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This week in English III:


 Cycles 8, 9, and 10:  Victorian Poetry/Great Expectations 

Bring NA(E) every day for reading/discussion of Victorian Poetry.

​GE Assignments/Reading Schedule:
--Conclude Part One by 1 May
----5 Journals due at tii.com 2 May (1/2 Major Grade)  Guidelines
----Part One Reading Quiz 3 May
--Conclude Part Two by 13 May
----5 Journals due at tii.com 14 May (1/2 Major Grade)
--Conclude Part Three by 20 May
----Essay due at tii.com 23 May 

GE Essay
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Please select and read any unabridged version of this book, online or in print.  The Penguin edition is recommended.
​Links to resources (and on-line texts) are at the Dickens Resource Page tab at left.
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VOCABULARY GE LIST 1 QUIZ:  Friday, 26 April (List on resources page)
VOCABULARY GE LIST 2 QUIZ:  Tuesday, 7 May 
VOCABULARY GE LIST 3 QUIZ:  Wednesday, 15 May
VOCABULARY GE LIST 4 QUIZ:  Wednesday, 22 May

CYCLE 7: 9 April - 18 April

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
--Bring NA(E) to class every day
--Students with tests or quizzes to complete should plan to meet in 803 on Thursday during the activity period
--Submit journal entries from "Lucy" poems to tii.com if you have not done so

Day 2:

Introduction to Victorian Era reading assignment (1017-26):
--Create a quiz over the reading:  10 matching, 5 multiple choice, 3 short answer;
--Provide a complete key
​--Submit to tii.com
Daily Quiz over Tennyson biography


Day 4:
Tennyson poems and study questions
Victorian Era Assignment due


Day 5:
Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz Lists 3 and 4

Day 7:
Tennyson poems Quiz
In Memoriam


Day 8/Day 1:
In Memoriam poem analysis

CYCLE 6: 28 March - 8 April

Day 2:  Conclude conferences; submit journal entries to tii.com

Day 4:  Discuss Byron (Don Juan) and Shelley ("Ozymandias")

Day 5:  Discuss Keats ("Ode on a AGrecian Urn") and Review for Test

Day 7:  Test (short answer, poem analysis, matching):  The Romantic Era,  Romanticism, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats

Day 8 and Day 1:  
Vocabulary Quiz unit 1 (Day 8)
Vocabulary Quiz unit 2 (Day 1)
Link to lists:  (Vocabulary List 1 and 2) 


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Day 2:
"Elegy" WS due

Day 4:
Romanticism Video WS and Journal Entries due

Day 5:  
RAM

Day 7:
Vocabulary Quiz
RAM

Days 8/1:
WW poetry (see list below)
Essay revision:  bring a polished draft to class

Day 2:
WW poetry
​Essay due
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ESSAY ASSIGNMENT:
--Sonnet Essay assigned:  due 6 March:
-----Read, paraphrase, analyze one of the following sonnets 

--Sonnets (344-8)
----"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"
----"It Is A Beauteous Evening"
----"The World Is Too Much With Us"


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LITERATURE:  Wordsworth  
Read the following; be prepared for reading checks and discussion; bring NA(D) every day.
FOR DISCUSSION :
--"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"




CYCLE 3 + GW:  2-20 February
Renaissance Poets


Day 2:
Herbert:  "The Altar," "Easter Wings"
Donne:  "Meditation 17"
Johnson:  "On My First Son,"  "Song: To Celia"

Day GW:
Discuss Ren Poets/Test Review

Day 4:
Test

Day 5:
In-class assignment:  The Restoration (bring NA(C))
Pope, Swift, Grey

Day 7:
Vocabulary Quiz 21-22
Restoration

Day 8/1:
​Romanticism:  Please bring NA(D) every day to class




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Test Review:  Renaissance Poets:

Authors:  Be able to identify major works, contributions, and biographical details discussed in class for the following authors.

