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THIS WEEK IN AC ENGLISH III


Spring Exam

2 May:  Tennyson (NAE)
9 May:  Shaw, Pygmalion (this text)
16 May:  Joyce (NAF)  


American Linguistics Quiz


TENNYSON POEMS:  Some Questions 
"Mariana"
"The Lady of Shalott"
"Ulysses"
From In Memoriam:  1, 7, 14, 27, 54, 106, 119
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"

Due Dates:
--Tennyson Essay:  Due 5/11;  In Memoriam :   assigned 5/3:  5, 24, 34, 56, 96, 108, 130

--Vocabulary 19-20:  5/4
--Vocabulary 21-22:  5/9

--Book checks/reading checks/reading quizzes:  TBA




SPECIAL NOTES:
--No work will be accepted after 18 May.  All assignments and missed work must be complete by that date.
--Remaining work:  2 Vocabulary Quizzes; 1 Major Grade (Essay); assorted reading checks/daily grades.
--All extra credit will be added at the end of the semester.
--Grades (or approximate grades) will be available Dead Day.
--A review sheet for the final will be posted by 18 May; in the meantime, review your notes and use this webpage 

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Week of 21 March
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ROMANTICISM:
This week:  Read Rime of the Ancient Mariner  

LOOK:  
RAM Study Guide
 
Monday:  Romanticism introduction; Video and WS (journal entries due Wednesday)
Tuesday:  Discuss RAM 1-3
Wednesday:  Discuss RAM  4-5
Thursday:  Conclude RAM--possible quiz

UPDATE:  RAM Quiz 29 March

Tuesday:  Wordsworth Introduction.  Read "Tintern Abbey" for Wednesday   STUDY QUESTIONS
Wednesday:  discuss TA
Thursday:  Conclude WW  
​READ:  305-7, 334-5, and 344-7 for Monday 4/4
Friday:  Shelley, Byron, Keats





SHELLEY:
"Ozymandias" (776)
“Adonais,” lines 1-45 (839)

KEATS:
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (923)
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" 
 (930)
“When I have fears that I may cease to be” (911)
"This Living Hand . . ." (964)


BYRON:

“She walks in beauty” (617)
"Written After Swimming . . ." (616)
“So, we’ll go no more a roving” (620)
Don Juan (672) --  just read the introductory information about his poem








Week of  22 February

COMPOSITION:
Monday and Tuesday:
In-class essays

ASSIGNMENT:
Essay 1:  Due at tii.com by 4:00 p.m. 22 February
Essay 2:  Due at tii.com by 4:00 p.m. 23 February


LITERATURE:  Dickens
Continue chapter presentation and discussion of novel.


VOCABULARY:  
--Units 17-18:  Quiz 26 February


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SEE THE WINTER PLAY 
FOR EXTRA CREDIT:
2/18 at 4:00
2/19 at 7:00
2/20 at 2:00








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PRESENTATION FORMAT


19 February 


1 - 5 February
--DGQ:  Usage
--Discuss Hard Times 
--HT 
Presentation Assignments made
--Quiz:  5 February, Vocabulary Units  11-12



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9-10 February
--Read HT
--Complete/prepare chapter presentation
--Prepare for presentations to begin on 16 February; must be submitted to tii.com to receive credit;

11 February
--Quiz:  Vocabulary 13-14
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16-8 February
--Presentations

19 February
--HT Quiz






Week of 25 January:

--Continue reading HARD TIMES; be prepared to discuss/be quizzed over Chapters 1-14 by Friday;
--Bring NA(B) every day for conclusion of in-class discussion of Renaissance Poetry;
--DGQ:  usage
--Composition:  Sonnet Analysis Essay due 1/26
--QUIZ:  Dickens Life, Times, Works:  1/27
--Vocabulary:  Wordless Weeder Quiz 1/28 
Week of 19 January:

--Continue work on Sonnet Analysis Essay:  due 1/26
--Begin reading Hard Times​ (refer to Dickens page under Resources tab at left)
--Renaissance Poetry/Literature:  we will be reading and discussing the works below in class; bring NA(B) every day; 
--DGQ:  usage

