World Literature

World Literature Google Classroom Class Code:

Agenda Week 1 

Wed: Course Introduction/Guidelines for Success/ HW: Animal Farm Vocabulary

Thurs: Animal Farm: Author's Background/ WebQuest

Fri: Context Notes/ Read Chpts 1-2/ Complete Response Questions

Agenda Week 2

Mon: No School

Tues: Animal Farm Chapters 5-6/ Response Questions Due

Wed: "Censorship" EOC Practice/ Read Chpt 7/ Response Questions

Thurs: AF Read Chpt 8 Response Questions/ "Herd Mentality" EOC

Fri: AF 9-10 Response Questions

Agenda Week 3

Mon: Themes/ Review Worksheet/ "Top 10 Things to Know" Videos

Tues:  AF Test

Wed: "Why We Read" Crash Course Video / Textbook Worksheet

Thurs: Mesopotamian People and Culture

Fri: Mesopotamia/Egypt Vocabulary

Agenda Week 4 

Mon: Gilgamesh Background/ Document Analysis

Tues: "The Epic of Gilgamesh" Part 1-2

Wed-Thurs: "The Epic of Gilgamesh" Part 3

Fri:  Hammurabi Background /"The Code of Hammurabi" EOC

Agenda Week 5 

Mon: Ancient Egypt Intro/"Fertile Crescent"

Tues: Ancient Egypt People and Culture

Wed-Thurs: Ancient Egypt Webquest

Fri: Egyptian Myths/ "Book of the Dead" Wkst

Agenda Week 6 

Mon: Modern Egypt/ "Developing Civilization in Ancient Egypt" EOC

Tues: Ancient Hebrew People / Culture/ Ancient Hebrew Vocabulary

Wed: No School (SAT DAY)

Thurs/Fri: Sacred Literature / Ancient Hebrew: from Genesis 

Agenda Week 7 

Mon: "Cain and Abel"/ "Psalms"/ "Prodigal Son"/  Book of Ruth" Wkst

Tues: Mayan People and Culture / WebQuest

Wed: "Popol Vuh" Comparison Wkst

Thurs:  No School (In-Service)

Fri: NEOEA DAY

Agenda Week 8 

Mon: Binder Checklist/ Ancient Greece Vocabulary

Tues: Greece People and Culture

Wed: Ancient Greece WebQuest

Thurs: Greek Literature/ from The Iliad Book 1

Fri: from The Iliad Book 6-22

Agenda Week 9 

Mon: The Iliad Book 24 

Tues:  "The Apology" Wkst

Wed: Horace and Ovid Poetry/Binder Due

Thurs/Fri: "Apollo"/"Sun and Moon" Comparison Activity 

Agenda Week 10 

Mon: No School

Tues: Middle Ages People

Wed-Fri: "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" Response Questions

Agenda Week 11 

Mon: Middle Ages WebQuest/Crossword

Tues: Renaissance Reading Article

Wed/Thurs: Dante Alighieri "Devine Comedy" Wkst

Fri: "Button, Button" EOC Evidence (Junior/Senior Reward Party)

Agenda Week 12  Nov 11th-15th

Mon: China and Japan Vocabulary

Tues: Ancient China People/Culture

Wed:  "Four Dragons" EOC

Thurs: Literature of Ancient China "Analects/"Book of Odes" Wkst

Fri:  "Village School and Travelling Soldier" EOC

Agenda Week 13  Nov 18th-22nd

Mon: Japan WebQuest/"Samurai and the Tea Master"

Tues: Japan People and Culture

Wed: "The Real Hacksaw Ridge" EOC

Thurs: "Green Willow" / Ancient Japanese Literature 

Fri: "Pillow Book" Wkst

Agenda Week 14 

Mon: Cultural Traditions Slideshow Project

Tues: Cultural Traditions Slideshow Project

Wed-Fri: NO School "Happy Thanksgiving!"

Agenda Week 15 

Mon: Middle East Vocabulary

Tues:  Middle East People and Culture

Wed: Islam/from "The Koran" 

Thurs: "A Thousand and One Night's" Worksheet

Fri: "A Call for Change in the Middle East" EOC

Agenda Week 16 

Mon: West African Vocabulary

Tues:  West African People and Culture

Wed:  Spider Stories

Thurs: Chinua Achebe Background/ "An Interview with..."

Fri: "Dead Men's Path"

Agenda Week 17 Dec 16th-20th

Mon: India WebQuest

Tues:  /India People and Culture

Wed: "A Wish for Kali" / Sumintra Celebrates Divali 

Thurs: Culture and Literature/Rig Veda 

Fri: from Mahabharata/ Wkst/Binder Checklist

Agenda Week 18

Mon: "Button, Button" EOC Evidence

Tues: "The Renaissance Man" Worksheet

Wed: "The Renaissance Man" Worksheet/Binder Due

Thurs: "The Renaissance Man" Worksheet

Fri: Final Exam Review

Agenda Week 19 

Mon:  Final Exam Review

Tues-Thurs: Final Exams Schedule

Fri: 

Animal Farm

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