| Syllabus
| Second Quarter's Assignments | Revised:
Jan. 23, 2008 |
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[First
Quarter's Assignments]
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| Week
of October 22 to 26
(Beginning of Second Quarter) |
| Mon | Read
poetry by John Donne:
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (pp. 382-3) and "Death,
Be Not Proud" (p. 384) and two Shakespeare sonnets (116
& 130).
Hmwk:
Continue work on your original sonnet and illustration. Due Thursday.
Enrichment:
a modern prose narrative
with the same final sentiment as Donne's "Death, Be Not Proud." |
| Tues | [British
Authors Project intro by Chris S.] Ben Jonson. "On
My First Son" (p.403) & "Song:
To Celia" ("Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes"). [Listen to
song version. There's nice Johnny Cash version available from iTunes.] Continue
work on original sonnets.
Hmwk: Continue work on your original sonnet
and illustration. Due Thursday. |
| Wed | [British
Authors Project intro by Tim R.] Read: "The Puritans," p. 423. Intro
to Bunyan (p. 440). Pilgrim's Progress selection "Vanity
Fair" (pp. 441 - 445). [CD using local voices?] Do qstns #1, 3-6, 8-10,
p. 442.
Hmwk: Finish your original sonnet and decoration/illustration.
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| Thurs | [PUC
Volleyball Tournament] Due: Hard copy of sonnet and decoration/illustration.
Share sonnets. Finish work
Due by midnight tonight: Text of sonnet
to be submitted to Turnitin.com by midnight
tonight. No other hmwk. |
| Week
of October 29 to November 2 |
| Mon | Intro
to John Milton, p. 424. Read John Milton sonnets, p. 426. Don't be afraid to read
each sonnet several times to fully appreciate the meaning. Pick one to
paraphrase in modern English prose. Write prose (not poetry) paraphrase on notebook
paper. Paraphrase ideas--rather than individual words.
Hmwk: Complete
paraphrase of one Milton sonnet. ["How
Soon Hath Time"] or ["When
I Consider How My Light Is Spent"] Due tomorrow at beginning of class.
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| Tues | [Honor
Choir to Redbud Hospital and Middletown School] Due: paraphrase of Milton sonnet.
View section of Story of English series about influence of KJV Bible on
development of English language (end of first section of "Muse of Fire").
[Video available from PUC library.] Read KJV Bible selections (Genesis 1 &
2 and Psalm 23). No hmwk. |
| Wed | [British
Authors Project into by Janae H.] Intro Jonathan Swift. Political and social satire.
Gullivers Travels.
Hmwk: Research Research Parts I & II ("A
Voyage To Lilliput" and "A Voyage to Brobdingnag") in Gulliver's
Travels. What political ideas and social values is Swift satirizing in these
sections? Bring to class tomorrow at least one page of notes reflecting your research.
Write the notes using your own words and in your own handwriting. (If you have
large handwriting, adjust the minimum upwards.) Include source/s. |
| Thurs | Gulliver's
Travels. No hmwk. |
| Week
of November 5 to 9 |
| Mon | College
Days: No Class |
| Tues | [Half
day of school, Parent-Teacher Conferences] Fast forward to Romanticism. [British
Authors Project intro by Chris M.] Intro Thomas Gray. Read "Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard," pp. 565-568. Read "The Romantic
Period," pp. 615-624. (Finish by end of class Thursday.) No hmwk. |
| Wed | [Half
day of school, Parent-Teacher Conferences] No Class: Afternoon Classes Meet. |
| Thurs | [British
Authors Project intro by Kenny M.] Intro Samuel Johnson. Read Johnson selections
in text, pp. 573-578. ["Letter
to Lord Chesterfield"] Finish reading "The Romantic Period,"
pp. 615-624.
Hmwk: Gather illustrating tools that you'd like to use
in class. Bring to class. [Black Adder sketch] |
| Week
of November 12 to 16 |
| Mon | [British
Authors Project intro by Aaron C.] Intro William Blake. Read William Blake poetry
aloud, pp. 628-630 in text, and William
Blake poetry handout. ["The
Lamb"] ["The
Tyger"] ["A
Poison Tree"] Begin an illustration of a Blake poem (or section of poem).
Hmwk: Do sufficient work on Blake poem illustration that you'll be
able to finish during work period tomorrow. [Enrichment:
"An everyman's
mystic" from BBC] |
| Tues | Listen
to two hymn versions of "And
Did Those Feet in Ancient Time." Complete illustration of a Blake poem
(or section of poem).
