English III 

WELCOME!

CYCLE 10:  Tennyson and Hopkins
13-21 May

1.  All work this cycle including class check-ins and all assignments large and small will be a Major Grade.  Rubric TBA.  UPDATE:  Grades will be calculated as listed by each assignment in PURPLE below.

2.  Don't forget to check out this on-line, three-years-in-the-making, perfectly-timed-for-a-pandemic RAM reading.

3.  Day 2/3 Assignment: Read Section 14. Submit your answers to the following to tii.com by 3:00 tomorrow (who needs something hanging over them on a weekend?):
     a.  How many sentences?
     b.  Why has his life "drooped of late'?
      c.  "If one should bring me this report/ . . . I should not feel it to be strange."  If this report is not "strange," what does he find to be "strange."
     d.  QUIZ GRADE

4.  Day 4 Assignment:  Two sad, doubt-filled poems:  Section 27 and Section 54.
     a.  Read the poems for meaning, theme, etc.  Paraphrase them.
     b.  #27:  When he states, "I envy not" he suggests that the situation he is describing is enviable.  He does this three times.  What are the three states he does not envy?
     c.  #27:  What does he assert is his belief?  Is this convincing?  Who is he trying to convince?  Who is he speaking to and why?
      d.  #54:  Does he believe  or know or trust that "every winter change to spring"? What does it mean if he does not? Has such a thing ever NOT happened?
      e.  #54:  What is significance of "with no language but a cry."
      f.  #54:  What does he KNOW?
      g.  Replaces one quiz grade of your choice from the semester.  Email me the completed assignment and the quiz grade you wish it to replace. Must be submitted by noon FRIDAY.

5.  Day 6 assignment:  VIDEO RESPONSE.  Write a paragraph responding to the video or to one of the poems listed below.

​Watch the first half-hour of this video to begin to understand Hopkins, his life, and poetry.  (The tech is terrible; the information is great.)  Pay particular attention to Duns Scotus and haecceitas, ideas that had a tremendous influence on Hopkins. Pay particular attention to discussions of "Pied Beauty,"  "Spring and Fall:  To A Young Child," and  (the haecceitus special) "As Kingfishers Catch Fire."  Replaces one quiz grade of your choice from the semester.  Email me the completed assignment and the quiz grade you wish it to replace.  Must be submitted by noon FRIDAY.

6.  Day 7 assignment.  Final questions.  Final poems.  Assignment TBA.  Commencement of SUMMER!




CYCLE 9:  Tennyson
1-12 May

1.  All work this cycle including class check-ins and all assignments large and small will be a Major Grade.  Rubric TBA.
2.  Conclude reading of GE.  Use study questions as a guide.
3.  Read and answer questions on Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott" at left
4.  Read and answer questions on Tennyson's "Ulysses" (375) at left
5.  Day 4 Assignment: Preparation for In Memoriam poems
     a.   Read and take notes on Tennyson's biography;
     b.   Examine this timeline of his life;
     c.   Find out who AHH was and his importance to Tennyson;
     d.  Come prepared Day 6 with 1-2 questions about this reading (quiz grade) 
​6.  XC UPDATE:  see below:  movie response will replace lowest Major Grade!
7.  Day 7 assignment:  Read Section 1, Section 5 and Section 7  of IMAHH.  
     a.  Identify each sentence.
     b.  Paraphrase the entire poem.
     c.  State the meaning of the poem (theme).
     d.  Remember that these poems are placed at the beginning of the poem and the beginning of his journey through grief.  (He may not have written them in this exact chronological order, but his final publication places these poems deliberately at the beginning of the poem.)
     e.  Respond to one idea, theme, image, word, or question and write a brief response 3-4 sentences.  Email me the response by 9:00 Wednesday.
 

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This Grave

contains all that was Mortal

of a

YOUNG ENGLISH POET,

Who

on his Death Bed

in the Bitterness of his Heart

at the Malicious Power of his Enemies

Desired

these Words to be engraven on  his Tomb Stone

Here lies One

Whose Name was writ in Water

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ZOOM INFO:
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           " . . .  affliction is a treasure, and scarce                                              any man hath enough of it."


Movie Time XC:
UPDATE:  This assignment will replace your lowest test grade for the semester.
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We are going to conclude reading GE in Cycle 8.  You may continue to read/answer study questions according to your own schedule.  Other assignments (discussion/take-home (haha) test/reading quiz) TBA.

