This Week in English III
PYGMALION Essay Topics
FINAL STRETCH:
Major Grades Remaining: Tennyson Presentation; PYGMALION Essay; HEART OF DARKNESS TEST.
PYGMALION texts have arrived: $7.93 each on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Week of 17 April
TUESDAY: Vocabulary Quiz 13-14; Work on Tennyson Presentations
WEDNESDAY: Work on Tennyson Presentations; Homework: Read PYGMALION Act 1 by 28 April
THURSDAY: Vocabulary Quiz 15-16; Presentation 1
Week of 24 April:
MONDAY: Presentation 7, 14
TUESDAY: Presentation 27, 54
WEDNESDAY: Vocabulary 17-18 Quiz
THURSDAY: Presentation 106, 119
FRIDAY: PYGMALION
Bring NA-E everyday (Victorian Literature Text)
Week of 10 April:
Hopkins, Yeats, Tennyson
Vocabulary 13-14 Quiz on 13 April
TENNYSON POEMS: Some Questions
"Mariana"
"The Lady of Shalott"
"Ulysses"
From In Memoriam: 1, 7, 14, 27, 54, 106, 119 PRESENTATIONS 4/19-25
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
PYGMALION: Read Act 1 by 4/27
May 9
Read: Heart of Darkness (NAF 1953)
Section 1:
Section 2:
Section 3:
Study Questions
More Study Questions
White Lies and Whited Sepulchres in Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS
VOCABULARY QUIZ DATES:
4/20: Vocabulary 15-16
4/26: Vocabulary 17-18
5/1: Vocabulary 19-20
5/9: Vocabulary 21-22
Week of 27 March
UPDATE: Test has been rescheduled for Thursday, 30 March
Sentence combining exercises due Friday: Practice 1, 2, 3 (22-27) in Workbook
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN Assignment due Monday
Vocabulary 10-11 Quiz on Tuesday
Updates on other work TBA!
Check out NEWS OF NOTE TAB on the left!!!
3/24: Vocabulary 9-10
3/27 and 3/28: Shelly, Byron, Keats, Romanticism review
3/29: Romanticism Test
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER:
ROMANTICISM:
This week: Read Rime of the Ancient Mariner
LOOK: RAM Study Guide
Monday: Romanticism introduction; Video and WS (journal entries due Friday at tii.com)
Tuesday: Discuss RAM 1-3
Wednesday: Discuss RAM 4-5
Thursday: Conclude RAM--possible quiz
NEXT WEEEK:
LITERATURE:
FOR PRESENTATIONS:
Wordsworth
Read the following; be prepared for reading checks and discussion; bring NA(D) every day.
FOR DISCUSSION Tuesday through Thursday:
--"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" (334) MEMORIZE THIS POEM FOR QUIZ GRADE
--"My Heart Leaps Up" (335)
--The "Lucy" Poems (305-7)
----"Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known"
----"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"
----"Three Years She Grew"
----"A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
----"I Travelled Among Unknown Men"
--Sonnets (344-8)
----"The World Is Too Much With Us"
----"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"
----"It Is A Beauteous Evening"
FOR CLASS DISCUSSION:
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
WEATHER UPDATE: TEST RESCHEDULED
Wednesday, 15 FebruaryPRESENTATIONS: February 7-21
GEV3 Quiz: 2/9
GE Test: 2/14
GE Essay: 2/21
--Please obtain a copy of GREAT EXPECTATIONS; I recommend Penguin or Norton Critical Edition, but any unabridged copy will do. DICKENS RESOURCES TAB at left.
READING SCHEDULE:
--Complete GE through Chapter 15 by 23 January
--Complete GE through Chapter 30 by 30 January
--Complete GE through Chapter 44 by 7 February
--Complete GE by 13 February
--Renaissance Poetry: we will be discussing these poems in class; bring NA (B) every day.
Week of 9 January
--Essay: Shakespeare Sonnet Analysis assigned
--Sonnets/Renaissance Poetry Presentations
SONNET INFORMATION
SONNET ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
--Read through the poems listed below and select one for analysis; sign up on Monday.
+Spenser
--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)
Week of 17 January
--Sonnet Essay Conferences
--Dickens: GE and Life and Times
23 January through 16 February
--GE
--GE Essay
--GE Test
Upcoming due dates:
1/10-3 Poetry Presentations
1/12 Vocabulary 7 Quiz--MOVED to 1/20
1/18 Sonnets Quiz
1/20 Vocabulary 8 Quiz--Changed to Vocab 7 and 8 Quiz
1/23 Quiz: Dickens: Life, Times, Works; Part 1 of GE--Changed to 1/26
1/24 Sonnet Essay Due
1/25 GE Vocabulary List 1 Quiz
1/30 GE 16-30 Quiz
2/1 GE Vocabulary List 2 Quiz
2/7 GE 31-45 Quiz
2/9 GE Vocabulary List 3 Quiz
2/14 GE Test
2/16 GE Essay Due
GE Vocabulary Lists
DEFINITIONS
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EXTRA CREDIT:
See THE MOUSETRAP!
--Malory
----Graded Discussions 1-4 (20 minutes each):
----11/9: "Conspiracy" (482)
----11/9: "War" (487)
----11/11: "Death of Arthur" (491)
----11/11: "Death of Lancelot and Guinevere" (497)
DATES:
--11/16: Act 1 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--11/18: Act 2 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--11/28: Macbeth Vocabulary List 1 Quiz
--11/29: Act 3 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--12/1: Act 4 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--12/6: Act 5 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--12/7: ESSAY DUE --Major Grade
--12/8: Memorization recitations in class
--12/8: Macbeth Vocabulary List 2 Quiz.
--12/9: Review for Final Exam
--12/9: Quote Quiz
MACBETH Resources
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 1.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 2.
--Here's a link to definitions
--Essay assignment: 12/7
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT:
For each of the five acts of MACBETH, complete five journal entries.
1. Select a quote, an action, a question, a line, or a scene of the play
2. Write down/identify that item
3. Respond to it in four to six sentences.
4. Submit your assignments to tii.com on the due dates listed above.
NOTE: You may respond in first person. You may discuss your confusion or questions that you have about the selection. Click on the "Reading Journal" tab on the "Resources" page if you would like more information about how to proceed.
ACT 1: Look for the following ideas/symbols/themes and motifs in Act I. Respond to five different ones.
