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This week in English III:

FINAL STRETCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

SPECIAL NOTES:
--No work will be accepted after 19 May.  All assignments and missed work must be complete by that date.
--Remaining work:  3 Vocabulary Quizzes; 1 Major Grade (Presentation); 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 

5/4:  Reading Check/Discussion of "The Lady of Shalott" (1953)
          Capitalization Quiz
          "Ulysses" assigned (1962)  UPDATE:  STUDY QUESTIONS
           Vocabulary List 1 assigned; Quiz Friday, 5/8

5/5:  Tennyson
          Read Joyce's "The Dead" for Thursday
 
5/6:  Tennyson Project/Presentation assigned:

-------Students will present a poem as part of a group and lead class discussion.
-------Alternatively, students may individually write an essay on another poem (due 5/18)
-------Presentation grade will be:


70%--Presentation of Poem/Leading of Discussion OR Individual Essay
10%--Having Books/Appropriate Materials in class
20%--Preparing for and participating in class presentations 

5/7:  Double Quiz:  "The Dead"

5/8:  Vocabulary List 1 Quiz (sentences)

5/11:  Vocabulary List 7 assigned

5/13:  Presentation --  Section 27

5/15:  List 7 Quiz (sentences)

5/18:  Presentation --  Section 34
            Vocabulary List 8 assigned

5/19:  Presentation -- Section 54

5/20:  Presentation  --  Section 130

5/21:  Vocabulary List 8 Quiz (sentences)



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EXTRA CREDIT:
Memorize Part I of "The Lady of Shalott"
Recite it to me (before school, at lunch, after school, other mutually agreed-upon time)
Replace your lowest two quiz grades with the grade you receive on the recitation (even if recitation grade is lower).


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WEEK OF 27 April

Monday:  discuss DJMH; capitalization worksheets

Tuesday:  review capitalization

Wednesday:  DJMH Test

Friday:  capitalization quiz







WEEK OF 20 April

Literature:
--Discuss DJMH  --  STUDY QUESTIONS
--Read through 2200 by Wednesday
--Read to end by 4/27

Vocabulary:
--Study these words;
--Quiz Thursday

Grammar:
--Get ready for the Carnival of Capitalization next week!

Major Assessments:
--Test or Essay on DJMH TBA; read carefully and take good notes for discussion and in preparation for these potential major assessments.














WEEK OF 4/13/15

Monday:  "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Tuesday:  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1847)
or here /uploads/4/4/5/9/4459774/odegrecian_assignment_041415.docx
Wednesday:  Romanticism Test
Thursday:  Punctuation-palooza!  Bring LBH.
Friday:  Punctuation Quiz;  Read  opening chapters of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2168-82) for Monday; be prepared for reading check/quiz.




04/08


--work on essays in class
--read Romantic poems (below)
--bring NA every day
--essay due Wednesday at 7:59 a.m.
--possible reading check/quiz Friday


POEMS:

“Ozymandias” (1741)
“Adonais,” lines 1-45 (1772-4)
“She walks in beauty” (1676)
“So, we’ll go no more a roving” (1680)
Don Juan (1691-3)
“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)



30 March

Monday:  
--Discuss "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" and "My Heart Leaps Up" (1537-8)
--"Tintern Abbey" Vocabulary List;
--Sonnet Essay assigned:  due 8 April:
-----Read, paraphrase, analyze one of the following sonnets (1548-51):

"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
"It Is A Beauteous Evening"
"The World Is Too Much With Us"

Tuesday:
--The "Lucy" Poems (1507-10)
--Student-led discussions of:  "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known" and "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"

Wednesday:
--Sonnet paraphrase due (typed; due in class)
--Student-led discussions of:  "Three Years She Grew" and "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"

Thursday:
--"Tintern Abbey" Vocabulary Quiz (sentences)
--Student-led discussion of "I Travelled Among Unknown Men"










For Thursday, 26 March:
--Fallacies Quiz (study chart on page 191 LBH)
--Be prepared to discuss "Tintern Abbey" (pictured above) 1-65 and 93-134 (1491-5).

For Friday, 27 March:
--RAM essay due;
--Wordsworth
----Sonnet essay assigned
----Wordsworth poem presentations assigned





The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Essay Assignment
Due Date:  27 March
 

***This narrative poem has a frame story.  Discuss the frame story and its impact on the poem and the reader.
***The Ancient Mariner suffers greatly for his crime.  Discuss his punishment/penance.  Is it just?  Is it unjust?  What does it teach him?  What does it teach those he encounters?  What is the effect on the reader?
***Guilt/Shame
***Select one of the following characters or groups of characters and discuss their significance/role/importance in the poem:  the hermit, the wedding guest, the 2oo crewmen, the albatross, the pilot and his boy.
***Explain why the mariner shot the albatross
*** Do the men on the ship deserve the punishment they receive?
***Any other topic approved by instructor

