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The list below should read:  "The Dead" and Heart of Darkness
You should be prepared to be quizzed over poetry terms/poem analysis on Friday.



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​Read:  Heart of Darkness (NAF 1953)

Section 1:  due Monday, 2 May:  be prepared for reading check/quiz.
Section 2:  due Wednesday, 4 May
Section 3:  due Friday, 6 May


Study Questions
More Study Questions
White Lies and Whited Sepulchres in Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS

DUE DATES:
HOD Quiz:  6 May
HOD Essay:  due 9 May  SUGGESTED TOPICS

VOCABULARY QUIZ DATES:
5/5:  Vocabulary List 5
5/10:  Vocabulary List 6
5/16:  Vocabulary List 7
5/19:  Vocabulary List 8










TENNYSON PRESENTATIONS:
--4/7:  Select poem and groups:  5, 7, 14, 27, 34, 54, 56, 96, 106, 108, 119
--4/8:  Vocabulary 21-2 and group work
​4/11-4/13:  Presentations



WEEK OF 28 March

--Read DJMH (assignment and study questions below)
--Read/discuss Tennyson poems (list and questions below)
--Take Vocabulary 21-22 quiz on Friday  UPDATE:  Tuesday, 5 April
--Take DJMH quiz on Monday
--Essay assigned 4 April, due 11 April 


UPDATE 4/4/16:
DJMH Test:  Tuesday
VOCABULARY QUIZ:  Friday



DJMH

Read for Tuesday, 29 March        STUDY QUESTIONS

   Story of the Door
   Search for Mr. Hyde
   Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease
   The Carew Murder Case
   Incident of the Letter

Read for Monday, 4 April
   Incident of Dr. Lanyon
   Incident at the Window
   The Last Night
   Dr. Lanyon's Narrative
   Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case


TENNYSON POEMS:  Some Questions 
"Mariana"
"The Lady of Shalott"
"Ulysses"
From In Memoriam:  1, 7, 14, 27, 54, 106, 130
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"

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Introduction to Victorian Era
--Exploration:  21 March
--Presentations:  22-3 March
--Quiz:  24 March

Victoria/Victorian Era
Hopkins
Tennyson
The Oxford Movement
The Pre-Raphaelites and Christina Rossetti
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The SPRING-BREAK-IS-COMING-SOON Update

Read the following poems before coming to class; be prepared to discuss or be quizzed over them.

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




DATES:
--9 March :  Super Quiz:  Romanticism:  Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Byron
--10 March:  In-class Essay

11 March:  Happy Spring Break




























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



Week of  22 February

COMPOSITION:
Personal Narrative 
Essay:  DUE  2 March
--ideas to get you started  
--
suggested procedure
ASSIGNMENT: Due at tii.com by 4:00 p.m. 22 February:  Choose three topics (from the brainstorming lists above or create your own); list/write/organize three to five bullet points/ideas for each one.

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"
FOR JOURNAL WRITING/In-class Essay
--Sonnets (344-8)

VOCABULARY:  
--Units 19-20:  Quiz 25 February


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1- 19 February 

1 February
--Renaissance Poets Test
--Bring NA(D) every day

2 February
--Introduction to Romanticism
--Video:  The Western Tradition, "Revolution and Romantics" video and study guide

--cf NA(D) Introductory materials to Romanticism (3-30)

3 February
--Romanticism

4 February
--Romanticism:  Wordsworth and Coleridge
--Journal Entries due @ tii.com by 8:00 p.m. (QUIZ)

5 February
--Introduction to RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (RAM)
--RAM Study Guide
--Introduction to Romanticism Quiz
--Presentation Format

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9-10 February
--Read RAM (437-9, 442-58)
--Complete study guide as you read
--Prepare for presentations to begin on 16 February
--Study vocabulary 17-18

11 February
--Quiz:  Vocabulary 17-18
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16 February
--Presentations:  Sections 1 and 2 RAM

17 February
--Presentations:  Sections 3 and 4 RAM

18 February
--Presentations:  Sections 5, 6, and 7 RAM

19 February
--RAM Quiz












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LITERARY TERMS TO KNOW:
bucolic
pastoral
carpe diem
UPDATE:
Ren. Poets Test Rescheduled:
New Date:  Monday, 1 February



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Week of 25 January:

--Bring NA(B) every day for conclusion of in-class discussion of Renaissance Poetry;
--Group work and student discussion of Donne 1/26-8

--Vocabulary:  Units 15 and 16 Quiz 1/28 
--TEST:  Renaissance Poets 1/29


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WELCOME BACK!!!

