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English IV AP Calendar

August 2008
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Teachers
Institute

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First day
of School

First reading assignment: Invisible Man Intro & Prologue through ch 6 pp. 3-150

Quiz Tuesday 8-26 (Focus on tone)

Significant quotation assignment

20

Entrance Interview - due Friday

Syllabus & Teacher Web Page

IM passages and AP questions

Louis Armstrong

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Diagnostic Writing Assignment

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Invisible Writing

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24 25 Seminar--Part One--Cornell Notes (typed) due today...2 copies.

26 Id/ Quotation quiz: Part II pp. 3-150

Begin reading Part II Invisible Man ch 7-13 (pp. 151-295) Seminar over Part II Tuesday 9-2; quiz over Part II Wednesday, 9-3

 27 IM passages and AP questions Chapter 5..Who wants the answers?

28 IM passages and AP questions Chapter 11--YOU find the answers this time.

29

Ralph Ellison discussion/ biography video; discussion of diagnostic writing. Continue AP questions for Ch 11

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September 2008
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

Labor Day
No School

2

Seminar IM Part II ch 7-13 (pp. 151-295)

Cornell Notes Due (2 copies typed)

3 Don't forget...Class Picture today.

Quiz Part II ch 7-13 IM

Begin reading Part III ch 14-22 (pp. 296-478)

4

AP passages

5

Writing Assignment: College Application/Personal Statement

**Bring in prompt from your selected college on Monday**

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8 Discussion: College Application Essay prompts. (Show; don't tell).

Begin the College Application Process: Essays due Monday, Sept 15.

9 Delayed Start

Bring Vocab Books complete Diagnostic Test. Have you gone to the Writing Center yet?

10

Continue Vocab/ Reading of IM/ College Essay.

11

Seminar Part III IM Cornell Notes due today. (2 copies)

12

IM quiz today over Part III ch 14-22

"How to Say Nothing in 500 Words or Less"

Assignment: Finish book for Tuesday

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14 15 College Essays due today. Be ready to share. 16 Final Discussion of Invisible Man. (Short ID quiz over the end of the novel today). Prepare for Timed Writing tomorrow.

17 Invisible Man

18 Timed Writing 19 Vocab Day & 7th period Pep Assemb. 20
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22 Multiple Choice AP Packets for Invisible Man. Timed writings returned...BEGIN REVISIONS. Final Drafts due Monday, Sept 29th.

 23 Multiple Choice AP Packets for Invisible Man

24 Packets/Discussion Today. Review Vocab for tomorrow's test.

25 Writing Center Open House Tonight.

Vocab Test 1-3 Today!

26 Bring your copy of The Last Lecture today.

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29 In class timed writing today. Question #2...Close analysis.

30 Work with close reading analysis. Discuss examples of "Birthday Party"

Final Revisions of Invisible Man paper due today.


October 2008
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Sample essays "Birthday Party" & Invisible Man

2 Read On the Rainy River. Think about author's purpose and how he gets us to see this...what devices does he use to create meaning?

Discuss The Hero's Call to Adventure.

3 Revision day or Vocab 4-6 day or The Last Lecture Day...choose your adventure.

Be prepared to write a seminal statement for yesterday's reading assignment.

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6 Beowulf

Quiz--Intro to Beowulf

Read Prologue-Canto 12...finish for hw

AP passages

7 Beowulf

quiz?

Read cantos 13-21...finish for hw

8 Beowulf

quiz?

Read cantos 22-29...finish for hw

Revisions for The Birthday Party Essay due today!

9 Beowulf

quiz?

Read cantos 30-35

Beowulf paper assigned today...Due next Thursday.

10 Beowulf

quiz?

Read cantos 36-43 (end of the epic)...finish for hw.

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13

Columbus Day
No School

14

Early Release
Vocab Test Units 4-6

15

Beowulf Test today.

