Monday December 15: Monologue performances! HOMEWORK: Those who performed today: finish rubric and reflection if not finished in class. Continue reviewing items on the study guide for the final exam.
Tuesday December 16: Monologue performances! HOMEWORK: Those who performed today: finish rubric and reflection if not finished in class. Continue reviewing items on the study guide for the final exam.
Wednesday December 17: Review activities in preparation for the exam. HOMEWORK: Continue reviewing items on the study guide for the final exam.
Thursday December 18: HALF DAY. EXAMS FOR PERIODS 1, 2, AND 3. HOMEWORK: Review for exam.
Friday December 19 HALF DAY. EXAMS FOR PERIODS 4, 5, AND 6. HOMEWORK: Enjoy your Winter Break!
Monday, December 8: Scansion practice. Last work day on the dramatic monologue. HOMEWORK: Review final exam vocabulary for ten minutes.
Tuesday, December 9: Make the neat copy of the monologue in class today. HOMEWORK: Aim for 50% memorization by bedtime. Type up your monologue and print yourself a copy if possible.
Wednesday, December 10: Exam review. Memorization/rehearsal time in class. HOMEWORK: Continue to memorize your monologue--aim for 80%.
Thursday, December 11: Exam review. Memorization/rehearsal time in class. HOMEWORK: Continue to memorize your monologue--aim for 100%.
Friday, December 12: More delivery exercises. Memorization/rehearsal time in class. HOMEWORK: Rehearse your monologue--performances start Monday!
Monday, December 1: Review of diction. Monologue work time. HOMEWORK: Research character, if needed
Tuesday, December 2: Overview of Friday's quiz. Monologue work time. HOMEWORK: None
Wednesday, December 3: Review of introductions for monologue performances. Monologue work time. HOMEWORK: Review for Friday's quiz
Thursday, December 4: Scansion practice. Monologue work time. HOMEWORK: Review for Friday's quiz
Friday, December 5: Quiz! Monologue work time. HOMEWORK: Review vocabulary from returned quizzes
Monday, November 24: Students will complete a blackout poem. HOMEWORK: None
Tuesday, November 25: Students will decorate their broadsides for Museia. HOMEWORK: None
Wednesday, November 26 - Friday, November 28: R&R/ THANKSGIVING BREAK!
Monday, November 17: Begin exploration of dramatic monologue character. HOMEWORK: Read Hamlet's "To Be or Not To Be" soliloquy pp34-35 in reader and be prepared to discuss tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 18: Continued exploration of dramatic monologue. HOMEWORK: None
Wednesday, November 19: Guided exercise using a character template. MacBeth's "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" soliloquy p 36 in reader. HOMEWORK: None
Thursday, November 20: Complete dramatic poem plan in class. "My Last Duchess" pp 35-36 HOMEWORK: Character research, if needed
Friday, November 21: Begin drafting monologue. Overview of monologue assignment. HOMEWORK: Character research, if needed
Monday, November 10: Dramatic poetry preview. HOMEWORK: Have your recitation poem 100% memorized by bedtime. Rehearse your poem tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 11: No school in honor of Veteran's Day.
Wednesday, November 12: Finish "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." HOMEWORK: Rehearse your poem for recitation.
Thursday, November 13: Recitations! HOMEWORK: Email your poem by 11:59 p.m. tomorrow tonight.
Friday, November 14: More narrative poetry. HOMEWORK: Email your poem by 11:59 p.m. tonight.
Monday, November 3:More Emily Dickinson. Overview of next recitation and choice of poems. HOMEWORK: Understand what your poem for recitation is about. Be prepared to discuss tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 4: Discussion of poems for recitation. Establish recitation schedule. HOMEWORK: Aim for 20% of your poem to be memorized by bedtime.
Wednesday, November 5: Found poem exercise. Begin "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." HOMEWORK: Aim for 40% of your poem to be memorized by bedtime.
Thursday, November 6: Narrative poetry exploration; "Rime" continued. HOMEWORK: Aim for 60% of your poem to be memorized by bedtime.
Friday, November 7: Narrative poetry exploration; wrap up "Rime." HOMEWORK: Aim for 80% of your poem to be memorized by bedtime.
Monday, October 27 HALF DAY: Finish free verse exercise. HOMEWORK: None
Tuesday, October 28: No school (student-led conferences)
Wednesday, October 29: Hymn meter in Emily Dickinson's poetry (pp154-158 in the Dickinson section of the reader). HOMEWORK: Be prepared to answer a one-question quiz tomorrow: what is the definition of hymn meter?
Thursday, October 30: One-question quiz. More poetry of Emily Dickinson (pp. 159-160 in the Dickinson section of the reader). HOMEWORK: None
Friday, October 31: Finish reading and discussing remaining poems in the Dickinson section of the reader. HOMEWORK: Dickinson's "Tell All the Truth" reading and questions for Monday.
Monday, October 20: Elegy. Review of terms for this week's quiz. HOMEWORK: Review slides/notes for the quiz.
Tuesday, October 21: Free verse poems. Idiom transformation exercise. HOMEWORK: Review slides/notes for the quiz.
Wednesday, October 22: Free verse poems. Idiom transformation exercise. HOMEWORK: Review slides/notes for the quiz.
Thursday, October 23: Period 2: Quiz. Free verse poems. Idiom transformation exercise. HOMEWORK: Review slides/notes for the quiz.
Friday, October 24: Period 4: Quiz. Free verse poems. Idiom transformation exercise. HOMEWORK: None