 

 

 

2 March 2015


2 March
--ESSAY due
--Review of Renaissance poetry


3 March
--Review of Renaissance poetry
--Introduction to Romanticism


4 March
--Renaissance Poetry Test


5 March
--Introduction to RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (RAM)
--RAM Study Guide
--possible video


6 March
--Presentations:  Sections 1 and 2 RAM


10 March
--Presentations:  Sections 3 and 4 RAM


11 March
--Presentations:  Sections 5 and 6 RAM

12 March
--Presentations:  Section 7 RAM
--Vocabulary 15 Quiz


















































16 February 2015

--Bring NA EVERY day
--V 13 Quiz Friday, 2/20
--V 14 Quiz Friday, 2/27


Upcoming Major Grades:

Personal Narrative Essay:  DUE  2 March
--ideas to get you started  --suggested procedure
Poetry Discussions/Presentations (20%/80%)  Rubric for Discussion Leaders
Poetry Test (4 March)

POEMS:

1.  “One Day I Wrote . . .” (437) 23 February
2.  “With How Sad Steps . . .” (453) 20 February
3.  “Meditation 17” (628) 25 February
4.  “Easter Wings,” “The Altar” (660, 661)  19 February
5.  “Death Be Not Proud” (623) 24 February
6.  “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” (722) 26 February


If you are absent on the day of your presentation, use your research to write a 2-3 page essay presenting the information and explication you would have presented in class.  This essay is due 3 March at tii.com.

 



Bring NA every day.

Read 660-1, and 677-8 before Tuesday.  Be prepared with questions and comments.

Vocabulary Quiz 13 on Friday.



TEST RESCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY.
Thank you.


UPDATES:

Essay due at 8:00 am to tii.com on 4 February
GE Test:  Monday, 9 February

WEEKS OF 26 January and 2 February

Read GE Chapters 30-44 by February 2;
Read GE Chapters 45-End by February 9;

GE Vocabulary List One Quiz Thursday, January 29;
GE Vocabulary List Two Quiz Friday, February 6;
All Lists found on this page:  
GE Vocabulary Lists
DEFINITIONS

GE Essay assigned:
--Draft/Peer Review due February 2;
--Essay due February 4;  












WEEK OF 19 January

Dickens/GE discussion 20 and 21 January:  come prepared for a book check or daily quiz (or both!)
Dickens/GE quiz 22 January
Vocabulary 12 Quiz 23 January









Picture
--Please obtain a copy of GREAT EXPECTATIONS; I recommend Penguin or Norton Critical Edition, but any unabridged copy will do
--Renaissance Poetry:  we will be reading and discussing these poems in class; bring NA every day; details to follow;
--Punctuation Review in class.


Upcoming due dates:  
1/13  Vocabulary 11 Quiz
1/16  Quiz:  Dickens: Life, Times, Works
1/21  Quiz:  GE 1-15

 DICKENS RESOURCES TAB at left.


LIST OF POEMS (will be updated as we go):
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (459)
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (448)

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Final Exam Format Information:


Matching/Multiple Choice
:  20 questions, 20% (18 minutes)

Poem/Poetry Analysis:  20% (18)
--IDENTIFY:  author, work, period, genre, theme
--IDENTIFY:  poetic devices

Short Answer:  5 questions, 20% (18)

Essay:  40% (36)





11/17:  Essay due for extra credit; 11/19 due by 11:59


11/20 Discuss Act I of Macbeth; 
11/21 V 10 Quiz 
12/1 Essay assigned; due 12/9
12/2  Quiz on Act I 
12/4  Quiz on Acts II and III
12/8  Quiz on M Vocabulary
12/11  Quote Quiz
12/12  DEAD DAY:  Final Semester Review



MACBETH Resources
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 1.  
--Here's a link to definitions
--Essay due:  12/9



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MEMORIZATION Extra Credit:  TWO QUIZ GRADES
--due by Wednesday, 12/10
--earn five points extra if said in front of class
--earn 100 for zero mistakes
--earn 80 for three or fewer mistakes
--earn 60 for six or fewer mistakes
--earn 0 for more than six mistakes

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

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10 November

--Sonnets  
--Sonnet information
--Sonnet Essay assigned; 
     due 11/17 for XC; not late is submitted before midnight 11/19;
----Use the poem analysis WS and sonnet information to explore
        the theme of one of the following sonnets: 12, 18, 55, 73, 94, or 106

--Vocabulary 9 Quiz 11/13
--Sonnet Quiz:  Monday, 11/17








Harvard's Chaucer Page



27 October 

--Vocabulary Unit 8 quiz Tuesday;

--Read Malory for Monday (299-318).
----Mallory Quiz Wednesday
--discuss ballads;
--ballad analysis assigned; group presentations will be Tuesday and Wednesday next week;
--evaluation. 

