Week 1- Day 1 and to be practiced as needed until clear to all.
Student Code and class procedures:
1) Come in quietly, backpack beneath desk, paper and pen out prepared to work.
2) To get my attention raise your hand--NEVER interrupt me while I am lecturing.
3) Put numbers on your papers EVERY time.
4) ALWAYS wait until lecture is over to ask for a restroom pass; remember 2 per quarter.
5) When you see my hand raised - STOP talking and EYES on me.
6) This class goes from bell to bell; I DISMISS the class, not the school bell.
Warm up # 1- "Achilles' Heel" copy, study, use in a sentence correctly. Please review and study these allusions as there will be an exam after number 15.
Day 2- Allusion warm up #2 "Pound of Flesh " - copy and study. Remember every 15 allusions there will be a test.
Collect signed forms for a homework grade.
Parents and guardians please update your telephone numbers so I can reach you during school hours and after school. Thank you.
Discuss and write class goals. Remember to come prepared for class with the recommended supplies.
First draft of essay; "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink."
Begin discussing background of creation myths and legends of the Native Americans.
Introduce Native Americanbackground. P. 18-19 Timeline, 20-30 Historical background and "The World on the Turtle's Back".
Day 3 -
Allusion-warm up # 3 "".
Edit rough drafts, homework - correct
Day 3-4- History P. 18-26
Active reading and note taking. Preview
vocabulary
Learn for the test.
Editing - 1) circle first four words 2) NO YOUs allowed 3) NO Contractions 4) Replace to be verbs with active voice (vivid verbs) Find the thesis; do you have at least three points? Can you find the points in each of the body paragraphs? Highlight them. Create topic sentences from each, now elaborate on each one giving examples, figures, references to literature or current events, etc.
Week 2 - Allusion warm ups: Throw down the gauntlet, The Muses, Kafkaesque, Tower of Babel, and Pollyanna.
Grammar (list of "to be" words not to use) am is are do does did have has had was were should would could may might must will be being been can/ Revise papers to eliminate these words as much as possible.
Film clip of scop telling tale of Beowulf.Pre- reading questions on p.14 of the Beowulf packet (Characters and terms list) Read same aloud together. Using laptops, complete Novel road map questions as we go along.
Continue Beowulf, discuss, take notes. Beowulf in Interactive Reader (IAR) Voc. p. 34.
Beowulf handouts. Map and Timeline. And the Wheel keeps on turning..
Week 3 - Allusion warm ups:
Write about your hero.
Vocabulary: affliction, cowering, fetter, gorge, infamous, lament, livid, loathsome, murky, pilgrimage, purge,
relish, talon, writhing. Learn these words from Beowulf for the test.
Create an Anglo-Saxon boast. All parts of the boast must be included: genealogy, past acts,
next great act.
Evidence of figurative language must be present throughout the boast: kennings, personification,
alliteration, specific details, hyperbole, etc.
Format: MLA style
Proofread
Assigned length
Mechanical: Punctuation and spelling
Complete Beowulf and study for test.
Beowulf test. Boast presentations.
Week 3 continued and Week 4-
Grammar " Venerable Bede' Read the simile of the Middle Ages and create your own for life.
Give back tests - have them signed if under a C.
Read P. 107-111 take notes there will be an open note pop quiz.
Write about a challenge you undertook and how it affected your life.
Begin CT p.112
Discuss Chaucer' Times.
Grammar
Chaucer vocabulary,
Prologue on CD.
Open notes pop quiz.
Return papers and discuss common errors, grading expectations, correct, rewrite typed, and resubmit.
Week 5 -
Prologue all week - complete through page 60 in IAR, review.
Overhead transparency Characterization graphic
Identify author's use of characterization in "The Prologue" and the author's tone through close reading, diction, details and use of language.
Group project - each group (no more than 3 to a group) to work on analyzing one character and presenting same to class.
Audience to take notes so when there is a pop quiz you will be prepared.
Collect revised essays.
Next week quiz on "Prologue" and go on to "The Pardoner's Tale".
Week 6 -
Collect page 59 from Interactive Reader as HW grade. Work on grammar and proof reading on the overhead.
Read pages 139-140 in the Literature text about Chaucer's times by John Gardner. Restate questions 1-3 and give supported answers for a grade. Watch "The Pardoner's Tale" film.
"The Pardoner's Tale" and discussion
Grammar unit and writing assignment on "The Wife of Bath".
Week 8- Read "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". This is about the adventures of the legendary King Arthur and his nephew Sir Gawain. The theme here is what comprises true knightly qualities. Pages 209-224 and 225-238 from "Le Morte d'Arthur" read and learn the vocabulary for both selections and be prepared for a quiz.
I will distribute a study guide for the midterm exam on all the selections. The essay will be on the novel we read in class and for home work during this quarter. This term it is Brave New World .
Week 9- Review for exams and exams - Term 1 ends on March 27, 2008
Term 2 begins Monday April 7. Week 1- Background preparation for Macbeth by William Shakepeare. I advise all students to purchase the Shakespeare No Fear Macbeth as this will enable you to work at your pace and review at leisure. It will also permit you to annotate the text and refresh your memory about important points in the text. We will work on this play for the next four weeks and you will find these little books to be an invaluable aid in pacing and understanding the play.We will read review and discuss the Renaissance, its social, political, religious, and cultural upheavals and the background for Shakespeare's creation of Macbeth. Macbeth will be read, studied, and discussed. The exam will be at the end of April. Monday the 29th.
Next we will read short stories beginning on page 888 with "The King is Dead, Long Live the King","The Miracle of Purun Bhagat", and "What Men Live By". While we read short stories in class, we will complete the dystopia unit reading either 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale.
Download the Macbeth scrip: click here
Language Arts Tutoring
Tuesdays 2:45-3:15
Room 214/216
Parents, share your thoughts about tutoring
(Secret Word- Monarch):
