Quarter Two

Week One: Nov. 9th - 13th

Monday: No School - teacher in-service 

Tuesday: Reading Act III, scenes 1-3. Study Guide. 

Wednesday: Reading Act III, scene 4. Study Guide. 

Friday: No School

Quarter One

Week Nine: Nov. 2nd - 6th **End of the Quarter*

Monday: Time to finish Act I of Soundtrack.

Tuesday: Act II - read scenes 1-2 and complete the Study Guide. 

Wednesday: Read Act II, scenes 3 and 4. Complete the Study Guide and do the post-reading worksheets. 

Thursday: Quiz on Act II; time to complete assignments. 

Friday: Time to work on the Soundtrack assignment.

Week Eight: Oct. 26th - 30th

Monday: Historical background of Scotland, website to use, study guides, and expectations for reading "Macbeth". 

Tuesday - Thursday: Read Act I and fill out the Study Guide. 

Friday: Quiz on Act I. Time for Soundtrack assignment.

Week Seven: Oct. 19th - 23rd

Monday: Read pp. 95-101 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. Language practice worksheets.

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.   

Wednesday: Quiz (HMH).  

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.  

Thursday: Reading story.

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

Monday: No School 

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.