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Date / Week   Assignment Name   Due Date  

Description

August17 --26  

Intro material/ Academic Honesty
Technology Prewrite
Intro 1984 material

WEEK OF 22nd . . .
terminology/genres/close reading
Read :Poe's "The Raven"
Work on essay

Lit terms
Discuss Part 1(i - iii)
Read updike's "A & P"
Rough Draft due (25/26)


       

August 29 - Sept. 2

 

 

Technology Essay DUE

Discuss A&P/Fiction Chart/Questions

Begin Point of View/Rdg Guide/Fiction Chart for "Story of an Hour" - Chopin


Discuss 1984 (Part 1 (iv-vi and VII - end of part 1)

(FRIDAY) Intro Race in Literature: "Sweat"/Zora Hurston
Questions/Summary Chart


 

 

 

 

 

No School Monday Sept. 5

Sept. 6-9

 



1984 PART 1 DUE (Chpts 1-8)
Start 1984 Part 2 (Chapters 1-2)
Quiz Sweat

Discuss "Sweat"
Assign Tone Essay - T:Drive (Write Thesis)

Friday: Write Tone supports (Rough Due next week)

Read Appt. With Love/Chaser In class - Discuss/Handout Questions.

      1984 Section One- page 1-87 Journals Due (Must include Chapter summaries, character list, three quotations with reader response/reaction,3 literay devices, and  voice/response reaction with connections, arguments, personal experiences)as well as Discussion questions.. See Handouts given in class!

Sept 12- 16

HOMECOMING WEEK

 

1984 Part 2 (Chapters I and II) Read for Discussion
Journal Chapters

Work on Tone essay

       
Sept. 19-23  

Short Stories Due with Tone Essay

Vocab Literary Terms Quiz
1984 Part 2 (Chapters III-VII) Read for Discusion and journal.

Begin Macbeth . . . Intro material Shakespeare

       

September 26-30

 

 

Discuss 1984 Part 2 (Chapters 8- Through Chapter 3 (within Chapter 9)

Discuss 1984 (Chapter 9-10) END Part 2

Intro Macbeth . . .Book page316, 338-339, 332-335/Resouce booklet

DWU Play October 21!

Handout all handouts for unit. Read Act 1-2

       
October 3-7  

Continue Macbeth (Finish Act 1 and 2)

Act 3 - 4

1984 Journals Due Wed/Thursday


      1984 Section 2 - Journals Due (Must include Chapter events, character list, three quotations with reader response/reaction, and  voice/response reaction with connections, arguments, personal experiences)as well as Discussion questions. See Handouts given in class!
October 10-13
 

Discuss 1984 Part 3 (Chapters 1-2) Assign Chpts 3- 3nd)

Finish Macbeth (Act 4 - 5)

Macbeth Journals Due/FINAL Test (Thursday/Monday)

No School Friday/ In_Service

     


October 17-21  

Macbeth Journals Due/FINAL Test (Monday)

Discuss 1984 (Part 3) Chapter 3- End

DWU - Macbeth Performance (G2 - G3)

      QUARTER ends

October 24-28

No School Friday

 

1984 FINAL Journals and FINAL Test

V for Vendetta Comparison

Begin Anglo Saxon notes (British Timeline)/Poetic Devices
Read Beowulf intro and epic poetry

Discuss Old/Middle English
Beowulf translations and caesura, kennings, alliteration of Anglo-Saxon poetry

 

       
October 31-Nov. 4  

1984 FINAL Journals and FINAL Test

Beowulf



     

November 7-10 No School Friday

Veteran's Day

 

Beowulf - Par t One
Lit Circle 1 - Atonement/Kite Runner

Essay Due

Lit Terms #2 Intro

     
November 14-18  

Beowulf Part 2

Lit Circle #2 - Atonement/Kite Runner
Begin Research - Topic decisions
\Lit Terms Quiz #2

     

 

 

 

 

Nov. 21-23

Thanksgiving Thursday/Friday

 

