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AP English IV

Plans for May 5-9

Objectives: The students will prepare for the AP Literature Test by reading 
and responding to prompts from prior exams.

Monday-Friday--Prepare for the exam on Thursday by reviewing prior prompts.

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Plans for April 28-May 2

Objectives: The students will read and discuss Wuthering Heights.  Yhe 
students will practice for various parts of the AP literature exam.

Presentation:
Monday--Read poetry and discuss.
Tuesday--quiz on Wuthering Heights; dicuss the novel for inclusion on the 
third question.
Wednesday-Friday--Review novels read throughout the course of the 4 years 
that are suitable for inclusion on the third question of the test.

Measurements:
Tuesday--Wuthering Heights Quiz

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Plans for April 22-25

Objectives: The students will work on prior AP multiple choice, prose 
writings, and poetry prompts in class.

Presentation: 
Tuesday--Multiple choice practice
Wendesday-Thursday-poetry prompts--choose one on which to write.
Friday--prose prompts.  Wuthering Heights due on Monday--quiz.

Measurements:
Tuesday--multiple choice
Thursday--poetry prompt in class

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Plans for April 14-18

Objectives:  The students will read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prifrock" 
together and figure out the theme of the poem.  The students will be able to 
complete a book analysis on a chosen book due on Tuesday.

Presentation:
Monday--"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Tuesday--collect the book analyses--give the students a break since they had 
a huge paper to write.
Wednesday-Thursday-Begin "The Wasteland"
Friday--multiple choice practice

Measurements:
Tuesday--The Book Analysis
Friday--multiple choice

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Measurements:


Plans for April 8-11

Objectives: The students will be able to answer AP level multiple choice 
questions on As I Lay Dying.  The students will practice writing 5 minute 
spider diagrams on prior AP questions.  The students will evaluate essays 
written on prior AP prompts. The students will be able to read Eliot's 
poetry with comprehension.

Presentation:
Tuesday--Review the last set of AP questions.
Wednesday--Practice pre-writing on prior AP prompts.
Thursday-Friday--T.S. Eliot's poetry in text

Measurements:
Quiz on poetry on Friday.

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Plans for March 31-April 4

Objectives:
The students will be able to analyze As I Lay Dying through point of view, 
diction, detail, syntax, organization.  Students will enrich their 
vocabulary by choosing words from the book.  Students will be able to answer 
AP level multiple choice questions on As I Lay Dying.

Presentation:
Monday-Wednesday-Using various style elements, discuss As I Lay Dying.
Review the multiple choice questions answered last Friday.
Thursday--In class writing on As I Lay Dying
Friday--More multiple choice questions on As I Lay Dying.

Measurements:
Tuesday--Multiple choice
Thursday--In class writing on As I Lay Dying
Friday--Multiple choice

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Plans for March 26-28

Objectives: Students will be able to read Brave New World with 
comprehension and clarity and be able to answer detailed questions on the 
text.  Students will enrich their vocabulary by choosing words from the 
book.  Students will begin their study of Faulkner and his stream of 
consciousness.

Presentation:
Wednesday--Review a prose question and the Brave New World Tests.
Thursday--Work on a prose question as a quiz grade.
Friday--multiple choice practice.  As I Lay Dying

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Plans for March 10-11

As I Lay Dying is due March 28th--Quiz

Objectives:The students will be able to read and analyze Brave New World 
for style and story elements.  Students will be able to read Brave New World 
with 
comprehension and clarity and be able to answer detailed questions on the 
text.  Students will enrich their vocabulary by choosing words from the book.
Presentation: 
Monday--Full period AP question test
Tuesday--poetry--T. S. Eliot--bring poetry books.

Measurements: Full period test on Monday--Brave New World


Plans for March 3-7

Objectives: The students will be able to read and analyze Brave New World 
for style and story elements.  The students will be able to read short prose 
excepts and analyze them for stylistic elements.  The students will practice 
multiple choice from prior AP tests.

Presentation:
Monday--Brave New World quiz and discussion
Tuesday-Wednesday-Continue discussion of Brave New World--syntax, 
characterization, organization, point of view, diction, tone
Thursday--Prose analysis
Friday--Multiple choice

Test on Brave New World scheduled for next Monday.

Measurements:
Monday--Brave New World quiz
Friday--multiple choice

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Plans for February 25-29

Objectives: The students will practice the TPCASTT method of poetry analysis.
The students will read poetry and short prose excerpts and analyze them.
The students will practice multiple choice from old AP tests.

Presentation:
Monday--Review the TPCASTT on "Dulce et Decorum Est"  Brave New World is due 
next Monday.
Tuesday-Wednesday-Read the poetry of Wallace Stevens in the text.
Thursday--Review prose prompts from prior exams.
Friday--Multiple choice practice from old exams.

