THIS WEEK IN AC ENGLISH III
Exam Review
UPDATE:
--Nendelian Nonsense Vocabulary: Quiz: 5/19
--Memorization Extra Credit: Due 5/18
--All missed work must be completed and submitted no later than 5/19
--Tennyson Essay: Due 5/20; In Memoriam : choose one to analyze: 27, 54, 106, 130
--PYGMALION Essay due: 5/01
--A Caesar's Seizure Vocabulary; Quiz: 5/8
--DGQ through # 98
--Other quizzes/presentations/essays/test TBA
--Below is the reading list for the rest of the semester; be prepared to discuss poems before class; you will be updated in class as to progress/expectations.
POETRY
Wordsworth:
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (1491-5)
"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" and "My Heart Leaps Up" (1537-8)
The "Lucy" Poems (1507-10)
Sonnets: (1548-9)
"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
"It Is A Beauteous Evening"
"The World Is Too Much With Us"
Shelley
“Ozymandias” (1741)
“Adonais,” lines 1-45 (1772-4)
Byron
“She walks in beauty” (1676)
“So, we’ll go no more a roving” (1680)
Don Juan TBA
Keats
”Endymion” (first lines only)
“When I have fears that I may cease to be” (1830)
“La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” (1840)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1847)
Browning:
"My Last Duchess"
Tennyson:
”The Lady of Shalott"
“Mariana" : as you read, make particular note of time, imagery, and repetition
"Ulysses"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
In Memoriam : final essay: 1, 7, 14, 27, 54, 106, 130 (due date TBA)
Hopkins:
"God's Grandeur"
"Pied Beauty"
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
"Spring and Fall: to a young child"
VIDEO to watch outside of class (possible)
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--Nendelian Nonsense Vocabulary: Quiz: 5/19
--Memorization Extra Credit: Due 5/18
--All missed work must be completed and submitted no later than 5/19
--Tennyson Essay: Due 5/20; In Memoriam : choose one to analyze: 27, 54, 106, 130
--PYGMALION Essay due: 5/01
--A Caesar's Seizure Vocabulary; Quiz: 5/8
--DGQ through # 98
--Other quizzes/presentations/essays/test TBA
--Below is the reading list for the rest of the semester; be prepared to discuss poems before class; you will be updated in class as to progress/expectations.
POETRY
Wordsworth:
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (1491-5)
"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" and "My Heart Leaps Up" (1537-8)
The "Lucy" Poems (1507-10)
Sonnets: (1548-9)
"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
"It Is A Beauteous Evening"
"The World Is Too Much With Us"
Shelley
“Ozymandias” (1741)
“Adonais,” lines 1-45 (1772-4)
Byron
“She walks in beauty” (1676)
“So, we’ll go no more a roving” (1680)
Don Juan TBA
Keats
”Endymion” (first lines only)
“When I have fears that I may cease to be” (1830)
“La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” (1840)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1847)
Browning:
"My Last Duchess"
Tennyson:
”The Lady of Shalott"
“Mariana" : as you read, make particular note of time, imagery, and repetition
"Ulysses"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
In Memoriam : final essay: 1, 7, 14, 27, 54, 106, 130 (due date TBA)
Hopkins:
"God's Grandeur"
"Pied Beauty"
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
"Spring and Fall: to a young child"
VIDEO to watch outside of class (possible)
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DGQ: Punctuation
Vocabulary:
--Unit 14 Quiz: 17 April
--Unit 15 Quiz: 23 April
PYGMALION
Wednesday: Act I Quiz
Friday: Acts II and III due
Monday: Act IV Reading Check; Essay Assigned.
Tuesday: Act V due
Friday: Essay due on 29 April
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Vocabulary:
--Unit 14 Quiz: 17 April
--Unit 15 Quiz: 23 April
PYGMALION
Wednesday: Act I Quiz
Friday: Acts II and III due
Monday: Act IV Reading Check; Essay Assigned.
