On My First Son," Still to Be Neat," and "Song: To Celia"

and homework questions

 

 

Read "To the Virgins" and "Song"

 

Answer questions 2 and 3 on page 449, and 2 and 3 on page 450

2/8/11

(C)

Discuss homework questions in groups

 

Analyze "To His Coy Mistress"

 

Assign essay

Prepare for Enlightenment quiz

 

 

Vocabulary quiz (string, vor, viv) on 2/14

2/10/11

(E)

Enlightenment quiz

 

Develop thesis statements

 

Writing exercises

Read and take notes on 614-621

 

Study for vocab quiz

2/14/11

(A)

Vocabulary quiz: string/vor/viv

 

Work on paragraphs

 

Intro to Romanticism

Type primary source in MLA works cited format : Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

 

Finish draft of essay

2/16/11

(C; Class Meetings)

Primary Source due!

 

Peer-edit essay

 

Audio clip of "To a Mouse"

Revise essay

 

Submit to turnitin BEFORE class, and bring all drafts, peer editing sheet, and rubric

2/18/11

(E; Mid-Quarter Reports)

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

 

Work in groups to classify "To A Mouse" as Romantic

 

Discuss quotations

 

15 min movie clip

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

 

WINTER BREAK!
Date March

3/1/11

(A)

 Wordsworth

The World Is Too Much with Us                

London, 1802    

Study for:

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

3/3/11

(C)

SAT prep

Vocabulary Quiz: Tort/Vict/Fract/Omni

Thesis worksheet

 

Mariner Background

Type thesis

 

 

3/7/11

(E)

Thesis due!

 

Finish Mariner

Test 3/11

 

Finish Mariner Guide

3/9/11

(A; Ash Wednesday Liturgy)

Finish Discussing Study Guide

 

Blake

The Tyger

The Lamb

 

Review for Test

Study for Romanticism test!

 

 

3/11/11

(C)

Romanticism Test

 

Read and take notes on pages 806-813

3/15/11

(E; Spirit Week)

Discuss Victorian background

 

Earnest

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

Finish Act I along with the guide questions

3/17/11

(A; Spirit Week)

Discuss Act I

 

Act I clips

 

Evaluating a source

Works cited typed in MLA format

 

3/21/11

(C)

Assign Earnest project

 

Form groups and research

 

Works cited in MLA format due!

 

 

Earnest Project due on 3/25!

3/23/11

(E)

 Victorian Poetry

Read "The Princess" (827)

What is the speaker's reaction to the thought of "The days that are no more"?

 

"Life in a Love" by Robert Browning (page 839)

 

 "Sonnet 43" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (page 844)

Work on projects

Finish Project!

 

3/25/11

(A; Grades Close)

Earnest Project due!

20 note cards due!

 

 

3/29/11

(C)

20 note cards due!

 

Act II of Earnest

Complete Act II questions
Date April

4/1/11

(E; First Friday)

 Discuss questions

Act II clips

Work on outline

4/5/11

(A)

Review Act II

 

Continue Act III

Type outline

 

 

4/7/11

(C)

Outline due!

 

Intro and conclusion

 

Conferences

Work on drafts

4/11/11

(E; 1:10; Stuco Speeches and Elections)

Finish Earnest discussion

 

Clips

 

Review for Victorian Test

Study for Victorian Test

 

Victorian / Earnest background presentations

 

"Earnest"

 

"The Princess" (827)

 

"Life in a Love" by Robert Browning (page 839)

 

"Sonnet 43" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (page 844)

 

4/13/11

(A)

Victorian Test (1 hour)

 

Bring LOTF for a book check on 4/27

4/15/11

(C; Junior Picnic)

Work on rough drafts

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Enjoy the break!

SPRING AND EASTER BREAK!

4/27/11

(E; 1:10; Class  Elections)

LOTF book check

 

 

Survival quiz and anticipation guide

Rough draft due!

4/29/11

(A; Advisee Mtg; Senior Mid-Quarter Reports)

Rough draft due!

 

Peer-edit and revise

 

Background for LOTF

 

Read chapter 1

Finish Chapter 1

 

Answer 5 of the following questions:

1. Describe the relationship between Piggy and Ralph.

 

2. Notice what Ralph, Jack, Roger, Simon, and Piggy do in their first actions.  What impressions do their actions leave on you?

