Q1          Week  One          9/8      -       9/9

- discuss Dark Tide 

-journal / project

- College Essay

Q1           Week Two        9/12       -       9/16

- college essay seminar

• Tips
• Examples
• Do’s and Don’ts

-Dark Tide jounal/project due Mon 9/26

-Grammar quiz         punctuation, run-on sentence

- Book distribution and overview

-Anglo-Saxon Notes

• Handout #1-13

Q1         Week Three         9/19        -         9/23

- Dark Tide  project presentation due Mon 9/26

- College Essay Seminar

- Beowulf

• Unferth’s Taunt
• Handout “The Battle with Grendel”

Q1     Week Four        9/26       -        9/30

Author Steve Puleo Assembly

-Guidance Senior Interview

-Essay Question Lesson

-Beowulf

• Grendel’s Mother
• Fire Dragon
• Burning of the Body
• **Beowulf  test

Q1       Week  Five           10/3       -      10/7

-Grammar quiz       punctuation, capitalization, numerals

-Anglo/Saxon poetry  “The Seafarer”

• Vocab w/def  & illustration
• Handout  #1-9
• Tone
• Theme

Q1       Week Six          10/11       -         10/14             Columbus Holiday

The Seafarer

• Vocab definitions w/illustrations (5)
• Handout 9 questions
• *TEST

The College Essay      revisited

Is your essay up to your high standards?

• due Friday 10/14
• 2nd draft
• typed
• 1″ margins
• original title

Q1         Week  Seven             10/17         -        10/21

-Medieval Period

• Intro
• Notes
• Review Questions
• Quiz/Assignment

-Characterization

• Direct
• Indirect

- The Canterbury Tales, Prologue

Describe ten (10) characters according to:

1. character trait
2. evidence (quote)
3. method (dir/indir)

Q1         Week Eight           10/24         -          10/28

-Inferring Characters

1. Merchant   #1 – 5
2. Miller          #6 – 10

-The Wife of Bath    

• Review questions

Q1         Week Nine        10/31         -       11/4

-Canterbury Tales Prologue

• Characterize ten (10) pilgrims due

-Ballads, Elements of    p.90 – 96

• Lord Randall
• Edward, Edward
• Get Up and Bar the Door
• Frankie and Johnny

         p.96: 1-6; Elements

Q1           Week Ten         11/7       -       11/11                   Veteran’s Holiday

- Review

**Quarter Test

                                                    End   of    Quarter One

 

Q2     Week One     11/14   -   11/18

-Death of Arthur

• p. 176: 1-4;a-e
• Test

Q2     Week Two     11/21   -   11/23    Thanksgiving

• Introduction to the Renaissance

Q2     Week Three     11/28  -   12/2

-Macbeth, Act I

• p. 318: 1-8;a-e
• Vocab definitions
• Vocab Test *
• Act I Test *

Q2     Week Four     12/5   -   12/9

-Macbeth,  Act II

• Handout # 1-8

-Macbeth, Act III

• p. 351: 1-8; a-f

Q2     Week   Five     12/13   -   12/17

-Macbeth,  Act IV; RC p. 369

-Act V; p 370

Graphic Organizer

Read Check

Q2     Week Six     12/19   -   12/23     Christmas Recess

-Macbeth film

TEST

Q2   Week   Seven     1/3   -   1/6

Poetry

-Romantic Period

Q2    Week    Eight     1/9   -   1/13

College Awareness Day; Jan. 12

Poetry

-Victorian Period

-Metaphysical Era

Q2   Week  Nine     1/17   -   1/20                MLK, Jr.

Poetry

-Modern Era

Midterm Review

Q2    Week  Ten      1/23   -    1/27   

Midterm Exam            

                                    End of Quarter Two

 

Q3   Week  One     1/30   -   2/3

Grammar

• Mugshot Sent

            Punctuation

Q3     Week Two      2/7   -   2/11

• Grammar test      paragraph
• Intro Agatha Christie
• And Then There Were None
• Characterization Chart

Q3   Week Three    2/14   -   2/18

• The Door in the Wall   handout   &   test
• Grammar   sentences

Q3   Week  Four     2/21   -   2/25          Vacation

 

Q3   Week  Five     3/5   -   3/9

-introduce The Time Machine novel by H. G. Wells

• Read through ch. 4
• Ch. 1 answer questions  # 1 – 3
• Ch. 2 answer # 1 – 3
• Ch. 3  # 1 – 3 and write a summary of major events; write predictions of future outcomes in the novel

-Research Paper introduced; due week 9

Q3     Week   Six      3/12   -   3/16

-The Time Machine read through ch. 7

-Mugshot Grammar

• sentences
• paragraph
• TEST

Q3   Week  Seven       3/19   -   3/23

• The Time Machine

              -Handout chapt. 6 – 8

               -Read chapt.9 – 11

• Research Paper

             -Topics

             -Thesis

Q4   Week   Eight       3/26   -   3/30

• The Time Machine

            - TEST

• Research Paper due

             -Works Cited

             -Works Referenced

              -Library

Q3   Week    Nine       4/2   -   4/5            Good Friday

• Research Paper overdue!

          And Then There Were None film

                                         End of Quarter  Three

Q4     Week    One       4/11   -   4/15

Q4   Week   Two         4/25   -   4/29

• Satire intro

            -Jonathan Swift bio

           -A Modest Proposal

Q4   Week Three       5/2   -   5/6

• A Modest Proposal

1. vocab terms and TEST
2. questions
3. Writing: A High School Satire

Q4   Week  Four       5/9   -   513

• Writing: A High School Satire

          -First draft

• DH Lawrence

          -bio

          -”Snake”

Q4  Week   Five       5/16   -   5/20

• P.1009  “Snake”  #1,2,3,5,6,8,10, 11 or 12
• High School Satire  (Jonathan Swift model)

Q4   Week  Six      5/23   -   5/27

Short Story  The Rocking-Horse Winner