Beowulf Video (Part One)
Read Beowulf Part 3

Interlibrary Loans

Literature Circle #3

      THANKSGIVING BREAK
Nov. 28- Dec. 2  

Begin Research in Library/Narrow topic/Working outline

Temp. Works Cited Due

Continue to work on research/note cards

Work on Research Paper



       

Dec. 5-9

 

All Notecards due
Sort for outline/thesis statement.
Assign typed Works Cited/ConsultedFinish Rough Outline using paranthetical attribution
Review Lit Terms #3

Typed Final Outline/thesis- MLA format Due next week

Literature Cicrls #4 - Atonement/Kite Runner

     

 

 

 

Dec 12-16  

Typed Final Outline/thesis- MLA format Due next week
Assign typed Works Cited

Literature Circle #5



Begin Rough Drat


     

 

Dec. 19-22  

Rough Drafts Due

Beowulf Review

SEMESTER FINAL

      CHRISTMAS BREAK BEGINS THURSDAY
     SEMESTER ENDS

       
   

 
HAPPY NEW YEAR

2012

       
January 3-6  

 Book Report Requirements

Assign Medieval Notes (Text) Page - 24-29
Finish Atonement
Begin Kite runner Movie

       
January 9-13  

 Finish Kite Runner
Discuss Notes/Add notes

Medieval Ballads . . . Text Questions page 222 + Worksheet anaylsis
Robin Hood

       
January 16-20  

 No School Monday
Intro King Arthur Unit

Go over Mallary
Medieval Romance/Chivalry

Read: Morte d'Arthur

T.H. White version
Assign: Man and Myth



       
January 23-27  

 Go OVer Man and Myth
Read: Sir GAwin and the Green Knight

Media Clips/Video Clips
King Arthur Journals Due next week

Start First Knight

       
January 30 - Feb 3  

First Knight (Finish)

 King Arthur Journals Due

King Arthur Test

Chaucer Notes/Into Chaucer



       
February 6-10  

 First Half of Book Report DUE

       
February 13-16  

 
Begin Canterbury Tales/Prologue(text)
All pilgrims/characters/social structure

Continue Prologue/Complete reasons for groupings
All pilgrims/characters/social structure
Handout on Knight/guess the pilgrim
Groups/Write modern pilgrim/social structure


       

February 20-24


   Devices of Satire (Handout 19,20)
Genre's page 31, 81, 82
Read "Nun's Priest Tale"

Finish Draft of "Modern" pilgrim (Type)

Pilgrimage (Modern Day)

     

 

 

February 27-March 2

 

 

 Discuss Pardoner's Tale
Read Pardoner's "kid" tale
Continue with "Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale"
Intro Lit Terms (3)
Chaucer Journals Due/Chaucer Final
Discuss Wife of Bath tale
Assign Essay

     

 ALL Chaucer Journals Due
Chaucer/Canterbury Tales FINAL Test
Chaucer Essay DUE

March 5-9  


Chaucer video/Knights Tale

Essay Critique/Due



       
March 12-14 Spring Break  

 

Begin Renaissance

page 287-297 Background notes
Thomas Wyatt/ Italian sonnet (Handout)
Henry Howard/English sonnets
(Handout

 

Marlowe/Raleigh p.302-308

       

March 19-23


 

Assign Queen Elizabeth + Walter Raleigh (Handout)

Queen Elizabeth poetry (Handout)

Spenser Bio + Sonnets (Sidney ?)

