November 2009 – Greatness and Morality
Outside Reading: Taming of the Shrew and Chapter 5 (point of view) of textbook
December 2009– Contemplation
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Taming of the Shrew Test & Ch 5 test
HW: Hamlet AG - research and substantiate your opinion |
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Shakespearean biography – class notes
Elizabethan World View
Hamlet AG
Vocab Test 14 |
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Read Hamlet
HW: Finish Act I
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Quiz over Act I; start Act II
HW: Finish Act II
*4-WAY SPEECH CONTEST
Allusion Notecards DUE |
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Quiz over Act II; start Act III
HW: Finish Act III
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Quiz over Act III; start Act IV
HW: Finish Act IV |
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Quiz over Act IV; start Act V
HW: Finish Act V
Vocab Test 15
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Hamlet
Small Group Discussion
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ICE - Hamlet |
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Outside Reading test
Receive Review for final
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Polonius Thou Art; Wisdom Dispeleth
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Final –short answer: comprehensive (literature, MLA, grammar, mechanics, vocabulary)
FINALS
LANGUAGE ARTS
BUSINESS
FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCE
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Watch Hamlet
Study for finals
FINALS
SCIENCE
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
FINE ARTS
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Watch Hamlet
Study for finals
FINALS
MATH
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SOCIAL STUDIES |
Outside Reading: None - Hamlet
January 2010 -
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Practice AP Test
*Sonnet sign-up |
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Read Othello and Macbeth
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Read Othello and Macbeth
Vocab Test 16 |
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Read Othello and Macbeth
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Read Othello and Macbeth
Allusion Notecards DUE |
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Read Othello and Macbeth
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Read Othello and Macbeth |
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Read Othello and Macbeth
Vocab Test 17 |
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Read Othello and Macbeth |
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Work on projects day |
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No School – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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Work on projects day |
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Othello Presentation
Vocab Test 18
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Othello Presentation |
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Macbeth Presentation |
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Macbeth Presentation
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AP Style ICE – over Macbeth or Othello
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Watch Seinfeld
Discuss nothing
Vocab Test 19 |
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Sonnet presentation |
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Existentialism AG
Read Bigelow’s Primer-highlight at home
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Outside Reading: memorize sonnet and read chapter 8 of textbook
February 2010 – Existentialism
Outside novel: No Exit
March 2010
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead movie
Movie questions
Prose Stylisitic Analysis Discussion |
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Test over No Exit
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Watch Frankenstein
I will read research papers during this time – first come; first read!
NO VOCAB – Use poetry unit |
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Watch Frankenstein
I will read research papers during this time – first come; first read! |
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Watch Frankenstein
I will read research papers during this time – first come; first read!
Allusion Notecards DUE |
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Watch Frankenstein
Notes on Gothicism
Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
**BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK!!
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Discuss “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
--Questions
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Read “Good, Country People” by Flannery O’Connor
Poetry Terms Test |
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Graduation - SHOE talk with Mrs. Brant
Discussion |
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Consensus Thesis - Using Diction to Extrapolate Tone
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SPRING BREAK! |
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Poetry Explication
TPCASTT
Evaluate
Poems
“Stopping”
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Research Paper DUE!
Groups - NOTHING LEAVES THE CLASSROM |
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Groups - NOTHING LEAVES THE CLASSROM
NO VOCAB TEST |
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Groups - NOTHING LEAVES THE CLASSROM |
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Groups - NOTHING LEAVES THE CLASSROM |
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Groups – nothing leaves |
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Outside Reading Test – Prose Analysis of Frankenstein |
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Groups – nothing leaves the classroom
NO VOCAB TEST
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Outside Reading: Chapters 10-12; Frankenstein
April 2010
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Creative Essay assigned
Creative Writing exercises
Stylistic Writing – |
Prompt Analysis – indv. work
Poem tones |
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Groups – |
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Groups –
Allusion Notecards DUE
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Groups –
HW: Annotate War poems |
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Poetry Explication: War
HW: Annotate Sonnets poems |
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Sonnets Presentation
HW: Annotate parent/Child poems
NO VOCAB TEST |
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Parent/Child Presentation
HW: Annotate Love poems |
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Love Presentation
HW: Annotate Satire and Irony poems |
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Satire and Irony Presentation
HW: Annotate Points of View poems |
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Points of View
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Points of View
HW: Annotate Loss poems
NO VOCAB TEST |
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Impermanence and Loss
HW: Annotate Ways of Learning poems |
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Transcendence or Ways of Learning
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Annotation/ Consensus Thesis: Poetry |
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Annotation/ Consensus Thesis: Poetry
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Poetry Annotation
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Annotation/ Consensus Thesis: Poetry
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Annotate a Poem – AP grade |
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"Better Me, Better You, Better World" Presentations
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Outside Reading Test - pick up Silas Marner |
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"Better Me, Better You, Better World" Presentations
NO VOCAB TEST |
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"Better Me, Better You, Better World" Presentations
*Reflective Essay Due |
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"Better Me, Better You, Better World" Presentations
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Outside reading: Chapters 13-23
May 2009
Outside Reading: Silas Marner |