This Week in AC English III

FINAL STRETCH (ALMOST):

--Conclude discussion of Hopkins;
--Begin PYGMALION

Week of 21 April:


--Read Chapter Nine of LBH for Tuesday
--Obtain a copy of PYGMALION (Penguin is good) by 5 May
--Essay revisions due Thursday
--Recognizing Fallacies Quiz on Thursday (191 in LBH)
--Bring NA and LBH next week

WEEK OF 7 April


ESSAY DUE on 10 April
Double Quiz Friday:  Romantic Poets (know this stuff).
Monday:  complete Byron reading and questions; continue to read Romantic poetry from list above; work on essay.

WEEK OF 31 March:

--Wordsworth:
----Be prepared to discuss "Tintern Abbey" on Monday;
----Lucy poems
----Selected sonnets:  ESSAY assigned, due 9 April
----"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" and "My Heart Leaps Up"

Vocabulary 15: Quiz Friday

DGQ:  Usage


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WEEK OF 24 March:

--Romantic Poetry
--DGQ:  Usage
--Vocabulary 14 assigned; quiz Thursday
--Personal Narrative Essay due 28 March

WEEK OF 10 March:

DGQ:  Usage (LBH 861)
Vocabulary 13 assigned; quiz Thursday.
Poetry essay assigned; due:  25 March
Poetry


UPDATE:

--Personal Narrative essay assigned; description/ideas;  DUE DATE:  28 March;
--Personal Narrative essay prompts (suggestions)

NOTE:  All missed work must be completed by Wednesday, 5 March



WEEK OF 3 March:

DGQ:  Usage (LBH 861)
Vocabulary 12 assigned; quiz Friday.
One in-class essay (TBA)
Renaissance Poetry




















WEEK OF 17 FEBRUARY


Thursday:
Test: HARD TIMES

Friday:
Vocabulary 11 Quiz

Bring NA to class every day.

Detective fiction suggestions . . .
for my money, The Woman in White is better than The Moonstone

Week of 3 February:


Vocabulary:  The Vocal Vendor, Quiz Friday

Literature:
HARD TIMES:  Read chapters 1-7 of Book II by Friday;
Book I HARD TIMES/Dickens Quiz Tuesday;

DGQ:  Modifiers

Timed Writing on Thursday.

ESSAY ASSIGNED:  due 13 February

WEEK OF 27 JANUARY



--Continue to read Hard Times.  Complete "Book the First:  Sowing" and be prepared for a quiz on Thursday.
--DGQ:  one more on agreement; modifiers;




Stay safe and warm!

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20 January 2014


--Chapters 1-7 of Hard Times should be read by Thursday (extra day);
--Dickens! Dickens! Dickens!
--Vocabulary 8 assigned; quiz Friday;
--DGQ:  agreement;
--In-class essay TBA.


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Resources for this novel:  AC English III/Dickens/HARDTIMESResources.htm

13 January 2014


ANNOUNCEMENTS:

-- RAM Study Guide
--Please obtain a copy of Hard Times by Charles Dickens; any unabridged paper copy will due; the Penguin and Norton Critical Editions may be useful.
--Daily Grammar Quizzes resume Wednesday: (subject/verb agreement)


Monday
--Discuss "Dream Children" essay;
--Discuss RAM; read through section five for Wednesday.

Tuesday
--Essay in class:  NO iPads IN CLASS TODAY for this assignment;
--Homework:  conclude reading RAM. 


Wednesday
--DGQs resume:  subject/verb agreement;
--RAM.


Thursday
--Conclude discussion of RAM.


Friday
--RAM Quiz (1/2 Major Grade);
--Read Chapters 1-7 of Hard Times by 22 January.

Welcome back!

Extra Credit Opportunity:  Attend the lecture on Chinese Poetry Thursday at lunch in the Lowman Theatre.  Be sure to sign in with me to receive credit.

TODAY:  Timed Writing
Please read and respond to the following:  "Dream Children."  The essay is due at the end of class.  You may respond to content, style, tone, diction, or theme (or any well-organized combination thereof).  The successful essay will have a clear thesis statement, will argue the thesis using support from the text, and will conform to the  MLA, grammatical, and stylistic rules governing good writing.  Be neat, be clear, be forceful, and be true.

Homework (for tomorrow):  read the first section of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (NA).

Friday:  Vocabulary 7 Quiz.

HOMESTRETCH:

Week of 18 November



--Vocabulary Unit 6 assigned; Quiz Friday.
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--Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for Wednesday (112-165).