Tuesday: Act V due
Friday: Essay due on 29 April
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DGQ: Parts of a Sentence
Vocabulary: Unit 12 Quiz: 2 April
BR: Conclude discussion
Essay: Due: 9 April
Test: 8 April
Homework: Read Act I of PYGMALION by 13 April
Vocabulary 13 Quiz: 10 April
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Vocabulary: Unit 12 Quiz: 2 April
BR: Conclude discussion
Essay: Due: 9 April
Test: 8 April
Homework: Read Act I of PYGMALION by 13 April
Vocabulary 13 Quiz: 10 April
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2 March 2015
--DGQ Usage through quiz 84
3 March
--TEST: RAM
4 March
--BRIGHTON ROCK
5 March
--BR Part 1 Presentation
6 March
----Vocabulary 10 Quiz
10 March
--BR Part 2 Presentation
11 March
--Vocabulary 11 Quiz
12 March
--BR Part 3 Presentation
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--DGQ Usage through quiz 84
3 March
--TEST: RAM
4 March
--BRIGHTON ROCK
5 March
--BR Part 1 Presentation
6 March
----Vocabulary 10 Quiz
10 March
--BR Part 2 Presentation
11 March
--Vocabulary 11 Quiz
12 March
--BR Part 3 Presentation
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-- RAM Study Guide
--Student presentations TBA
--Read Section 1 by Tuesday, 17 February
--Vocabulary: The Vocal Vendor, Quiz Friday
--Vocabulary: Vocabulary 9, Quiz 27 February
--RAM Test: 3 March
--DGQ: Usage
--1 2/18 JM
--2 2/19 BM
--3 2/20 JR
--4 2/23 PL
--5 2/24 GC
--6 2/25 SW
--7 2/26 WS
--ALL 2/27 KP
Please obtain a copy of Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, Penguin edition. This one.
Please obtain a copy of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. This one.
UPDATE:
Essay due at 8:00 am to tii.com on 9 February
HT Test: Tuesday, 10 February
--Student presentations TBA
--Read Section 1 by Tuesday, 17 February
--Vocabulary: The Vocal Vendor, Quiz Friday
--Vocabulary: Vocabulary 9, Quiz 27 February
--RAM Test: 3 March
--DGQ: Usage
--1 2/18 JM
--2 2/19 BM
--3 2/20 JR
--4 2/23 PL
--5 2/24 GC
--6 2/25 SW
--7 2/26 WS
--ALL 2/27 KP
Please obtain a copy of Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, Penguin edition. This one.
Please obtain a copy of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. This one.
UPDATE:
Essay due at 8:00 am to tii.com on 9 February
HT Test: Tuesday, 10 February
WEEKS OF 26 January and 2 February
DGQ: Usage
Read "Garnering" by February 2;
Vocabulary 8 Quiz Thursday, January 29;
Vocabulary 9 Quiz Thursday, February 5;
PRESENTATIONS:
All students should come to class with questions to ask;
Student presenters will act as facilitators;
Participation grades will be given daily to non-presenters;
Presenters will receive a major grade;
Understanding of basic plot, setting, theme, character and pov by all students is presumed.
--26 January: BM/SW discuss I, 8-16
--27 January: JR/WS discuss II, 1-7
--3 February: GC/JM discuss II, 8-12 and III 1-2
--4 February: PL/KP discuss III, 3-9
Still to come:
HT Essay: Suggested prompts
DRAFT/PR in class 2/5
DUE: 2/9
Possible HT Test
WEEK OF 19 January:
DGQ: Usage
Read through "Sowing" in HARD TIMES;
"Sowing"/Dickens quiz 22 January;
Vocabulary 7 Quiz 23 January.
Please read "Reaping" by Wednesday, 28 January.
DGQ: Usage
Read "Garnering" by February 2;
Vocabulary 8 Quiz Thursday, January 29;
Vocabulary 9 Quiz Thursday, February 5;
PRESENTATIONS:
All students should come to class with questions to ask;
Student presenters will act as facilitators;
Participation grades will be given daily to non-presenters;
Presenters will receive a major grade;
Understanding of basic plot, setting, theme, character and pov by all students is presumed.
--26 January: BM/SW discuss I, 8-16
--27 January: JR/WS discuss II, 1-7
--3 February: GC/JM discuss II, 8-12 and III 1-2
--4 February: PL/KP discuss III, 3-9
Still to come:
HT Essay: Suggested prompts
DRAFT/PR in class 2/5
DUE: 2/9
Possible HT Test
WEEK OF 19 January:
DGQ: Usage
Read through "Sowing" in HARD TIMES;
"Sowing"/Dickens quiz 22 January;
Vocabulary 7 Quiz 23 January.
Please read "Reaping" by Wednesday, 28 January.
--Please obtain a copy of HARD TIMES; I recommend Penguin or Norton Critical Edition, but any unabridged copy will do
--Sonnets: we will be reading and discussing these poems in class; bring NA every day; details to follow;
--Personal Narrative Essay: conferences/revisions/due date to be announced.
--DGQ: usage
Upcoming due dates:
1/13 Vocabulary 6 Quiz
1/15 Sonnet Analysis Essay (2 pages) due
1/16 Quiz: Dickens: Life, Times, Works
1/21 Quiz: HT, "Book the First: Sowing"
DICKENS RESOURCES TAB at left.