 

3. What unexpected or unusual uses of language do you notice in this chapter? What do you think is the purpose of each?

 

4. What is the community like so far?

 

5. What factors contribute to Ralph's election?

 

6. What does the incident with the piglet who escaped convey to you?

 

7. Do you think Ralph will be a successful leader?  Why or why not?

 

8. What factions do you see forming among the group?

 
Date May

5/3/11

(C)

Last day to have me read your rough draft (optional)

 

Discuss LOTF through Chapter 1

 

Chart for Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Roger, Simon

 

Symbolism of glasses and the conch

 

 Flect/Ten vocabulary quiz on 5/17

Finish Chapter 2, and answer 5 of the following questions:

1. What changes have taken place in the community in this chapter?

2. Describe the role Piggy takes in Ralph's government and in the community.

3. Why do you think Ralph acted the way he did with the boy who told about the snake?

4. What are the goals of this society?  Are they reasonable? How do they go about achieving them?

5. How is Ralph's government working?

6. What episodes reveal a streak of violence in Jack?

7. What do you think caused the out-of-control fire?

8. What do you think happened to the small boy with a "mark on his face"?

5/5/11

(E)

Discuss LOTF through chapter 2

Read chapter 3

 

Revise research papers

Revise research paper and submit to turnitin.com!

5/9/11

(A)

Final research paper due!

 

LOTF chapter 4

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Finish through Chapter 5, and answer ALL of the following questions:

1. What signs are there of order and organization? What signs are there of disorder and failure?

2. How have the groups' goals changed?

3. How have attitudes toward the beast changed since Chapter 2?

4. What does it mean to have a "life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten"?

5. What do you conclude about Roger from the way he teased Henry?

6. What effect did the painted "mask" have on the wearer? On others?

7. What occurrences in Chapter 4 alienate Jack?

PREPARE FOR A QUIZ ON CHAPTERS 1-5

 

5/11/11

(C)

Quiz: Chapters 1-5

 

Discuss homework questions

 

Character study in groups

 

Chart up through chapter 5 on board; make predictions for each character

Finish reading through Chapter 8, and complete all of the following questions:

 

1. (chapter 6) What kind of society and government is Jack endorsing in his challenge to Ralph?

 

2. (chapter 7) Compare and contrast the approaches of Jack, Ralph, and Roger to dealing with checking the top of the mountain for the beast and their responses to what they found atop the mountain.

 

3. (chapter 8) What factors contribute to Jack's departure from "Ralph's Lot"?

 

4. (chapter 8) Compare and contrast Simon's, Jack's, Piggy's, and Ralph's reactions to the beast's presence on the mountain.

 

5/13/11

(E)

Discuss through chapter 8

 

Read chapter 9

Flect/Ten quiz next class!

 

Finish through 10

Answer the following questions:

1. How would you characterize Jack's regime?

2. How do you think the boys will react to their role in Simon's death?

3. Analyze how Piggy, Ralph, and Samneric, deal with Simon's death.

4. How do you react to Ralph's prayer?

5. What is the significance of face paint in this chapter? In the story?

5/17/11

(A)

Flect/Ten vocabulary quiz

 

Discuss through chapter 10

 

Read chapter 11

Finish through 12!!!

Answer the following questions:

1. Characterize the change that takes place in Piggy with the loss of his glasses.

2. Why does the narrator say, "Samneric protested out of the heart of civilization"?

3. How did the boys change from Chapter 1 to 12?

4. What image from Chapter 12 struck you most deeply? Describe what you pictured in your mind's eye and explain why it resonated.

5. Did you like the novel? Why or why not?

5/19/11

(C; 1:10 May Crowning)

Discuss through ending

 

Movie clips

 

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

 

5/24/11

(E)

Movie clips

 

Final vocabulary quiz (mon.mand.cred)

Study for test

5/26/11

(A; Senior Report Cards On-Line)

LOTF test

 

5/31/11

(C)

SAT grammar practice

Bring in any questions you have about the final
Date June

6/2/11

(E; Ascension Thursday)

Prepare for exam

 

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

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

-all vocabulary from rupt-fid

-SAT grammar packet

 

1 essay @ 16 points

 

Prepare for Final Exam
6/8/11
(A1, A2)		 Exams A1, A2  
6/9/11
(A3, A4)		 Exams A3, A4

Course Links:

Syllabus 

Research Paper Packet

 
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