Wednesday:  Exam Review
Thursday:  MACBETH Essay Revision:  bring printed essay, vocabulary book, and NA(B) to class
Friday:  Vocabulary 11-12 Quiz


ESSAY REVISION DUE:  1-19-16
-----  +5 if submitted before 1-16-16

Authors:  Be able to identify major works, contributions, and biographical details discussed 
in class for the following authors. 
--Spenser "One Day I Wrote Her Name" and "Lyke as a ship" (985-9)              
--Raleigh "Nymph's Reply" (1024-5)
--Sidney  "With How Sad Steps" and "Come Sleep" (1037, 1090)       
     
--Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" (1126)
--Herbert "The Altar" and "Easter Wings" (1707, 1709)             
--Herrick "To the Virgins" (1762)
                             
--Marvell "To His Coy Mistress" (1796)
    
--Jonson  "On My First Daughter," "On My First Son," and "Song:  To Celia" (1541-1542, 1548)                                      

  Concepts/Terms/Periods

          --Sonnets:  English/Shakespearean sonnet; Italian/Petrarchan sonnet; Spenserian sonnet;
          --Cavalier poets/Tribe of Ben
          --Metaphysical poets
          --carpe diem
          --conceit, apostrophe, paradox, and other poetry terms/devices/conventions







FINAL STRETCH!!!!

Conclude MACBETH, complete Vocabulary Quiz 9-10, submit essay, and prepare for final.

DATES:
--12/1:  Study Questions for Acts 2 and 3 Due
--12/1:  Memorization recitations in class
--12/1:  Essay conferences
--12/3:  Essay due; discuss MACBETH
--12/4:  Discuss MACBETH
--12/7:  Vocabulary 9-10 Quiz
--12/7:  Discuss MACBETH
--12/8:  TEST:  MACBETH
--12/9:  Review for Final Exam
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Week of 9 November



11/17 Essay assigned; due 12/3
11/12  Quiz on Act I 
11/13  Quiz on M Vocabulary List 1
11/19  Quote Quiz
11/20  Quiz on M Vocabulary List 2



MACBETH Resources
--STUDY QUESTIONS.
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 1.  
--Vocabulary Macbeth List 2.  
--Here's a link to definitions
--Essay due:  12/3



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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

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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WEEK OF 2 NOVEMBER

Ballads
Introduction to MACBETH
Vocabulary 7-8 Quiz on Friday, 6 November
Read MACBETH Act 1 for 9 November

BALLADS:

--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
WEEK OF 26 October

Read WYATT:  646-649
Bring NA(B) every day

--Peer Editing due 10/26
--Quiz:  Sonnets  10/28

--Essay Due:  10/29 (due 10:00 p.m.)
--Quiz:  Vocabulary Units 5 and 6 10/30


Internet Interrupted Week:

NEW TEST DATE:  10/21
Vocabulary 4 Quiz:  10/22

Read the handout (Sonnet information) and NA(Vol.B)  646-9 for Wednesday

​Please purchase a copy of the Folger Edition of MACBETH

ESSAY UPDATE

--PE  10/20  Quiz Grade  NEW DATE:  10/23
--Final Draft  10/23  Major Grade  NEW DATE:  10/28

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Extra Credit Opportunity:
Attend Comedy Sportz this week for Extra Credit!
Check out SJ Announcements for time and place.
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  5 October through  20 October


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 October 5-6
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: 10/09

CHECK YOUR SCHEDULES and NOTIFY ME OF ANY CONFLICTS:
--PRESENTATION 10/8:  "The Miller's Tale" (a fableau); questions here
--PRESENTATION 10/9:  "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (a romance); questions here
--PRESENTATION 10/13:  "The Nun's Priest's Tale" (a beast fable); questions here and here
--PRESENTATION 10/16:   "The Pardoner's Tale" (an exemplum); questions here. 
           --Alternate link to PT here.