Shakespeare Notes p.316

Shakespeare Notes/Sonnets p. 318-322 + Handout

       
   

 

       

 March 26-30

 

Petrachan Sonnets/Shakespeare Ben Johnson/poetry - Handout

Renaissance Final Test


Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest Intro

       

April 2 - 5

No School Good Friday

 

 Begin Final Research Paper (British Author)

Library Research Days/Temporary Works Cited DUE


        

April 10-13

No School Monday

 

 Note Cards Due/Thesis Prep
Importance of Being Earnest
Act 2/3

 


        

April 16-20

 

Rough Draft Research Due
Importance of Being Earnest Video

Importance of Being Earnest Final


     

 

April 23-27
 

Final Research Paper Due

Poets: John Milton and John Donne

Carpe Diem Poets: Marvel/Herrick

Assign: Romantic Intro Notes ( p. 739-743)


     




   


     

 

 April 30 - May 4

 
 

Wollstonecraft

Blake

Burns

Assign notes (Evolving Romantics p. 745-747)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 7-11

 


 
Assign notes (Evolving Romantics p. 745-747)

Rough Draft Research Paper DUE

Romantics continued:

Wordsworth

Coleridge

 

 
 

     


May 14-16

 


 


Romantics: Byron

Shelley

Assign: Keats

Finish Keats:

Final Romantics TEST



     

 

GRADUATION

 

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 


     

 

 

 

 



     

 

May 4-8

 

Assign Macbeth Intro. p 332-337Handouts/Discuss Macbeth

Act One - Two

Trace story motifs/themes, character changes for MacBeth journals

Finish/Discuss Act One
Begin Macbeth Act II
Do Writing Across the Decades


Continue tracing motifs/themes/character changes through acts

Do Writing Across the Decades
MacbethContinue in-class discussion/tracing/journals

Assignment to Read Act III over the weekend

Finish Act III an IV, and journals

 Finish Macbeth Act V and all journal requirements
FINAL Macbeth TEST

First Half of Book Report (4th Quarter DUE)
Begin research on British author/Library

Begin Carpe Diem:
Christopher Marlow Packet

 

Poetry/Music Connection with partner.(3-2 and 3-3)You need lyrics and words of both, plus the music on a CD to present to class.(See Handout)
Present Individual Poetry in cafe setting on 3-4 and 3-5.


     

Age of Reason INTRO
Samuel Pepys Notes
Read Pepys Diary on London Fire - questions page 332
Go over Pepys Diary on London Fire - questions page 332 
Satire 207/208 and 211-213
Swift (handout)
Poetry/Music Connection with partner.(3-2 and 3-3)You need lyrics and words of both, plus the music on a CD to present to class.(See Handout)
Present Individual Poetry in cafe setting on 3-4 and 3-5

 May 11-15

 

 

       

 

May 17  


       
 May 18-19  


       

Read excerpt from Gulliver's Travels
Intro Steele/Addison
Read/Discuss:The Spectator Club
Will Wimble
Party Patches Intro Daniel Defoe
The Education of Women :) (Journalistic Fiction)

Final Research Paper Due

Intro Alexander Pope:
Rape of the Lock

 

 

Misc. Plans:

     

 

 

 

     

 


  Finish Pope's Rape of the Lock
Intro Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary and Letter to Chesterfield
Finish Age of Reason with Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
      Journals for the Age of Reason Due next week!


 

Importance of Being Earnest Act II Due
Begin Romantics/Blake/Burns

Continue Blake Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience

Blake/Burns/Begin Wolstonecraft

      Age of Reason Journals Due
Test over satiric authors


 

Finish Pope's Rape of the Lock
Intro Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary and Letter to Chesterfield
Finish Age of Reason with Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

       


 

Begin Romantics/Blake/Burns

Continue Blake Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience

Blake/Burns/Begin Wolstonecraft

       

 

 

Wollstonecraft (Text questions 1-10)


Kubla Kahn and Rime of the Ancient Mariner View Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Intro: Lord Byron/poems and Don Juan

     

Age of Reason Journals Due
Test over satiric authors

Journals due - Blake/Burns/Wolstonecraft
   

Finish Coleridge

View Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Intro: Lord Byron/poems and Don Juan

     

 

   


       

 


Percy Shelly/Poetry Handouts: Ozymandias, Ode to Men of England, West Wind

John Keats (odes)
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      Journals for Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron Due
   

Mary Shelley(Frankenstein)

 

       
   

 

 

 

       
   

 

       

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