Senior Assignments: 

All  students must  have a binder and keep ALL classwork and homework assignments  in this binder.

All students will have a  daily Journal Entry with 1-5  Word of the Day vocabulary to be included in their daily response.

The first 70 days of school will include  reading the Tao

September  5-  9

The College  Essay  first draft

Celtic Notes / Anglos Saxon Era  NOTES

Old English Writings and Christianity

The Lord’s Prayer/ The Prodigal Son /Old English and King James Versions

History Map of Anglo/Saxon/Jutes/Viking/Roman/ French Invasions  NOTES

September 12- 16

Anglos Saxon Literature : The Battle of Maldon

Celtic Literature:  NOTES 

Welsh- Cynddylan Hall /Oral Reading

Life in the Great Lord’s Hall

Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilymn –

The Seagull  and Woodland Mass

September  19 – 23

QUACK  20 SAT Words 1

The Epic /Anglo Saxon Epic  Notes

The Mock Epic / Rape of Lock by AlexanderPope

Poetic Devices in Beowulf: kennings, stiche, caesura, alliteration

In Text: The Coming of Grendal.

September 26 – 30

QUACK  20 SAT Words 2

The  Concept of the Hero  Notes

James Campbell  -The Power of the Myth Video-the Hero

Project: Grendal’s Relative – 10 vocabulary words, 3 kennings,  , 3 alliterations, spooky creative story

16 Beowulf Vocabulary Words /defined and used in a sentence

Vocabulary Practice using  Beowulf words -replacing words in paragraphs

DARK TIDE PRESENTATIONS

October 3 -  7

QUACK  20 SAT Words  1 Review / CELTIC NOTES TEST

Beowulf Vocabulary Practice (21  words/one page story)

The Coming of Beowulf  paraphrased using Text.

GRENDAL’ S RELATIVE PRESENTATIONS

October 10 -14

Complete Readings on Beowulf

Quack SAT #2 Review  ANglo Saxon NOTES TEST

QUACK SAT #3 Vocabulary Words

College Essay 2nd drafts

Beowulf Worksheets: Foil, Allusion. Alliteration. Kennings, Cesaura, Stiche

October 17 -21

Quack SAT #4 Vocabulary Words

Complete readings /Review on Beowulf

Final Exam on Beowulf and Anglo Saxon Literature 

 

Paraphrasing “ The Seafarer.”

 

The Seafarer Test

 

Vietnam Syndrome  by Christopher Hitchens – non fiction

Vitenam Sydrome College Essay  – 4 paragraphs

October 24 – 28

College Essay drafts 1,2 3 completed

Medieval Period  Notes

King Arthur Legend notes

Vietnam Sydrome Essay due

Writers’ of the King Arthur Legend Researched

October 31 – November 4

Chaucer Notes

SAT # 4  Quack  20 words

Courtly Love – Rules to live by

Proloque      Canturbury Tales

 Notes on Miracle Plays

Movie Critique : “The Seventh Seal”

 November 7-10

Essay on The  Seventh Seal (4 paragraph template)

 Notes on Chaucer

Notes on Middles Age Literature

 Canterbury Tales Prologue

 Constructing a Research Paper – Transactional Analysis

November 14-18

Prologue Worksheet :Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales Essay  (select a character  prove a thesis)

Work Cited due ( three articles) Use Work Cited Template

Circle evidenc of proof on Articles

Quarterly Evaluation Completed

The Seventh Seal Movie Completed /Essay near completion 

 November 21-25

SAT Vocabulary  ( Quack) Review

Prologue Notes Canterbury Tales (Quiz)

Proofreading exercises ( Correcting drafts on Chaucer)

Seventh Seal Movie Review Due

Art Institute Presentation.

 

MAKE UP OVER THANKSGIVING WEEKEND

 

November 28- December 2

Canterbury Tales Quiz ( First six characters)

SAT Vocabulary ( Q uack) Review

Canterbury Tales  Chaucer’s perspective

CanterburyTales Test Friday)

 

Complete Note packet on Canterbury Tales

Complete Pardoner’s Tale /Questions

Character/Chaucer Essays due final draft

December 5-9

SAT words ( Quack)

 

Final College Essay  Last chance!