--Wyatt                       --Raleigh               --Shakespeare                              
--Herrick                    --Petrarch              --Marvell 
--Spenser                   --Herbert                --Donne 
--Sidney                      --Milton                  --Jonson                                         
--Marlowe 

  Concepts/Terms/Periods
          --Sonnets:  English/Shakespearean sonnet; Italian/Petrarchan sonnet; Spenserian sonnet;
          --Poem analysis
          --conceit, apostrophe, paradox, and other poetry terms/devices/conventions


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CYCLE 2:  23 January-1 February
The Sonnet: Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Other Sonnets


Day 2:
Vocabulary 19-20 Quiz
​English Sonnet Essay due at 8:00 p.m.

Day 4:
Presentation outline due from all groups
Sonnet discussions:  Groups A and B

Day 5:
Sonnet discussions:  Groups C and D

Day 7:
Renaissance Poetry Terms Vocabulary Quiz

Day 8/1

BH Workshop 
CYCLE 1:  9-22 January
The Sonnet: Introduction and English Sonnets


Day 2:
Read BH chapters 19-20 and complete all exercises for Day 5
Sonnets

Day 4:
Sonnet 30, Sonnet 29, "Whoso List to Hunt," Wyatt
Essay assigned:
--Read all of the sonnets listed below 
--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
--Paraphrase conferences are worth 30 percent of the final essay grade

Day 5:
BH exercises due, review
Sonnets

Day 7:
Sonnet paraphrase due; student conferences

Day 8/1:
Sonnets
Student original sonnet assigned (see below)


CYCLE 2:  23 January-1 February
The Sonnet: Petrarchan, Spenserian, and Other Sonnets


Day 2:
Vocabulary 19-20 Quiz
​English Sonnet Essay due at 8:00 p.m.

Day 4:
Presentation outline due from all groups
Sonnet discussions:  Groups A and B

Day 5:
Sonnet discussions:  Groups C and D

Day 7:
Renaissance Poetry Terms Vocabulary Quiz

Day 8/1

BH Workshop 

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SONNET POETRY GROUPS:

GROUP A:  Spenser:  "Like as a Ship," and "One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand"
GROUP B:  Sidney:  "With How Sad Steps" and  "Come, Sleep" 
GROUP C:  Donne:  "Batter My Heart," "Death Be Not Proud," and "At Earth's Imagined Corners"
GROUP D:  Milton:  "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" and "I Thought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint"

INSTRUCTIONS: 
1.  All students are to have read the poems prior to class and should come with questions.
2.  Student leaders assigned to each group will guide the discussion providing:
     A.  Brief and pertinent biographical information
     B.  Brief explication (all students have read; you are merely highlighting what is most notable or significant)
     C.  Clear statement of theme and explanation of how the poem develops it 

     D.  EXPERT knowledge about every word, footnote, image to facilitate discussion and questions
3.  Presentation Outlines due from all groups on 25 January


RUBRIC  

Know these terms for Poetry Terms Quiz:
Know these terms:
alexandrine, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogy, apostrophe, assonance, ballad, blank verse, bucolic, cacophony, ​carpe diem, conceit, concrete poetry, consonance, couplet, dialect, diction, dramatic poetry, elegy, elision, euphony, figurative language, figure of speech, folk ballad, foot, free verse, hyperbole, iambic pentameter, iambic heptameter, idyll, imagery, incremental repetition, inversion, irony, lyric poetry, metaphor, meter, metonymy, narrative, octave, onomatopoeia, parallelism, paradox, pastoral, personification, quatrain, refrain, repetition, rhyme (end, approximate, internal), rhyme scheme, rhythm, sestet, shaped (concrete) poem, simile, sonnet, stanza, symbol, trochee, volta

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Happy New Year and Welcome back!

Announcements:
--Cycle 1:  The Sonnet (details TBA)
--Please bring NA(B) with you to class every day
--EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY (Quiz Grade):


The Strake Jesuit Library and Inkwell Creative Writing Club welcome award-winning writer and editor Sarah Cortez as part of the 2018-2019 Inkwell Speaker Series.

January 10, 2019                              9:05-9:50am                     Lecture Hall

Sarah Cortez, a Councilor of the Texas Institute of Letters, is a widely published, award-winning writer and editor. She has been both a Houston and Texas finalist for poet laureate.