TEST:  The Middle Ages:  Chaucer, Pearl Poet, Malory, and Ballads:  7 November.

--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


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Week of 20 October

--Read: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (a romance) for Wednesday; questions here.
--Discuss "The Wife of Bath's Tale";


--Homework:  Read "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (a beast fable) for Friday; questions here and here



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WEEK OF 13 OCTOBER

DON'T FORGET:
--Vocabulary 7 assigned; quiz 20 October;
--10/16:  Character Sketch assigned;


NEW: due 24 October;  ESSAY PROMPT

--10/17:  Quiz:  THE GENERAL PROLOGUE
--Read "The Pardoner's Tale"; quiz or reading check possible on 21 October.

--BEOWULF essays grades have been posted at tii.com.

FYI:  HANDOUT:  An Introduction to Stress and Meter




CHAUCER LINKS:

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.


WEEK OF 6 October

--Poetry terms assigned (see below);  Quiz FRIDAY. 
--Chaucer Introduction;
--Read The General Prologue through the beginning, the Knight, and the Squire for Wednesday; 
--Read "The Pardoner's Tale" for Monday, 13 October;
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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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HANDOUT:  An Introduction to Stress and Meter


Week of 22 September

MONDAY:
--Essay due at tii.com
--V 5 review
--Read and complete two journal entries on Sir Gawain 
         and the Green Knight
 lines 1-710  (114-129)  and 1750-1892 (150-152) for Thursday
 --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";
 
TUESDAY:
--V 5 Quiz; V 6 assigned for next Day 4 Quiz;
--Conclude discussion of Anglo-Saxon Literature;
--Review for test.

WEDNESDAY:
--Test:  Anglo-Saxon Literature

THURSDAY:
--Journal entries due;
--Read and complete two journal entries for SGGK lines 2160-End (158-165);  
--Study Questions. 

Friday, 20 September
Regular Order


--Journals due;
--SGGK.


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PLEASE BRING NA TO CLASS EVERY DAY THIS WEEK.


Week of 15 September:


--Continue reading Beowulf:  

--For Wednesday:  --read pages 41-49 (up to line 883) and summaries; read 83-97;  TAKE NOTES.

--For Thursday:  --bring a rough draft of your essay to conduct a peer review in class.

--For Friday:--read "The Seafarer."--discuss “The Seafarer” and Riddles;
--be prepared to answer these questions;
--read biographical information about 
        Bede and “Caedmon's Hymn.” 

--B. essay assigned (due 22 September).  NEW:  essay prompts --conclude discussion of Beowulf; 

--No vocabulary quiz this week
--Vocabulary 5 quiz on Tuesday, Day 4, 23 September (review on Monday)


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PLEASE BRING NA TO CLASS EVERY DAY THIS WEEK.



Week of 8 September:

--No vocabulary quiz this week
--Vocabulary 4 quiz on Monday, Day 4, 15 September (review on Friday)

--Continue reading Beowulf:  
--For Wednesday:  identify the three challenges to B.; find all of the different arguments in lines 405-455.--read pages 41-49 (up to line 883) and summaries; read 83-97;  TAKE NOTES.

--Essays returned;
--B. essay assigned (due next week).  NEW:  essay prompts 




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1 September

PLEASE BRING NA TO CLASS EVERY DAY THIS WEEK.

Monday, September 1

--Holiday

Tuesday, September 2

--Discuss Beowulf;  Study Questions
--Vocabulary Unit 3 assigned.

Wednesday, September 3

--Read through page 49 for Friday (NA);
--WS.

Thursday, September 4

--Discuss Beowulf.

Friday, September 5

--Vocabulary Unit 3 Quiz;
--Beowulf.








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UPDATE:  Read and take notes 26-41 in NA by Tuesday, 2 September.




25 August 2014


Monday:
--
Essay discussion
--Anglo-Saxon Literature
--Reading check???
--Vocabulary Unit 2 assigned.


Tuesday: 

--Essay due in class: must be submitted to tii.com by midnight. 

Wednesday:
--Vocabulary 2 Review.

Thursday:
--Vocabulary 1 Quiz.

Friday:
--Anglo Saxon Period.


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UPDATE:  19 August 2014

Tuesday: 
--Essay assigned:  suggested topics; due 26 August.
--Sign in to tii.com (information located under Resources at left);

Wednesday:
--Summer Reading Test:  30 multiple choice questions; bring a pencil (and a spare);
--Vocabulary 1 Review.

Thursday:
--Vocabulary 1 Quiz.

Friday:
--Introduction to Anglo Saxon Period.
--Epic Poetry/Anglo Saxon Terms in Grendel.
--HOMEWORK:  Read and take notes in NA (1-7, 19-21) for Monday.
Guidelines.



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