Daily Schedule

Tuesday, Jan. 7

• Introduction to course; syllabus
• Activity: Six-word memoirs (video / instructions)

Homework: Introduction Letter

Wednesday, Jan. 8

• Preview Vocab List 1 and begin mastery on vocabulary.com
• Writing lesson: Simple Sentence Patterns (notes handout)
  • practice on noredink.com

DUE TONIGHT: Introduction Letter

Thursday, Jan. 9

• Warm up: Identifying Sentence Parts (Patterns 1-3)
• Writing Lesson: Sentence Patterns 4 & 5 (notes continued on same Google Slideshow from yesterday)
  • Practice
• Writing Lesson: Identifying Sentence Parts in Tricky Situations
  • New practice on noredink

Friday, Jan. 10

• Warm up writing
• Lesson: Enlightenment vs. Romanticism
  • Notes
  • Activity: Analyzing Period Artwork (instructions)

PERIOD ART & ARCHITECTURE

Enlightenment:

• Paul Revere (1768)
• The Rotunda, University of Virginia
• US Supreme Court building (scroll down a little)

Romanticism:

• Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)
• House at Strawberry Hill
• Holy Name Cathedral (pic 1) (pic 2) (pic 3)

Monday, Jan. 13

• Warm up: Practice with sentence patterns
• Contextualizing Frankenstein, Part Two: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

This poem is a quintessential work of Romantic literature and it was a key influence on Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein. She even mentions it in the first chapter of the book. You're going to hear an abridged version of this poem today, and we will look for evidence in the poem of its connection to Romantic themes.

• Everything You Need to Know to Read Frankenstein

Tuesday, Jan. 14

• Warm up: Sentence Patterns Practice #3
• Vocab List 2 Preview (Kahoot) & 10 minutes to practice on vocab.com
• Video introductions to Frankenstein
  • Everything You Need to Know to Read Frankenstein
  • Mary Shelley: A Biography
• Begin reading & annotating Letter 1

HOMEWORK:

1. Read Letter 2
2. Annotate Letter 2: Find at least three pieces of evidence from letter 2 that proves the Robert Walton is a Romantic.

I will come around and check your annotations during the warm up and vocab practice tommorrow!

Wednesday, Jan. 15

• Warm up: Sentence Patterns Practice #4 & Vocab practice
• Go over annotations & discuss Letter 2
• Lesson: The Byronic Hero

HOMEWORK:

• Read Letters 3 & 4
• Annotate: In Letter 4, Walton explains that while stuck in the ice, his crew finds a man stranded and they take him on board. Based on Walton's descriptions, what makes this stranger a Byronic hero? Mark at least three passages that correspond to three different traits of the Byronic hero, one passage per trait at least. Use your notes on the Byronic hero.

Thursday, Jan. 16

• Warm up: Sentence Patterns Practice #5
• Evaluating evidence from Letter 4
• Vocab Jam

HOMEWORK:

1. Read & annotate Chapter 1
   • How does Victor Frankenstein (the new narrator of the story) portray women? Pay close attention to how he describes his mother, Caroline, and his "more than sister," Elizabeth.
2. Complete / master Vocab List 2
3. Study for Tuesday's vocab quiz (lists 1 & 2)

Tuesday, Jan. 21

• Vocab Quiz (lists 1 & 2)
• Writing lesson: Sentence Types (fill-in-the-blank notes / practice)
• Analyze/discuss Ch. 1 (we'll use the questions on your bookmark to guide our analysis)

HOMEWORK: Read & annotate Ch. 2 using the questions on your bookmark as a guide

Wednesday, Jan. 22

• Warm up: Sentence Types Practice #2
• Analyze/discuss Ch. 2

HOMEWORK: Read & annotate Ch. 3 using the questions on your bookmark as a guide

Thursday, Jan. 23

• Writing Lesson: Punctuating Complex & Compound Sentences
• Begin practice on noredink.com (due next Wed. 1/29 by 8:25 AM)
• Open-book quiz
• Discuss Ch. 3

HOMEWORK: Read & annotate Ch. 4 using the questions on your bookmark as a guide

Friday, Jan 24

• Warm up: Sentence types practice #3
• Time to work on noredink assignments
• Analyze/discuss Ch. 4

HOMEWORK: Read & annotate Ch. 5 using the questions on your bookmark as a guide

Monday, Jan. 27

• Warm up
• Preview Vocab list 3
• Discuss Ch. 5
  • Lesson & discussion: Physiognomy & Characterization in Frankenstein

HW: Read & annotate Chs. 6 & 7

Tuesday, Jan. 28

• Warm up: Practice test questions (sentence patterns & types)
• Discuss Chs. 6 & 7
• ASSIGNMENT: Frankenstein Mini-essay #1
  • Go over model essays

HW: Read & annotate the following:

1. Frankenstein, Ch. 8
2. Excerpt from Catherine Beecher's Essay on Slavery and Abolition

Wednesday, Jan 29

DUE by start of class: 3 assignments on noredink (FANBOYS, THAMOs, & subordinating conjunctions)

• Warm up: Practice test questions (sentence patterns & types)
• Discuss Ch. 8 and Beecher passage

Thursday, Jan. 30

• Warm up: Practice test questions (sentence patterns & types)
• Work day

Friday, Jan. 31

To join the class on Google Classroom, use this code: humaomc

DUE: First mini-essay (Submit REVISED essay here)

WRITING TEST (Sentence Patterns & Types)

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 9

Monday, Feb. 3

• Return Writing Test with corrections guidelines
• Preview vocab list 4 & begin practice on vocab.com
• Intro to Gothic Fiction
  1. Go to this site and read about the ten elements of Gothic fiction.
  2. With a partner, identify a modern-day example of Gothic fiction (film or book, not an adaptation of Frankenstein or Dracula--these are not modern-day stories) that meets at least 5 of these criteria.
  3. Briefly explain how your example conforms to each criterion. Record your explanations here.
  4. Take notes on this video (we'll watch in class, stopping to discuss examples of the motifs in Frankenstein; here's the notes worksheet)