Light snacks provided.
Earn House points!



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LAST UPDATE--The Final Stretch

12/4: 
--Essay assigned (See below)
--MACBETH, Act 3 discussion

12/6:
--Thesis development/practice
--MACBETH, Act 4 discussion
--Vocabulary Quiz 17-18

12/7:
--MACBETH, Act 5 discussion
--Outline/drafting

12/11 and 12/12:
--editing/revision
--Quote Quiz is cancelled

MACBETH essay:
--Suggested topics
--this essay will be written entirely in class
--it should be submitted to tii.com on 12/11 or 12/12 in class.
--it should have a thesis that is supported by evidence from the text and your argument
--it should be 4-8 paragraphs long
--it should comport with MLA standards
​--it should abide by all information on the editing checklist






















After Thanksgiving  Due Dates:
--Read and Take Notes on Shakespeare Introductory Information in NA(B)
--Use the timeline (in resources below) to complete the worksheet below by 11/26
--Read Act I of MACBETH by 11/26
--Vocabulary Quiz 11/27


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BRING THE BEDFORD HANDBOOK TO CLASS EACH DAY THIS WEEK!


This week in English III
--Punctuation Test on 11/15
--Conclusion of Arthur discussion
--Books are in! $5.83 each
--Introduction to MACBETH; read Act I by 11/26  

Upcoming:
--Vocabulary 15-16 Quiz 11/27

RESOURCES:

STUDY QUESTIONS
Vocabulary Macbeth List 1   TBA
--Here's a link to definitions
Vocabulary Macbeth List 2   TBA
--Here's a link to definitions

Shakespeare biographical information 
Shakespeare WS

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--Upcoming dates:

Complete Punctuation Mastery WS by 11/5
Read SGGK by 11/6 (NA 183)
SGGK Presentations on 11/6
Vocabulary 13-14 Quiz on 11/8
Read Malory by 11/9 (NA 482)
Vocabulary 15-16 on 11/15--CANCELLED

​Coming soon:  MACBETH
Update 10/24

10/25--Vocabulary 11/12; study synonyms and antonyms
10/30-31--Bring draft of essay to class for editing/conferences/peer review
11/1--Character Analysis essay due at 7:55 at tii.com
10/22-29:  The Canterbury Tales

Please read "The Pardoner's Tale" by Monday, 29 October and "The Wife of Bath's Tale" by 1 November:
--use the links below;
--read the tales only (not the prologues/epilogues)
--make use of the study questions provided
--be prepared for reading check/quiz


  "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (a romance); questions here
  "The Pardoner's Tale" (an exemplum); questions here. 
           --Alternate link to PT here.

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EXTRA CREDIT:  Receive a quiz grade of 100 for watching the SJ Play:

Friday, October 26th @ 7 PM
Saturday, October 27th @ 7 PM
Thursday, November 1st @ 7 PM
Friday, November 2nd @ 4 PM
Saturday, November 3rd @ 2 PM

Bring stamped program to class.

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Week of 15 October


Monday:  Bede (in class);  "The Dream of the Rood" (in class).

Wednesday: 
Vocabulary Quiz: 9-10
Introduction to Chaucer:
--Read:  Chaucer Introduction in NA and Lines 1-40 of GP in text at link below
--View:  "The Feudal Order," Episode 20 of The Western Tradition  by class on Thursday here
--Complete:  WS on Chaucer by Thursday

Thursday (Section 8)/Friday (Section 1):
--WS due
--Discuss GP/Character analysis

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; 




CYCLE 4 + GW:  26 September - 5 October
Anglo Saxon Literature; Beowulf; Writing/Editing; Vocabulary; Outside Novel

Study Questions for Beowulf

24-5 September
--Reading Day/Conference Day
--Bring print-out of final essay for brief conference with me
--Bring NA to continue reading Beowulf or DG to read/complete journal entries