Sonnet Information
LIST OF POEMS (will be updated as we go):
Shakespeare Sonnet 30
Shakespeare Sonnet 29
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NEWS FLASH!!! c. 1485
University of Chicago essay prompts_
http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/3388/3469470/ch19.pdf
Richard III Assignments:
Personal Narrative essay assigned: 12/2
Quiz, Acts I and II: 12/3
Reading/Working Days: 12/4-5
Vocabulary 5 Quiz: 12/8
Act III Group Discussion: 12/8
Memorization due: 12/9
Act IV Group Discussion: 12/10
Personal Narrative Essay due: 12/10
Act V Group Discussion: 12/11
MEMORIZATION Assignment: 1/2 Major Grade
--due 12/9
--earn five points extra if said in front of class
--earn 100 for zero mistakes
-- -5 for each missed or transposed word
-- -10 for each missed or transposed line
-- - 10 for long pauses or starting over
MISTAKES: missed/transposed words; missed/transposed lines; starting over; long pauses.
Choose one of the following two parts of Richards Act V soliloquy: here.
Harvard's Chaucer Page
--Vocabulary Unit 3 quiz Thursday
--DGQ: Modifiers
--Chaucer: GENERAL PROLOGUE; THE PARDONER'S TALE;
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 Pardoner's Tale" ; questions here.
--Alternate link to PT here.
--Read Malory for Friday (299-318).
----Malory Quiz on Monday ???
--Vocabulary Unit 3 quiz Thursday
--DGQ: Modifiers
--Chaucer: GENERAL PROLOGUE; THE PARDONER'S TALE;
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 Pardoner's Tale" ; questions here.
--Alternate link to PT here.
--Read Malory for Friday (299-318).
----Malory Quiz on Monday ???
27 OCTOBER
DAILY GRAMMAR QUIZ (29-38): Subject/Verb agreement
Vocabulary Quiz --"Beastly Benefactors" on Friday--VOCABULARY!!
Literature:
--Discuss "The Dream of the Rood" (24-25)
--Read "The Seafarer" ; WS; Riddles; study questions;
--Read Bede and “Caedmon's Hymn.”
--TEST: The Anglo Saxons on THURSDAY.
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DAILY GRAMMAR QUIZ (29-38): Subject/Verb agreement
Vocabulary Quiz --"Beastly Benefactors" on Friday--VOCABULARY!!
Literature:
--Discuss "The Dream of the Rood" (24-25)
--Read "The Seafarer" ; WS; Riddles; study questions;
--Read Bede and “Caedmon's Hymn.”
--TEST: The Anglo Saxons on THURSDAY.
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13 October
--13 October: Vocabulary Quiz
--DGQ: lie/lay, etc.
--BEOWULF
--Essay: assigned 10/14, NEW due 10/23
FYI: HANDOUT: An Introduction to Stress and Meter
--13 October: Vocabulary Quiz
--DGQ: lie/lay, etc.
--BEOWULF
--Essay: assigned 10/14, NEW due 10/23
FYI: HANDOUT: An Introduction to Stress and Meter
6 October
--Vocabulary assigned: "The Jagged Jennet" aka "Donkey Business"; Quiz MONDAY (10/13).
--DGQ: lie/lay, rise/raise, sit/set
--Literature:
----conclude ballads on Monday;
----Ballad quiz on FRIDAY;
----discuss "Lanval"
----BEOWULF: 26-41, 41-49, 83-97.
--Vocabulary assigned: "The Jagged Jennet" aka "Donkey Business"; Quiz MONDAY (10/13).
--DGQ: lie/lay, rise/raise, sit/set
--Literature:
----conclude ballads on Monday;
----Ballad quiz on FRIDAY;
----discuss "Lanval"
----BEOWULF: 26-41, 41-49, 83-97.
Week of 22 September:
Literature:
--read and take notes on the Anglo-Saxons (1-13 in NA) by Thursday
--ballads/poetry (see below)
--Ballad presentations Thursday and Friday
--Read "Lanval" for Monday, 29 September (98-111)
Vocabulary: Poetry Terms Quiz on Friday (see below)
DGQ: nouns in a sentence
Timed Writing: Wednesday
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--information about ballads;
--ballad analysis assigned;
--evaluation. UPDATED 09/23
PRESENTATIONS WILL BEGIN ON FRIDAY.
You may wish to bring a hard copy of the poems to class to mark during presentations.
--Lord Randall
--The Wife of Usher's Well
--The Bonny Earl of Murray (mondegreen!)
--Get Up and Bar the Door
--Bonny Barbara Allan
--Bonnie George Campbell
--Sir Patrick Spens
--The Unquiet Grave
Later examples (some with identifiable authors)
--Lock Lomond
--Beeswing
--Auld Lang Syne
--information about ballads;
--ballad analysis assigned;
--evaluation. UPDATED 09/23
PRESENTATIONS WILL BEGIN ON FRIDAY.
You may wish to bring a hard copy of the poems to class to mark during presentations.
--Lord Randall
--The Wife of Usher's Well
--The Bonny Earl of Murray (mondegreen!)
