8/22/11 - 8/26/11 - Review syllabus. Review the characteristics of an epic listed on p29 of your textbook. Review with examples from The Odyssey. Read background information on the Anglo-Saxons in your textbook. Create a VIS for the 15 words to know. Begin reading the epic poem Beowulf together. Answer questions on p51. Write down examples from Beowulf that support characteristics of an epic. Find examples of alliteration and kennings within the poem. Write a resume using Bewoulf's speech as inspiration. |
| 8/29/11 - 9/2/11 - Finish reading Beowulf. Beowulf Test Wednesday. Read background information on the Medieval Period and Geoffrey Chaucer from your textbook. Complete a VIS on the 15 words to know for The Canterbury Tales General Prologue. Begin reading. Vocabulary Test Friday. |
| 9/5/11 - 9/9/11 - Finish Canterbury Tales General Prologue. Answer questions on p137. Vocabulary Test Friday. |
| 9/12/11 - 9/16/11 - Read The Pardoner's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale. Write your own moral tale. See me for a rubric. |
| 9/19/11 - 9/23/11 - Canterbury Tales Test Tuesday. Final copies of moral tales due. Review characteristics of a Romance. Read an excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Create an outline with the most important details. Fill in examples from Sir Gawain... that support characteristics of a romance. Vocabulary test Friday. |
| 9/26/11 - 9/30/11 - Read Act I of Macbeth. Introduce Characteristics of a Tragedy. Fill in examples from Macbeth as you read. No school Thursday. Vocabulary test Friday. |
| 10/3/11 - 10/7/11 - Read Acts II and III of Macbeth. First Macbeth Test. Find examples of dramatic irony. |
| 10/10/11 - 10/14/11 - Finish Act III of Macbeth. Read Act IV. Vocabulary test Friday. |
| 10/17/11 - 10/21/11 - Finish Act IV. Read Act V. Explore themes. Second Macbeth test. |
| 10/24/11 - 10/27/11 - MIDTERM EXAMS - Click here for a study guide |