 16 Computer Lab

17 Computer Lab

End of First
Quarter
Assignment: Literary Devices & Critical Article Bring DiYanni text on Tuesday.
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20

Teachers Institute
No School
 21 Quiz: Existensialism packet through p. 16. Begin "The Metamorphosis" ch I in DiYanni 22 "The Metamorphosis" Chapter II today. DiYanni text.

23 "The Metamorphosis" Ch 2 today. DiYanni text.

AP questions on "The Metamorphosis."

24 Paper due today: Critical Article & assigned page of literary device due today as well.

Essay quiz: Chapter 1 & 2 of The Metamorphosis.

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26 27 Finish quiz responses. 28 Chapter 3 of The Metamorphosis 29 Class discussion of The Metamorphosis...study guide & AP questions

30 Further discussion on Existentialism and the Existenial framework for interpreting The Metamorphosis...short video

31 Timed writing...NO Revisions, I stand firm! Weekend homework--read chapters 1-5 in The Catcher in the Rye. short quiz on Monday.
November 2008
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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3 Begin discussion of

The Catcher in the Rye

Chapters 1-5

hw--Read chapters 6-19 for Wednesday.

4 Continue discussion of Catcher...

Cornell notes (or passage) due tomorrow over chapters 1-10.

Library Lab "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and Turnitin.com Discussion Board

5 Seminar chapters 1-10 Catcher.

Short quiz/ AP questionsClass AP questions 1-15 due today

6 Continue seminar on Catcher in the Rye

Quiz ch 1-10 CIR

hw- read ch 11-15

7 Bring Cliff's AP book to class today. Begin discussing the "open question."

Finish Catcher in the Rye for Wednesday.

Watch the Discussion board for hints to the timed writing on Thursday next week.

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10

Parent Teacher
Conferences

11

Veterans Day
No School
 12 Final Discussion of The Catcher in the Rye 13 Timed Writing over The Catcher in the Rye...Open question. 14 Preliminary activities for Hamlet...Act I---exposition 15
16 17 Hamlet--- I i Exposition...Focus on Mood and Motif 18 Hamlet--I ii--Focus on speeches and characterization. AP questions. Timed writing introduced. 19 Hamlet--I iii--Continue to focus on speeches in Act One and Shakespeare's use of language. 20 Hamlet--Finish Act One--Focus on solilquoy. 21 Hamlet-Act One scene 5 & AP questions 22
23 24 Portfolio assesment today...Take a look at the last two timed writings...Revision Time! 25 Hamlet--Take a look at Act One...Questions about revisions

26 Watch The Last Lecture.

Early Release

27

Thanksgiving
Break

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Thanksgiving Break

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30 Continue Hamlet all week
December 2008
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Hamlet Act Two 2 Hamlet Act Two & Revisions (typed) due today. 3 Hamlet Act Three 4 Hamlet Act Three

5 Hamlet Act Four

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7 8 Act Four Hamlet

9 Vocab 7-9 Test

Delayed Start
 10 Hamlet Act Four 11 Hamlet Act Four 12 Hamlet Act Five & present wrapping 13
14 15 Hamlet Act V 16 Dramatic readings & Hamlet Act V 17 Test over the play today!

18 Writing portion of Final Hamlet--Open Question

today.

19

Final Exams--Periods 0, 1, & 2

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22

Final Exams

Periods 3, 4, 5

23

Final Exams
End of Semester 1 Periods 6 & 7

24

Winter Break

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Winter Break

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Winter Break

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Winter Break

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Winter Break

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Winter Break

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Winter Break

January 2009
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

Winter Break

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Winter Break

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Winter Break

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Winter Break

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School Resumes

AP INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS

 8 IN CLASS AP INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS (Due at the end of the class period). 9 Frankenstein video. Begin the novel over break. Read The Letters (I-IV) and chapters 1-10. 10
11 12 Begin reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Act One

13 R & G are dead...Finish Act One

Delayed Start

 14 R & G are Dead Act Two 15 R & G are Dead...Continue and finish Act Two 16 R & G are Dead Act Three 17
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19

