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

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

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.

HW for Friday 1/21

Read the bio/background material on pp 494-495, then the excerpt from Pepys' Diary on pp 496-502 and answer #2 & 4 on p. 502.

No Homework Tuesday 1/18

No homework...or rather, focus on your history! We'll pick back up with Milton Wednesday.

Week 14

Tuesday 1/11 - Read "A Turbulent Time: The 17th and 18th Centuries." (408-417) Highlight or underline any words you do not know and attempt to define them in context in the margins of you book.

Wednesday 1/12 -
HW: Read John Donne (420-430) except Holy Sonnet 10. Answer #3 & 5 on p. 423, #1 & 3 on p. 425, and #2 & 4 on p. 430.

Thursday 1/13 - No HW

Friday 1/14 - AP-Prompt Essay (9 pts.)
HW: Read Milton (460-463), then read Sonnet VII and Sonnet XIX and complete a TPCASTT analysis sheet for each.

Extra Credit Assignment

You are a theater critic for the NY Times. Write a review of Lowcountry Shakespeare's performance of Twelfth Night. Make sure you focus on the adaptatation of Shakespeare's original script as well as the effectiveness of the acting and staging of the play.

Due Monday 10/25.