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|
[First
Quarter Assignments] |
| Week
of October 18 to 22 |
| Mon |
(Choir members
gone.) Work period. No Hmwk. |
| Wed |
Journal
#28. Read Sonnet 39 (Sir Philip Sidney). Test review: Old English.
Turned back essays. Hmwk: complete Old English test review activity. |
| Thurs |
Journal
#29. Discussion and questions on Old English review. Middle English
& sonnets review. Hmwk: complete Middle English review for test
on Monday. |
| Fri |
Sonnet sharing
day. (Hand out sonnet grade sheet.) Answer & discuss test questions.
Hmwk: Prepare for test on Monday. |
| Week
of October 25 to 29 |
| Mon |
Test
(Old & Middle English & sonnets). |
| Wed |
(Minimum
Day) John Milton presentation (C. von Pohle). KJV Bible selections.
John Donne, "Death Be Not Proud," p. 384. John Milton
poems, p. 426. No hmwk. |
| Thurs |
(Minimum
Day) Journal #30. Individually work on paraphrasing Milton poems,
p. 426, in modern English. Write prose paraphrase on notebook paper.
Paraphrase ideas--rather than individual words. Due at the end of
class Friday. Hmwk: do any work necessary to make sure you meet
the end-of-class deadline for Fri. |
| Fri |
Last
day for sonnets to be submitted. Complete paraphrases of Milton
poems. No hmwk. |
| Week
of November 1 to 5 |
| Mon |
(Power Week)
Journal #31. John Bunyan presentation (D. Ranzolin). Read aloud
selection from Pilgrim's Progress, pp. 441-445. No hmwk. |
| Wed |
(Power Week)
Journal #32. Respond to Pilgrim's Progess selection. Due
Thursday (at the end of class).All students: p. 446, #1-5. Choose
one: #6-14, p. 446; "Analysis," p. 447; "Money and
Morality," p. 447; or "Preserving the Peace," p.
447. Hmwk: Do what you need to do to meet the Thursday (at the end
of class) deadline. |
| Thurs |
(Power
Week) Complete work started in class on Wednesday. All papers collected
at the end of class. No hmwk. |
| Fri |
(Power Week)
Collect homework. Jonathan Swift presentation (C. Ericson). View
section of Gulliver's Travels. Hmwk: Read intro, "The
Restoration and the Eighteenth Century," pp. 456-466. (Complete
before the test next Fri. This reading can be done during a free
period at school so that you don't have to haul the textbook home
with you.) |
| Week
of November 8 to 12 |
| Mon |
(PUC
College Days) No class. |
| Tues |
(Schedule
change) Read selections from Pepys' diary, pp. 538-543. List of
authors to appear on Friday's test. Hmwk: ("Dear Diary,"
p. 545) Write a diary entry of your own in the style of Samuel Pepys
about a significant public event or happening that you have observed.
Due Wed. |
| Wed |
Samuel
Pepys presentation (B. Brown). "Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard," p. 564-568. Review for test. Hwmk: study for test. |
| Thurs |
No class
(schedule change this week. See Tues above.) Remember to complete
reading assigned last Friday, pp. 456-466. |
| Fri |
Test. |
| Week
of November 15 to 19 |
| Mon |
Read William
Blake poetry aloud (3 in text, and 2 in William
Blake poetry handout). Read intro to "The Romantic Period,"
pp. 615-624 before class on Wed. Hmwk: illustrate a Blake poem (or
section of poem). Complete intro reading before class on Wednesday.
(You can do this during a free period or after school so that you
don't have to lug a textbook home in your backpack.) |
| Wed |
Collect
Blake poetry illustration hmwk. William Blake presentation (G. Jones).
Mary Wollstonecraft presentation (L. Weston). Thomas Gray presentation
(B. Redmon). Mid-quarter
English notebook check.