Blood
Time
Tailor/sewing/clothing
Duty/honor/loyalty
Growing/seeds/youth/eggs
Conscience
Sleep
Children/birth/babies
Appearances/seeming/reality/be
Ambition
Do/did/done/execution Nothingness/nothing
Doubles/twinnings/doubling/duplicity
mirrors/mirroring
things out of balance; unnatural
ACTS 2-5: Select one or two from the list above and respond to its use throughout the rest of the play. You must have five journal entries per Act.
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MEMORIZATION Extra Credit: TWO QUIZ GRADES
--due by Wednesday, 12/2
--earn five points extra if said in front of class on 12/1
--earn 100 for 2-0 mistakes
--earn 80 for 3-5 mistakes
--earn 60 for 6-8 mistakes
--earn 0 for more than 8 mistakes
***WARNING: ***
You will receive the two quiz grades if you attempt this assignment. A score of 100 or 105 is extremely attainable for most students, but your grade may be hurt by this OPTIONAL assignment if you under-prepare.
MISTAKES: missed/transposed words; missed/transposed lines; starting over; long pauses.
OPTIONS:
--Glamis thou art
--Is this a dagger
--Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
--Not marble, nor the gilded monuments or see NA
--When to the sessions of sweet silent thought or see NA
--When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes or see NA
**********************************
EXTRA CREDIT Opportunity: Sign up to see A MIDSUMMER NIGHT"S DREAM on Sunday, 23 October at the Alley. You will need to pay for your ticket and provide your own transportation. If you are interested in attending this performance with others from the school, please complete the information on this form.
3 October through 31 October (with updates TBA)
ALL READING ASSIGNMENTS SHOULD BE READ AT LINKS POSTED BELOW
Assignment Calendar:
10/5: Comma WS due; ballads: read ballads handout for tomorrow;
10/6: Ballad DQ;Punctuation review; Chaucer; read "The General Prologue" for 10/11; UPDATE: also read introductory materials about Chaucer and CT in NA (38-43).
10/10: Vocabulary 5 Quiz; Sentence Combining exercises due (1-10);
10/11: Punctuation review; Read "The Pardoner's Tale" for Thursday;
10/12: "General Prologue" Quiz; punctuation
10/13: "Pardoner" DQ; punctuation
10/17: Ballad presentation; read "The Miller's Tale" for 10/20; punctuation
10/18: PUNCTUATION TEST
10/20: "Miller" DQ; ballad presentations
10/21: Ballad presentations; read "The Wife of Bath's Tale" for 10/24
10/24: "Wife" DQ; read "The Nun's Priest's Tale" for 10/26; character sketch/essay assigned
10/26: "Nun's Priest's" DQ;
10/27-10/31: Chaucer discussions
QUIZ GRADE EXTRA CREDIT:
Watch Episode 20 of THE WESTERN TRADITION available under resources tab.
Submit 10 quiz questions to tii.com by noon Wednesday, 12 October.
BALLADS INFORMATION:
--discuss ballads;
--ballad analysis assigned; group discussions will be 10/17, 10/20, and 10/21
--evaluation.
--Lord Randall
--The Wife of Usher's Well
--The Bonny Earl of Murray
--Get Up and Bar the Door
--Bonny Barbara Allan
--Bonnie George Campbell
--Sir Patrick Spens
--The Unquiet Grave
CHAUCER LINK AND INFORMATION:
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.
For October 11
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;
--QUIZ over GP of CT: 10/11
CHECK YOUR SCHEDULES and NOTIFY ME OF ANY CONFLICTS:
--PRESENTATION 10/26: "The Miller's Tale" (a fableau); questions here
--PRESENTATION 10/27: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (a romance); questions here
--PRESENTATION 10/28: "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (a beast fable); questions here and here
--PRESENTATION 10/31: "The Pardoner's Tale" (an exemplum); questions here.
--Alternate link to PT here.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sign-up/Interest Sheet
19 September through 30 September
Composition:
---Rough Draft/Peer Review in class 9/19
--Final Draft due 8:00 a.m. 9/23
UPDATE: Essay due 11:59 PM on 9/23
Literature:
--Bring NA to class every day;
--Discuss: Bede (29-32), "The Dream of the Rood" (32), and "The Wanderer" (117-20);
--Read: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
--Presentations:
----Fitt 1 (183-96) 9/26
----Fitt 2 (196-209) 9/27
----Fitt 3 (209-27) 9/29
----Fitt 4 (227-END) 9/30
--General Notes: SGGK
--Study Questions (from Borroff translation; wording may be slightly different)
Vocabulary:
--Unit 4 Quiz Thursday 9/22
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Week of 12 September
Composition:
--B. essay assigned: essay prompts;
--Thesis development on Tuesday;
--Rough Draft/Peer Review in class 9/19
--Final Draft due 8:00 a.m. 9/23
Literature:
--Bring NA to class every day;
--Read: Bede (29-32) and "The Wanderer" (117-20) for Tuesday;
--Quiz: Anglo-Saxon Literature and Beowulf on Wednesday 9/14;
--Text Analysis TBA on Friday.
Vocabulary:
--Unit 3 Quiz Thursday 9/15
COMING SOON: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the return of Student-led Discussion
Week of 29 August
--Beowulf (36-51, 51-58, summaries; 95-108)
-----Graded discussions: 8/30, 9/1, 9/6; Group Information, Presentation Rubric
--Possible Reading Quiz TBA
BEOWULF WS
Also: Study Questions
Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz: 9/1 UPDATE: Moved to 9/7
Week of 22 August
Thursday:
Essay Due at 8:00
Anglo Saxons/Beowulf Notes
Friday:
Vocabulary 1 Quiz (NOT 1 and 2)
Presentation Information/Assignments
Plagiarism Handout
Plagiarism Power Point
DJMH Summer Reading Essay Assignment
Essay due at tii.com by 8:00 a.m. Thursday, 26 August
MORE UPDATES TO COME.
For Monday:
--Read, annotate, take notes: NA(A) (3, 6-10)
--Know dates: 450, 1066, 1485
--Know terms: Germanic Code, Heroic Poetry, elegy, synedoche, alliteration, metonomy, kenning
Check in daily/weekly here for updates and resources for English III.
Enjoy finishing up/preparing your summer reading assignment before classes begin 17 August.
ANGLO SAXONS Study Guide:
Germanic code
Heroic poetry
scop
alliterative long line
Literary Terms
elegy
synedoche
metonomy
alliteration
kenning
caesure
litotes
beats
FINAL STRETCH:
Major Grades Remaining: Tennyson Presentation; PYGMALION Essay; HEART OF DARKNESS TEST.
