English III
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Bring IMMORTAL POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE and MACBETH to class each day
CYCLE 2: 22-30 January UPDATED 1/27/2020
The Sonnet: Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Other Sonnets
Day 1:
--Poetry groups assigned
--Discuss Macbeth
--Paper revisions
--Read Act 3 and answer all study questions on paper; due 1/29
JANUARY 23: English Sonnet Essay due at 8:00 p.m.
UPDATE: Now due 24 January
Day 2/3:
Day 4:
Group work on sonnet presentations
Day 6:
Sonnet discussions: Groups A and B
Discuss Macbeth
Day 7:
Vocabulary Macbeth List 2 -- definitions
Sonnet discussions: Groups C and D
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CYCLE 1: 9-17 January
The Sonnet: Introduction and English Sonnets
Day 1:
Sonnets
COMING UP: Introduction to MACBETH
Read Act 1 and answer all study questions on paper; due 1/14
Day 2/3:
Introduction to MACBETH
Read Act 1 and answer all study questions on paper; due 1/14
STUDY QUESTIONS
Shakespeare biographical information
Shakespeare WS
LINK TO SONNETS
Day 4:
Sonnet 30, Sonnet 29, "Whoso List to Hunt," Wyatt
Essay assigned:
--Read all of the sonnets listed below
--Use the poem analysis WS and sonnet information to explore
the theme of one of the following Shakespeare sonnets:
18 "Shall I compare . . . (57)
55 "Not marble . . . " (59)
60 "Like as the waves . . . (60)
73 "That time of year . . . " (62)
94 "They that have the power . . . " (63)
106 "When in the chronicle . . . . " (65)
--Paraphrase conferences are worth 30 percent of the final essay grade
Day 6:
Sonnet paraphrase due; student conferences
Read Act 2 and answer all study questions on paper; due 1/17
Day 7:
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 1 -- definitions
--Discuss Macbeth
--Read Act 3 and answer all study questions on paper; due 1/22
CYCLE 2: 22-30 January
The Sonnet: Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Other Sonnets
Day 1:
--Poetry groups assigned
--Discuss Macbeth
--Paper revisions
--Read Act 3 and answer all study questions on paper; due 1/29
JANUARY 23: English Sonnet Essay due at 8:00 p.m.
UPDATE: Now due 24 January
Day 2/3:
Presentation outline due from all groups
Sonnet discussions: Groups A and B
Day 4:
Sonnet discussions: Groups C and D
Day 6:
Discuss Macbeth
Day 7:
Vocabulary Macbeth List 2 -- definitions
SONNET POETRY GROUPS:
GROUP A: Spenser: "My Love Is Like To Ice" (38) and "One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand" (38)
GROUP B: Sidney: "With How Sad Steps" and "Come, Sleep"
GROUP C: Donne: "Batter My Heart" (89), "Death Be Not Proud" (89), "At Earth's Imagined Corners" (95)
GROUP D: Milton: "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" (106), "I Thought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" (108)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. All students are to have read the poems prior to class and should come with questions.
2. Student leaders assigned to each group will guide the discussion providing:
A. Brief and pertinent biographical information
B. Brief explication (all students have read; you are merely highlighting what is most notable or significant)
C. Clear statement of theme and explanation of how the poem develops it
D. EXPERT knowledge about every word, footnote, image to facilitate discussion and questions
3. Presentation Outlines due from all groups on 25 January
RUBRIC
Know these terms for Poetry Terms Quiz:
Know these terms:
alexandrine, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogy, apostrophe, assonance, ballad, blank verse, bucolic, cacophony, carpe diem, conceit, concrete poetry, consonance, couplet, dialect, diction, dramatic poetry, elegy, elision, euphony, figurative language, figure of speech, folk ballad, foot, free verse, hyperbole, iambic pentameter, iambic heptameter, idyll, imagery, incremental repetition, inversion, irony, lyric poetry, metaphor, meter, metonymy, narrative, octave, onomatopoeia, parallelism, paradox, pastoral, personification, quatrain, refrain, repetition, rhyme (end, approximate, internal), rhyme scheme, rhythm, sestet, shaped (concrete) poem, simile, sonnet, stanza, symbol, trochee, volta
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Vocabulary 1-8 Words and Definitions
CYCLES 8 and 9: 13 November - 13 December
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13 November
--Character Essay
14-15 November
--Character Essay Editing/Peer Review
--Homework: Read "The Pardoner's Tale"
18 November
--Character Essay due 8:00 p.m. at tii.com
20 November
--PT Quiz (?)
--Discuss PT
--HW: read "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
21 November
--Vocabulary 8 Quiz
--Discuss WB
--Conclude CT
--Punctuation Review: TBA
2 December
--Malory
READ for Thursday: (begins on page 688 of PDF)
Book 20: Chapters 1-4, 8-10
Book 21: Chapters 3-7, 10-12
Le Morte d'Arthur - King Arthur, the Hero of Camelot
www.heroofcamelot.com › docs › Le-Morte-dArthur
3-4 December
--Punctuation
--Chaucer conclusion
5 December
--Malory
--Punctuation Review
9 December
--Vocabulary 8 Quiz
--Malory
--Punctuation Review
10 December
--Punctuation TEST
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CHAUCER LINKS:
Harvard's Chaucer Page
Please print out the texts below and bring the printout to class.
