Third Quarter Assignments

Senior Assignments: 

 

March 5 to March 9

Coming soon!

 

February 27 to March 2

Coming soon!

 

February 13 – February 17

The Research Paper: Explanation, Expectations

Handouts:  Topics, Rubrics, Checklist, Work Cited

Research Topic due : 2/10 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 2/13

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 6 – February 10

Notes on John Donne and conceits

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

Questions 1-3

Worksheets: Meditation 17  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

 

January 30- February 3

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.

 

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 

Chaucer Notes

 

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 evidence of proof on Articles

Quarterly Evaluation Completed

The Seventh Seal Movie Completed /Essay near completion

November 21-23

SAT Vocabulary  (Quack)
Review

Prologue Notes Canterbury Tales
(Quiz)

Proofreading exercises ( Correcting drafts on
Chaucer)

Seventh Seal Movie Review Due

Art Institute Presentation.

November 28- December 2

Canterbury Tales
Quiz ( First six characters)

SAT Vocabulary (Quack) 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/Heroes

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 19 – 23

MacBeth Reading  Act 1 and Act II

 

January 3 – 6

MacBeth Packet for Binders (due January 19)

Macbeth Audio and notes/Readings

 

January 9 – 13

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 20- January 25 Midterms

 

January 30- February 3

 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.