PYGMALION texts have arrived: $7.93 each on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Week of 17 April
TUESDAY: Vocabulary Quiz 13-14; Work on Tennyson Presentations
WEDNESDAY: Work on Tennyson Presentations; Homework: Read PYGMALION Act 1 by 28 April
THURSDAY: Vocabulary Quiz 15-16; Presentation 1
Week of 24 April:
MONDAY: Presentation 7, 14
TUESDAY: Presentation 27, 54
WEDNESDAY: Vocabulary 17-18 Quiz
THURSDAY: Presentation 106, 119
FRIDAY: PYGMALION
Bring NA-E everyday (Victorian Literature Text)
Week of 10 April:
Hopkins, Yeats, Tennyson
Vocabulary 13-14 Quiz on 13 April
TENNYSON POEMS: Some Questions
"Mariana"
"The Lady of Shalott"
"Ulysses"
From In Memoriam: 1, 7, 14, 27, 54, 106, 119 PRESENTATIONS 4/19-25
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
PYGMALION: Read Act 1 by 4/27
May 9
Read: Heart of Darkness (NAF 1953)
Section 1:
Section 2:
Section 3:
Study Questions
More Study Questions
White Lies and Whited Sepulchres in Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS
VOCABULARY QUIZ DATES:
4/20: Vocabulary 15-16
4/26: Vocabulary 17-18
5/1: Vocabulary 19-20
5/9: Vocabulary 21-22
Week of 27 March
UPDATE: Test has been rescheduled for Thursday, 30 March
Sentence combining exercises due Friday: Practice 1, 2, 3 (22-27) in Workbook
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN Assignment due Monday
Vocabulary 10-11 Quiz on Tuesday
Updates on other work TBA!
Check out NEWS OF NOTE TAB on the left!!!
3/24: Vocabulary 9-10
3/27 and 3/28: Shelly, Byron, Keats, Romanticism review
3/29: Romanticism Test
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER:
ROMANTICISM:
This week: Read Rime of the Ancient Mariner
LOOK: RAM Study Guide
Monday: Romanticism introduction; Video and WS (journal entries due Friday at tii.com)
Tuesday: Discuss RAM 1-3
Wednesday: Discuss RAM 4-5
Thursday: Conclude RAM--possible quiz
NEXT WEEEK:
LITERATURE:
FOR PRESENTATIONS:
Wordsworth
Read the following; be prepared for reading checks and discussion; bring NA(D) every day.
FOR DISCUSSION Tuesday through Thursday:
--"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" (334) MEMORIZE THIS POEM FOR QUIZ GRADE
--"My Heart Leaps Up" (335)
--The "Lucy" Poems (305-7)
----"Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known"
----"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"
----"Three Years She Grew"
----"A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
----"I Travelled Among Unknown Men"
--Sonnets (344-8)
----"The World Is Too Much With Us"
----"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"
----"It Is A Beauteous Evening"
FOR CLASS DISCUSSION:
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
WEATHER UPDATE: TEST RESCHEDULED
Wednesday, 15 FebruaryPRESENTATIONS: February 7-21
GEV3 Quiz: 2/9
GE Test: 2/14
GE Essay: 2/21
--Please obtain a copy of GREAT EXPECTATIONS; I recommend Penguin or Norton Critical Edition, but any unabridged copy will do. DICKENS RESOURCES TAB at left.
READING SCHEDULE:
--Complete GE through Chapter 15 by 23 January
--Complete GE through Chapter 30 by 30 January
--Complete GE through Chapter 44 by 7 February
--Complete GE by 13 February
--Renaissance Poetry: we will be discussing these poems in class; bring NA (B) every day.
Week of 9 January
--Essay: Shakespeare Sonnet Analysis assigned
--Sonnets/Renaissance Poetry Presentations
SONNET INFORMATION
SONNET ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
--Read through the poems listed below and select one for analysis; sign up on Monday.
+Spenser
--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)
Week of 17 January
--Sonnet Essay Conferences
--Dickens: GE and Life and Times
23 January through 16 February
--GE
--GE Essay
--GE Test
Upcoming due dates:
1/10-3 Poetry Presentations
1/12 Vocabulary 7 Quiz--MOVED to 1/20
1/18 Sonnets Quiz
1/20 Vocabulary 8 Quiz--Changed to Vocab 7 and 8 Quiz
1/23 Quiz: Dickens: Life, Times, Works; Part 1 of GE--Changed to 1/26
1/24 Sonnet Essay Due
1/25 GE Vocabulary List 1 Quiz
1/30 GE 16-30 Quiz
2/1 GE Vocabulary List 2 Quiz
2/7 GE 31-45 Quiz
2/9 GE Vocabulary List 3 Quiz
2/14 GE Test
2/16 GE Essay Due
GE Vocabulary Lists
DEFINITIONS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EXTRA CREDIT:
See THE MOUSETRAP!
--Malory
----Graded Discussions 1-4 (20 minutes each):
----11/9: "Conspiracy" (482)
----11/9: "War" (487)
----11/11: "Death of Arthur" (491)
----11/11: "Death of Lancelot and Guinevere" (497)
DATES:
--11/16: Act 1 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--11/18: Act 2 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--11/28: Macbeth Vocabulary List 1 Quiz
--11/29: Act 3 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--12/1: Act 4 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--12/6: Act 5 Journal due to tii.com at 8:00 a.m. (20% Major Grade)
--12/7: ESSAY DUE --Major Grade
--12/8: Memorization recitations in class
--12/8: Macbeth Vocabulary List 2 Quiz.
--12/9: Review for Final Exam
--12/9: Quote Quiz
MACBETH Resources
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 1.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 2.
--Here's a link to definitions
--Essay assignment: 12/7
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT:
For each of the five acts of MACBETH, complete five journal entries.
1. Select a quote, an action, a question, a line, or a scene of the play
2. Write down/identify that item
3. Respond to it in four to six sentences.
4. Submit your assignments to tii.com on the due dates listed above.
NOTE: You may respond in first person. You may discuss your confusion or questions that you have about the selection. Click on the "Reading Journal" tab on the "Resources" page if you would like more information about how to proceed.
ACT 1: Look for the following ideas/symbols/themes and motifs in Act I. Respond to five different ones.
Blood
Time
Tailor/sewing/clothing
Duty/honor/loyalty
Growing/seeds/youth/eggs
Conscience
Sleep
Children/birth/babies
Appearances/seeming/reality/be
Ambition
Do/did/done/execution Nothingness/nothing
Doubles/twinnings/doubling/duplicity
mirrors/mirroring
things out of balance; unnatural
ACTS 2-5: Select one or two from the list above and respond to its use throughout the rest of the play. You must have five journal entries per Act.
