English IV     British Literature  ( with an emphasis in writing/elaboration/support )

First week of school as follows:

Diagnostic grammar and writing as well as journal writing ( Quote notebooks will be collected for a writing assignment grade before

the end of a marking period.

Tues. 8/19 Diagnostic Sentence Structure and Re-Writes Test

Wed 8/27 All Contracts must have been collected         ***Wednesdays after school Make-Up********

                                                                                                            * see me*

                                                Link to Syllabus (click)

Beowulf             First Epic Hero in English Lit.                                          Epic Poem

                                                               

Use the following websites:

  http://www.heorot.dk/   (click)                                              http://www.heorot.dk/beo-links.html        

  http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/proj1b/beowulf.html                  http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/beowulf/    (complete text)

  http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/assignments/beowulf/beowulf.html  

Read from Interactive Workbook and complete the side notes by 8/27

Read "The Battle With Grendel" complete Active Reader Skillbuilders, Alliteration and Vocabulary

Charts  due 8/28 in class.

Read "Grendel's Mother" and "The Battle with Grendel's Mother"

Complete "Thinking Through Lit" assignment p.51, Fri. 8/29

Read "Beowulf's Last Battle " and "Mourning Beowulf" due 9/2 Tuesday

Complete "Thinking through the Literature" Ex. #1-6 p.63 Wed. 9/3 and

Vocab in action Ex A and Ex B Word Meaning p. 65

Review all on Thursday 9/4

Sentence structure work:

  Fragments/RO/ Writing & Grammar workbook

Writing&Grammar (hardbound), Editing and Revising

p.497 Ex.29, and P.503 (1-5

Also complete cartoon hero (time in class)

Test Beowulf, Friday 9/5

*****Beowulf Project***As specified*** due 9/5 for period 2 (was distributed and explained 8/28)

and Monday 9/8 for periods 3 and 4

THE MIDDLE AGES   The Canterbury Tales                       Start Tuesday 9/9

THE CANTERBURY TALES

Read "the Prologue" Start Wed. 9/9

Chart character oulines daily as we read.

complete all Literary analysis charts and vocabulary from handouts

and the Interactive Reader, as well as notes due Tues. 9/16

Continue reading in Language of Literature

pp. 120-127 from the merchant to the Parson

Complete "The Prologue Groupings by Chaucer, lesson 3

handout 10, as well as active reading skillbuilder Wed.9/17

Read pp.127-136 from(the miller to the host) for Mon.

Quiz from the Prologue

Next reading:

"The Pardoner's Tale" Complete the Critical thinking  on p 152 for Thurs., 10/2 ______________________________________________

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   ***Character Analysis*** Writing assignment         

Writing Assignment Character Analysis

From Prologue

Use TAG formula, transitions, *see sample

All Due Wednesday 10/1

 

"Wife of Bath's Tale" Complete skillbuilders, vocab etc. for both tales.

Complete study questions p.167 #1-5   Fri. 10/3

 

Quiz Pardoner and Wife of Bath Tues. 10/7

 

       Romance by The Gwain Poet...from Sir Gwain and the Green Knight

Friday, 3/14

Read and complete vocabulary skillbuilders and literary analysis Tues.10/7--10/8  * Reply to Questions from

Sir Gwain and the Green Knight p.223 # 1-9

     Romance by Sir Thomas Malory from...Le Morte d'Arthur 

Read Tues. 10/14th and 10/15th. Complete vocabulary work, skillbuilders and study questions according

to literary analysis graphic organizers given in class.

Parallel Structure work from Writing and Grammar review

pp. 502, 508  Mon.10/20

Misplaced Modifyers work from Writing and Grammar

pp.501-504 Tues. 10/21

********Senior Portfolio******* Due Nov. 12th**************

Including the following:

information sheet, resume, letter of recommendation prep. form, letters of recommendation

from two teachers and an application essay

*********Quote Notebooks********* Due 10/16 and 10/17******

***Midterm Exams *** October 22nd. and 23rd.

***NEW MARKING PERIOD STARTS ***

Mon. Oct. 27th.

 

 

ELIZABETHAN TIMES         WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 

General background, period, traditions and history,

A&E video presentation with interactive sheets( interactive ) (cloze procedure) Mon. 10/27

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The Tragedy of Macbeth                   

 

              

Click on this link.

Click on second link.  (all for More Info.)

* Read act I  scenes i and ii   Tues. 10/28

Complete side notes from active reader skillbuilder up to scene iii

Complete side notes for scenes 4 through 7 (all of act I) for Friday, 10/31

*Complete Active Reading Skillbuilder, Expanding Vocabulary, Foreshadowing in Shakespeare,

and Literary Analysis with solliloquys and asides, Plus Vocabulary, Checked Mon. 11/3

*Quiz Act I Wed.10/6

*Read Act II  Holinshed Chronicles, Thurs. 10/7

Complete Literary Analysis and Novel Road Guide to Success questions for Act. II

*complete study questions and skillbuilders   Wed. 11/12

*Read Act III    Thurs. 11/13

  complete skillbuilders, vocab and characterization by Fri. 11/14

  Gender Stereotypes/Drawing Comparisons and Character Analysis charts.

Review acts II and III with Novel Road Map to Success study questions Mon& Tues 11/17,18

*Quiz Acts II and III  Thurs. 11/20

*Read  Act IV Fri. 11/21-22

   complete skillbuilders and analysis Tues. 11/25

Critical Thinking questions for act IV  Tues. 11/25

*Read Act V Mon.-Tues. 12/1,2

complete guide to success questions Wed. 12/3

Quiz acts IV & V plus total review

 Big Test for Macbeth Thurs. 12/4

****Writing Assignment***Macbeth--A Tragic Hero 12/4     12/5

See guidelines on board and handout with specific instructions

  (Computer cart in class for typing, editing etc.)

From the Restoration and Enlightenment...The Age of Reason

Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" (satire)

Read together 12/9

Interactive Workbook 12/8

re-read, complete side-notes, Active Reader skillbuilder and Literary Analysis skillbuilder

along with Vocabulary

Review all and test 12/11

 

Selected Short Stories.............

The Victorian Period     Leo Tolstoy "What Men Live By"pp.914-928

                                                                                                             complete Literary analysis, Interpret  12/16

                                                                                                               idioms, active reading skillbuilder and If/Then                                                                                                                             complex sentences

                                                                                                               Quiz   12/17         

 

Emerging Modernism

"The Rising of the Moon" p.994   Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory

Skillbuilders and Critical Questions

 

 D.H. Lawrence          "The Rocking Horse Winner"pp.1006-1019

suspense/short story

 

Virginia Woolf

"The Duchess and The Jeweller" pp.1046-1054   Read at home and complelte Literary analysis work.

Literary analysis assignment collected on the same day.

 

"The Demon Lover" pp.1157-1164    Elizabeth Bowen     

 

 

 

T.S. Eliot                                                                                                

         

 

"Preludes"

"The Hollow Men"

"The Naming of Cats"                          

 

Final Exams:

1/14    1/15

 

 

 

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