Upcoming due dates:  
1/19   Shakespeare Sonnet Analysis Essay/Revision due
1/21  Vocabulary 11-12 Quiz

1/26   Sonnet Analysis Essay due
Week of 1/26  TBA:  Quiz:  HT, "Book the First:  Sowing"  and  Quiz:  Dickens: Life, Times, Works


Week of 11 January:

Vocabulary:  "A Caesar's Seizure" assigned; quiz THURSDAY

Literature:  
--Obtain a print, unabridged copy of HARD TIMES by Dickens;
--Read all of the individual poems listed below and select one for analysis; sign up on Monday
--Bring NA(B) every day

Composition:
--Complete conference with teacher; sonnet corrections due FRIDAY.
--Begin work on new sonnet analysis essay (due date TBA).


CANTO 1 (781)
+Spenser:  Read/discuss life and works, The Fairie Queene
--34 “Lyke as a ship” (986)
--65 “The doubt which ye misdeeme” (987)
--67  “Lyke as a huntsman” (988)
--75  “One day I wrote her name” (989)
--79  “Men call you fayre” (989)

+Sidney:  Read/discuss life and works, 1, 2
--31  “With how sad steps” (1090)
--39  “Come sleep” (1091)
--45  “Stella oft sees the very face of woe” (1092)

+Donne:  Read/discuss life and works, Meditation 17
--7 “At the round earth’s imagined corner” (1411)
--10 “Death be not proud” (1412)
--14  “Batter my heart” (1413)

+Milton:  Read/discuss life and works, Paradise Lost
--“When I consider” (1942)
--“Me Thought I Saw” (1943)

WELCOME BACK!!!

Wednesday:  Exam Review
Thursday:  Sonnet Essay, PART 2:  bring vocabulary book and NA(B) to class
Friday:  Vocabulary 9-10 Quiz


ESSAY CORRECTIONS  DUE:  1-19-16


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FINAL STRETCH!!!!

DR. FAUSTUS  Study Questions

Read Marlowe' s DR. FAUSTUS, complete Vocabulary Quiz 7-8, and prepare for final.

DATES:
--12/1:  Study Questions for Prologue, Scene 1 and Scene 2 due
--12/3:  Study Questions for Scenes 3, 4, 5, and 6 due
--12/4:  Discuss DR. FAUSTUS
--12/7:  Vocabulary 7-8 Quiz
--12/7:  Discuss DR. FAUSTUS
--12/8:  TEST/QUIZ (TBA):   DR. FAUSTUS
--12/9:  Review for Final Exam







WEEK OF 9 November

--Vocabulary Units 5 and 6 Quiz on Friday
--DGQ (check list below)
--Sonnets/Renaissance poetry:  Read the handout (Sonnet information) and NA(Vol.B)  646-9 for Thursday
--bring NA (B) every day this week.
​--SONNET QUIZ:  16 November


WEEK OF 2 NOVEMBER

--Vocabulary Units 3 and 4 Quiz on Friday
--DGQ (check below)
--Everyman:  bring NA (A) every day this week.

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MONDAY:  Discuss "The General Prologue"
TUESDAY:  Quiz:  "The General Prologue"
WEDNESDAY:  Discuss "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (possible reading check)
THURSDAY:  Latin and Greek Vocabulary Units 1 and 2 Quiz
-----Discuss "The Pardoner's Tale" (possible reading check)
​FRIDAY:  TBA

DGQ:
16-17:  who, whom
18:  incomplete construction
19-28:  lie/lay, sit/set, rise/raise
29-38:  agreement
39-47:  modifiers
​48-???: usage
CHAUCER LINKS:

Harvard's Chaucer Page

You will want to read the texts at the links below.  NA contains Middle English texts.  We will discuss the texts available at the links in 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; 


