| Syllabus
| Second Quarter's Assignments | Revised:
Jan. 13, 2009 |
|
| [First
Quarter's Assignments] |
Week
of October 27 to 31 (Beginning of Second Quarter) |
| Mon | [CR]
John Bunyan. British Authors Project: Richard K. Read from text, "The Puritans,"
p. 423. Read "Vanity
Fair" (extract from Pilgrim's Progress), pp. 442-445. Do "Writing
about Literature," p. 447.
Hmwk: Complete reading and finish "Writing
about Literature" --if not completed in class. Due Tuesday. |
| Tues | [CR]
John Bunyan. Literary Elements: "Style," p. 446. |
| Wed | [CR]
Help students enroll in English 12 at Turnitin.com. Submit Chauceresque Self-Description
and Sonnet (if you chose this option) to Turnitin.com by midnight Friday, Oct.
31. Jonathan Swift. Discuss political satire. Begin viewing "Voyage to Lilliput"
section of Gulliver's Travels (Ted Danson version). No hmwk.
[About
Gulliver's Travels
@ Wikipedia.org] |
| Thurs | [PUC
Volleyball Tournament] [CR] Continue with Jonathan Swift. British Authors Project:
Sara G. Continue viewing Gulliver's Travels through end of Lulliput section.
Read "A Modest
Proposal," pp. 482-488.
Hmwk: Finish reading "A Modest
Proposal." Submit Chauceresque Self-Description and Sonnet (if you chose
this option) to Turnitin.com by midnight Friday, Oct. 31. |
| Week
of November 3 to 7 |
| Mon | [No
Class: College Days] |
| Tues | [CR]
Finish up "A Modest
Proposal." Do p. 489 #6-10, 12 and Literary Elements #1-3. (OK to work
in pairs.) Discuss. Begin Samuel Pepys. Read pp. 538-543. [Online links: The
Coronation of Charles II, April 23rd 1661 and the
Great Fire] Distribute cake recipe
(perhaps like "the cakes which might have caused the Great Fire of London").
(See this Guardian
article of January 9, 2001.)
Hmwk: Finish up "A Modest Proposal"
qstns. Due Thursday. |
| Wed | [No
Class: Noon Dismissal for Parent-Teacher Conferences] |
| Thurs | [CR]
Due: "A Modest Proposal" qstns started in class on Tuesday. Continue
Samuel Pepys. Write a one-page diary entry from the perspective of someone else
who was an eyewitness of the events Pepys describes. British Authors Project:
Brett H. [Link to Brett's website
on Samuel Pepys] |
| Week
of November 10 to 14 |
| Mon | [CR]
Samuel Johnson. British Authors Project: Courtney H. [Link to Courtney's
website on Samuel Johnson] Read Samuel Johnson selections in text, pp. 573-576.
Hmwk: Subscribe
to A.Word.A.Day and use the Monday through Thursday words during the week
and document how you use them. Coin a new word. Due Thursday. |
| Tues |
[CR] Samuel Johnson and dictionaries. Display the compact OED with magnifying
glass. Discuss how language has changed. Handout on Language
Change. Watch segment on Samuel Johnson in "Muvver Tongue," The
Story of English series.
Hmwk: Continue with homework assigned on
Monday. Talk with an adult about a word that used to be used and has now gone
out of favor. Report on your conversation in a paragraph that identifies your
source and details about the word usage. Due tomorrow. |
| Wed | [CR]
Discuss homework. Robert Burns. "To
a Mouse," pp. 637-8. Listen to poetry
recording (another
link to a recording) Discuss dialects. Work on paraphrasing 2 stanzas. Read
"John
Anderson my Jo," p. 636.
Hmwk: Complete homework assigned on
Monday. If you didn't finish paraphrasing 2 stanzas in "To a Mouse,"
finish it tonight. |
| Thurs | [CR]
Due: Documentation for homework assigned Monday. British Authors Project: Daniel
S. (Robert Burns). Read Coleridge's, "Kubla
Khan." Illustrate some of the poem's imagery. No hmwk. |
| Week
of November 17 to 21 |
| Mon | [CR]
Mary Wollstonecraft. British Authors Project: Haruna K. Read Introduction to Wollstonecraft's
A Vindication of the Rights of Women, pp. 643-645. Discuss persuasive
language. Find two print ads and explain the use of persuasive language. Questions: - What
is the advertisement trying to convince you to do/buy?
- Is
the ad an example of logos, ethos, or pathos? [Click
here for definitions/explanations, and here's
another site explaining these term.]
- Explain
how your answer to #2 is functioning in the ad.
Hmwk:
Find an advertisement in another medium and explain the persuasive language. (Use
questions above.) Due tomorrow. |
| Tues | [CR]
Share persuasive language examples. Finish reading Introduction to Wollstonecraft's
A Vindication of the Rights of Women, pp. 643-645. Do Literary Elements
#3. Read Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias,"
p. 732. In groups of two (one paper/two students), answers #1-5. Look at lines
10 & 11. What do these lines mean to Ozymandias? What do they mean to the
traveler? Discuss. |
| Wed | [CR]
Test review. |
| Thurs | [CR]Due:
Test review. Test (authors studied since beginning of this quarter). No hmwk. |
| Week
of November 24 to 28: Thanksgiving Vacation |
| Week
of December 1 to 5 |
| Mon | William
Wordsworth. British Authors Project: Franco A. Read "My
Heart Leaps Up" (p. 653) and "Lines
Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey."
Hmwk: Complete
questions #6-10 (p. 660). Due tomorrow.