Martin Luther
King Day
No School

 20 Finish R & G are Dead Act Three 21 Final Discussion R & G are Dead & video 22 Frankenstein discussion//Final Discussion of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. 23 Frankenstein discussion 24
25 26 Quiz and discussion of Frankenstein Letters I-IV and ch 1-7 Vol I and 1-2 of Vol II...or (chapters 1-10) AP questions due. 27 Frankenstein discussion. Begin next reading assignment...Ch 10-16 28 Timed writing R & G are Dead...(Literature is the question minus the answer) 29

30 Pep Assembly 7th period...

3rd period video of R & G

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February 2009
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1

2 Frankenstein Volume II quiz

Examine student examples of timed writing.

3 Frankenstein AP questions...54-90

Passage 8--Complete together in class

 4 Continue AP Frankenstein questions

5 BACK TO QUESTION #2...CLOSE ANALYSIS

Timed writing for Frankenstein

Early Release

6 Timed writing continues today...Time's up at the end of the period!

Homework-Finish Frankenstein for Monday (test) and prepare typed seminar notes.

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9 Frankenstein Test today.

Begin seminar--focus on open question

10 Frankenstein discussion (entire period)

Delayed Start

 11 The Kite Runner 12 The Kite Runner 13 The Kite Runner 14
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16

President's Day
No School

17 The Kite Runner 18 The Kite Runner 19 The Kite Runner 20 Seminar #1 Open question for The Kite Runner 2007 21
22 23 Seminar # 2 Open question for The Kite Runner 2008 24 Open Question timed writing 25 Discussion of timed writing 26 Discussion of timed writing.

27

Teacher Institute
No School

28
March 2009
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1

2

Pulaski Day
No School

3 The Awakening quiz ch 1-11

The Awakening AP questions

4

Vocab test--units

10-12

5 The Awakening discussion and AP questions

hw--continue reading The Awakening

6 Discussion over the Awakening and more AP questions...

how--continue reading The Awakening--ch 12-18 for Monday

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9 The Awakening Quiz Chapters 12-25

AP questions 23-54 due today.

 10 Discussion of The Awakening today. Discuss answers to AP MC questions 23-54 11 Finish The Awakening for tomorrow. Timed writing on Friday.

12 Final Discussion of the novel today.

13

Contest play periods 2 & 3

End of Third
Quarter

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16 Poetry Boot camp begins today! Contest Play for period 7

Assignment Issued:Read chapters 7-9 in DiYanni text and take TYPED notes (Cornell Style) Notes should be a minimum of 2 pages typed.

17

The Awakening essays due today. Poetry boot camp.

Beginning Poetry...Compare/Contrast two poems.

Discuss Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night" & Emily Dickinson's "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark"

 18 Continue the two poems from yesterday. Begin writing assignment...compare/contrast essay on Frost's and Dickinson's poems...Due next Wednesday, March 25th. 19 Read/discuss poem "In the Orchard" 20 Read/Discuss "Mending Wall"---complete AP questions 1-8...Discuss symbolism, tone, metaphor. 21
22 23 Poetry Cornell Notes due today. Be sure to print out two copies...The one you turn in WILL NOT be returned to you. 24 Poetry boot camp 25 Poetry 26 Poetry 27 Poetry 28
29 30 Poetry Project 31 Poetry Project

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6 Final changes made to poetry pages in class notebook
7 In class computers...Continue poetry project
8 In class timed writing.
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Early Release

Poetry page due...Individual presentations begin the day we return from break.
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20 Individual Poetry projects begin today.

Poetry Project due today (13 questions)

School Resumes
21 Poetry Presentations continue
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Early Release

No class for Seniors

Meet in Lab downstairs for AP review
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Early Release

No class for seniors

Meet in Lab downstairs for AP review
24 Final poetry projects today.
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27 Poetry Presentations resume
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Memorial Day No School
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Final Exams
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