Week 1

Welcome  Back 
to School

Days in darker shade are days that there is no school.

Homework =

Due dates are in red.

No School:
Labor Day

9/4

Connections Day

Get syllabus and course calendar; Glossary & Guide (elements of Lit); Introduce Vocabulary assignment; Answer your questions.

Get Native Son and assignment. Due October 8.

Read Emperor's Three Questions and discuss.

9/7

Sophie's World Summer Assignment due

Show and Tell day: be prepared to share your SW project with the group.

Be sure to visit the author links page

Read Mortimer Adler's Essay "How To Mark a Book" and put his ideas into practice and improve your comprehension.

9/10

Finish S & T

Writing Log binder.

9/11

G & G: Answering "So What" and an essay about essays.

9/12

Vocab. #1 quiz

Be ready to "essay" tomorrow.

9/13

Write 1st Essay: The Crossing

9/15

Analyze essays for CSE and talk about the process. Start your writing log.

9/17

About College essays; do a group symposium.

9/18

About close reading; what is it and why do it?

Read Mortimer Adler's Essay "How To Mark a Book" and put his ideas into practice and improve your comprehension.

9/19

Vocab. #2 quiz

9/20

Begin Oedipus Rex. In groups of two or three, define the terms on the handout. Get Perrine books today.

What is tragedy? A tragic hero?

9/21

Continue Oedipus

9/24

Continue Oedipus

9/25

Continue Oedipus

9/26

Vocab. #3 quiz

9/27

Finish Oedipus

9/28

No School

10/1

Begin Canterbury Tales  
Lecture: Background
Handouts: Unit Syllabus, etc.;
General Prologue in ME;

10/2

Get BooksStart GP; make list of main pilgrims and summarize characteristics of each.

10/3

Vocab. #4 quiz

10/4

Continue GP; finish it and chart by Friday.

10/5

midquarter

Pilgrim chart due

Watch Pardoner's Tale on video.

Practice GP in Middle English. Due on or before 10/19.

10/8

Colloquium at UW Madison.

Native Son due

Begin the Knight's Tale (KnT), get study guide Read with a partner today

10/9

Continue KnT.

10/10

Vocab. #5 quiz

10/11

Continue KnT. Finish by Friday. Study Guide due Monday.

10/12

Read Miller's Tale

KnT study guide due today.

10/15

KnT study guide due today.

Read Reeve's Tale

10/16

Study Temples: Choose one character you identify with most: Diana, Palamon, or Arcite.

10/17

Vocab. #6 quiz

10/18

Essay #2: Setting (first graded essay)

Make entry in your writing log.

10/19

Last day to recite GP in Middle English.

10/22

Get Metamorphosis; due 11/6. Start Inferno. Get materials; do the intro quiz with partner.

10/23

Work Day; Finish Canto's I-III by Tuesday.

10/24

Vocab. #7 quiz

10/25

Teachers' Convention

10/26

Teachers' Convention

10/29

Discuss Cantos I-III. Begin work on rest of Cantos. Be ready to present on Monday, October 23.

10/30

Start presenting rest of Inferno.

10/31

Vocab. #8 quiz

11/1

Continue presenting rest of Inferno.

11/2

Finish presenting Inferno.

11/5

Essay #3: Tone

Write entry in Writing Log.

11/6

Start: Reviewing Rhetoric. Read ch. 7.

11/7

Vocab. #9 quiz

11/8

Review G&G.

Read Tom Wolfe article for tomorrow. Make marginal notes.

11/9

End of first quarter.

Discuss Wolfe article. Find thesis, claims, support, warrant, appeals, etc.

11/12

Read "At Colleges, Women are Leaving Men in the Dust" and "Guys Just Want to Have Fun." Synthesize ideas and formulate a thesis to defend (girls) or challenge (boys). Work in teams and be ready to present on Thursday.

11/13

Work on boy/girl theses.

Get library passes if you need to do more research. All outside sources must be cited in presentation.

11/14

Vocab. #10 quiz

11/15

Present the main concepts for your "debate." Claim, Support, Explanation. What appeals will you use.

11/16

Essay #4: Coca Cola letters.

Write entry in Writing Log.

11/20

Metamorphosis due.

Critical Essay Analysis: with partner. Start today.

11/21

Finish CEA today.

11/22

No school

11/24

Thanksgiving holiday

11/24

Thanksgiving holiday

11/27

Rhetoric/Language terms quiz.

