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