Wednesday, July 13, 2011

MWDS for Summer Reading

Hit the link below to access a word version of the Major Works Date Sheet. You will need to comlete one for each of the novels before the beginning of school.

http://sb169.k12.sd.us/MajorWorksDataSheet%5B1%5D.doc

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

HW for Wednesday 5/25

Read The Rocking Horse Winner (1174-1189)...we just MAY have a CPS quiz tomorrow!

Monday, May 16, 2011

HW for Tuesday 5/17

Read A Time of Rapic Change: The Modern and Postmodern Periods (pp 954-961).

Monday, April 25, 2011

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.

Monday 4/11 – Reading Day

Tuesday 4/12 – Reading Day

Wednesday 4/13 - Discuss Phase I

Thursday 4/14 – Vocab Day

Friday 4/15 - Discuss Phase II

Monday 4/18 – Vocab day

Tuesday 4/19 - Discuss Phase III

Wednesday 4/20 - Reading day

Thursday 4/21 - Discuss Phase IV

Tuesday 4/26 – Reading Day

Wednesday 4/27 - Discuss Phase V

Thursday 4/28 - Reading Day

Friday 4/29 - Discuss Phase VI

Monday 5/2 – Discuss Phase VII

Tuesday 5/3 - Final Discussion Day; Reading Questions Due

Wednesday 5/4 - Review Day

Thursday 5/5 - Tesst (Get it??!!) Part I, Part II due Monday 5/9

Friday 5/6 – APUSH Exam/ APLC Exam Review

Monday 5/9 – AP Bio Exam/APLC Exam Review

Tuesday 5/10 - APLC Exam Review

Wednesday 5/11 – APLC Exam

Thursday/Friday 5/12-13 – Watch Tess

Monday 5/16 – Begin Modernism Unit

Friday, March 4, 2011

Romantic Period Unit Itinerary Adjustments

F 3/4 - Research paper due (50 pts.)
Jane Austen & Mary Wollstonecraft, pp 780-786
HW: Read Mary Shelley’s Intro., Letters I-V, 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.

M 3/7 - English III CP Films


T 3/8 - Poem readings.
Discuss reading
HW: Read chapters 9-12 (pp 61-81) 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.

W 3/9 - Discuss reading
HW: Read Ch. 13-15 and answer questions.

Th 3/10 - Frankenstein reading day
HW: Read Ch. 16-21 and answer questions.

F 3/11 - Frankenstein reading day
HW: finish novel (Ch. 22-24) and answer questions

M 3/14 - Frankenstein reading questions due (50 pts.)
Work on Frankenstein DQs
HW: finish DQs for Paideia discussion

T 3/15 - Paideia discussion TLC Conference Room
No HW

W 3/16 - 40-minute prompt essay over Frankenstein (9 pts.)
HW: Romanticism Unit Review Guide

Th 3/17 - Review day
HW: Study

F 3/18 - Romanticism Test (100 pts.)
No HW

Friday, February 18, 2011

Romantic Period Unit Itinerary

W 2/16 – A Poison Tree discussion
HW: The Book of Thel

Th 2/17 - Discuss Thel
HW: Wordsworth Tintern Abbey

F 2/18- Discuss Tintern Abbey
Read excerpt from The Prelude
HW: TPCASTT for The World is Too Much with Us

T 2/22 - Rime of the Ancient Mariner Reading Day
HW: complete Rime reading and discussion questions

W 2/23 - Paideia Discussion in TLC Conference Room
Reading and discussion questions due
No HW

Th 2/24 - In-class essay (30 pts.)
HW: Byron She Walks in Beauty

F 2/25 - Excerpts from Childe Harold and Don Juan
HW: Shelley; TPCASTT for Ozymandias

M 2/28 - Ode to the West Wind; To a Skylark
HW: Keats; On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

T 3/1 - Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn
HW: Begin Romantic Poet Research Paper

W 3/2 - Paper work day.
HW: finish paper

Th 3/3 - Research paper due (50 pts.)
HW: Jane Austen & Mary Wollstonecraft, pp 780-786

F 3/4 - Discuss HW
HW: Read Mary Shelley’s Intro. and Letters I-V.

M 3/7 - 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.


T 3/8 - 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.

W 3/9 - Discuss reading
HW: Read Ch. 13-15 and answer questions.

Th 3/10 - Frankenstein reading day
HW: Read Ch. 16-21 and answer questions.

F 3/11 - Frankenstein reading day
HW: finish novel (Ch. 22-24) and answer questions

M 3/14 - Frankenstein reading questions due (50 pts.)
Work on Frankenstein DQs
HW: finish DQs for Paideia discussion

T 3/15 - Paideia discussion TLC Conference Room
No HW

W 3/16 - 40-minute prompt essay over Frankenstein (9 pts.)
HW: Romanticism Unit Review Guide

Th 3/17 - Review day
HW: Study

F 3/18 - Romanticism Test (100 pts.)
No HW

Friday, January 21, 2011

HW for Monday 1/24

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