12th Grade English Class
Welcome Grade 12 Students and Parents!
Mr. Ryan's Grade 12 English Class meets Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of each week in the High School.
Assume that homework assignments should be turned in on the next class following the listed assignment date unless specified in CAPS.
This list is updated regularly, please email me with questions: eryan@santafewaldorf.org.
Monday Sept 2: Brave New World (BNW)
Tuesday Sept 3: BNW Work
Wednesday Sept 4: BNW Work
Monday Sept 9: BNW Essay Due FRIDAY
Tuesday Sept 3: BNW Essay work
Wednesday Sept 11: BNW Essay Due Friday at 9:00 pm.
Week of Sept 16-20: No Class for Vallecitos trip
Monday Sept 23: Bring in a supplemental essay and be prepared to explain your approach to answering it
Tuesday Sept 24: Optional revision of BNW Essay due Friday
Wednesday Sept 25: Choose a supplemental essay to answer: up to 250 words, from a school. Include actual prompt, school, and your response in MLA.
Monday Sept 30: Find a College Essay prompt you like and report how you would approach it (from handout or elsewhere)
Tuesday Oct 1: Revise Supplemental Essay due MON OCT 7
Wednesday Oct 2: Revised Supplemental Essay due MON OCT 7; College Essay 1 Draft 1 due WED
Monday Oct 7: College Essay 1 Draft 1 due WED
Tuesday Oct 8: College Essay 1 Draft 1 due WED
Wednesday Oct 9: Revise Hands Essay (optional) due MON OCT 14
Monday Oct 14: No class for Indigenous ceremony
Tuesday Oct 15: Essay 1 Draft 1 (over)due; Essay 2 Draft 1 Due MONDAY
Wednesday Oct 16: Essay 2 Draft 1 due MONDAY; Essay 1 draft 2 due WED
Monday Oct 21: Essay 1 draft 2 due WED
Tuesday Oct 22: Essay 1 draft 2 due WED
Wednesday Oct 23: Essay 2 draft 2 Due Monday
Monday Oct 28: Essay 1 draft 3 due WED
Tuesday Oct 29: Essay 2 draft 3 due Monday (unless early action... ASAP)
Wednesday Oct 30: Essay 2 draft 3 due Monday (unless early action)
Monday Nov 4: Final Taliesen Essay due by Email in WORD or GOOGLE DOCS due MON Nov 11
Tuesday Nov 5: Senior Essays due Nov 11
Wednesday Nov 6: Senior Essays due Nov 11
Monday Nov 11: Read Ivan Tsarevitch and the Wolf
Tuesday Nov 12: Read Vasilisa and the Firebird
Wednesday Nov 13: Read Ivan Tsarevitch and the Wolf
Monday Nov 18: Fairy Tales Essay due WED: What can Russian Fairy Tales tell us about the culture of Russia?
Tuesday Nov 19: Fairy Tales Essay
Wednesday Nov 20: No HW for Break
Nov 25-28: No Classes for Thanksgiving Break
Monday Dec 2: Final draft of Taliesen Essay due Tuesday.
Tuesday Dec 3: Pushkin Bio and Poem annotate: The Prophet
Wednesday Dec 4: Annotate Pushkin Poem
Monday Dec 7: Annotate Pushkin Poem
Tuesday Dec 8: Annotate Pushkin Poem
Wednesday Dec 9: Original Pushkin Poem and analysis Due TUES
Monday Dec 12:
Tuesday Dec 13: Seminar
Wednesday Dec 14: Original Pushkin Poem and analysis
Friday Dec 20-Sun Jan 5: No school of XMAS Break
Monday Jan 6: Read Mumu
Tuesday Jan 7: Mumu
Wednesday Jan 8: Read The Overcoat
Monday Jan 13: Read What Men Live By
Tuesday Jan 14: What Men
Wednesday Jan 15: Read Lady with the Dog
Monday Jan 20: No School MLK
Tuesday Jan 21: Short Story Essay due on Monday
- Interpret a short story of the four we read
- Support your interpretation with text evidence
Wednesday Jan 22: Letter to Congressperson due Tuesday
Monday Jan 27: Letter to Congress, Short Story Essay
Tuesday Jan 28: Field trip to State Capitol
Wednesday Jan 29: Read Master and Margarita p. 1-12
Monday Feb 3: Read M and M p 13-32
Tuesday Feb 4: Read M and M p32-44
Wednesday Feb 5: No HW- reading catch-up.
Monday Feb 10: Read M and M p 45-54; Quiz 1-5
Tuesday Feb 11: No Class Snow Day
Wednesday Feb 12: Read M and M p 55-85
Monday Feb 10: No class- Contemporary Arts Block Grade 12
Tuesday Feb 11: No class- Contemporary Arts Block Grade 12
Wednesday Feb 12: No class- COntemporary Arts Block Grade 12
Monday-Friday Feb 17-21 no School for Conference Break
Monday Feb 24: Read M and M p 86-97
Tuesday Feb 25: Read M and M p 98-109; Quiz 6-12
Wednesday Feb 26: Read M and M p 110-142
Monday Mar 2: Read M and M p 143-153
Tuesday Mar 3: Read M and M p 154- 164; Quiz 12-16
Wednesday Mar 4: Read M and M p 165- 195- FIELD TRIP
Monday Mar 9: Read M and M p 196-211; Quiz CH13-19
Tuesday Mar 10: Seminar #1; Read M and M p 212-280 for MON
Wednesday Mar 11: (No Class for BIO Trip)
Monday Mar 16: Read M and M p 281-293
Tuesday Mar 17: Read M and M p 294-307
Wednesday Mar 18: Read M and M p 308-335
Monday Mar 23: Seminar #3; Exam WED
Tuesday Mar 24: Exam prep
Wednesday Mar 25: M and M Exam; Russian lit Final Project Due WED APR 1st
Monday Mar 30: Final Project work
Tuesday Mar 31: Final Project work; begin Film
Wednesday Apr 1: Final Project Presentations
Monday Apr 6: Senior projects
Tuesday Apr 7: Senior projects
Wednesday Apr 8: Senior projects