Wee 7 Itinerary

Tuesday 9/25 – Beowulf wrap-up

                         Discuss passage from Bede’s History
                         HW: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (pp 79-82)

Wednesday 9/26 -  Discuss The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
                              Read Chaucer bio, etc., and begin Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
                              HW: finish Prologue and define unfamiliar words in context

Thursday 9/27 - Discuss Prologue and vocab, answer #1, 2, 6, & 8 on p. 115
                         HW: read The Nun’s Priest’s Tale and define unfamiliar words in context

Friday 9/28 - Discuss The Nun’s Priest’s Tale and vocab, answer #2-6 on p. 137
                     HW: read The Pardoner's Tale and define unfamiliar words in context

Itinerary Weeks 5 & 6

Tuesday 9/18

A-S Poetry Quiz (50 pts.)
HW: Begin reading Beowulf, pp 36-46

Wednesday 9/19

Discuss quizzes
“Abolish the SAT” by Charles Murray
HW:  Continue reading the selections from Beowulf, pp 46-53

Thursday 9/20 –

Heroes & Archetypes
HW: finish selections from Beowulf (pp 54-60) and answer #1-3, 6 on p. 60.

Friday 9/21 –

CPS Quiz on Beowulf (20 pts.)
Watch/discuss scenes from 2007 film version
HW: read the selection from Bede (pp 72-78) and define the following words
in context: pasturage, veins, harmony, medium, grant, immunity

Monday 9/22

Discuss reading/vocab
AP #3 Essay Samples

Tuesday 9/23

AP-prompt Essay (9 pts.)
HW: excerpts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (pp 79-82).

Summer Reading

A.  Books

1.  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2.  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

B. Assignments

Complete a Major Works Data Sheet for each novel.  Click on the MWDS link below and save the word file to your computer or flash drive.  Complete and e-mail to me by the following dates:

Pride and Prejudice - July 25
Brave New World - August 20

MWDS

Final Itinerary

Monday 4/30 – AP Prompt #1 2009 Practice Essay
HW: work on take-home Tesst

Tuesday 5/1 - Take-Home Tesst work day
HW: finish take-home Tesst

Wednesday 5/2 - Take-home Tesst due (100 pts.)
Go over 2009 AP Prompts #1 Essays
HW: Intro Essay for Modern/Postmodern Periods (pp 952-962)

Thursday 5/3 - Discuss reading/vocab
The Lake Isle of Innisfree and Sailing to Byzantium
HW: The Second Coming and analysis questions

Friday 5/4 - Yeats questions due (25 pts.)
MC Practice Exam
HW: WWI poems (pp 1050-1053)

Monday 5/7 - Discuss WWI poems
HW: Dulce et Decorum Est and analysis questions

Tuesday 5/8 - Owen questions due (20 pts.)
Begin reading Araby (pp 1147-1152)
HW: finish Araby

Wednesday 5/9 - Araby lecture and discussion
HW: read The Rocking Horse Winner (1174-1189)...we just MAY have a CPS quiz tomorrow!

Thursday 5/10 - The Rocking Horse Winner: Symbolism and Irony
HW: read The Train From Rhodesia (pp 1248-1254)

Friday 5/11 - No class (APUSH Exam)
No HW

Monday 5/14 - Discuss The Train From Rhodesia
HW: Practice AP Prompt Essay

Tuesday 5/15 - Discuss Essays/Rubrics
MC Practice/AP Exam Review
HW: Review!

Wednesday 5/16 - AP EXAM
No HW

Thursday 5/17-Friday 6/1: Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies

Romanticism Unit Itenerary Revised

M 2/27 - Frankenstein reading day
HW: Read Ch. 13-15 and answer questions.

T 2/28 - Frankenstein reading day
HW: Read Ch. 16-21 and answer questions.

