Week Seven: Oct. 19th - 23rd
Monday: Read pp. 95-91 in the textbook and review Presentation/lecture - essential question: "What do we do when a society unravels?"
Tuesday: War of the Roses/history and vocabulary. "The Paston Letters" Get Ready: vocabulary, primary documents. Understand genre elements - diaries. Read "My Syrian Diary".
Wednesday: Post-reading handout - collaborate and compare letters and diary.
Thursday: Introduction to Shakespeare - webquest.
Friday: Historical background of Scotland, website to use, study guides, and expectations for reading "Macbeth". Read Act I and fill out the Study Guide.
Week Six: Oct. 12th - 16th
Monday: Reading "Chivalry" in the textbook.
Tuesday: Do the post-reading worksheet and turn it in by the end of the hour.
Thursday - Friday: No School, MEA Break
Week Five: Oct. 5th - 9th *Fall Festival Week
Monday: Modern-day poems, preparing for our class pilgrimage.
Tuesday: Class pilgrimage - reading poems, summarizing (handout), and potluck!
Wednesday: Slide presentation - pre-reading. Discussion - loyalty? Get Ready "Le Morte D'Arthur". Review conflict and do pre-reading vocabulary in a large group.
Friday: Post-reading handout/assignment. Vocabulary HMH - part one and two.
Week Four: Sept. 28th - Oct. 2nd
Monday: Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer video, prologue, and characters. Choose a character from the General Prologue and create a slide about them.
Tuesday: Working on slides. Check the grade sheet for expectations.
Wednesday: Sharing character slides. Begin our own "pilgrimage" plan.
Thursday - Friday: Writing our character sketches for "modern-day pilgrimage".
Week Three: Sept. 21st - 25th
Monday: Finishing up Beowulf presentations. Start watching "Beowulf".
Tuesday - Wednesday: Watching Beowulf.
Thursday: Boast Like Beowulf assignment. Finish post-viewing assignment.
Friday: Unit 2 Introduction. Geoffrey Chaucer webquest. (GC)
Week Two: Sept. 14th -18th
Monday: Finish Hero Presentations. Anticipatory question set/discussion. Introduction to Beowulf, historical.
Tuesday: Videos on the History of English. Kenning lesson (presentation and videos) and kenning assignment (GC).
Wednesday: Read segments of the poem in groups. Take notes and prepare summary slide presentations for peers.
Thursday: Working on slide presentations.
Friday: Working on presentations and Boast like Beowulf assignment.
Week One: Sept. 7th - 11th
Tuesday: Intro activities -what doesn't belong, paragraph writing, etc. Join Google Classroom.
Wednesday: Introduction to Unit One - heroes. Stream to start the video and vocabulary. Read Introduction - Anglo-Saxon, and check for Understanding.
Thursday: Presentation on Intro to English - video clips, discussion. Hero assignment (Google Classroom)
Friday: Sharing hero assignments.