**********************************
MEMORIZATION Extra Credit: TWO QUIZ GRADES
--due by Wednesday, 12/2
--earn five points extra if said in front of class on 12/1
--earn 100 for 2-0 mistakes
--earn 80 for 3-5 mistakes
--earn 60 for 6-8 mistakes
--earn 0 for more than 8 mistakes
***WARNING: ***
You will receive the two quiz grades if you attempt this assignment. A score of 100 or 105 is extremely attainable for most students, but your grade may be hurt by this OPTIONAL assignment if you under-prepare.
MISTAKES: missed/transposed words; missed/transposed lines; starting over; long pauses.
OPTIONS:
--Glamis thou art
--Is this a dagger
--Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
--Not marble, nor the gilded monuments or see NA
--When to the sessions of sweet silent thought or see NA
--When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes or see NA
**********************************
EXTRA CREDIT Opportunity: Sign up to see A MIDSUMMER NIGHT"S DREAM on Sunday, 23 October at the Alley. You will need to pay for your ticket and provide your own transportation. If you are interested in attending this performance with others from the school, please complete the information on this form.
3 October through 31 October (with updates TBA)
ALL READING ASSIGNMENTS SHOULD BE READ AT LINKS POSTED BELOW
Assignment Calendar:
10/5: Comma WS due; ballads: read ballads handout for tomorrow;
10/6: Ballad DQ;Punctuation review; Chaucer; read "The General Prologue" for 10/11; UPDATE: also read introductory materials about Chaucer and CT in NA (38-43).
10/10: Vocabulary 5 Quiz; Sentence Combining exercises due (1-10);
10/11: Punctuation review; Read "The Pardoner's Tale" for Thursday;
10/12: "General Prologue" Quiz; punctuation
10/13: "Pardoner" DQ; punctuation
10/17: Ballad presentation; read "The Miller's Tale" for 10/20; punctuation
10/18: PUNCTUATION TEST
10/20: "Miller" DQ; ballad presentations
10/21: Ballad presentations; read "The Wife of Bath's Tale" for 10/24
10/24: "Wife" DQ; read "The Nun's Priest's Tale" for 10/26; character sketch/essay assigned
10/26: "Nun's Priest's" DQ;
10/27-10/31: Chaucer discussions
QUIZ GRADE EXTRA CREDIT:
Watch Episode 20 of THE WESTERN TRADITION available under resources tab.
Submit 10 quiz questions to tii.com by noon Wednesday, 12 October.
BALLADS INFORMATION:
--discuss ballads;
--ballad analysis assigned; group discussions will be 10/17, 10/20, and 10/21
--evaluation.
--Lord Randall
--The Wife of Usher's Well
--The Bonny Earl of Murray
--Get Up and Bar the Door
--Bonny Barbara Allan
--Bonnie George Campbell
--Sir Patrick Spens
--The Unquiet Grave
CHAUCER LINK AND INFORMATION:
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.
For October 11
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;
--QUIZ over GP of CT: 10/11
CHECK YOUR SCHEDULES and NOTIFY ME OF ANY CONFLICTS:
--PRESENTATION 10/26: "The Miller's Tale" (a fableau); questions here
--PRESENTATION 10/27: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (a romance); questions here
--PRESENTATION 10/28: "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (a beast fable); questions here and here
--PRESENTATION 10/31: "The Pardoner's Tale" (an exemplum); questions here.
--Alternate link to PT here.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sign-up/Interest Sheet
19 September through 30 September
Composition:
---Rough Draft/Peer Review in class 9/19
--Final Draft due 8:00 a.m. 9/23
UPDATE: Essay due 11:59 PM on 9/23
Literature:
--Bring NA to class every day;
--Discuss: Bede (29-32), "The Dream of the Rood" (32), and "The Wanderer" (117-20);
--Read: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
--Presentations:
----Fitt 1 (183-96) 9/26
----Fitt 2 (196-209) 9/27
----Fitt 3 (209-27) 9/29
----Fitt 4 (227-END) 9/30
--General Notes: SGGK
--Study Questions (from Borroff translation; wording may be slightly different)
Vocabulary:
--Unit 4 Quiz Thursday 9/22
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Week of 12 September
Composition:
--B. essay assigned: essay prompts;
--Thesis development on Tuesday;
--Rough Draft/Peer Review in class 9/19
--Final Draft due 8:00 a.m. 9/23
Literature:
--Bring NA to class every day;
--Read: Bede (29-32) and "The Wanderer" (117-20) for Tuesday;
--Quiz: Anglo-Saxon Literature and Beowulf on Wednesday 9/14;
--Text Analysis TBA on Friday.
Vocabulary:
--Unit 3 Quiz Thursday 9/15
COMING SOON: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the return of Student-led Discussion
Week of 29 August
--Beowulf (36-51, 51-58, summaries; 95-108)
-----Graded discussions: 8/30, 9/1, 9/6; Group Information, Presentation Rubric
--Possible Reading Quiz TBA
BEOWULF WS
Also: Study Questions
Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz: 9/1 UPDATE: Moved to 9/7
Week of 22 August
Thursday:
Essay Due at 8:00
Anglo Saxons/Beowulf Notes
Friday:
Vocabulary 1 Quiz (NOT 1 and 2)
Presentation Information/Assignments
Plagiarism Handout
Plagiarism Power Point
DJMH Summer Reading Essay Assignment
Essay due at tii.com by 8:00 a.m. Thursday, 26 August
MORE UPDATES TO COME.
For Monday:
--Read, annotate, take notes: NA(A) (3, 6-10)
--Know dates: 450, 1066, 1485
--Know terms: Germanic Code, Heroic Poetry, elegy, synedoche, alliteration, metonomy, kenning
Check in daily/weekly here for updates and resources for English III.
Enjoy finishing up/preparing your summer reading assignment before classes begin 17 August.
ANGLO SAXONS Study Guide:
Germanic code
Heroic poetry
scop
alliterative long line
Literary Terms
elegy
synedoche
metonomy
alliteration
kenning
caesure
litotes
beats
12 May:
--Read "The Mark on the Wall" for Thursday (2424);
--NEXT: "The Waste Land";
--Reading Check "The Dead" on Friday.
--Read "The Mark on the Wall" for Thursday (2424);
--NEXT: "The Waste Land";
--Reading Check "The Dead" on Friday.