In the meantime, take a look at one of the best classic movies with one of the best directors and some of the greatest actors of all time.  The movie omits a great deal but, overall, is true to the novel. (Believe me:  I've seen them all and this one from 1946 is by far the best.)

An (substantial) XC opportunity for those who wish to respond to the movie will be announced soon.  As you watch, take note of:
1.  differences from the text
2.  surprises 
3.  situations or characters that you have new or different insight on after viewing the movie
4.  Obi Wan Kenobi (GOAT)
https://www.publicdomainmoviess.com/movie/21-great-expectations

RAM XC to come:   https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/18/all-alone-online-iggy-pop-and-jeremy-irons-lead-mass-ancient-mariner-reading​
CYCLE 8
21-30 April

1.  All work this cycle including class check-ins and all assignments large and small will be a Major Grade.  Rubric in menu bar on left.
2.  Conclude reading of GE.  Use study questions as a guide.
3.  Submit Journals for Stage 2 of GE no later than 4/23 (Major Grade)
4.  Check website daily before class.
5.  Read John Donne's "Meditation 17"
6. Complete study questions/brief response.  Due at tii.com 4/28.
7.  Read "Ode on a Grecian Urn"  on 325 in IMMORTAL POEMS . . . .  (background on Keats here) and additional background/info here
8.  Complete study questions in tab at left.  Due at tii.com 4/30 at 5:00 p.m.

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NO CLASS CHECK IN 4/15.

14-21 April
1. Enroll in English III at Peergrade:  go to   www.peergrade.io/join  and use code:  QYKQFQ

2.  Write 4-5 paragraph essay analyzing Pip using the notes/evidence you have been collecting.  More information is at PG.  Submit your essay by noon on 15 April.  CHANGE TO 3:00 p.m.  Missing this deadline may limit your ability to participate in the REQUIRED peer evaluation process (30% of final essay grade).  Please do your best to have your work submitted by 3 on 4/15. 

3.  Complete peer review of two student essays and a self evaluation of your own essay by 8:00 a.m. 0n 17 April  (5 % of final essay grade).

4.  Essay conferences after class check-in on 17 April.  Final essay submitted to tii.com by 5:00 p.m. on 17 April  (5 % of final essay grade).

5.  GE Journal assignment deadline changed from 15 April to 21 April (San Jacinto Day, Queen Elizabeth II's birthday) MAJOR GRADE

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Day 2/3
--Please begin to gather evidence for a character analysis essay of Pip in Stages 1 and 2 of the book. Details to follow.  

MISSING WORK:
--Please be sure to have submitted your Timed Writing Exercise/response to text assignment to tii.com; double check your submission; 
--Please submit other missing assignments


CYCLE 7 UPDATE:
​Reading Schedule and Journal Assignment for Stage 2 of Pip's Expectations
Complete two reading response journal entries for each reading assignment

Day 1: Chapters 20-2
Day 2/3:  Chapters 23-8
Day 4:  Chapters 29-31
Day 6:  Chapters 32-5
Day 7:  Chapters 36-9

Use Study Questions from Victorian Web, notes from Penguin text, and Chapter Plan as resources during your reading (links on Dickens Resources Page).
Completed journal entries should be submitted to tii.com by 9:00 p.m. on 15 April (Major Grade)

  
Welcome back!
We will continue our study of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
All other previous assignments are deferred until further notice.

ZOOM INFO:
--Go to zoom.us/join (you do not need an account to join a meeting)
--Use code 438 337 8492
--Log in with your first and last name

CYCLE 6:  24 March - 1 April
Great Expectations  CHAPTER PLAN

Day 1:
--Expectations
--Great Expectations :
----Conclude reading of Stage 1 of Pip's Expectations
----Use and be able to answer the Study Questions (Victorian Web)

Day 2/3:
--GE:  Continue to read/answer questions 
--Read:  "Hard Experiences in Boyhood" (Autobiographical Excerpt)
--Answer questions and write brief journal response HERE 
DUE:  FRIDAY by 11:59 a.m.

