This Week in English III:
Final Stretch:
2 May: Vocabulary 6 Quiz
3 May: Tennyson, Hopkins, Victorians Test--Matching, Short Answer, Poem Analysis
7 May: Journals due: 10 entries for first 8 chapters of 1984
8 May: Vocabulary 7 Quiz
10 May: 1984 essay assigned
14 May: Journals due: 10 entries for 10 chapters in Part 2 of 1984
15 May: Vocabulary 8 Quiz
16 May: Essay due
18 May: Vocabulary 9 Quiz
Journal Entries:
--Please consult the information about journals listed under the resources tab at the left;
--Journal entries are due to TurnItIn.com by noon on the due date;
--Each journal entry should be four to six sentences in length and clearly reference the episode, idea, or quote being discussed.
Resources for 1984:
Study Questions for each chapter.
Please obtain a copy of George Orwell's 1984 by Monday, 30 April.
--Any unabridged print copy, new or used, is acceptable.
--An inexpensive copy at amazon.com may be found here.
--Please email me by Monday, 23 April if you would like for me to order you a copy.
Vocabulary QUIZ 5 will be next week on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Study these words.
This week in English III:
Introduction to Victorian Era
Victoria/Victorian Era
Hopkins
Tennyson
The Oxford Movement
The Pre-Raphaelites and Christina Rossetti
TENNYSON POEMS: Some Questions
"Mariana"
"The Lady of Shalott"
"Ulysses"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
TENNYSON In Memoriam PRESENTATIONS:
--4/9: Select poem and groups: 5, 7, 14, 27, 34, 54, 56, 96, 106, 108, 119
--4/9: Vocabulary 3 Quiz Lists 3 and 4
--4/10-11: Group Work
--4/12: 5, 7, 14
--4/13: 27, 34
--4/16: 54, 56
--4/16: Vocabulary 4 Quiz
--4/17: 96, 106
--4/18: 108, 119
******See the play for extra credit!******
3/21-28: Discussion of Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats
3/28: Vocabulary Unit 1 Quiz (Vocabulary List 1 and 2)
3/29: Double Quiz: Romanticism, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats
4/4: Vocabulary Unit 2 Quiz (use list 2 at above link)
LITERATURE: Wordsworth
Read the following; be prepared for reading checks and discussion; bring NA(D) every day.
FOR DISCUSSION Tuesday through Friday:
--"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)
----"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"
----"It Is A Beauteous Evening"
----"The World Is Too Much With Us"
----"Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways"
Upcoming Due Dates:
2/27: Vocabulary 21-22 Quiz
Bring NA(D) to class every day starting 2/26
ROMANTICISM:
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Byron
Shelley
Keats
TEST MOVED TO Tuesday: Poem Analysis and Wednesday: poems, authors, terms (lists below)
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES:
--see the SDOAPS Production (quiz grade)
--Recite the sonnet you wrote about (quiz grade; deadline 2/9/18)
1/29 Shakespeare Essay due; RenPoets groups assigned;
1/30 DG essay assigned (due 2/9); discuss DG;
1/31 DG double Quiz
2/1 V 17-18; Group Work
2/2 Student-led discussion
UPDATE
2/6 Student-led discussion Group work
2/7 Sonnet groups assigned; Group work GROUP C PRESENTATION
2/8 V 19-20 GROUP D PRESENTATION
2/9 DG Essay due; BRING printout of essay for revision to class; essay due at 10:00 p.m.
2/12 Student-led discussion A and B
2/13 Student-led discussion C and D
2/14 Student-led discussion E and F; Test Review
2/15 TEST: Renaissance Poets
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: Donne: Meditation 17
GROUP E: Milton: "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" and "I Thought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint"
GROUP F: Herber: "The Altar" and "Easter Wings"
RENAISSANCE POET GROUPS:
GROUP A: Jonson: "Song to Celia," "On My First Son"
GROUP B: Herrick and Lovelace: "To the Virgins . . ." and "To Lucasta" and "To Althea"
GROUP C: Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"
GROUP D: Marlow and Raleigh: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and "The Nymph's Reply . . ."
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. EXPERT knowledge about every word, footnote, image to facilitate discussion and questions
RUBRIC NEW
TEST REVIEW: Know the poems above.
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
ICE STORM UPDATES:
--Comma WS due 1/16 IS NOW DUE 1/19
--Sonnet Essay assigned on 1/16, due 1/26 FOR 5 EXTRA POINTS, DUE 1/29 WITHOUT PENALTY
--Read DG through Chapter 11 by 1/18 SHOULD BE BY 1/23
--Complete DG by 1/29 (possible test) REMAINS THE SAME
--PUNCTUATION TEST IS NOW 1/25
UPDATES:
--Comma WS due 1/16
--Sonnet Essay assigned on 1/16, due 1/26
--Read DG through Chapter 11 by 1/18
--Complete DG by 1/29 (possible test)
--Sonnet information
--Sonnet Essay assigned;
----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
WELCOME BACK!!!