31 March through 11 April
Due Dates:
04/03--be prepared to discuss sections 4 and 5 of BR
04/04--Vocabulary 14 Quiz
04/07--BR character analysis essay assigned: due 04/14 OTHER POSSIBLE TOPICS
04/09--be prepared to discuss end of BR
04/10--BR Test
04/11--Vocabulary 15 Quiz
Literature: Browning, Tennyson, and Hopkins
Poetry to be discussed this week:
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 : essay: 1, 7, 14, 27, 54, 106, 130
Hopkins:
"God's Grandeur
"Pied Beauty"
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
"Spring and Fall: to a young child"
"Felix Randal"
"The Windhover"
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Due Dates:
04/03--be prepared to discuss sections 4 and 5 of BR
04/04--Vocabulary 14 Quiz
04/07--BR character analysis essay assigned: due 04/14 OTHER POSSIBLE TOPICS
04/09--be prepared to discuss end of BR
04/10--BR Test
04/11--Vocabulary 15 Quiz
Literature: Browning, Tennyson, and Hopkins
Poetry to be discussed this week:
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 : essay: 1, 7, 14, 27, 54, 106, 130
Hopkins:
"God's Grandeur
"Pied Beauty"
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
"Spring and Fall: to a young child"
"Felix Randal"
"The Windhover"
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WEEK OF 24 March:
--Continue Romantic poetry
--Sections 2 and 3 of BR should be read by Friday
--Quiz over Section 1 of BR on Tuesday
--Romanticism Test on Thursday
--Vocabulary 13 Quiz on Friday
NOTE: Please obtain a copy of BRIGHTON ROCK. You are to have read the first section by the time you return from Spring Break.
10 March 2014
Monday: Quiz over Romanticism: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Thursday: Vocabulary 12 Quiz
Discussion: Romantic Poets:
BYRON:
Don Juan
"Written After Swimming . . ."
"She Walks in beauty"
"So, we'll go no more a roving"
SHELLEY:
“Ozymandias”
“Adonais” (opening lines only)
CLARE:
TBA but possibly to include:
"Pastoral Poesy"
"A Vision"
"I Am"
KEATS:
”Endymion” (first lines only)
“When I have fears that I may cease to be”
“La Belle Dame sans Merci”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Monday: Quiz over Romanticism: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Thursday: Vocabulary 12 Quiz
Discussion: Romantic Poets:
BYRON:
Don Juan
"Written After Swimming . . ."
"She Walks in beauty"
"So, we'll go no more a roving"
SHELLEY:
“Ozymandias”
“Adonais” (opening lines only)
CLARE:
TBA but possibly to include:
"Pastoral Poesy"
"A Vision"
"I Am"
KEATS:
”Endymion” (first lines only)
“When I have fears that I may cease to be”
“La Belle Dame sans Merci”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
NOTE:
Wednesday, 5 March, is the last day to complete missed work.
WEEK OF 3 March:
Monday: Holiday
Tuesday: RAM
Wednesday: In-class essay assigned
Thursday: In-class essay
Friday: RAM; no vocabulary quiz
WEEK OF 24 FEBRUARY
Monday:
Please have read pages 1497-1498, 1506, and 1664 in NA;
Also read "Tintern Abbey"
Monday-Friday:
Wordsworth, Wordsworth, Wordsworth and Romanticism
Friday:
Vocabulary 11 Quiz
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WEEK OF 17 February
--Donne Presentations continue
--Read "A Modest Proposal" (and be prepared for a reading check) for Wednesday (1114)
COMING NEXT:
Romanticism!!!
Complete SJ Library Quiz and earn extra points on the Renaissance Poets test; it's on Moodle.
WEEK OF 10 February
--Donne Presentations continue
--Read "A Modest Proposal" (and be prepared for a reading check) for Wednesday (1114)
COMING NEXT:
Romanticism!!!
Complete SJ Library Quiz and earn extra points on the Renaissance Poets test; it's on Moodle.
WEEK OF 10 February
Poetry of Donne.
FRANKENSTEIN essay due Tuesday.
TEST: Renaissance Poets on Thursday.
FRANKENSTEIN essay due Tuesday.
TEST: Renaissance Poets on Thursday.
Detective fiction suggestions . . .
for my money, The Woman in White is better than The Moonstone
Week of 3 February
MONDAY:
--Sonnet Essay due;
--Vocabulary Unit 10 assigned;
--Discuss FRANKENSTEIN.
Tuesday:
--FRANKENSTEIN Volume 3 Quiz;
--Essay assigned, due 11 February. SUGGESTED TOPICS
Wednesday:
--NA: Herrick and Marvell (669, 677)
Thursday:
--NA: Jonson (640, 641, and "To Celia")
Friday:
--Vocabulary 10 Quiz;
--NA: Herbert (660-661)
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MONDAY:
--Sonnet Essay due;
--Vocabulary Unit 10 assigned;
--Discuss FRANKENSTEIN.
Tuesday:
--FRANKENSTEIN Volume 3 Quiz;
--Essay assigned, due 11 February. SUGGESTED TOPICS
Wednesday:
--NA: Herrick and Marvell (669, 677)
Thursday:
--NA: Jonson (640, 641, and "To Celia")
Friday:
--Vocabulary 10 Quiz;
--NA: Herbert (660-661)
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Week of 27 January
Hope you had a warm, safe, and happy snow day!
UPDATE:
The essay will now be due on Monday, 3 February for all students.
Be prepared for the vocabulary quiz on Thursday and continue
with other assignments as posted.
Monday: FRANKENSTEIN Quiz, Volume 2
Wednesday: Sonnet Analysis Essay due: Having completed your explication and paraphrase, write an essay in which you discuss how the theme of the sonnet is conveyed. You may discuss words, images, devices, emphasis, and/or structure. The essay will not be a paraphrase. Instead of restating the ideas of the sonnet, you will focus on how the main idea is presented.
Thursday: Vocabulary 9 Quiz
Volume 3 of FRANKENSTEIN should be due next week.
Late passes for the third quarter are available, and those of you participating in this round of junior retreat will have the appropriate time to complete the essay.
Hope you had a warm, safe, and happy snow day!
UPDATE:
The essay will now be due on Monday, 3 February for all students.
Be prepared for the vocabulary quiz on Thursday and continue
with other assignments as posted.
Monday: FRANKENSTEIN Quiz, Volume 2
Wednesday: Sonnet Analysis Essay due: Having completed your explication and paraphrase, write an essay in which you discuss how the theme of the sonnet is conveyed. You may discuss words, images, devices, emphasis, and/or structure. The essay will not be a paraphrase. Instead of restating the ideas of the sonnet, you will focus on how the main idea is presented.
