E3H Unit I Itinerary

Week 5 -

Monday 9/16: Franklin's adages: interpreting rhetorical devices and figures of speech
HW: BF Autobiography Part I (pp 248-292) and vocab

Tuesday 9/17: Discuss reading/vocab
HW: excerpts from Crevecoeur, pp 308-323

Wednesday 9/18: Discuss Crevecoeur excerpts
HW: Read Common Sense (pp 3424-331) & outline Paine's argument

Thursday 9/19: In-class Reading Quiz: The Crisis, MC and SA, 30 pts.
HW: Thomas Jefferson excerpts (pp 337-345) and vocab

Friday 9/20: Discuss quizzes/TJ excerpts and vocab
HW: Read The Federalist #1(pp 345-348) & outline Hamilton's argument

Week 6 -

Monday 9/23: Discuss The Federalist #1
HW: Read Federalist #10 (pp 348-354) and vocab

Tuesday 9/24: Discuss Federalist #10 and vocab
HW: Olaudah Equiano excerpts (pp 354-366)

Wednesday 9/25: Discuss Equiano excerpts
HW: review vocab: BF, TJ, Madison

Thursday 9/26: Vocab Quiz (30 pts.)
HW: Judith Sargent Murray excerpts (pp387-397)

Friday 9/27: Discuss Murray excerpts
HW: Charles Brockden Brown excerpts (pp 412-433)

Week 7 -

Monday 9/30: Discuss Brown excerpts

Tuesday 10/1-Friday 10/4 will be poetry days. We will be going back in the text to read Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Philip Freneau, and Phillis Wheatley. Homework and other assignment for the week will be determined as we proceed.

Week 8 -

Monday 10/7-Friday 10/11:   In-class: Intro/vocab, Irving, Cooper, NA excerpts
                                               HW: work on Unit 1 Take-home test due Friday 10/11

Tess itinerary

You will have reading questions and vocab for each of the phases of the novel. Class discussion and reading days are below...as far as homework is concerned, you need to have the phases read and questions and vocab done for each of the respective discussion days. (It goes without saying that you will need to bring the book to class everyday!) I will take-up your answers/notes for ALL of the phases at the end of the final discussion period.


Tuesday 4/23 – Reading Day
Wednesday 4/24 - Reading Day
Thursday 4/25 - Discuss Phase I
Friday 4/26 – Vocab Day
Monday 4/29 - Discuss Phase II
Tuesday 4/30 – Vocab day
Wednesday 5/1 - Discuss Phase III
Thursday 5/2 - Reading day
Friday 5/3 - Discuss Phase IV
Monday 5/6 – Reading Day
Tuesday 5/7 - Discuss Phase V
Wednesday 5/8 - Reading Day
Thursday 5/9 - Discuss Phase VI
Friday 5/10 – AP Language and Composition Exam
Monday 5/13 - Discuss Phase VII
Tuesday 5/14 - Final Discussion Day; Reading Questions Due
Wednesday 5/15 - Review Day
Thursday 5/16 - Tesst (Get it??!!) Part I [Part II due Friday 5/17]

Week 27 Schedule

M 3/25:     Rime of the Ancient Mariner reading day

T 3/26:      Rime of the Ancient Mariner reading day

W 3/27:     Paideia discussion; reading and discussion questions dues (100 pts.)

Th 3/28:     AP-prompt essay (9 pts.)
                  HW:  Frankenstein

Week 26 Schedule

Monday 3/11 - 6 + 1 Traits analysis of Saiter papers

Tuesday 3/12 - Pope day (HW:  pp 538-542)

Wednesday 3/13 - Finish Pope (HW:  Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, pp571-575)

Thursday 3/14 - Discuss Elegy (HW:  Rebels and Dreamers pp 614-621)  [CPS Quiz Possible!]

Friday 3/15:  Introduction to Romanticism

Unit 3 Itinerary

Week 19 –

Tuesday 2/5:               CPS Quiz on Unit Introduction (20 pts.)

                                    The Tempest Assessment
                                    HW:  Song by John Donne. Paraphrase (in complete sentences!)
                                    Stanzas 1, 3 and 5 and answer #3 and 5 on p. 423.

Wednesday 2/6:          Discuss HW

                                    A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
                                    HW:  Donne One

Thursday 2/7:              Donne One Due (15 pts.)

                                    Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
                                    Discuss Donne One
                                    No HW
 

Friday 2/8:                   Milton pp. 462-463

                                    Sonnet VII and Sonnet XIX by John Milton
                                    HW:  Donne Two, due Monday 2/11

Week 20 –

Tuesday 2/12:             finish Paradise Lost vocab and analysis

                                    HW:  pp 494-502, Pepys' Diary

 

Wednesday 2/6:          Discuss HW
                                    pp 503-508, Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year
                                    No HW
                 
Thursday 2/7:              Satire 101
                                    HW:  pp 512-520, Swift's Gulliver's Travels: Lilliput

 Friday 2/8:                 Discuss HW

                                    pp 520-524, Swift's Gulliver's Travels: Brobdingnag
                                    No Hw

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.

HW for Wednesday 10/18

Read pp 234-235 and Sonnet 1, 35, and 39 by Edmund Spenser and answer #1-4 on p. 238.

HW for Friday 10/14

Read the selection from Morte d'Arthur (176-184) and answer #4 & 5 on p. 184 and #1-4 on p. 185.

Assignment for Tuesday 10/11

Read pp. 160-161 and the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (162-175) and define unfamiliar words in context in vocab notebook. For homework, answer # 1, 2, 4 & 5 on p. 175.

Assignment for Wednesday/Thursday 10/5 & 10/6

Go to the link below and read the article carefully. You may want to have a word file open as you read to keep running notes on the author's argument. When you are finished, post a one-paragraph summary of the argument to the blog (no more than 200 words) and write a second paragraph explaining why you agree or disagree with the contentions made in the article.

If you do not finish during class, do so for homework.


http://american.com/archive/2007/july-august-magazine-contents/abolish-the-sat

Week 6 Itinerary

Tuesday 9/27 – Read Chaucer bio, etc., and begin Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
HW: finish Prologue and define unfamiliar words in context in vocab notebook

Wednesday 9/28 - 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 in vocab notebook

Thursday 9/29 - 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 in vocab notebook

Friday 9/25 – Research paper Work Day in 508 Comp. Lab
HW: work on papers…you may peer-edit for half the period on Monday

Week 5 Itinerary

Tuesday 9/20 - Heroes & Archetypes
HW: finish selections from Beowulf (pp 54-60) and answer #1-3, 6 on p. 60.

Wednesday 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 your vocab notebook: pasturage, veins, harmony, medium, grant,
immunity

Thursday 9/22 - Discuss reading/vocab
AP Essay Samples

Friday 9/23 - AP-prompt Essay #1 (9 pts.)
HW: excerpts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (pp 79-82).

HW for Tuesday 9/20

Continue reading the selections from Beowulf, pp 46-53.