--Get Up and Bar the Door
--Bonny Barbara Allan
--Bonnie George Campbell
--Sir Patrick Spens
--The Unquiet Grave
Later examples (some with identifiable authors)
--Lock Lomond
--Beeswing
--Auld Lang Syne
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Terms: alexandrine, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogy, apostrophe, assonance, ballad, blank verse, cacophony, conceit, concrete poetry, consonance, couplet, dialect, diction, dramatic poetry, elision, euphony, figurative language, figure of speech, folk ballad, foot, free verse, hyperbole, iambic pentameter, iambic heptameter, imagery, incremental repetition, inversion, irony, lyric poetry, metaphor, meter, metonymy, narrative, octave, onomatopoeia, parallelism, personification, quatrain, refrain, repetition, rhyme (end, approximate, internal), rhyme scheme, rhythm, sestet, simile, sonnet, stanza, symbol, trochee
HANDOUT: An Introduction to Stress and Meter
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Terms: alexandrine, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogy, apostrophe, assonance, ballad, blank verse, cacophony, conceit, concrete poetry, consonance, couplet, dialect, diction, dramatic poetry, elision, euphony, figurative language, figure of speech, folk ballad, foot, free verse, hyperbole, iambic pentameter, iambic heptameter, imagery, incremental repetition, inversion, irony, lyric poetry, metaphor, meter, metonymy, narrative, octave, onomatopoeia, parallelism, personification, quatrain, refrain, repetition, rhyme (end, approximate, internal), rhyme scheme, rhythm, sestet, simile, sonnet, stanza, symbol, trochee
HANDOUT: An Introduction to Stress and Meter
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Week of 8 September:
--Next Vocabulary Quiz: Monday, Day 4: --Vocabulary: " A Sayonara to Baksheesh."
NEW: Vocabulary: "A Farewell to Alms"
--Read through Act IV of TN by Friday (Reading check???)
--TN Essay assigned; due Tuesday, 16 September; suggested prompts;
NEW DUE DATE: Friday, 19 September.
--DGQ: Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement;
--Timed writing possible on Wednesday or Thursday in class.
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Timed Writing Evaluation Guidelines
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PLEASE BRING Twelfth Night TO CLASS EVERY DAY THIS WEEK.
Monday, September 1
--Holiday
Tuesday, September 2
--Discuss TN; Study Questions
--Vocabulary Unit 1 assigned;
--Papers returned.
Wednesday, September 3
--WS in class on TN; bring to class on Thursday;
Thursday, September 4
--Discuss TN
Friday, September 5
--Vocabulary Unit 1 Quiz
--TN
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Monday, September 1
--Holiday
Tuesday, September 2
--Discuss TN; Study Questions
--Vocabulary Unit 1 assigned;
--Papers returned.
Wednesday, September 3
--WS in class on TN; bring to class on Thursday;
Thursday, September 4
--Discuss TN
Friday, September 5
--Vocabulary Unit 1 Quiz
--TN
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25 August 2014
--Daily Grammar Quizzes: End Marks and Commas.
--Timed writings begin.
--First topics: Comedy; Punctuation; English Literature and History.
Monday:
--Comedy: Read Act I of Twelfth Night for Wednesday.
Tuesday:
--Timed Writing: TBA
Wednesday:
--Twelfth Night
Thursday:
--Quiz: Act One of Twelfth Night;
--Read Act Two for Friday.
Friday:
--Act Two.
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--Daily Grammar Quizzes: End Marks and Commas.
--Timed writings begin.
--First topics: Comedy; Punctuation; English Literature and History.
Monday:
--Comedy: Read Act I of Twelfth Night for Wednesday.
Tuesday:
--Timed Writing: TBA
Wednesday:
--Twelfth Night
Thursday:
--Quiz: Act One of Twelfth Night;
--Read Act Two for Friday.
Friday:
--Act Two.
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Welcome Back!
Assignments/Updates for this class will be posted here weekly.
Course Expectations/Syllabus
--"Twice Told" Vocabulary 1 assigned--Review Wednesday, Quiz Thursday.
THE TOUGH TEACHER
--Daily Grammar Quizzes begin Tuesday: End Marks and Commas.
--Timed writings begin next week.
--Please submit essay to tii.com by Wednesday morning.
--First topics: Comedy; Punctuation; English Literature and History.
Assignments/Updates for this class will be posted here weekly.
Course Expectations/Syllabus
--"Twice Told" Vocabulary 1 assigned--Review Wednesday, Quiz Thursday.
THE TOUGH TEACHER
--Daily Grammar Quizzes begin Tuesday: End Marks and Commas.
--Timed writings begin next week.
--Please submit essay to tii.com by Wednesday morning.
--First topics: Comedy; Punctuation; English Literature and History.
