ENGLISH III HONORS
English%20III%20Honors   (Class Syllabus)
FALL 2011
 
WEEK
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
8/22-8/26

*First day of school

*SAT warm-up

*Review Code of Conduct

*Review course syllabus

*Copy Unit 1 vocabulary

*Pre-reading for unit on Native American Mythology

(pgs. 18-24)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Grammar diagnostic

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Diagnostic review

*Begin unit on Native American Mythology

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Continue unit on Native American Mythology

*Read "The World on the Turtle's Back" (pgs. 24-30)

*Complete questions #1-6 (pg. 31)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Begin reading Coyote Stories (pg. 39)

*Read "Coyote and the Buffalo" (pgs. 40-42)

*Complete questions #1-3 (pg. 42)

*Daily allusion

8/29-9/2

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 1 vocab. quiz

*Copy Unit 2 vocabulary

*Read "Fox and Coyote and Whale" (pgs. 43-45)

*Complete questions

#2-7 (pg. 46)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Grammar assignment (pgs. 3-4)

*Timed writing

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review basic grammar rules

*Read and discuss pgs. 66-71

*Read and discuss pg. 81

*Discuss SOAPSTone

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Read pgs. 82-87

*Complete questions #1, 3-5, and 7 (pg. 88)

*SOAPSTone assignment

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Read pgs. 132-136

*Read pgs. 144-147

*Discuss questions

*Daily allusion

9/5-9/9
*No School

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 2 vocab. quiz

*Copy Unit 3 vocabulary

*Read pgs. 150-151

*Complete discussion questions #1-3

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Read pgs. 152-156 and 160

*SOAPSTone assignment

*Discuss questions

*Review vocab. quiz #2

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Writing assignment (pg. 159)

*Grammar assignment (pg. 15)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*WebQuest activity

*Daily allusion

9/12-9/16

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 3 vocab. quiz

*Review "prefixes"

*Grammar assignment (pg. 16)

*Begin reading The Crucible (Act I)

*Study for cumulative test

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review "prefixes"

*Continue reading The Crucible

(Act I)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review "prefixes"

*Grammar assignment (pg. 17)

*Continue reading The Crucible (Act I)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review "prefixes"

*Continue reading The Crucible (Act I)

*Bingo boards for Friday

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Vocabulary Bingo

*Daily allusion

9/19/9/23

*SAT warm-up

*Cumulative test #1

*Copy Unit 4 vocabulary

*Review "suffixes"

*Review grammar (pgs. 17-18)

*Review questions

(Act I)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review "suffixes"

*Create Pinwheels for Peace

*Begin reading Act II

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Allusions quiz #1

*Review vocab.

*Review "suffixes"

*Plant Pinwheels for Peace

*Continue reading Act II

*Daily allusion

*EARLY RELEASE

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review "suffixes"

*Continue reading Act II

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review "suffixes"

*Continue reading Act II

*Characterization in

The Crucible

*Daily allusion

9/26-9/30

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 4 vocab. quiz

*Copy Unit 5 vocabulary

*Review "suffixes"

*Continue reading The Crucible (Act II)

*Irony activity

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review "suffixes"

*Continue reading The Crucible (Act II)

*Act II review questions (pg. 206)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review "suffixes"

*Review quiz

*Irony review

*Continue reading The Crucible (Act III)

*Daily allusion

*No School

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review "suffixes"

*"Essay ID"

*Daily allusion

10/3-10/7

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 5 vocab. quiz

*Copy Unit 6 vocabulary

*Review Greek root words

*"Opening Statements"

*Continue reading The Crucible (Act III)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review Greek root words

*"Opening Statements"

*Continue reading The Crucible (Act III)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review Greek root words

*"Conflict" in The Crucible

*Act III review questions

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review Greek root words

*McCarthy Hearings (group assignment)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review Greek root words

*Irony in The Crucible

*Begin reading Act IV

*Daily allusion

10/10-10/14

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 6 vocab. quiz

*Greek roots

*Study for cumulative test

*Review Greek root words

*Continue reading Act IV

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Greek roots

*Finish reading Act IV

*Act IV review questions

*Review Irony (The Crucible)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Greek roots

*Character analysis (The Crucible)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Greek roots

*Allusions quiz #2

*Finish the character analysis

*Bingo boards

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Greek roots

*Vocabulary Bingo

*Daily allusion

10/17-10/21

*SAT warm-up

*Compare/contrast essay (The McCarthy Hearings vs. The Salem witch trials in The Crucible)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Read pgs. 256-261 (take notes on the information)

*Read pgs. 262-266 and pg. 269

*SOAPSTone assignment

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Cumulative vocabulary test #2

*Review for test on The Crucible

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Read pgs. 270-276 and pg. 281

*Complete a SOAPSTone analysis of the information from the document

*Complete the "Parallelism" assignment

(pg. 279)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Read pgs. 338-342 and take notes

*Read pgs. 349-359 ("The Devil and Tom Walker")

