English III
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ZOOM INFO:
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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.
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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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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
Bring IMMORTAL POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE to class each day.
VOCABULARY LISTS 1-65
DEFINITIONS
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
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)
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
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.
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
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
