Thursday, April 15, 2010

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.

Thursday 4/15 - Discuss Phase I

Friday 4/16 - Discuss Phase II

Monday 4/19 - Discuss Phase III

Tuesday 4/20 - Reading day

Wednesday 4/21 - Discuss Phase IV

Thursday 4/22 - Reading day

Friday 4/23 - Discuss Phase V

Monday 4/26 - Discuss Phase VI

Tuesday 4/27 - Reading day

Wednesday 4/28 - Discuss Phase VII

Thursday 4/29 - Final Discussion Day; Reading Questions Due

Friday 4/30 - Review Day

Monday 5/3 - Tesst (Get it??!!)

Monday, March 22, 2010

Week 30 Schedule

Monday 3/22 - Frankenstein reading questions due; work on discussion questions. HW: finish DQs for Paideia seminar Tuesday.

Tuesday 3/23 - Paideia Seminar
No HW

Wednesday 3/24 - 40-minute prompt essay over Frankenstein (9 pts.)
HW: "The Victorian Period", pp 874-893

Thursday 3/25 - 10-point CPS quiz over reading; Houseman
HW: Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" pp 894-901

Friday 3/26 - Discuss Tennyson
HW for SB: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Friday, March 12, 2010

Frankenstein Reading Schedule

For Friday 3/12 – Read Mary Shelley’s Intro. and Letters I-V.

For Monday 3/15 – 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.

For Tuesday 3/16 – 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.

For Monday 3/22 – Read chapters 13-24 (pp 81-166…the rest of the book!). You will have reading questions over these chapters to complete during the college trip and weekend. I will collect these on Monday!

Friday, March 5, 2010

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Week 27 Itinerary

Tuesday 3/2 - The Rime reading questions
HW: The Rime discussion questions

Wednesday 3/3 - Paideia discussion in TLC Conference Room
At the end of the smeinar, I will collect BOTH reading and discussion
questions...this will be the last graded assignment for the 3rd term.
HW: Byron, pp 793-798

Thursday 3/4 - TPCASTT analysis of She Walks in Beauty
HW: Shelley, pp 801-809

Friday 3/5 - Discuss Ozymandias and the ode
HW: Keats, pp 824-827 & 835-837

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

HW for Thursday 2/25

Read the bio/background information on Wordsworth (pp734-35) and "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (pp 736-741)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

HW for Thursday 2/10

Read all of the material on Blake, as well as "The Tyger" and "The Lamb," pp 718-723, and answer questions 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, and 12 on p 724.