*Complete questions #1-8, including the Comprehension Check questions (pg. 360)

*Daily allusion

10/24-10/28

*SAT warm-up

*The Crucible Cumulative Test

*Review for mid-term exam

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review for mid-term exam

*Begin unit on Individualism

*Daily allusion

*Mid-term Exams *Mid-term Exams *Planning Day (No School)
10/31-11/4

*SAT warm-up

*Copy Unit 7 vocabulary

*Latin roots

*Short story group assignment ("The Lottery")

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Latin roots

*Discuss literature ("The Devil and Tom Walker" and "The Lottery")

*Read "Civil Disobedience" (Thoreau) (pg. 369)

*SOAPSTone assignment

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Latin roots

*Review "Civil Disobedience"

*Read On Civil Disobedience (Gandhi) (pg. 377)

*SOAPSTone assignment

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Latin roots

*Read from Walden (Thoreau) (pg. 381)

*SOAPSTone assignment

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Latin roots

*Read Walt Whitman poetry (pg. 396)

*TPCASSTT assignment

*Daily allusion

11/7-11/11

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 7 vocab. quiz

*Copy Unit 8 vocabulary

*Latin roots

*Edgar Allan Poe background

*Read "The Masque of the Red Death" (pgs. 454-461) (homework)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Latin roots

*Review story and questions

*View film

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Latin roots

*Read from Danse Macabre (pgs. 464-465)

*Grammar assignment

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Latin roots

*Read "The Raven" (pgs. 466-470) (TPCASSTT)

*Read "Fall of the House of Usher" (pgs. 473-494) (homework)

*Daily allusion

*No School
11/14-11/18

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 8 vocab. quiz

*Copy Unit 9 vocabulary

*View film (Poe's poetry)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Review grammar

*Discuss "Fall of the House of Usher"

*View film version

*Read "A Rose for Emily" (pg. 516) (homework)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Allusions Quiz #3

*Discuss "A Rose for Emily"

*View literature on film

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Read "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (pg. 500)

*Complete questions #1-6 and #8 on pg. 514

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Huckleberry Finn Quiz #1 (Ch. 1-10)

*"Gothic" drawing

*Daily allusion

11/21-11/25
*No School *No School *No School *No School *No School
11/28-12/2

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 9 vocab. quiz

*Read narrative (Frederick Douglass) (pg. 562)

*Complete questions #1-6 (pg. 571)

*Read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (pg. 580) (homework)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Discuss story

*View film

*Grammar assignment (pgs. 23-24)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Read "The Gettysburg Address" (pg. 605)

*View speech on film

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Huckleberry Finn Quiz #2 (Ch. 11-18)

*Novel worksheet ("Family Feuds")

*Bingo boards

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Vocabulary Bingo

*Daily allusion

12/5-12/9

*SAT warm-up

*Cumulative vocabulary test #3

*Copy Unit 10 vocabulary

*Novel worksheet (on "Censorship")

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Huckleberry Finn Quiz #3 (Ch. 19-29)

*Novel worksheet ("The Grangerfords")

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Assign topics for critical analysis assignment

*Begin writing thesis statements

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Work on critical analysis

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Work on critical analysis

*Daily allusion

12/12-12/16

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 10 vocab. quiz

*Novel worksheet ("Taking Aim")

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Novel worksheet ("The River/The Shore")

*Review film

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Huckleberry Finn final test

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*View film

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*View film

*Daily allusion

12/19-12/30
WINTER BREAK
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1/2-1/6

*SAT warm-up

*Copy Unit 11 vocabulary

*Poetry Unit (Emily Dickinson)

*TPCASSTT assignment

(pgs. 750-754)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Critical analysis papers due

*Review vocab.

*Review and continue poetry

(pg. 759)

*Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" for homework (pgs. 765-778)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*"The Yellow Wallpaper" quiz

*Read "The Story of an Hour" (pgs. 783-785)

*Complete questions #1 and 3-9, including the Comprehension Check questions (pg. 786)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Begin Harlem Renaissance Unit

*Poetry Unit (Langston Hughes)

*Read background (pgs. 916-923)

*TPCASSTT poetry (pgs. 924-927)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Finish TPCASSTT

*Read essay (pgs. 932-936)

*SOAPSTone assignment

*Daily allusion

1/9-1/13

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 11 vocab. quiz

*Copy Unit 12 vocabulary

*Finish SOAPSTone from Friday

*Read King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (pgs. 1136-1145)

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Allusions quiz #4

*Begin SOAPSTone analysis of King's "Letter"

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Writing assignment

*Finish SOAPSTone analysis of King's "Letter"

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Read King's "I Have a Dream" speech

*Begin SOAPSTone

*Daily allusion

*SAT warm-up

*Review vocab.

*Finish SOAPSTone

*View King's speeches on film

*Daily allusion

1/16-1/20
*No School

*SAT warm-up

*Unit 12 vocab. quiz

*Review for final exam

*Daily allusion

*Final Exams *Final Exams *Planning Day (No School)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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