Notes on Legends/Heros

Notes on the Research paper

Researching fame in Shakespeare’s time

December 12-16

Notes on Shakespeare

Notes on the  Globe Theatre

Shakespeare vs. Christopher Marlowe  ( documentary)

Begin audio of  MacBeth

December 20 – 23

MacBeth Reading  Act 1 and Act II

 

 

 

 

 

January 3- 7

MacBeth Packet for Binders (due January 19)

Macbeth Audio and notes/Readings

January 10- 14

Macbeth Audio and notes/Readings/

 Macbeth Packet for Binders

January 18–21

Macbeth Packet due

Macbeth audio  and notes completed

Review for Midterm/Binder check

 January 22- January 28 Midterms

January 31- February 4

 MacBeth  Video and Video Quiz

Final make up work  due/ Quarter closes

Mechanics  Review for Research Paper  (11- 20)

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair  Essay Due. 

 

February 7 – February 11

 Notes on John Donne and conceits

Textbook: John Donne  “Song” Questions 1-3 Holy Sonnet  4, 6

Questions 1-3 

Worksheets: Meditation17  Holy Sonnet 10

Notes on the Puritan Age/The Pilgram’s Progress

Worksheet: ” The Trial of the Faithful”  Contrasting Puritans and Cavaliers”

Textbook:  The Language of Paradise Lost

Notes on Milton

Worksheets:  “Paradise  Lost” pages 1-6  “Milton’s Blindness”

Written Sonnet  due 2/14

3 Research S0urces due Tuesday, February 23 ( 1st discussion)

Mechanics Review for Research paper 1-10

Research Paper “Avoiding Plagiarism” Video and notes

February 14 – February 18

The Research Paper: Explanation, Expectations

Handouts:  Topics, Rubrics, Checklist, Work Cited

Research Topic due : 2/7 cemented

Notes on the Sonnet (review)   Petrarchan, Wyatt, Shakespeare.                

Textbook: ( Sonnet #160 , #30)

Sonnet Worksheets:   “My Galley” Sir Thomas Wyatt

 ”Complaint by Night”  Henry Howard 

 5  Paragraph essay on the Sonnet due 2/8

 Written Sonnet Challenge due Valentine’s Day  2/14

Notes on 17th Century Literature/Tribe of Ben

Worksheets: Meeting at the Devil’s Tavern/ The Critics Eye

Textbook:  Ben Jonson ” On My First Son”  “Song to Celia”  Questions 1-3

Notes on Metaphysical Poets/ Cavalier Poets

Worksheets:  Cavalier Poetry: Herrick, Waller, Suckling

“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”  “Go, Lovely Rose!”

“Song from Aglaura”

Happy Vacation!

 

February 28 to March 4

1984   Introduction

Who is George Orwell ( essay paper)

Vocabulary  worksheets

Test on Chapter  #1

The Research Paper Introduction On Writing

 

March 7 – 11

Review of 17th Century

Test on 17th  Century

3 Research Sources and Work Cited source cards due

30 Research Paper note cards started

Notes on the Neoclassical 18th Century / The Age of Swift and Pope

Handouts: Devices of Satire

Worksheets:  “Satiric in Words,”  ” The Elizabethan

1984 Test Chapter #2

How to do a Work Cited

March 14- 18

Work Cited due

Review: How to write notecards

 45 notecards due  (late deadline)

MOdest Porposal and Rape of Lock discussed

Test #3  1984

 March  21 – 25 

Begin writing Research Paper

Notes on Reason/ Alexander  Pope and ”The Rape of Lock”

Worksheets: “Meet Alexander Pope” “Essay on Criticism” “The quatable Mr. Pope”  “The Rape of Lock Canto’s 1,2,3,4, 5″

Notes on The Romantic Movement/Poetic Revolutionaries

Textbook: All of William Blake’s Poetry.  Questions 1-3 

Research Cover/Title  Page Due

Make – up Week  : Essays, Research, Notes, Work Sheets

Library Time/Computer Time all week.

Guest Readers reading  Frankenstein

 

1984  Test #4 

March 28  - April 1

Library /Computer Lab Research 

Research paper First Draft with corrections/ individual meetings

1984 Chapter #5

Outline due

 April  4 – April 8

1984 Part 2  Chapter 1, 2 and 3

Library research /  Second Drafts

Story Telling Slam worksheets

April 11 – April 15

Story telling workshops ( 3 days)

Story Telling Slam

Research / Computer lab/Library

Research /2nd Draft due

Guest readers reading Frankenstein

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April 18- Vacation

April 25 – April 29

Research Paper  3rd draft

18th Century authors

1984  Part 2 Chapter 4 and 5

  MAY DAY MAY DAY MAY DAY

Research  Paper Completed!

20th Century Poets and Authors

 Notes and  Worksheets completed on Neoclassical to 18th century Poets

Final Exam expect ( 1984/Frankenstein, poetry, research paper )

Self Evaluation

Evaluation of Teachers and Peers

Happy Graduation Day!