CHECK YOUR SCHEDULES and NOTIFY ME OF ANY CONFLICTS:
--  "The Miller's Tale" (a fableau); questions here
-- "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (a romance); questions here
--  "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (a beast fable); questions here and here
--  "The Pardoner's Tale" (an exemplum); questions here. 
           --Alternate link to PT here.
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Extra Credit Opportunity:
Attend Comedy Sportz this week for Extra Credit!
Check out SJ Announcements for time and place.
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Extra Credit Opportunity
Attend SDOAPS this week for Extra Credit!
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28 September through 9 October


LITERATURE:
9/30
--"The Dream of the Rood" (32)
--Bede(27)
--"The Wanderer" (117)
--"The Wife's Lament" (120)

10/1-10/2
--Geoffrey of Monmouth (130)
--"Lanval" (154)
--Sir Gawain and the Green Knight  (SGGK) (183)

--General Notes:  SGGK
--Study Questions (from Borroff translation; wording may be slightly different)

----Graded Discussions 1-4 SGGK:  ASSIGNMENTS
----10/5:  Fitt 1 
----10/6:  Fitt 2 
----10/8:  Fitt 3 
----10/9:  Fitt 4 

VOCABULARY
--Poetry Terms Quiz 10/2 (see list below)


COMPOSITION:
--Beowulf In-class essay 9/28
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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


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14 through 25 September




ASSIGNMENT FOR THURSDAY, 24 September:
--Read and answer questions on pages 1-6 of this handout;
--Answer the questions on this handout; 
--Due Monday at the beginning of class.



COMING UP:  "The Dream of the Rood," "Lanval," and Poetry Terms Vocabulary

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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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LITERATURE:
--TN Quote Quiz
--Beowulf  (36-51, 51-58,  summaries; 95-108)
-----Graded discussions:  9/17, 9/18, 9/22. and 9/23
--Possible Reading Quiz TBA

BEOWULF WS
Also:  Study Questions 

COMPOSITION:
--TN Essay 
----Peer Reviews complete by 9/14
----Final due 9/16
--B In-class Essay 9/24

VOCABULARY
--The Vocal Vendor  9/18
--The Jagged Jennet 9/25

DGQ:
--End Marks and Commas

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31 August through 11 September

DAILY GRAMMAR QUIZ:  End marks and commas
Twelfth Night graded discussion  DISCUSSION/STUDY QUESTIONS
Twice Told Tales Vocabulary #2:  "Sayanara . . ." (Quiz: 9/8)
TN Essay:  assigned 9/3; due 9/10.
SUGGESTED TOPICS
Related issues:  

Edit Checklist
Sample Rubric and Guidelines
Semester Late Pass
Plagiarism

31 August
--Discussion:  TN, Act 1 

1 September

--Discussion:  TN, Act 2 

3 September
--Discussion:  TN, Act 3 


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8 September
--Discussion:  TN, Act 4 
--Vocabulary Quiz

9 September
--Discussion:  TN, Act5 

10 September
--Essay due;
--Prepare for Reading Quiz:  TN on 9/14



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Week of 24 August

MONDAY:
--DGQ assigned:  End Marks and Commas
--Vocabulary due 8/26; Quiz 8/27 (Link below)
--TN:  Read Act 1 for Wednesday

TUESDAY:

WEDNESDAY:
--DGQ
--Vocabulary Quiz
--TN discussion

THURSDAY:
--TN, Act 2, Graded discussion

FRIDAY:
--TN, Act 3, Graded discussion


Week of 25 August








Welcome Back!

Assignments/Updates for this class will be posted here weekly.

Course Expectations/Syllabus

August 2015

Tuesday: 
--Welcome:  course expectations and syllabus
--Note check:  Summer Reading
--Sign in to tii.com (information located under Resources at left)
--Daily Grammar Quizzes begin Friday:  End Marks and Commas

Wednesday:
--Discussion:  Summer Reading 
--"Twice Told" Vocabulary 1 assigned: Review 8/26, Quiz 8/27.
             THE TOUGH TEACHER

Thursday:

--Writing guidelines/procedures.

Friday:
--Summer Reading Class Essay:  The Code of the Woosters
--Introduction to Twelfth Night.






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