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AP English Calendar 2009-2010

November 2009 – Greatness and Morality

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

2

 Satire Discussion - refer to "A Modest Proposal"

 

Satire video - discuss

 

 

 

 HW:  Helpful links for Moral Position Paper

 

 

3

  

Peer Edit – Rough Draft due

 

 

 Interesting article about cheating (AG - Is cheating wrong?)

4

Corrected ROUGH DRAFT DUE TO MRS. B.

 

 

 Vocab Test 11

 

"She said What?!?!"

 

Read Prolouge for Wife of Bath - group work

 

*Pick up Taming books

 

5
She Said What?!?! - Prolouge for Wife of Bath - Discussion 
  

Read "Wife of Bath's Tale"

 

 4 Way Speech Assigned  - Explains the contestant’s understanding of The 4-Way Test and how it relates to his/her life, experiences and/or society in general.

6

Allusion Notecards DUE

 

 Read "Wife of Bath's Tale" - assignment

HW: Bio info on T.S. Eliot 

9

 Watch Becket

10

Watch Becket

 

   

 Writing Workshop Day

 

 

 

11

Vocab Test 12 - CANCELED  :)

 

 Watch Becket

 

 

HW: Tour Canterbury

12

Finish Becket

Read “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot

Discussion Q’s

 

HW: Pick up MiC AG - find current support for your opinions

13

Read “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot

Discussion Q’s

 

 MiC AG

 

 

 

16

 Notes - Thomas Becket & King Henry II - PPT


Moral Position Paper due


Start Murder in the Cathedral

17

Read Murder in the Cathedral

 

 

18

 Vocab Test 13

 Read Murder in the Cathedral

 

Discuss

19

 

Read Murder in the Cathedral

 

Discuss

20

Finish MiC

 

Study Questions - ON YOUR OWN - if you do not have a book, complete what you can and check out a book on Monday.

23

 SG/Small Group Discussion -  prep for test and essay test

24

SG/Small Group Discussion -prep for test and essay test

 

Thanksgiving Break:

30

*4 WAY SPEECH DUE

 

  Whole Class Discussion

 

 

Outside Reading:  Taming of the Shrew and Chapter 5 (point of view) of textbook 

 

December 2009– Morality/Contemplation

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

 

 

1

Taming of the Shrew & Chapter 5 test - know the book's assertions on point of view - AP Style MC Choice

2

Vocab Test 14

4 Way Speech Presentations - participants give speeches to class; class judges using Rotary rubric - provide feedback for participants

3

 Group Project Work 

 

4

Group Project Work 

7

 

Group Project Work 

8

 Presentations - Rubric

 

9

  Vocab Test 15

Presentations - Rubric

10
 MiC ICE - bring legal pad of paper (any color)

11

Mic Objective Test

 

ALLUSION CARDS DUE

14
 Receive Review for final - study in small groups

 



 *Sonnet sign-up - for next semester's January outside memorization assignment

15

Review for final - study in small groups

16
Final –short answer: comprehensive (literature,  grammar, mechanics, vocabulary)

 

FINALS

LANGUAGE ARTS

BUSINESS

FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCE

 

17
 Watch Taming of the Shrew

Study for finals

 

 

 

 

FINALS

SCIENCE

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

FINE ARTS

 

18
  Watch Taming of the Shrew

Study for finals

 

 

 

FINALS

MATH

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

SOCIAL STUDIES

Outside Reading:  None -  


January 2010 -

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

4
 Shakespearean biography – class notes

 

Elizabethan World View

 

HW: Hamlet AG - research and substantiate your opinion 

 

5
   Read Hamlet

  

 

6
 Read Hamlet

 

Vocab Test 16 

7
Read Hamlet

8
Read Hamlet




11
Read Hamlet

 

12
Read Hamlet

 

Research Paper - Final Thesis Statement due - it CANNOT CHANGE after this date

13
Read Hamlet 

Vocab Test 17

14
Read Hamlet

15
Small Group Discussion - Hamlet

18


No School – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

19

Hamlet Projects

20

 Project work

 

Vocab Test 18

21
 
 Presentations

22

 Presentations

25

 Hamlet Test Review

 

 

26
 Hamlet Test

 