Hmwk: Begin preparation for Thursday's test. |
| Wed | Test
review: - "The
Sonnet," pp. 208-209
- "Whoso
List to Hunt," Sir Thomas
Wyatt (p. 211)
- "Sonnet
30," Edmund Spenser (p. 221)
- "Sonnet
39," Sir Philip Sidney (p. 234)
- "A
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" & "Death,
Be Not Proud," John Donne (p. 380 & p. 384)
- "Sonnet
116" & "Sonnet
130," William Shakespeare (p. 251 & p. 252)
- "On
My First Son" & "Song:
To Celia" ("Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes"), Ben Jonson
- Selection from Pilgrim's
Progress: "Vanity
Fair," John Bunyan (pp. 442-445)
- "How
Soon Hath Time" & "When
I Consider How My Light Is Spent," John Milton (p. 426)
- "Muse
of Fire," The Story of English video (selection on KJV Bible's influence
on English language)
- KJV
Bible selections: Genesis 1 & 2, Psalm 23 (pp. 367-369 & p. 371)
- Gulliver's
Travels, Jonathan Swift
- "Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray (pp. 565-568)
- "Letter
to Lord Chesterfield" & a selection of dictionary entries, Samuel
Johnson (pp 577-8 & pp. 575-6)
- "A
Poison Tree," "The
Lamb," "The
Tyger," "And
Did Those Feet in Ancient Times," "The
Voice of the Ancient Bard," William Blake (p. 628, p. 629, p. 630, William
Blake poetry handout)
Hmwk:
Prepare for tomorrow's test. |
| Thurs | Test:
English Renaissance to Romantic Poets. No hmwk. Have a great Thanksgiving! |
| Thanksgiving
Vacation: No School |
| Week
of November 26 to 30 |
| Mon | [British
Authors Project intro by Elizabeth T.] Intro Robert Burns. View selection from
The Story of English series ("The Guid Scots Tongue") Read Burns
poetry (pp. 636-8) in class. Notice features of Romanticism. ["Auld
Lang Syne" Scroll down to read original version and English translation.]
Hmwk:
Research Mary Wollstonecraft (1 pg. handwritten notes, in your own words, include
sources). |
| Tues | Due:
Research notes on Mary Wollstonecraft. Read aloud the Introduction to Wollstonecraft's
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pp. 643-645.
Hmwk:
Paraphrase a paragraph in 21st century American English. Due Wed. |
| Wed | Due:
Paraphrased paragraph from Wollstonecraft's
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. William Wordsworth. William Wordsworth.
Read "Lines
Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," pp. 655-659. [Tintern Abbey
links: Tintern Abbey in
landscape photo and Tintern
Abbey closeup and interior views] No hmwk.
[Journal (Reflect on a special
childhood place, or Where do you go when you need quiet thinking time?)] |
| Thurs | Journal
#9 (Visions of grandeur, how the mighty are fallen, pride goeth before a fall,
What will be your legacy?). Percy Bysshe Shelley. Read "Ozymandias,"
p. 732. (Intro. p. 731). Read "Irony," p. 733. Do p. 733, #1-5, "Irony"
#1. No hmwk. |
| Week
of December 3 to 7 |
| Mon | Optional
re-take for Renaissance to Romantic Poets test.
[Computers in classroom] Read
"The
Victorian Age" in the Norton Anthology of English Lit site. Follow links
to "Industrialism,"
"The
Woman Question," and "Victorian
Imperialism."
Hmwk: Complete reading assignment. |
| Tues | Reading
quiz. [British Authors Project intro by Michael I.] George Byron. Read Byron poems
(pp. 725-727). Response options (pick one): Write an apostrophe (address to an
inanimate object) OR answer qstns #1-3, 5,6. ["She
Walks in Beauty"] ["Apostrophe
to the Ocean" (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)]
Hmwk:
Complete apostrophe or answers to questions. Dues Wed. |
| Wed | Due:
Byron response option. [British Authors Project intro by Jonathan W.] Alfred,
Lord Tennyson. Read Tennyson poetry, "Charge
of the Light Brigade" and "Crossing
the Bar" (p. 786). Intro Robert Browning and read "My
Last Duchess" (pp. 806-7). No hwmk. [Enrichment:
Read in Wikipedia
about the cavalry charge upon which "The (disastrous) Charge of the Light
Brigade" is based.] |
| Thurs | [British
Authors Project intro by Jessica R.] Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Read "The
Blessed Damozel." [View
Rossetti's painting of "The Blessed Damozel." (Click thumbnail to
see larger image.)] Journal #10 [Try an unusual perspective (a la "The
Blessed Damozel"): write about yourself from the perspective of someone or
something else.] No hmwk. |
| Week
of December 10 to 14 |
| Mon | [British
Authors Project intro by Erika J.] Christina Rossetti. Read C. Rossetti poetry:
"A Birthday,"
"When I Am Dead,
My Dearest," "After
Communion" (p. 818 & online). Response to poetry: "Art: Capturing
the Mood," p. 819.