Thursday: Vocabulary 9 Quiz
Volume 3 of FRANKENSTEIN should be due next week.
Late passes for the third quarter are available, and those of you participating in this round of junior retreat will have the appropriate time to complete the essay.
Week of 20 January 2014
--Bring NA every day;
--Sonnet Analysis due Tuesday;
--Sonnet Paraphrase due Thursday;
--Frankenstein Volume 2 Quiz Friday.
Poetry to be read and discussed this week in class:
--Astrophil and Stella, Sir Phillip Sidney, Sonnet 31 (449-451, 453)
--"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," Marlowe (459) and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," Ralegh (448)
--"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," Herrick (669) and "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell (677)
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--Bring NA every day;
--Sonnet Analysis due Tuesday;
--Sonnet Paraphrase due Thursday;
--Frankenstein Volume 2 Quiz Friday.
Poetry to be read and discussed this week in class:
--Astrophil and Stella, Sir Phillip Sidney, Sonnet 31 (449-451, 453)
--"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," Marlowe (459) and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," Ralegh (448)
--"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," Herrick (669) and "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell (677)
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13 January 2014
MONDAY:
--Poetry Terms assigned; quiz Friday;
--Sonnet Analysis assigned; due 21 January.
--Sonnets for analysis: Shakespeare's 12, 18, 55, 73, 94, 106, or other sonnet with instructor approval.
--Sonnets 29 and 30, which were discussed in class, are not included in the list of sonnets to analyze.
TUESDAY:
--Work on Sonnet Analysis;
--Continue reading Frankenstein.
NO IPADS IN CLASS FOR THESE ASSIGNMENTS.
WEDNESDAY:
--Discuss Frankenstein.
THURSDAY:
--Quiz: Frankenstein, Volume 1.
FRIDAY:
--Poetry Terms Quiz.
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MONDAY:
--Poetry Terms assigned; quiz Friday;
--Sonnet Analysis assigned; due 21 January.
--Sonnets for analysis: Shakespeare's 12, 18, 55, 73, 94, 106, or other sonnet with instructor approval.
--Sonnets 29 and 30, which were discussed in class, are not included in the list of sonnets to analyze.
TUESDAY:
--Work on Sonnet Analysis;
--Continue reading Frankenstein.
NO IPADS IN CLASS FOR THESE ASSIGNMENTS.
WEDNESDAY:
--Discuss Frankenstein.
THURSDAY:
--Quiz: Frankenstein, Volume 1.
FRIDAY:
--Poetry Terms Quiz.
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Welcome back!
We are going to read and discuss Renaissance poetry in class.
You will be reading FRANKENSTEIN outside of class.
Quick notes about this week:
--Sonnet information
--Bring NA every day
--FRANKENSTEIN reading check on Thursday
--Vocabulary 8 Quiz on Friday
More details to come . . .
We are going to read and discuss Renaissance poetry in class.
You will be reading FRANKENSTEIN outside of class.
Quick notes about this week:
--Sonnet information
--Bring NA every day
--FRANKENSTEIN reading check on Thursday
--Vocabulary 8 Quiz on Friday
More details to come . . .
Please read through Chapter 3 of Volume I of Frankenstein before classes resume.
Remember to obtain the 1831 (third edition) of the book. We recommend the Penguin Classics version (ISBN: 978-0-14-143947-1)
Homestretch!
Read The Tempest.
Vocabulary Unit 7 Quiz on 5 December
Essay on The Tempest (assignment details TBA) due 11 December
Tempest Vocabulary Quiz on 12 December
Final Exam Information (Under English III tab at left)
Vocabulary Unit 7 Quiz on 5 December
Essay on The Tempest (assignment details TBA) due 11 December
Tempest Vocabulary Quiz on 12 December
Final Exam Information (Under English III tab at left)
DEADLINE FOR MISSED/INCOMPLETE WORK
End of Lunch 11 December
Happy Thanksgiving!
Have a great Freshman Retreat!
WEEK OF 18 November
Macbeth
--Discuss Macbeth, Acts IV and V this week;
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
WEDNESDAY: Peer Review/Essay revisions in class
THURSDAY: TEST
FRIDAY: Essay due
UP NEXT: The Tempest
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Macbeth
--Discuss Macbeth, Acts IV and V this week;
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
WEDNESDAY: Peer Review/Essay revisions in class
THURSDAY: TEST
FRIDAY: Essay due
UP NEXT: The Tempest
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WEEK OF 11 November
Macbeth
TUESDAY --- Quiz: Acts II and III;
--Read Macbeth, Acts IV and V this week;
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 2 assigned. QUIZ on Friday
--Here's a link to definitions
--You only need to study the ones on this week's list.
--TEST: 21 November
--Essay due: 22 November
UP NEXT: The Tempest
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Macbeth
TUESDAY --- Quiz: Acts II and III;
--Read Macbeth, Acts IV and V this week;
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 2 assigned. QUIZ on Friday
--Here's a link to definitions
--You only need to study the ones on this week's list.
--TEST: 21 November
--Essay due: 22 November
UP NEXT: The Tempest
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WEEK OF 4 November
Macbeth
TUESDAY --- Quiz: Act I;
--Read Macbeth, Acts II and III this week;
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 1 assigned. QUIZ on THURSDAY!!
--Here's a link to definitions
--You only need to study the ones on this week's list.
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Macbeth
TUESDAY --- Quiz: Act I;
--Read Macbeth, Acts II and III this week;
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 1 assigned. QUIZ on THURSDAY!!
--Here's a link to definitions
--You only need to study the ones on this week's list.
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28 October - 1 November
Ballads and Macbeth
--Read Act I of Macbeth; Quiz on Act I on Friday
--Middle Ages Test on Monday
--Ballad group work/presentations Tuesday and Wednesday (quiz grade)
--Macbeth Thursday and Friday.
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21 October - 25 October
--Vocabulary Unit 6 assigned; quiz Friday;
--Read Malory for Wednesday (299-318).
TEST: SGGK, Chaucer, and Malory: 28 October.
AND BALLADS.
Thursday and Friday
--discuss ballads;
--ballad analysis assigned; group presentations will be Tuesday and Wednesday next week;
--evaluation.
--Lord Randall
--The Wife of Usher's Well
--The Bonny Earl of Murray
--Get Up and Bar the Door
--Bonny Barbara Allan
--Bonnie George Campbell
--Sir Patrick Spens
--The Unquiet Grave
Readings this quarter:
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) Please bring $5.83 to class if you ordered a book.