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 10, using the questions on your bookmark (note esp. the question about evidence of THE SUBLIME) Postponed so we can finish notes on Gothic Motifs & discuss ch. 9

Tuesday, Feb. 4

• Warm up
• Notes on Gothic Motifs (video; notes worksheet)
  • We will pause the video periodically to discuss evidence of these motifs in Frankenstein

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 10, using the questions on your bookmark (note esp. the question about evidence of THE SUBLIME)

Wednesday, Feb. 5

• Warm up
• Discuss Ch. 10
• Writing lesson: Comma splices & Fused Sentences
  • Practice online

HW: Read & annotate Chs. 11 & 12, using the questions on your bookmark

Also, how do these chapters PARALLEL CHS. 1 & 2?

Thursday, Feb 6

• Warm up
• Discuss Chs. 11 & 12
  • In what ways is the creature's story both parallel to and opposite of the beginning of Victor's story (Ch. 1)?
    • How does the creature develop morally, emotionally, & intellectually? In what ways is his "education" the opposite of Victor's?
    • In what ways might the creature's isolation parallel Victor’s in Ch. 4?

HW:

1. Read & annotate Ch. 13.
2. Finish test corrections if you're doing them.

Friday, Feb. 7

Snow day

Monday, Feb. 10

• DUE: Writing Test Corrections
• Warm up: comma splices & fused sentences
• Discuss Ch. 13
  • In what ways does the creature's "education" mirror that of Victor's in earlier chapters? (In other words, what general similarities do you see, and in what specific ways are they the opposite?)
  • Notes: The "Double" in Gothic Fiction
• Vocab Jam

HW: Read & annotate Frankenstein Chs. 14 & 15

Tuesday, Feb. 11

• Vocab Quiz (Lists 3 & 4)
• Discuss Frankenstein Chs. 14 & 15
• Writing Lesson: Combining sentences using verbal & prepositional phrases

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 16

Wednesday, Feb. 12

Writing Lesson: Combining sentences using absolute phrases

Thursday, Feb. 13

Socratic Seminar

HW: Read & annotate Chs. 17-19

Tuesday, Feb. 18

Writing Lesson: Combining sentences using appositive phrases & relative clauses

Discuss Ch. 17-19

HW: Read & annotate Chs. 20 & 21

Wednesday, Feb. 19

• Lesson: Punctuating phrases & relative clauses
• Discuss Chs. 20 & 21

HW: Read & annotate Chs. 22 & 23

Thursday, Feb. 20

• Practice combining & punctuating sentences
• Discuss Chs. 22 & 23

HW: Read & annotate Ch. 24 and final letters

Friday, Feb. 21

Post-secondary with Ms. McKinney

Monday, Feb. 24

• Warm up
• Practice test questions (TEST ON WEDNESDAY)
• Discuss end of Frankenstein
• Hand out second Frankenstein mini-essay assignment

Tuesday, Feb. 25

• Warm up: test practice (sentence combining, punctuating phrases & clauses, etc.)
• Biohacking video
• Go over passages from student mini-essays (combining sentences, focusing thesis statements, etc.)
• Work time

Wednesday, Feb. 26

Work day

Test tomorrow!

Thursday, Feb. 27

• Writing Test (combining sentences with phrases & clauses, restrictives vs. nonrestrictives, avoiding comma splices, fused sentences, and dangling modifiers)
• HW: finish Frankenstein mini-essay #2

Friday, Feb. 28

• Return & go over test
• DUE: Frankenstein mini-essay #2 (on Google Classroom)
• Begin Kafka, The Metamorphosis
  • Background: Existentialism & Absurdism
  • Begin reading Chapter I in class

HW: Finish reading & annotating The Metamorphosis, Ch. I

Monday, March 2

• Discuss The Metamorphosis, Chapter I
  • Video: Karl Marx on Alienation
  • In what ways does Kafka explore the four types of alienation described by Marx?
• Lesson: Grammatical Parallelism
  • practice on noredink.com

HW: Read & annotate The Metamorphosis, Ch. II

Tuesday, March 3

• Lesson: Parallelism with comparisons
• Discuss Ch. II

HW: Read & annotate Ch. III

Wednesday, March 4

• Lesson: Parallelism with correlative conjunctions
• Discuss Metamorphosis, Ch. III

HW: Read & annotate "The Yellow Wall Paper"

Thursday, March 5

• Warm up
• Preview Vocab List 6 & practice
• Discuss "The Yellow Wall Paper"

HW: Prepare for tomorrow's seminar & your partial essay

Friday, March 6

Socratic Seminar: thematic connections between The Metamorphosis and "The Yellow Wall Paper"

Monday, March 9

Writing about Two Texts

• Overview & goals
• How to develop a thesis & outline
• Study a model essay

Work time

Tuesday, March 10

No class (college visit day)

Wednesday, March 11

Work time (begin writing your body paragraph/mini-essay)

Thursday, March 12

Work day

DUE BY END OF PERIOD: Revised outline (incl. thesis & topic sentences for body paragraphs) & 1-2 body paragraphs/mini-essay

Friday, March 13

No school for students

Wednesday, March 18

• DUE TODAY:
• 1984 Introductory Webquest (9:00 AM)
• Attendance tracker: see Google Classroom

DUE TOMORROW by 9:00 AM:

• Read & annotate 1984, Part One, Chapter I (pages 1-20): Your attendance tracker assignment for tomorrow will be based on Chapter I, so be ready.