Measurements:
Wednesday--TPCASTT on a Wallace Stevens poem.
Friday--multiple choice

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Plans for February 19-22

New book choices for Book Analysis this semester:

Catch 22                      Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 
Moby Dick                     Never Let Me Go
The Sound and the Fury        The Road
The Portrait of a Lady        Jane Eyre

See AP Documents for the Book Analysis but choose to eliminate:

either the detail or the diction paragraph;

the criticial biography paragraph; however, check to see if the writer's 
background intrudes into the work;

the tone paragraph.

Objectives: Students will be able to respond to a prompt from a prior AP 
Test on Invisible Man.  Students will be able to begin their second book 
analysis by choosing a book. Students will be able to read poetry from their 
text and analyze it.  Students will be able to integrate techniques of 
analysis into their schema.

Preparation:
Tuesday--Invisible Man test
Wednesday-Friday--Read the poetry of Auden, Williams and learn new 
techniques from the Invisible Man Applied Practice book--metonomy etc.

Measurement--
Tuesday--Invisible Man test
Friday--poetry analysis

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Plans for February 11-15

Objectives:The students will begin their reading of Invisible Man by Ralph 
Elison.  The students will complete stylistic analysis of various sections 
of the novel. The students will be able to complete multiple 
choice questions from previous tests.

Presentation:
Monday--Continue to discuss Invisible Man to page 250.  Review multiple 
choice answers from Friday.
Tuesday--Rest of Invisible Man is due--quiz;  Pass out second book analysis 
and due dates.
Wednesday-Thursday--Continue to discuss the second half of the novel.
Friday-multiple choice on Invisible Man

Measurements:
Tuesday--Invisible Man quiz
Friday--multiple choice 

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Plans for February 4-8

Objectives: The students will begin their reading of Invisible Man by Ralph 
Elison.  The students will complete stylistic analysis of various sections 
of the novel. The students will be able to complete multiple 
choice questions from previous tests. 

Presentation:
Monday--Poetry paragraph due; Begin talking about Invisible Man and the 
topci of sociological attitudes toward “the other” and the concept of 
invisibility will be topics of discussion.  
Tuesday--Quiz on the first half of the novel--discuss.
Wednesday-Thursday Discuss the novel; the students will write a persuasive 
paper explaining why the novel is an integral part of the AP IV curriculum 
when finished with the book, citing evidence from the texts regarding the 
important themes presented.  Presentations on motifs in the novel will serve 
as a measurement for this text. 
Friday--Practice multiple choice on Invisible Man.

Measurements:
Tuesday-Invisible Man quiz
Friday--multiple choice practice
 

Plans for January 28-February 1

Objectives: The students will begin their reading of Invisible Man by Ralph 
Elison.  The students will continue to read poetry by Frost, Dickinson, and 
others to continue to learn about poetic devices, style analysis of poetry, 
and word pictures.  The students will be able to read a well written essay 
and discuss its attributes.  The students will be able to complete multiple 
choice questions from previous tests.  

Presentation:
Monday-Tuesday--Discuss assigned poems.  Students will present questions 
about the poetry and the group will answer them.
Wednesday--Poetry quiz; Students will review their two essays and choose one 
for grading.
Thursday--Students will read several well written essays and analyze what 
makes them well-written.  They will attempt to model these techniques in 
their next writings.
Friday--Multiple choice practice.

Measurements:
Wednesday--poetry quiz
Friday--multiple choice practice
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Plans for January 22-25

Objectives:The students will be able to read, respond to, and analyze the 
romantic and gothic novel Frankenstein.  The students will review and 
recognize romantic tenets.  The students will integrate 20 vocabulary words 
from the text into their writing vocabulary.  The students will begin their 
reading of Invisible Man by Ralph Elison.

Presentation:
Tuesday-Wednesday--Discussion of the novel Frankenstein.  Focus on themes. 
organization, gothic and romantic elements, syntax.
Thursday--In class writing on the novel--students may choose this writing or 
that last writing as their measurement for the novel.
Friday--Vocabulary quiz from the novel.

Measurements:
Thursday--In-class writing
Friday--Vocabulary quiz

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Plans for January 14-17

Objectives: The students will be able to read, respond to, and analyze 
poetry from the text regarding stylistic devices, poetic devices, and 
theme.  The students will be able to read, respond to, and analyze the 
romantic and gothic novel Frankenstein.  The students will review and 
recognize romantic tenets.  The students will integrate 20 vocabulary words 
from the text into their writing vocabulary.

Presentation: 
Monday--Students will need their poetry books to read some of the Romantic 
poets as a precursor to discussing Frankenstein.
Tuesday--Frankenstein quiz; begin discussion of the novel and its gothic and 
romantic concepts that will finish on Friday.
Wednesday-Friday--Students will review all of the stylistic elements and 
apply some of them to the novel as writing reviews.