The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Frankenstein (1831 edition) -- Penguin edition
Renaissance Poets: Norton Anthology of English Literature
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--Vocabulary Unit 6 assigned; quiz Friday;
--Read Malory for Wednesday (299-318).
TEST: SGGK, Chaucer, and Malory: 28 October.
AND BALLADS.
Thursday and Friday
--discuss ballads;
--ballad analysis assigned; group presentations will be Tuesday and Wednesday next week;
--evaluation.
--Lord Randall
--The Wife of Usher's Well
--The Bonny Earl of Murray
--Get Up and Bar the Door
--Bonny Barbara Allan
--Bonnie George Campbell
--Sir Patrick Spens
--The Unquiet Grave
Readings this quarter:
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) Please bring $5.83 to class if you ordered a book.
The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Frankenstein (1831 edition) -- Penguin edition
Renaissance Poets: Norton Anthology of English Literature
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Harvard's Chaucer Page
Monday, 7 October
--Conclude discussion of "The General Prologue";
--Homework: Read: "The Pardoner's Tale" for 10/09; questions here.
Tuesday, 8 October
--SGGK Essay due (Major Grade)
Wednesday, 9 October
--Discuss "The Pardoner's Tale';
Thursday, 10 October
--Discuss "The Pardoner's Tale';
--Character Analysis Essay assigned; due 18 October;
--Please choose one of the following:
Sailor
Miller
Monk
Parson
Friday, 11 October
--Quiz: Middle Ages notes and "The General Prologue."
--Read: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" for 10/14; questions here.
Monday, October 14
--Vocabulary Unit 5 assigned; quiz Thursday;
--Discuss "The Wife of Bath's Tale";
Tuesday, October 15
--Discuss "The Wife of Bath's Tale";
--Homework: Read "The Nun's Priest's Tale"; questions here and here
Wednesday, October 16
--Classes do not meet.
Thursday, October 17
--Quiz: Vocabulary Unit 5
--Discuss "The Nun's Priest's Tale";
--Early English and Scottish Ballads assigned.
Friday, October 18, 2010
Day 6 - PM Pep Rally Order
--"The Nun's Priest's Tale"
--Character Analysis Due.
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Monday, 7 October
--Conclude discussion of "The General Prologue";
--Homework: Read: "The Pardoner's Tale" for 10/09; questions here.
Tuesday, 8 October
--SGGK Essay due (Major Grade)
Wednesday, 9 October
--Discuss "The Pardoner's Tale';
Thursday, 10 October
--Discuss "The Pardoner's Tale';
--Character Analysis Essay assigned; due 18 October;
--Please choose one of the following:
Sailor
Miller
Monk
Parson
Friday, 11 October
--Quiz: Middle Ages notes and "The General Prologue."
--Read: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" for 10/14; questions here.
Monday, October 14
--Vocabulary Unit 5 assigned; quiz Thursday;
--Discuss "The Wife of Bath's Tale";
Tuesday, October 15
--Discuss "The Wife of Bath's Tale";
--Homework: Read "The Nun's Priest's Tale"; questions here and here
Wednesday, October 16
--Classes do not meet.
Thursday, October 17
--Quiz: Vocabulary Unit 5
--Discuss "The Nun's Priest's Tale";
--Early English and Scottish Ballads assigned.
Friday, October 18, 2010
Day 6 - PM Pep Rally Order
--"The Nun's Priest's Tale"
--Character Analysis Due.
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-Chaucer Introduction;
--Read 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. Prologue;
--Study Guide: here and here; background on Becket;
--Quiz Friday, 4 October, over "Prologue".
NO VOCABULARY QUIZ.
--Read 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. Prologue;
--Study Guide: here and here; background on Becket;
--Quiz Friday, 4 October, over "Prologue".
NO VOCABULARY QUIZ.
Monday, 22 September
Regular Order 1
--SGGK
--Journals due TOMORROW
--Vocabulary Unit 4 assigned.
Tuesday, 23 September
Regular Order 2
--SGGK;
--SGGK Essay assigned.
Wednesday, 24 September
Regular Order 3
--Test: The Anglo Saxon Period and SGGK
Thursday, 25 September
Regular Order 4
--The Middle Ages: Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales
Friday, 26 September
Regular Order 5
--Vocabulary 4 Quiz;
--Chaucer.
UPDATE: --SGGK Essay assigned (due 8 October);
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Regular Order 1
--SGGK
--Journals due TOMORROW
--Vocabulary Unit 4 assigned.
Tuesday, 23 September
Regular Order 2
--SGGK;
--SGGK Essay assigned.
Wednesday, 24 September
Regular Order 3
--Test: The Anglo Saxon Period and SGGK
Thursday, 25 September
Regular Order 4
--The Middle Ages: Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales
Friday, 26 September
Regular Order 5
--Vocabulary 4 Quiz;
--Chaucer.
UPDATE: --SGGK Essay assigned (due 8 October);
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
If you missed a quiz on Friday, you may report to room 807 at the
beginning of lunch on Tuesday to complete the assignment.
Wi-fi issues at present require the use of the classroom to access Socrative.
Thank you.
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Monday, 16 September
Regular Order
--conclude discussion of Beowulf;
--discuss “The Seafarer” and Riddles;
----be prepared to answer these questions;
--Vocabulary Unit 3 assigned.
Tuesday, 17 September
Morning Assembly Order
--ESSAY DUE: in class and at tii.com;
--discuss “The Seafarer”;
--read biographical information about
Bede and “Caedmon's Hymn.”
Wednesday, 18 September
Morning Assembly Order with Late Start
--Discuss Bede;
--Conclude discussion of Anglo Saxon Literature;
--Read and complete four journal entries on Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight lines 1-710 (114-129) and 1750-1892 (150-152) for Monday
--reading guide.
INFORMATION ON JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT:
Sample/explanation. (You do not have to use the column format.)
ATTENTION: Also check "Reading Journals" Tab under "Resources";
Thursday, 19 September
Regular Order
--Read SGGK lines 2160-End (158-165);
--Study Questions.
Friday, 20 September
Regular Order
--Vocabulary 3 Quiz;
--SGGK.
Regular Order
--conclude discussion of Beowulf;
--discuss “The Seafarer” and Riddles;
----be prepared to answer these questions;
--Vocabulary Unit 3 assigned.
Tuesday, 17 September
Morning Assembly Order
--ESSAY DUE: in class and at tii.com;
--discuss “The Seafarer”;
--read biographical information about
Bede and “Caedmon's Hymn.”