Excerpts from "The General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales:
a. Knight b. Squire c. Yeoman d. Prioress e. Friar f. Franklin
g. Wife of Bath h. Plowman i. Pardoner j. Summoner k. Prologue;
--Study Guide: here and here; background on Becket;
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" (a romance); questions here
"The Pardoner's Tale" (an exemplum); questions here.
--Alternate link to PT here.
CYCLES 7, GW, 8: 30 October - 21 November
30 October
--SGGK III
--Homework: conclude reading section/answer study questions
1 November
--SGGK IV
4 November
--Conclude SGGK
6 November
--Introduction to The Canterbury Tales
--Homework: Read excerpts from "The General Prologue" (link above)
--Complete GP Study Guide (links above)
--Watch this video about the period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DeFglQSHOY&list=PLYbocufkwRFAS80nLFShkXSblfcFTXwRH&index=20&t=0s
7 November
--Vocabulary 7 Quiz
--Discuss GP
--BRING PRINTOUT OF GP (first ten pages) TO CLASS FOR A GRADE
11 November
--GP Quiz
--HW: read "The Pardoner's Tale"
13 November
--PT Quiz (?)
--Discuss PT
--HW: read "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
14-15 November
--Conclude CT
18 November
21 November
--Vocabulary 8 Quiz
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CYCLE 6: 18 - 25 October
--Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK)
--General Notes: SGGK
--Study Questions (from Borroff translation; wording may be slightly different)
18 October
--Essay due to tii.com at 3:00 p.m.
--Final essay revisions in class
--SGGK (bring this book every day)
21-22 October
--SGGK I
--Homework: conclude reading section/answer study questions
23 October
--Beowulf quiz
--SGGK II
--Homework: conclude reading section/answer study questions
25 October
--SGGK III
--Homework: conclude reading section/answer study questions
28 October
--Vocabulary 6 Quiz
--SGGK IV
--Homework: conclude reading section/answer study questions
Study Questions for Beowulf
Suggested Essay topics for Beowulf
CYCLE 5: 4 - 15 October
4 October
--Homework: read 491-862 + SUMMARY
7-8 October
--Beowulf: read 2510 - End
9 October
--Beowulf quiz
--Essay workshop
--Homework: conclude reading section/answer study questions
11 October
--Vocabulary 5 quiz
--Essay draft due, peer review
15 October
--Beowulf Essay due at 10:00 a.m.
CYCLE 4: 24 September--2 October
24 September
--Poetry Terms Quiz 2
--Homework: read ix-xxx (Beowulf introduction)
25-26 September
--Anglo Saxon Literature and Beowulf: Introduction
27 September
--Beowulf, lines 1-188
--Essay assigned
--Homework: conclude reading section/answer study questions
1 October
--Beowulf, lines 189-490
--Homework: conclude reading section/answer study questions
2 October
--Beowulf, lines 491-661 + SUMMARY
--Homework: conclude reading section/answer study questions
--Vocabulary 3 quiz
CYCLE 3 + GW: 10-20 September
Anglo Saxon Literature; Beowulf; Writing/Editing; Vocabulary; 1984
Study Questions for Beowulf
10 September
--Poetry Terms Quiz
--Poetry Presentations
11-12 September
--Poetry Presentations
--1984 assignment in class
13 September
--Anglo Saxon Literature and Beowulf: Introduction
--Beowulf
17 September
--1984 Journals due ( 1/2 Major Grade)
--Beowulf
18 September
--Beowulf
--Vocabulary 3 quiz
24-5 September
--Beowulf
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UPDATE:
1984 Matching Retake in class on 6 September
CYCLE 2: 29 August - 6 September
--1984 Journal Assignment (due dates: 9/5 and 9/17)
--Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz (6 September)
--Poetry Terms Quiz --handout in class (10 September)
--English and Scottish Ballads: Group Work 3-6 September, Presentations 10-12 September
15-6 August
--Welcome: course expectations and syllabus
--Note check: Summer Reading (Daily)
--Discussion: Summer Reading
--Writing guidelines/procedures.
HOMEWORK and UPCOMING Due Dates:
1. Read to end of Part I, 1984 by 8/20
2. Sign in to Turnitin.com by 8/20. Course number: 21893316 Password: Gloriana (Daily)
3. Prepare for Summer Reading Test over Part I, 1984 on 8/22: matching/quote questions/short answer (Major)
4. Prepare for Vocabulary 1 Quiz on 8/23 (Quiz)
Vocabulary List One: Vocabulary List 1
Resources for 1984:
Study Questions for each chapter.
COURSE EXPECTATIONS FORM