Third Quarter: Renaissance and Romantic Poetry; DORIAN GRAY
Please read Chapters 1 and 2 of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (DG) for 1/8.
UPCOMING DUE DATES:
1/10 Reading Quiz Chapters 1-4 DG
1/12 Vocabulary 15-16 Quiz
1/23 Punctuation/Mechanics Test
--Comma WS due 1/16 IS NOW DUE 1/19
--Sonnet Essay assigned on 1/16, due 1/26 FOR 5 EXTRA POINTS, DUE 1/29 WITHOUT PENALTY
--Read DG through Chapter 11 by 1/18 SHOULD BE BY 1/23
--Complete DG by 1/29 (possible test) REMAINS THE SAME
--PUNCTUATION TEST IS NOW 1/25
UPDATES:
--Comma WS due 1/16
--Sonnet Essay assigned on 1/16, due 1/26
--Read DG through Chapter 11 by 1/18
--Complete DG by 1/29 (possible test)
--Sonnet information
--Sonnet Essay assigned;
----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
WELCOME BACK!!!
Third Quarter: Renaissance and Romantic Poetry; DORIAN GRAY
Please read Chapters 1 and 2 of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (DG) for 1/8.
UPCOMING DUE DATES:
1/10 Reading Quiz Chapters 1-4 DG
1/12 Vocabulary 15-16 Quiz
1/23 Punctuation/Mechanics Test
12/5: Personal Narrative Essay assigned (assignment below)
12/6: Discuss Act II of TN
12/8: Discuss Act III; Vocabulary 11-12 Quiz
12/11: Act IV
12/12: Essay due at 8:00 a.m. at tii.com
12/13: Conclude TN; Vocabulary 13-14 Quiz
12/14: TN Test
COMPOSITION:
Personal Narrative Essay: DUE 12 December
--ideas to get you started
--suggested procedure
SUGGESTION: Choose three topics (from the brainstorming lists above or create your own); list/write/organize three to five bullet points/ideas for each one.
12/6: Discuss Act II of TN
12/8: Discuss Act III; Vocabulary 11-12 Quiz
12/11: Act IV
12/12: Essay due at 8:00 a.m. at tii.com
12/13: Conclude TN; Vocabulary 13-14 Quiz
12/14: TN Test
COMPOSITION:
Personal Narrative Essay: DUE 12 December
--ideas to get you started
--suggested procedure
SUGGESTION: Choose three topics (from the brainstorming lists above or create your own); list/write/organize three to five bullet points/ideas for each one.
11/27: Ballads
11/28: Middle Ages Test
11/29: Class does not meet
11/30: TWELFTH NIGHT Assignment: Read introductory materials in NA. Read Act One and complete worksheet due Monday.
12/01: TWELFTH NIGHT.
Study Questions for TWELFTH NIGHT.
MAEssay Revision:
1. Conference with teacher 11/3-11/8. You must bring a printout of tii.com essay.
2. Revision assignment (at left) due 11/8
3. Submission of hard copy with previous drafts. Due in class 11/10.
4. The revision will be a Major Grade. You must complete all of the above steps and do substantial revision/edit/rewrite to receive full credit.
VOCABULARY
--Poetry Terms Quiz 11/8 (see list below)
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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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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.
For November 3:
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: 11/06
There will be a reading quiz each day before class discussion.
--DISCUSSION 11/13: "The Miller's Tale" (a fableau); questions here
--DISCUSSION 11/15: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (a romance); questions here
--DISCUSSION 11/16: "The Pardoner's Tale" (an exemplum); questions here.
--Alternate link to PT here.
Read Ballads for 11/20-27 Discussion:
MALLORY NOTES
BALLADS:
--discuss ballads; READ/Outline/take notes on ballad handout; this material will be on the test.
--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
MIDDLE AGES LITERATURE TEST: 11/28
1. Conference with teacher 11/3-11/8. You must bring a printout of tii.com essay.
2. Revision assignment (at left) due 11/8
3. Submission of hard copy with previous drafts. Due in class 11/10.
4. The revision will be a Major Grade. You must complete all of the above steps and do substantial revision/edit/rewrite to receive full credit.
VOCABULARY
--Poetry Terms Quiz 11/8 (see list below)
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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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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.
For November 3:
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: 11/06
There will be a reading quiz each day before class discussion.
--DISCUSSION 11/13: "The Miller's Tale" (a fableau); questions here
--DISCUSSION 11/15: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (a romance); questions here
--DISCUSSION 11/16: "The Pardoner's Tale" (an exemplum); questions here.
--Alternate link to PT here.
Read Ballads for 11/20-27 Discussion:
MALLORY NOTES
BALLADS:
--discuss ballads; READ/Outline/take notes on ballad handout; this material will be on the test.
--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
MIDDLE AGES LITERATURE TEST: 11/28
EXTRA CREDIT: See the school play; receive 100 on a Quiz!
--Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK)
----Graded Discussions 1-4: MAJOR GRADE
--General Notes: SGGK
--Study Questions (from Borroff translation; wording may be slightly different)
10/23-10/25 Groups assigned; group preparation
10/25: Vocabulary 9-10 Quiz
10/26: Groups 1 and 2 Present/Discuss
10/30: Groups 3 and 4 Present/Discuss
Homework due 10/31: Please have read 8 poems below; choose one to analyze.
--discuss ballads;
--ballad analysis assigned; group discussions will be Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday;
--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
For Friday:
Read THE SEAFARER
Answer these questions.
OCTOBER
--Bring NA every day
--Beowulf essay assigned
--Continued discussion of Anglo-Saxon Literature
--Vocabulary and Reading Quizzes
--Chaucer (Presentations week of 23 October--please check your availability)
--Daily quizzes and book checks
DUE DATES:
--10/6 Vocabulary 3-4
--10/9 Rough Draft due at PeerGrade by 8:00 a.m.
--10/9 Peer Review in class
--10/12 Vocabulary 5-6
--10/13 Close reading assignment in class
--10/16 Vocabulary 7-8 MOVED TO 10/20
--10/17 Essay due at 8:00 P.M. at tii.com
--10/18 TEST: Anglo-Saxon Literature UPDATE: DOUBLE QUIZ
--10/20 Chaucer GP Quiz--postponed; Vocabulary 7-8 Quiz instead
--10/23-6 Chaucer Presentations--postponed
--Beowulf essay assigned.
----SUGGESTED TOPICS.
----Rubric/Guidelines
----Edit Checklist
LATE POLICY:
--Essays drop a letter grade for each day late. After
more than five days, a student may receive half credit
for the essay submitted anytime before the end of the
semester.
READINGS to be discussed in class:
--Bede (29-32)
--"The Wanderer" (117-20)
--Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK)
--General Notes: SGGK
--Study Questions (from Borroff translation; wording may be slightly different)
WEEK of 18 September
--Vocabulary 1 and 2 assigned; quiz 21 September.
--Homework: read Beowulf (36-51) for Wednesday. 20 September.
--Writing guidelines/procedures.
--Anglo-Saxon Literature/Epic Poetry
--Beowulf
--Study Questions
Week of 25 September
Beowulf Groups
1. 41-5 (Rise, Attack)
9/25 45-51 (Hero)
9/26 51-5 (Feast)
9/27 55-8 (Fight)
Read summaries; read Beowulf (95-108)
9/28 95-101 (Dragon)
9/29 101-End (Funeral)
--Beowulf essay assigned; due TBD.
----SUGGESTED TOPICS.
----Rubric/Guidelines
----Edit Checklist
Weeks of 14 and 21 August:
Opening Day Announcements
Course Expectations
Plagiarism Handout
Plagiarism Power Point
8/22
--Vocabulary 1 and 2 assigned; review Friday; quiz 29 August
--Homework: read Beowulf (36-51) for next Monday 8/28
--Writing guidelines/procedures.
--Anglo-Saxon Literature/Epic Poetry
--Beowulf
--Study Questions
COMING SOON:
--Graded Discussion # 1
8/16
Upcoming due dates:
--Note check 8/16
--Reading check 8/18
--Latin and Greek Vocabulary: Prefixes Quiz 8/21 (page five of vocabulary book)
--TurnItIn.com enrollment due 8/21 (see resources tab at left)
--Summer Reading Test 8/22
--Bring NA(A) to class 8/23 to begin Anglo Saxons/Beowulf
Please obtain a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray by 28 August.
--Vocabulary 1 and 2 assigned; quiz 21 September.
--Homework: read Beowulf (36-51) for Wednesday. 20 September.
--Writing guidelines/procedures.
--Anglo-Saxon Literature/Epic Poetry
--Beowulf
--Study Questions
Week of 25 September
Beowulf Groups
1. 41-5 (Rise, Attack)
9/25 45-51 (Hero)
9/26 51-5 (Feast)
9/27 55-8 (Fight)
Read summaries; read Beowulf (95-108)
9/28 95-101 (Dragon)
9/29 101-End (Funeral)
--Beowulf essay assigned; due TBD.
----SUGGESTED TOPICS.
----Rubric/Guidelines
----Edit Checklist
Weeks of 14 and 21 August:
Opening Day Announcements
Course Expectations
Plagiarism Handout
Plagiarism Power Point
8/22
--Vocabulary 1 and 2 assigned; review Friday; quiz 29 August
--Homework: read Beowulf (36-51) for next Monday 8/28
--Writing guidelines/procedures.
--Anglo-Saxon Literature/Epic Poetry
--Beowulf
--Study Questions
COMING SOON:
--Graded Discussion # 1
8/16
Upcoming due dates:
--Note check 8/16
--Reading check 8/18
--Latin and Greek Vocabulary: Prefixes Quiz 8/21 (page five of vocabulary book)
--TurnItIn.com enrollment due 8/21 (see resources tab at left)
--Summer Reading Test 8/22
--Bring NA(A) to class 8/23 to begin Anglo Saxons/Beowulf
Please obtain a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray by 28 August.