Wednesday, 18 September
Morning Assembly Order with Late Start
--Discuss Bede;
--Conclude discussion of Anglo Saxon Literature;
--Read and complete four journal entries on Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight lines 1-710 (114-129) and 1750-1892 (150-152) for Monday
--reading guide.
INFORMATION ON JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT:
Sample/explanation. (You do not have to use the column format.)
ATTENTION: Also check "Reading Journals" Tab under "Resources";
Thursday, 19 September
Regular Order
--Read SGGK lines 2160-End (158-165);
--Study Questions.
Friday, 20 September
Regular Order
--Vocabulary 3 Quiz;
--SGGK.
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Update:
Course Expectations Form
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Monday, 9 September
Day 3 -- Regular Order
--Beowulf essay assigned;
-----thesis due Thursday, 12 September;
-----due Tuesday, 17 September;
--read pages 41-49 (up to line 883) and summaries; read 83-97;
--Beowulf quiz FRIDAY.
Tuesday, 10 September
Day 4 -- Regular Order
--discuss Beowulf.
Wednesday, 11 September
Day 5 -- Regular Order
--read “The Seafarer” and Riddles for Monday;
----be prepared to answer these questions.
Thursday, 12 September
Day 6 -- Regular Order
--Thesis due/drafts and editing.
Friday, 13 September
Day 1 -- Morning Assembly Order
--Quiz: Beowulf.
Day 3 -- Regular Order
--Beowulf essay assigned;
-----thesis due Thursday, 12 September;
-----due Tuesday, 17 September;
--read pages 41-49 (up to line 883) and summaries; read 83-97;
--Beowulf quiz FRIDAY.
Tuesday, 10 September
Day 4 -- Regular Order
--discuss Beowulf.
Wednesday, 11 September
Day 5 -- Regular Order
--read “The Seafarer” and Riddles for Monday;
----be prepared to answer these questions.
Thursday, 12 September
Day 6 -- Regular Order
--Thesis due/drafts and editing.
Friday, 13 September
Day 1 -- Morning Assembly Order
--Quiz: Beowulf.
PLEASE BRING NA TO CLASS EVERY DAY THIS WEEK.
Monday, September 2
--Holiday
Tuesday, September 3
--Discuss Beowulf; Study Questions
--Vocabulary Unit 2 assigned;
--Paper revisions accepted.
Wednesday, September 4
--Paper revisions due;
--Read through page 49 for Friday (NA);
--WS.
Thursday, September 5
--Discuss Beowulf
Friday, September 6
--Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz
--Beowulf
Monday, September 2
--Holiday
Tuesday, September 3
--Discuss Beowulf; Study Questions
--Vocabulary Unit 2 assigned;
--Paper revisions accepted.
Wednesday, September 4
--Paper revisions due;
--Read through page 49 for Friday (NA);
--WS.
Thursday, September 5
--Discuss Beowulf
Friday, September 6
--Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz
--Beowulf
Monday, 26 August
Day 6 -- Regular Order
--Vocabulary Unit 1 assigned: due Wednesday; quiz Thursday;
--Homework due (see Friday 8/23).
Tuesday, 27 August
Day 1 -- Regular Order
--Peer Review/Essay Revision in class.
Wednesday, 28 August
Day 2 -- Regular Order
--Essay due;
--Vocabulary review;
--Discuss epic poetry/Anglo-Saxons.
Thursday, 29 August
Day 3 -- Morning Assembly Order
--Vocabulary 1 quiz.
Friday, 30 August
Day 4 -- Morning Assembly Order
--Anglo Saxons.
Day 6 -- Regular Order
--Vocabulary Unit 1 assigned: due Wednesday; quiz Thursday;
--Homework due (see Friday 8/23).
Tuesday, 27 August
Day 1 -- Regular Order
--Peer Review/Essay Revision in class.
Wednesday, 28 August
Day 2 -- Regular Order
--Essay due;
--Vocabulary review;
--Discuss epic poetry/Anglo-Saxons.
Thursday, 29 August
Day 3 -- Morning Assembly Order
--Vocabulary 1 quiz.
Friday, 30 August
Day 4 -- Morning Assembly Order
--Anglo Saxons.
Monday, 19 August
Day 1 -- Regular Order
--Course expectations;
--Plagiarism form;
--Essay due;
--Submit essay to TurnItIn.com:
----Section 23184: Class ID is 6763453; Password is Benvolio
----Section 23105: Class ID is 6763457; Password is Benvolio
----Section 23106: Class ID is 6763458; Password is Benvolio
--Grendel Vocabulary assigned: due Thursday; quiz Friday.
Tuesday, 20 August
Day 2 -- Regular Order
--Discuss Summer Reading;
--Plagiarism;
--Homework: Epic Poetry/Anglo Saxon Terms in Grendel.
Wednesday, 21 August
Day 3 -- Regular Order
--Homework due;
--Discuss epic poetry terms; Grendel.
Thursday, 22 August
Day 4 -- Regular Order
--Vocabulary due, review.
Friday, 23 August
Day 5 -- Regular Order
--Grendel Vocabulary Quiz;
--Essays returned;
--Essay revision assigned:
----Peer Editing in class 9/27 as time allows;
----Essay Revision due 9/28 in class and at TII.com.
HOMEWORK: Read and take notes in NA (1-7, 19-21) for Monday.
Guidelines.
Day 1 -- Regular Order
--Course expectations;
--Plagiarism form;
--Essay due;
--Submit essay to TurnItIn.com:
----Section 23184: Class ID is 6763453; Password is Benvolio
----Section 23105: Class ID is 6763457; Password is Benvolio
----Section 23106: Class ID is 6763458; Password is Benvolio
--Grendel Vocabulary assigned: due Thursday; quiz Friday.
Tuesday, 20 August
Day 2 -- Regular Order
--Discuss Summer Reading;
--Plagiarism;
--Homework: Epic Poetry/Anglo Saxon Terms in Grendel.
Wednesday, 21 August
Day 3 -- Regular Order
--Homework due;
--Discuss epic poetry terms; Grendel.
Thursday, 22 August
Day 4 -- Regular Order
--Vocabulary due, review.
Friday, 23 August
Day 5 -- Regular Order
--Grendel Vocabulary Quiz;
--Essays returned;
--Essay revision assigned:
----Peer Editing in class 9/27 as time allows;
----Essay Revision due 9/28 in class and at TII.com.
HOMEWORK: Read and take notes in NA (1-7, 19-21) for Monday.
Guidelines.