[Enrichment:
Tintern Abbey link: http://www.castlewales.com/tintern.html.
Photo of Wye
Valley with Tintern Abbey. View of Tintern
Abbey. Another photo showing Tintern
Abbey and the River Wye.]
[Journal Idea (Reflect on a special childhood
place, or Where do you go when you need quiet thinking time?)] |
| Tues | Due:
Wordsworth questions. John Keats. British Authors Project: Amy F. Read: "When
I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" (p. 746) and "To
Autumn" (p. 753). Read Literary Elements ("Ode"), p. 755. Do
qstns #1 & 3, p. 755. Do qstns #8-11, p. 754.
Hmwk: Journal #5 (Untimed:
What is your favorite season? What are the features of this season that you think
are particularly wonderful? Strive to use descriptive words. Appeal to as many
senses as possible. Can you use the literary device of apostrophe?) Due
tomorrow. |
| Wed | Due:
Journal #5. Complete Keats questions started yesterday ("Ode" #1 &
3, p. 754 #8-11). Elizabeth Barrett Browning. British Authors Project: Bailey
P. Read Sonnet 43
(p. 796, and on Bailey's hndt). Answer qstns. #1-4, p. 797: - In
your own words, explain how the speaker describes her love in lines 1-8. What
do these lines reveal about the nature of the speaker's love?
- How
does the speaker describe her love in lines 9-12? What can you infer about the
speaker's past from these lines?
- What
do you think the speaker means when she says, "I love thee with the breath,
/ Smiles, tears, or all my life"? What might it mean to love someone in this
manner?
- How long does
the speaker expect her love to last? What line of lines in the poem support your
interpretation?
Hmwk:
Complete classwork to turn in tomorrow. I'll collect the remainder of the Keats
questions AND the Elizabeth B. Browning questions, too. |
| Thurs | Due:
Keats questions and Elizabeth Barrett Browning qstns. Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Read "The
Blessed Damozel." Discuss Pre-Raphaelites. No hmwk. |
| Week
of December 8 to 12 |
| Mon | Robert
Browning. Read "My
Last Duchess." Response options: "Creative Writing" (p. 811)
OR questions #1-8 (p. 810). Due Tuesday at the beginning of class.
Hmwk:
Complete response option started in class. |
| Tues | Due:
Browning response options. Lewis Carroll. British Authors Project: Geoffrey L.
Read "Jabberwocky"
(Link includes both American and British English readings of the poem.) Lit text:
p. 822. Read "Nonsense Verse" (p. 823). Share examples written by previous
students.
Hmwk: Work on "Jabberwocky" parody. Bring rough
draft to class tomorrow. |
| Wed | Dylan
Thomas. British Authors Project: Hunter G. "Do
Not Go Gentle into that Good Night," "Fern
Hill." If time remains, continue working on "Jabberwocky"
parody. Check off "Jabberwocky" parody rough drafts.
Hmwk:
Continue working on "Jabberwocky" parody. Due Thursday at beginning
of class. Submit to Turnitin.com by midnight Thursday. [Hunter's
website on Dylan Thomas] |
| Thurs | [Egypt
Trip] Due: "Jabberwocky" parodies. Share "Jabberwocky" parodies
in class. Read "A
Child's Christmas in Wales." Pass back graded papers.
Hmwk:
Submit your "Jabberwocky" parody to Turnitin.com by midnight tonight.
[Enrichment:
Read
about "A Child's Christmas in Wales" in BBC website.] |
| Week
of December 15 to 17 |
| Mon | [Egypt
Trip] Intro Dickens Christmas stories:- "A
Christmas Carol"
- "Cricket
on the Hearth"
- "The
Chimes"
Hmwk:
Read enough of your chosen
Christmas story that you will be able to finish during class tomorrow. |
| Tues | [Egypt
Trip] Finish reading your chosen Dickens Christmas story. See links above. No
hmwk. |
| Wed | [Egypt
Trip] [No Class: Noon Dismissal] |
| Christmas
Break (Dec. 18 to Jan. 4) |
| Week
of January 5 to 9 |
| Mon | Rudyard
Kipling. British Authors Project: Bradley W. Read "Miss
Youghal's Sais" (pp. 858-862). Do "Analyzing Literature" questions
#1-4 and "Narrator" qstns. #1-3 (p. 863).
Hmwk: Complete "Analyzing
Literature" questions #1-4 and "Narrator" qstns. #1-3 (p. 863). |
| Tues | Due:
Kipling questions. George Bernard Shaw. British Authors Project: John B. Read
Background: Pygmalion and Shaw and Language (p. 885). Begin viewing My Fair
Lady.
Hmwk: Read "Preface
to Pygmalion" (pp. 887-890). |
| Wed | Continue
viewing My Fair Lady. No hmwk. |
| Thurs | Finish
viewing My Fair Lady. No hmwk. |
| Week
of January 12 to 16 (End of Second Quarter) |
| Mon | Wilfred
Owen. British Authors Project: Spencer J. Read works of World War I poets: Begin
test review.
Hmwk: Prepare for test. |
| Tues | Review
for test: - Review each
of the poems we have read since Thanksgiving.
- Connect
poems to poets (use handouts as resource)
- Note
features that help the poem stand out from its peers
- Review
the three prose works.
- For
each, what is the main point?
- What
is the author's perspective?
- Distinctive
features?
- What
does each person's language reveal about him/her?
Hmwk:
Complete preparation for test. English notebook due at time of test. |
| Thurs | Semester
Exam: 10:15 to 11:45 a.m. English notebooks due at time of test. |