Begin Ibsen's A Doll House

11/28

Doll House

11/29

Vocab. #11 quiz

11/30

Doll House

12/1

Doll House

12/4

All Doll House work is due today

12/6

Vocab. #12 quiz

12/7

12/8

12/11

Begin Short Fiction Unit. Get unit syllabus, overview of essay, Perrine chapters, and intro quiz.

Critical Essay Analysis due 12/18

12/13

Vocab. #13 quiz

12/14

12/15

12/18

Critical Essay Analysis due today.

12/20

Vocab. #14 quiz

12/21

12/22

Early release day. Winter Break starts at 2:00.

1/1

New Year's Day

1/3

1/4

1/5

1/8

Begin The Importance of Being Earnest

1/10

Vocab. #15 quiz

1/17

Vocab. #16 quiz

1/23

Exams

1/24

Exams

1/25

Exams

1/26

No school/Teacher Work Day

Semester Two

1/31

Vocab. quiz

2/7

Vocab. quiz

2/12

Begin satire unit. Read introduction and answer questions. Get Modest Proposal and read by Monday. Answer questions.

2/13

Reading day

2/14

Vocab. quiz

2/15

Discuss Modest Proposal.

2/16

No School:Teacher in-service

2/19

No School

2/20

Take MP tests. Get into groups and come to consensus on answers. Groups pick one problematic question to discuss with class.

2/21

Vocab. quiz

2/22

Twain satire test and essay: Advice to Youth.

2/23

Work on essay. Due Monday.

2/26

Start All Quiet on the Western Front: get unit packet. Read chapters 1-5 by Thursday.

2/27

Reading day

2/2

3/1

Discuss chapters 1-5.

3/2

Brave New World discussion ends

Read chapters 6-7 for Tuesday.

Menagerie Deadline!

Commit to the tests.

3/5

Reading day

Go online and be prepared to vote for a play by Shakespeare.

3/6

Discuss chapters 6-7. Finish book for Friday.

3/7

Vocab quiz (albeit-visage)

3/8

Reading day

3/9

Discuss rest of book.

3/12

All Quiet packet due

Start Poetry unit: get unit plans and calendar.

Homework =

Read ch. 3 & 4 for 3/13.

3/13

Read ch. 5 for 3/15.

3/14

Vocab quiz: (accordant-viands)

Menagerie Meeting

3/15

Read ch. 6 for 3/16.

3/16

Read ch. 7 for 3/19.

All Quiet essay due

3/19

Read ch. 8 for 3/20.

3/20

Read ch. 9 for 3/22.

3/21

Vocab quiz (brevity-transcendent)

3/22

Read ch. 10 for 3/23.

3/23

Read ch. 11 for 3/26.

3/26

Read ch. 12 for 3/27.

3/27

Read ch. 13-15 for 3/29.

3/28

Vocab quiz (amorous-turgid)

3/29

Finish poetry unit.

3/30

Poetry terms test

Dismiss at 2:00.

4/2

Spring Break!

4/3

Spring Break!

4/4

Spring Break!

4/5

Spring Break!

4/5

Spring Break!

4/9

Looking ahead: Be sure you'll be ready for your exams, in all subject areas. New page on testing information.

4/10

Poetry essay: Death of a Toad

4/11

Vocab quiz (chastening-ruminate)

4/12

Practice Test

4/13

Practice Test

4/16

Shakespeare

4/17

Shakespeare

4/18

Vocab quiz (assail-vigilant)

4/19

Shakespeare

4/20

Shakespeare

4/23

Shakespeare

4/24

Shakespeare

4/25

Vocab quiz (auspicious-zeal): group quiz with rest of nouns!

4/26

Shakespeare

4/27

Shakespeare

4/30

Practice Test

5/1

Practice Test

5/2

Test-taking strategies

5/3

In groups: remembering major works.

5/4

Last Essay

5/7

Practice Test

5/8

Practice Test

5/9

Pre-test party!

5/10

AP Literature Test 8:00 a.m.

5/11

Processing. Tips for next one?

5/14

End of year project.

Movie?

5/15

Movie

5/16

AP Language Test 8:00 a.m.

Menagerie Banquet

5/17

Movie

5/18

Movie

5/21

5/28

Memorial Day

5/29

Writing Log is due

5/30

6/6

6/8

Graduation is Sunday!