Hmwk: Read the Introduction
to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
Paraphrase a paragraph in 21st century American English. Due
Thurs. |
| Thurs |
William
Wordsworth presentation (M. Zepeda). Read "My Heart Leaps Up"
and "Tintern Abbey." [Tintern Abbey links: Tintern
Abbey in landscape photo and Tintern
Abbey closeup and interior views] |
| Fri |
Samuel Coleridge
presentation (E. Milholland). Rd. "The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner," pp. 678-699 (with video). No hmwk. |
| Week
of November 22 to 26: No Classes, Thanksgiving Vacation |
| Week
of November 29 to December 3 |
| Mon |
(Midterm
Reports) John Keats presentation (T. Mitchell). Alfred, Lord Tennyson
presentation (E. Taylor) Read "To Autumn" (Keats), p.
753, and "Crossing the Bar" (Tennyson), p. 786. Do qstns:
p. 754, #8, 10, 11, and p. 788, #7-9. Read introduction, "The
Victorian Age." Hmwk: complete intro reading and qstns about
two poems before class on Wednesday. |
| Wed |
Collect
hmwk questions. Robert Browning presentation (D. Bobst). Read "My
Last Duchess," pp. 806-7. Hmwk: "Creative Writing,"
p. 811. ["Write a letter from the listener (the envoy) in "My
Last Duchess" to his master, the count. Discuss what you have
learned about the duke, and describe your reaction to the duke's
story about his late wife. Do you think that the count should allow
his daughter to marry the duke? Tell the count the course of action
you think he should follow. Give reasons for your advice."] |
| Thurs |
Dante Gabriel
and Christina Rossetti presentation (C. Johnson). Notes about Pre-Raphaelitism.
View photos of Rossetti paintings. [View
Rossetti's painting of "The Blessed Damozel." (Click
thumbnail to see larger image.)] Read "The
Blessed Damozel." Read Robert Southey's poem, "The
Cataract of Lodore" (I read from a book illustrated by
Mordicai Gerstein, but this link goes to a page that includes a
photograph of the real Lodore Falls.). No hmwk (Christmas banquet
tonight). |
| Fri |
No class:
Youth Orchestra concert for extended chapel. |
| Week
of December 6 to 10 |
| Mon |
Thomas Hardy
presentation (C. Carstens). Lewis Carroll & Rudyard Kipling
presentations (M. Polk). Read Hardy poems: "The Man He Killed"
(p. 835) and "'Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave?'" (p.
836). Read Carrol poem: "Jabberwocky" (p. 822) and parody,
p. 824. Distribute parodies
of "Jabberwocky" handout. Hmwk: write a "Jabberwocky"
parody on a subject of your choice. Follow Carrol's format and style.
Due Wed. Submit to Turnitin.com by Wed. night at midnight. (Late
submissions will NOT be accepted.) [Link
to Rudyard Kipling Just So Story, "How the Rhinoceros
Got His Skin"] |
| Wed |
George Bernard
Shaw presentation (D. Hopgood). Share and collect "Jabberwocky"
parodies. (Submission to Turnitin.com required and must be accomplished
by midnight tonight. No late submissions accepted.) Hmwk: Read
the Preface to Pygmalion for a quiz Thurs. |
| Thurs |
Quiz on
Preface to Pygmalion.
WWI Poet presentation (C. Jimenez). Read "Dulce
Et Decorum Est." Answer qstns in textbook. No hmwk. |
| Fri |
Dylan Thomas
presentation (J. McQueeney). Read "A
Child's Christmas in Wales," "Fern Hill," and
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" with audio CD.
[MP3
files of "A Child's Christmas in Wales"] No hmwk.
|
| Week
of December 13 to 16 |
| Mon |
Review for
final exam. Hmwk: study for final exam. |
| Tues |
(No Assembly)
Answer student questions about final exam. Read aloud "The
Tailor of Gloucester" (by Beatrix Potter), "Reginald's
Christmas Revel" and "Reginald on Christmas Presents"
(by Saki). Hmwk: study for final exam. |
| Wed |
Final Exam:
10:10 to 11:40 a.m. |
| Fri
10:35 a.m. |
SA Christmas
Brunch & Assembly, PUC Fireside Room |