W 2/29 Discuss reading questions/vocab
finish novel (Ch. 22-24) and answer questions

TH 3/1 - Frankenstein reading questions due (50 pts.)
Work on Frankenstein DQs
HW: finish DQs for Paideia discussion

F 3/2 - Paideia discussion TLC Conference Room
No HW

M 3/5 - 40-minute prompt essay over Frankenstein (9 pts.)
HW: Romanticism Unit Review Guide

T 3/6 - Review day
HW: Study

W 3/7 - Romanticism Test (100 pts.)
No HW

Romanticism Unit Itinerary

T 1/31 – Rebels and Dreamers: The Romantic Period (pp 614-621)
HW: Robert Burns (p. 624), To A Mouse (626-628 and answer #2-4 on p. 628), To A Louse, (629-631 and answer #1-4 on p. 631)

W 2/1 – Discuss Burns poems, William Blake (638-639)
HW: The Lamb and The Tyger (pp 640-642 and answer #1, 3, 4, & 5 on p. 642)

Th 2/2 – Discuss Blake poems, A Poison Tree TPMDST
HW: The Book of Thel

F 2/3 - Discuss Thel
HW: Wordsworth (pp 662-665) Tintern Abbey (pp 667-671 and answer #1-3 on p. 671)

M 2/6- Discuss Tintern Abbey
Read excerpt from The Prelude
HW: TPCASTT for The World is Too Much With Us

T 2/7 - Rime of the Ancient Mariner Reading Day
HW: complete Rime reading and discussion questions

W 2/8 - Paideia Discussion in TLC Conference Room
Reading and discussion questions due
No HW

Th 2/9 - In-class essay (9 pts.)
HW: Byron She Walks in Beauty

F 2/10 - Excerpts from Childe Harold and Don Juan
HW: Shelley; TPCASTT for Ozymandias

M 2/13 - Ode to the West Wind; To a Skylark
HW: Keats; On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

T 2/14 - Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn
HW: Begin Romantic Poet Research Paper

W 2/15 - Paper work day.
HW: finish paper

Th 2/16 - Research paper due (50 pts.)
Begin watching Dead Poets Society
No HW
F 2/17 – finish Dead poets Society
HW: answer questions for Paideia discsussion Tuesday

T 2/21 – Paideia discussion: Dead Poets Society
HW: Read Mary Shelley’s Intro. and Letters I-V.

W 2/22 - Discuss reading
HW: Read chapters 1-8 (pp 14-61). Come to class prepared
with a narrative summary of the reading (does NOT have to
be in complete sentences) and a list of any unfamiliar words
defined in context.

Th 2/23 - HW: Read chapters 9-12 (pp 61-81) Come to class prepared
Discuss reading with a narrative summary of the reading
(does NOT have to be in complete sentences) and a list of any
unfamiliar words defined in context.

F 2/24 - Discuss reading
HW: Read Ch. 13-15 and answer questions.

M 2/27 - Frankenstein reading day
HW: Read Ch. 16-21 and answer questions.

T 2/28 - Frankenstein reading day
HW: finish novel (Ch. 22-24) and answer questions

W 2/29 - Frankenstein reading questions due (50 pts.)
Work on Frankenstein DQs
HW: finish DQs for Paideia discussion

Th 3/1 - Paideia discussion TLC Conference Room
No HW

F 3/2 - 40-minute prompt essay over Frankenstein (9 pts.)
HW: Romanticism Unit Review Guide

M 3/5 - Review day
HW: Study

T 3/6 - Romanticism Test (100 pts.)
No HW

HW for Friday 1/20

Read pp. 512-13 on Jonathan Swift, then the selections from Gulliver’s Travels on pp. 514-524. Define the following words in context in your vocab notebook:

obstinate, hazard, intercourse, confounded, encomiums, junta, maliciously, copious, contemptible, diminutive, dexterity, perfidiousness, recapitulate, panegyric, procurement, pernicious, vindication, laudable

Then answer #2, 4, 5 & 6 on p. 524.

HW for Wednesday 1/18

Read the excerpt from A Journal of the Plague Year (pp 503-508) and highlight and define in context any unfamiliar words.