LOOK!!!
UPDATED DUE DATES:
Chaucer Essay Due Dates (all due at 8:00 a.m.) :
--Draft 10/12  Daily Grade NEW DATE:  10/15  NEW DATE:  10/16 at 8:00 at tii.com
--PE  10/20  Quiz Grade  NEW DATE:  10/23
--Final Draft  10/23  Major Grade  NEW DATE:  10/28

​MIDDLE AGES LITERATURE TEST:  10/19







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Extra Credit Opportunity
Attend SDOAPS this week for Extra Credit!
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28 September through 9 October


LITERATURE:
--Malory
----Graded Discussions 1-4 (20 minutes each):  
----9/30:  "Conspiracy" (482)
----10/1:  "War" (487)
----10/1:  "Death of Arthur" (491)
----10/2:  "Death of Lancelot and Guinevere" (497)
--Chaucer
----"The General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales 10/5 and 10/6
----Graded Discussion TBA 10/8- 10/16


VOCABULARY
--Poetry Terms Quiz 10/2 (see list below)
--Unit 4 Quiz 10/9


COMPOSITION:
--Character Analysis assigned 10/6  

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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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ASSIGNMENT FOR THURSDAY, 24 September:
--Read lines 203-32 of SGGK; 
--Read three other translations of the same lines and complete the questions at the end;
--Due Monday at the beginning of class.








14 through 25 September







LITERATURE:
--Bede (29-32)
--"The Wanderer" (117-20)
--Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK) 
----Graded Discussions 1-4:  9/18, 9/22, 9/23, 9/25  MAJOR GRADE

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




VOCABULARY
--Unit 2 Quiz 9/16
--Unit 3 Quiz 9/25


COMPOSITION:
--B Peer Review due 9/17  
--B Final Draft due 9/21

UPDATE:  CHECK TII.COM for correct/updated due dates!
9/19 PR
9/24 Final













31 August through 11 September

BEOWULF WS
Also:  Study Questions (bumped)

31 August
--Beowulf (36-51)
--Discussion:  opening; funeral; themes, motifs

1 September
--Beowulf (36-51)
--Discussion:  Challenges to Beowulf at lines 239, 331, and 499
--QUIZ:  Latin and Greek Prefixes

3 September
--Beowulf (51-58)
--Discussion:  B's speech to Hrothgar (399-  ); B's response to Unferth (529-   )
--HW:  read summaries; read Beowulf (95-108)


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8 September
--Beowulf (95-108)
--Vocabulary Unit 2 assigned:  Quiz 9/15;
--Beowulf essay assigned; due 9/14.  
----SUGGESTED TOPICS.
----Rubric/Guidelines
----Edit Checklist

9 September
--Graded discussion

10 September
--Reading Quiz:  Anglo Saxon Poetry and Beowulf.











Welcome Back!

Assignments/Updates will be posted here weekly.

--Course expectations;
--Plagiarism form;
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18 August 2015

Tuesday: 
--Welcome:  course expectations and syllabus
--Note check:  Summer Reading
--Sign in to tii.com (information located under Resources at left)

Wednesday:
--Discussion:  Summer Reading 
--Vocabulary 1 assigned; review Friday; quiz 26 August

Thursday:
--Summer Reading Check:  multiple choice/matching/quote questions
--Homework:  read Beowulf (36-51) for next Thursday

Friday:
--Discussion:  A Tale of Two Cities
--Writing guidelines/procedures.


24 August 2015

Monday:
--ATTC  Essay in class (Major Grade)

Wednesday:
--Vocabulary 1 Quiz UPDATE:  QUIZ on Thursday; Vocabulary 2 assigned.

Thursday:
--Anglo-Saxon Literature/Epic Poetry
--Beowulf
--Study Questions

Friday:
--Graded Discussion # 1 
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