Day 4:
--"Hard Experiences in Boyhood" assignment due at turnitin.com by noon.
--Dickens Themes Assignment TBA

ASSIGNMENT:  Dickens often writes about
--children without parents, vulnerable children
--criminal justice, justice, law, prisons
--education, bad education, knowledge, wisdom
--class, status, wealth, poverty (particularly the ways in which all members of society are connected regardless of status)
--role of coincidence or fate in life

1.  Identify one example of three of the above themes in Stage 1 of Pip's Expectations
2.  Write a 6-8 sentence journal reflection/response to one of the above themes
3.  Submit this assignment to tii.com by 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, 3/31


DAY 5 BONUS!!!
--Watch this Dickens Ted Talk:  
​https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-should-you-read-charles-dickens-iseult-gillespie

Day 6:
--Dickens Themes Assignment due
​--Timed Writing exercise:  45 minutes - 1 hour

Assignment:
1.  Choose one of the passages below from GE.
2.  Write a well-developed paragraph/response with a topic sentence and strong examples.
3.  Use action verbs, active voice, present tense.
4.  Proofread and edit for organization and clarity.
5.  Check punctuation, spelling, style, and mechanics.
6.  Submit to tii.com by NOON on Friday, 3 April

Passages:
A.  One Memorable Day:  The last paragraph of Chapter 9
B.  Ashamed of Home:  The last paragraph of Chapter 13 and the first two paragraphs of Chapter 14.

Day 7:
--​Stage 1 Summation/Prediction assignment TBA--DELETED ASSIGNMENT: PLEASE DISREGARD

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​Have a safe spring break!

Everyone should have received an email from me on 11 March.  I used the email address you used to sign up at tii.com.  
IF YOU DID NOT RECEIVE AN EMAIL FROM ME:
1.  check your SPAM folder and other settings to see if it was blocked;
2.  check your email address at tii.com to make sure it is correct.

Please check this web page for information about this class after spring break for instructions in the event of changes to our normal school schedule. 

Thank you! 

In the meantime, check out all the great Dickens' resources and links at the tab at the left.  Have FUN!
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Please obtain a copy of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; any unabridged paper copy will due but the Penguin Edition is preferred. Students must have this book in class on Wednesday, 4 March.

Bring IMMORTAL POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE to class each day.

​VOCABULARY LISTS 1-65
DEFINITIONS
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CYCLE 5:  3-12 March 
ROMANTICISM
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Great Expectations


Day 1:
--Conclude RAM discussion

Day 2/3:
--Dickens Life and Times
--Read:  Part 1 of GE b y 3/24

Day 4:
--Essay assigned:  

Day 6:
--Wordsworth Poetry

Day 7:
--​VOCABULARY QUIZ List 11 (see link above)
--Thesis Statement due
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CYCLE 6:  24 March - 1 April
ROMANTICISM
Shelley, Byron, Keats
Great Expectations

Day 1:
--Discuss GE Part 1 (possible quiz)

Day 2/3:
--ESSAY PEER REVIEW:  Bring draft of Essay to classw
--Read:  Part 2 of GE 

Day 4:
--Poetry

Day 6:
-- Poetry
--Essay due

Day 7:
--​VOCABULARY QUIZ List 12 (see link above)

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CYCLE 4:  20-28 February
ROMANTICISM
Wordsworth and Coleridge


Day 1:
--Essay Due at 8:00 p.m. to tii.com

Day 2/3:
--Discuss Romanticism
--Read:  RAM (267)
-- RAM Study Guide
--Video:  The Western Tradition:  Revolution and Romantics

Day 4:
--RAM student led discussion, sections 1-4 (Quiz Grade)


Day 6:
--RAM student led discussion, sections 5-7 (Quiz Grade)

Day 7:
​VOCABULARY QUIZ List 10 (see link above)


EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY!
Attend Inkwell presentation 18 February during Community Time in Lowman Theatrel--100 Quiz Grade.
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CYCLE 3:  6-18 February
Renaissance Poetry
MACBETH

Day 1:
--Essay corrections due
--Discuss  Act 3 Macbeth
--Macbeth Essay assigned;  Due 20 February at 8:00 p.m. to tii.com

Day 2/3:
--Discuss Acts 4 and 5 of Macbeth
 
Day 4:
--Essay Thesis due (daily grade)
​--Test Review

Day 6:
TEST:  ​Macbeth and The Sonnet (matching/quotes/short answer/sonnet analysis)
UPDATE--Homework: 
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Day 7:
​VOCABULARY QUIZ List 9 (see link above)
Work on essays;
Discuss poetry homework (be prepared for reading check/quiz)



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
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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
CHECK IN FOR UPDATES:

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

 

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Resources for 1984:
Study Questions for each chapter.
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COURSE EXPECTATIONS FORM