IMPORTANT DATES
5/20: Test Romantic Period
6/4: IR Frankenstein Due
6/17: Final paper/exam due
Unit of Study: Victorian Period
5/28 - 31/13
5/28: "My Last Dutchess" Robert Browning
5/29: Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"
5/30: Tennyson "Lady of Shalott"
5/31: In class reading Frankenstein
5/20-5/24
5/20: Test - Romantic Period
5/21: IR due!! No Class - "Brain" Spirit week
5/22: No Class - Spirit week
5/23-24 Formal and no school
Unit of Study: Romantic Age
5/13 - 5/17/13
5/13: "Kubla Khan"
5/14: Shelley "Ode West Wind"
5/15: Keats - "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
5/16: Keats - "Ode Grecian Urn"
5/17: In Class Reading: Frankenstein
Unit of Study: Romantic Age
5/6 - 5/10/13
5/6: Wordsworth
5/7: "Lines Written in Early Spring" and "Expostulation and Reply"
5/8: "Tables Turned" and "Lines Composed..."
5/9: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Ode: Intimations"
5/10: In class reading
4/29: Blake Songs of Experience
4/30: Test: Restoration and 18th century
5/1 - 2: Introduce Romantic Age
5/3: "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Unit of Study: Restoration and 18th Century: Student Led Discussions
April 29 - May 3, 2013
4/29: SLD Prep Day
4/23: "A Voyage to Lilliput"
4/24: A Voyage to... Houyhnhms"
4/25: SLD Prep Day
5/26: Blake - Songs of Innocence
Unit fo Study: Restoration and the 18th Century Student Led Discussions
April 15 - 19, 2013
4/15: Robinson Crusoe Ch 2-4
4/16: RC Ch 5-7
4/17: RC Ch 8-10
4/18: RC Ch 11-13
4/19: Introduction to Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift Bio and Satire
April 8 - 12, 2013
4/8: Student Led Discussion Prep day (SLD)
4/10: Test - Puritan Era
4/11: SLD "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"; "Essay on Man
4/12: SLD Chapter 1 of Robinson Crusoe
Unit of Study: Literature: Age of Puritans
March 18 - 22, 2013
3/19: Bring in 5 interesting facts about John Milton
3/21: p 119 #1,3,4; p 118 #4
3/22: In class reading Heart of Darkness
March 11-15, 2013
3/12: Research writing Workshop: Outines
3/13: HW p 101 1-2
3/15: Phase 5 due: Outlines
Unit of Study: Richard III
Finishing Richard III
1/17: Read Act 1 Scene 4 What is the turnint point of Act I Scene 4
Unit of Study: Elizabethan poetry - Edmund Spencer
January 7 - 11, 2013
1/7-8: Critical Lens writing
1/10: Discuss Research Paper
1/11: In Class Reading; Critical lens essay due
December 10-14, 2012
Please keep up with your Vanity Fair reading
December 3 - 7, 2012
Unit of Study: Elizabethan Period
December 4: Finish reading Utopia; find holes in the reasoning
December 6: finish reading Book of Martyrs
Unit of Study: SAT Vocabulary
Nobember 26 - 30 - SAT Vocab prep
Unit of Study: Punctuation
November 19-21
Unit of Study: Medieval Period
October 22 - 26, 2012
Please work on the above assignments and due dates
October 15 - 19, 2012
No homework will be given this week so that you can work on your two writing assignments: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Beowulf paper and IR assignment
10/9 - 10/12/12
We will be working on SAT Vocab all week
10/1-10/5/2012
10/1: outlines due
10/2: SAT Vocab due
10/4: HW read SGGK lines 1320-1475; Draft due
10/5: HW read SGGK lines 1668-1778 and journal
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9/24-9/28
9/24: HW finish reading MLK Jr. "Letters from Birmingham Jail"; Develope 3 solid points for your essay and a thesis
9/25: HW outline due on 9/28
Work on due dates above
Unit of Study: Anglo Saxon Literature
9/17-9/21/2012
9/18: 3 articles due regarding controversial issue
9/20: finish reading "Letters from Birmingham Jail" Identify important persuasive elements
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9/10-9/14/12
9/12 HW: How does Beowulf fit elements of Anglo Saxon poetry and epic poetry? Use examples
9/14: read "HoneyMead" and "Bookworm" - what is the irony