WEEK FOUR

Monday, 8/31/26

• Vocabulary List Three.

• Read Hamlet Act I.

Tuesday, 9/1/26

• Open-note quiz, Hamlet Act I.

• Read Hamlet Act II.

• Hollins University visit.

Wednesday, 9/2/26

• Vocabulary Exercise Three.

• Open-note quiz, Hamlet Act II.

• Read Hamlet Act III.

Thursday, 9/3/26

• Open-note quiz, Hamlet Act III.

• Read Hamlet Act IV.

Friday, 9/4/26

• Vocabulary Quiz Three.

• Open-note quiz, Hamlet Act IV.

• Read Hamlet Act V.

WEEK THREE

Monday, 8/24/26

• Vocabulary List Two.

• Unit One Test.

• Review online textbook access.

• Assign YPF Playwrighting Assignment:

  • • • • • Drafts due Monday, 9/21.

          • Final plays due Wednesday, 10/7.

• Begin play drafting.

Tuesday, 8/25/26

• Slideshow and worksheet:  Introduction to Units Two & Three.

• Read excerpts from The English Bible, Norton pp. 399-403.

• Read Elizabeth I, Norton pp. 403 and 407-408.

• Continue play drafting.

Wednesday, 8/26/26

• Vocabulary Exercise Two.

• Beta Club meeting.

• Read pastoral poetry:

  • • • • • Marlowe, Norton p. 513.

          • Ralegh, Norton p. 502.

• Continue play drafting.

Thursday, 8/27/26

• Open-note quiz on the introduction to Units Two & Three, The English Bible, Elizabeth I, Marlowe, and Ralegh.

• Slideshow and worksheet:  Introduction to Shakespeare.

• Distribute copies of Hamlet.

• Continue play drafting.

Friday, 8/28/26

• Vocabulary Quiz Two.

• Read Shakespearean sonnets:

  • • • • • Sonnet 18, Norton p. 556.

          • Sonnet 29, Norton p. 558.

          • Sonnet 73, Norton p. 561.

          • Sonnet 106, Norton p. 564.

          • Sonnet 116, Norton p. 564.

          • Sonnet 130, Norton p. 565.

• Continue play drafting.

WEEK TWO

Monday, 8/17/26

• Vocabulary List One.

• Senior meeting.

• Finish reading “Beowulf,” My Perspectives pp. 35-43.

• Read “The Seafarer,” My Perspectives pp. 768-771.

Tuesday, 8/18/26

• Open-note quiz on Beowulf.

• Read “The Wife’s Lament,” Norton pp. 113-114.

• Read “Lord Randall” and "The Twa Corbies" (Online Resources).

• Begin reading "Prologue to The Canterbury Tales," My Perspectives pp. 133-138.

Wednesday, 8/19/26

• Vocabulary Exercise One.

• Finish reading "Prologue to The Canterbury Tales," My Perspectives pp. 138-152.

Thursday, 8/20/26

• Finish The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, pp. 152-158.

• Open-note quiz on The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.

• Read "The Wife of Bath's Tale," My Perspectives pp. 171-182.

Friday, 8/21/26

• Vocabulary Quiz One.

• Read "The Pardoner's Tale" (Online Resource).

• Review for Unit Test One.

WEEK ONE

Tuesday, 8/11/26

• Access and bookmark the course website and VHCC Canvas page.

• Review the English 245 course syllabus.

• Senior Meeting @ 9:15.

• Begin reading Norton Anthology Unit One Introduction, “The Middle Ages to ca. 1485," pp. 3-4.

Wednesday, 8/12/26

• Review the VCCS Avoiding Plagiarism resource.

• Slideshow & Worksheet:  Unit One, The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485).

• Continue reading Norton Anthology Unit One Introduction, “The Middle Ages to ca. 1485," pp. 4-9. 

Thursday, 8/13/26

• Read Bede, Norton pp. 30-33.

• Read “The Dream of the Rood,” Norton pp. 33-37.

• Finish reading Norton Unit One Introduction, “The Middle Ages to ca. 1485," pp. 10-26.  

Friday, 8/14/26

• Quiz:  Introduction to Unit One.

• Begin reading excerpts from "Beowulf," My Perspectives pp. 19-35.