26 September
--DG Journal entries for Chapters 1-11 due at tii.com by 10:00 a.m.
--Beowulf

28 September
--Vocabulary 5-6 Quiz (Quiz)
--Beowulf

1/2 October
--Beowulf
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UPDATE:  essay revision due
--Beowulf essay assigned:  suggested topics

3 October
--Beowulf

4/5  October
--DG Journal entries for final chapters due at tii.com by 10:00 a.m.
--Beowulf


9 October

--Vocabulary 7-8 Quiz

​Beowulf reading sections:

1.  41-5 (Rise, Attack)

2. 45-51 (Hero)

3.  51-5 (Feast)

4. 55-8 (Fight)

Read 
summaries; read Beowulf (95-108)
Journal Ideas:  Peruse this list of essay topics if you would like some ideas about journal entries.

The Picture of Dorian Gray
 Journal Assignment:
--Complete one journal entry per chapter
--Submit to turnitin.com (date TBA)
--Write 6-8 sentences per journal entry
--Follow guidelines suggested in the "Reading Journals" section of the Resources Tab at left
Quick Notes:

1.  Bring NA(A) to class every day this cycle.
2.  To ensure mastery (class average was a failing one) a second quiz over poetry terms will be given; review the terms and be prepared any day for this quiz.
3.  Please be sure you have properly enrolled in tii.com and PeerGrade.
4.  Continue reading DG:
       --1-4 due 12 September
       --5-11 due 24/5 September
       --12-End due 4/5 October



CYCLE 3 + GW:  12-25 September
Anglo Saxon Literature; Beowulf; Writing/Editing; Vocabulary; Outside Novel

Study Questions for Beowulf

12 September
--DG 1-4 due; possible quiz (Quiz);
--Bring print-out of final essay for polishing and editing (Daily).


14 September
--Anglo Saxon Literature and Beowulf:  Introduction

17 September
--Essay due at tii.com by 3:00 p.m. (Major)
--Beowulf


19 September
--Vocabulary 3-4 Quiz (Quiz)
--Beowulf


20-1 September
--Beowulf

24-5 September
--DG 5-11 due; possible quiz




​Beowulf reading sections:

1.  41-5 (Rise, Attack)

2. 45-51 (Hero)

3.  51-5 (Feast)

4. 55-8 (Fight)

Read 
summaries; read Beowulf (95-108)

6.  95-101 (Dragon)

7.  101-End (Funeral)


PEER GRADE INFO:
Go to:  
 peergrade.io/join 
CODE:   5AEQEY




27 August through 11  September


27/28 August

--Poetry terms assigned; Quiz 9/7
--Close reading assignment
--Ballad group presentations assigned; presentations dates 9/4-9/7


29 August
--Vocabulary Quiz 1-2
--Thesis statement check in class and drafting (for short essay on one theme discussed in DJMH)
--Paragraph Assignment -- UPDATE

30 August
--DJMH  short essay/paragraph draft due to PeerGrade by 4:00 p.m. -- UPDATE


4 September
--Presentation Group Work
--PeerGrade assignment due by 4:00 p.m -- UPDATE
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5 September
--Presentations
--Poetry Terms Quiz

10-11 September
--Conclude presentations;
--DG chapters 1-4 discussion'

12 September
--Paragraph due at tii.com



POETRY TERMS:
alexandrine, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogy, apostrophe, assonance, ballad, blank verse, bucolic, cacophony, ​carpe diem, conceit, concrete poetry, consonance, couplet, dialect, diction, dramatic poetry, elegy, elision, epic poetry, euphony, figurative language, figure of speech, folk ballad, foot, free verse, hyperbole, iamb, iambic pentameter, iambic heptameter, idyll, imagery, incremental repetition, inversion, irony, lyric poetry, metaphor, meter, metonymy, narrative, octave, onomatopoeia, parallelism, paradox, pastoral, personification, quatrain, refrain, repetition, rhyme (end, approximate, internal), rhyme scheme, rhythm, sestet, shaped (concrete) poem, simile, sonnet, stanza, symbol, trochee, volta
17 August through 11 September


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Assignments/Updates will be posted here weekly.


--Course Expectations
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