Hmwk: Complete response to poetry. |
| Tues | Due:
Response to C. Rossetti poetry. [British Authors Project intro by Ashley P.] Dylan
Thomas. Read poetry selection in text. ["Fern
Hill" & "Do Not
Go Gentle into That Good Night"]. Distribute copies of A
Child's Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas (for Friday). No hmwk. |
| Wed | Journal
#11 (Christmas wishes for your parents, your siblings, and your friends). [British
Authors Project intro by Andie P.] Thomas Hardy ["The
Darkling Thrush," "The
Man He Killed," & "Ah,
Are You Digging on My Grave?"] Response to poetry. |
| Thurs |
Journal #12 (A childhood Christmas memory). Read and listen to A
Child's Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas. (Story link includes embedded
audio. Here's
another link to audio--20 min.) No hmwk. Merry Christmas! |
| Christmas
Vacation: No School |
| Week
of December 31 to January 4 |
| Mon | Christmas
Vacation: No School |
| Tues | Christmas
Vacation: No School |
| Wed | Christmas
Vacation: No School |
| Thurs | Journal
#13: This is the beginning of the year in which you will finish high school. How
will you make it a "happy new year"? Looking forward and looking backwards:
What do we keep? What do we discard? What stays the same? What changes? How do
we do these things? No hmwk. |
| Week
of January 7 to 11 |
| Mon | [British
Authors Project intro by Jonathan C.] George Bernard Shaw. Read "Preface
to Pygmalion" (pp. 887-890). Begin viewing George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
(available through PUC Library: VTR PR 5363 .P83 1987). No hmwk. |
| Tues | Continue
viewing Shaw's Pygmalion (available through PUC Library: VTR PR 5363 .P83
1987). No hmwk. |
| Wed | Finish
viewing Shaw's Pygmalion (available through PUC Library: VTR PR 5363 .P83
1987). No hmwk. |
| Thurs | Read
Rudyard Kipling, "Miss
Youghal's Sais." Do qstns # 1-3 & 7. Do "Narrator" #1-3.
Due at end of class. No hmwk. |
| Week
of January 14 to 18 (End of Second Quarter) |
| Mon | Lewis
Carroll. Read Carroll poem: "Jabberwocky"
(p. 822) and parody, p. 824. Distribute parodies
of "Jabberwocky" handout. Create a "Jabberwocky" parody
on a subject of your choice. Follow Carrol's format and styles. Be prepared to
share in class tomorrow. Word process, decorate/illustrate your poem, and submit
it to Turnitin.com before midnight Tuesday. (Late submisssions will NOT be accepted.)
Hmwk:
Complete "Jabberwocky" parody. [mp3 audio link: "Jabberwocky"
(from LibraVox.org)] [There are lots of
choices of voices reading"Jabberwocky"
at LibraVox.org.] |
| Tues | Due:
"Jabberwocky" parody. Test review: - Robert
Burns, "Auld Lang Syne"
[Scroll down to read original version and English translation.]
- Video:
"Guid Scots Tongue" from Story of English series)
- Mary
Wollstoncraft, Introduction to Wollstonecraft's
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- William
Wordsworth, "Lines
Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
- Percy
Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias,"
- "The
Victorian Age" in the Norton Anthology of English Lit site. Follow links
to "Industrialism,"
"The
Woman Question," and "Victorian
Imperialism."
- Lord
Byron, "She Walks
in Beauty," "Apostrophe
to the Ocean" (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)
- Alfred,
Lord Tennyson, "Charge
of the Light Brigade" and "Crossing
the Bar"
- Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, "The
Blessed Damozel"
- Christina
Rossetti, "A Birthday,"
"When I Am Dead,
My Dearest" and "After
Communion"
- Dylan
Thomas, A Child's
Christmas in Wales, "Fern
Hill" and "Do Not Go
Gentle into That Good Night"
- Thomas
Hardy, "The Darkling
Thrush," "The
Man He Killed" and "Ah,
Are You Digging on My Grave?"
- George
Bernard Shaw, "Preface
to Pygmalion" (and video production of Pygmalion)
- Rudyard
Kipling, "Miss
Youghal's Sais"
- Lewis
Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
[mp3 audio link: "Jabberwocky"
(from LibraVox.org)]
Hmwk:
Prepare for test. Submit "Jabberwocky" parody to Turnitin.com
before midnight tonight. (Late submissions will NOT be accepted.) |
| Wed | Semester
Tests (Test covers material since last test, Nov. 15.) |