27
 

 Vocab Test 19

28
 Sonnet Presentations

29

 Sonnet Presentations

 

Outside Reading:  memorize sonnet & MLA info

 

 


 

February 2010 – Existentialism

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

1

  Othello and Macbeth 

2

   Othello and Macbeth

3

    Othello and Macbeth

 

Vocab 20

4

   Othello and Macbeth

 

5
  Othello and Macbeth

 

Allusion Notecards DUE

8
   Othello and Macbeth

9
   Othello and Macbeth

10

  Othello and Macbeth 

Vocab 21 

11
   Othello and Macbeth Discuss

 

 

12

Othello and Macbeth Discuss

15

 Othello and Macbeth  - Prep for Instruction Days

16

 Othello Instructional Day 

 

17

 Macbeth Instructional Day

18

   AP ICE – Macbeth or Othello

 

HW: Read Bigelow’s Primer-highlight for quiz

19

 quiz over Bigelow’s Primer

 

Watch Seinfeld – Discuss

 

HW: Existentialism AG – mark and support your opinions with facts/experts

22

 Existentialism AG

 

23

 Read “Myth of Sisyphus” – write a thesis statement – explain why he is happy 

 

 

 

   

24
 

 Vocab 22  

 

  Read Waiting for Godot

25

 

Read Waiting for Godot

26

 

Read Waiting for Godot

 

Outside novel:  No Exit 

 


 

 

March 2010

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

  

 Waiting for Godot-

Graded Discussion

2

 

 ICE – No Exit & MLA Basics

 

 

 

3

 

 Read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead  

  Pun Exposure


Act   1 Questions

 

Types of Comedy Lecture / Notes

 

 

  NO VOCAB – Study Poetry Unit

4

   Read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 

 

HW: Act 2 Questions

5

 

 Read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 

 

  Act 3 Questions

 

Motifs

 

 

 

Allusion Notecards DUE

8

 Ros and Guil comprehension quiz

 

Discussion

 

Writing Assignment – entrances and exits.

 

Verbal Tennis

   

9

 

 Ros and Guil comprehension quiz

 

Discussion

 

Writing Assignment – entrances and exits.

 

Verbal Tennis

 

10

 

 ICE - Waiting for Godot / Ros and Guil are Dead / "The Myth of Sisyphus".

 

NO VOCAB – Use poetry unit

 

11

 

 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead movie

 

Movie questions

 

 

12

 

 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead movie

 

Movie questions

 

 

SPRING BREAK!

22

 

 Poetry Explication 

TPCASTT

Evaluate

Poems

“Stopping”

 

 

 

23

 

Research Paper DUE!

 

 

 Groups – nothing leaves

24

 

 Groups – nothing leaves

 

NO VOCAB TEST

25

 

 Groups – nothing leaves

26

 

 Groups – nothing leaves

29

Groups – nothing leaves

30

 Groups – nothing leaves

31

Groups – nothing leaves the classroom

 

NO VOCAB TEST

 

 

 

Outside Reading –   Ch 13-23 - tested after poetry unit


 

April 2010

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

 

 

 

1

 

Groups – nothing leaves

2

Groups –  

 

Allusion Notecards DUE

 

 HW: Annotate War poems

5

Poetry Explication: War

 

 

HW: Annotate parent/Child poem

6

Parent/Child Presentation

 

 

HW: Annotate Love poems

 

7

Love Presentation

 

HW: Annotate Satire and Irony poems

 

NO VOCAB TEST

8

Satire and Irony Presentation

 

HW: HW: Annotate Loss poems

 

9
Impermanence and Loss

Presentation

 

 

HW: Annotate Ways of Seeing poems

12
Ways of Seeing

Presentation

 

 

HW: Annotate Sonnets  

13
Sonnet Presentation

 

14
Annotation/ Consensus Thesis: Poetry

  

NO VOCAB TEST – It is Friday this week!

15
Annotation/ Consensus Thesis: Poetry

 

 

16 

 

Poetry Annotation

 & Poetry Vocab Test

19

 

 Outside Reading Test - poetry chapters from textbook  

 

20

Notes on Gothicism

 

Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

 

*Sign up for BMBYBW Day 

21

Discuss “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

--Questions

22

Read “Good, Country People” by Flannery O’Connor