Measurements:
Tuesday--Frankenstein quiz
Thursday--in-class writing on Frankenstein
Friday--20 vocabulary words due.
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Plans for January 8-12

Objectives:
The students will be able to respond to prior AP prompts on prose and 
poetry.  The students will be able to read, respond, and analyze poetry.  
The students will be able to practice multiple choice from earlier exams.

Presentation:
Tuesday--Students will receive two prompts, one prose and one poetry, will 
choose one to respond to on Wednesday, and will pre-write today to shape the 
response.
Wednesday--The students will respond to the timed prompt.
Thursday--The students will prewrite and orally respond to a third prompt.
Friday--Multiple choice pratice from an earlier exam.

Measurements:
Wednesday--In class writing
Friday--Multiple choice practice

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Plans for December 10-14

Objectives; The students will practice responding to poetry analysis and 
prose analysis in preparation for their midterm exams.  The students will 
read over poetry and practice style analysis on the poems.

Preparation:

Monday-Thursday--Continue to read poems in the Anthology, reviewing both 
poetic techniques and application of style analysis to all poems.. On 
Thursday , students will complete the last multiple choice practice for the 
exam.  On Friday, we will have our annual milk and cookie story reading.

Measurements:
Multiple choice practice--Thursday

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Plans for December 3-7

Objectives:
The students will be able to read Shakespeare's Hamlet for analysis and 
comprehension and take a test that reveal their ability to complete a style 
analysis.  The students will be able to analyze poetry and to respond to 
poetry prompts from prior AP tests.

Presentation:
Monday--Review any concerns and themes about Hamlet--work on essay for 
contest in class--pass out rubric--due Thursday;test is scheduled for 
Tuesday, December 4th.
Tuesday--full period test
Wednesday-Friday--poetry from text--Victorians et. al.
Friday--poetry quiz

Measurements:
Tuesday--Full period Test
Thursday-one page essay for St. Thomas contest
Friday--poetry quiz

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Plans for November 26-30

BE SURE TO BRING YOUR HAMLET TEXTS TO CLASS ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

Objectives:
The students will be able to read Shakespeare's Hamlet for analysis and 
comprehension.  The students will be able to practice multiple choice from 
earlier AP tests.  The students will practice addressing prompts for prose 
from prior AP tests.

Presentation:
Monday--Finish discussing Act IV of Hamlet; Begin reading Act V which is due 
Tuesday--quiz on Act V and discussion.
Wednesday--Review prior AP prose prompts in class--how to address.
Thursday--Book Analysis due--have a panel discussion about some of the 
essays.
Friday--Multiple choice practice.

Measurements:
Tuesday--Hamlet Act V quiz
Thursday--Book analysis
Friday--Multiple choice practice

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Memorization--"To be or not to be" due Monday, November 19th.

Plans for November 19-20 are for memorizations to be said during class.

SEE EXTRA CREDIT ON THE HOME PAGE BANNER.

Lesson plans for the week of November 12-16

Obejctives: The students will be able to analyze a poem for poetic and 
stylistic elements.  The students will be able to read Shakespeare's Hamlet 
for analysis and comprehension.

Presentation:
Monday--Continue to review Acts I and II of Hamlet, noting the important 
speeches, the character analysis, and the organization of the play.  Act III 
is due on Wednesday.
Tuesday--Continue to review Acts I and II--request that students do brief 
journalistic style entries on segments of the text.
Wednesday--quiz on Act III--Discuss
Thursday--Review Act III and begin reading aloud Act IV--scaning for iambic 
pentameter.  Act IV is due next Tuesday.
Friday--multiple choice

Measurements:

Wednesday--Act III Quiz
Friday--Multiple choice
Monday--the memorization of "To be or not to be."  Test Grade

IF YOU WILL NOT BE HERE THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 19TH, YOU MUST DO THE 
MEMORIZATION ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 OR RISK LOSING CREDIT.

Monday--the memorization is due.

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Lesson plans for the week of November 5-9

Obejctives: The students will be able to read a Romantic poem and recognize 
the Romantic conventions and ideas presented within it.  The students will 
be able to analyze a poem for poetic and stylistic elements.  The students 
will be able to write to an AP prompt on The Awakening.  The students will 
be able to analyze a prior AP poetry question according to the prompt.  The 
students will be able to read Shakespeare's Hamlet for analysis and 
comprehension.

Presentation:

Monday--Critical paper on The Awakening due.  Student will read some of 
Shelley and Keats poetry.

Tuesday--The Students will begin reading Hamlet Acts I and II for Friday--a 
quiz will ensue that day.

Wednesday--The students will analyze a previous AP prompt on poetry in class.

Thursday--The students will test on a prior AP questions related to The 
Awakening.

Friday--The students will discuss and be quizzed on the first two Acts of 
Hamlet.

Measurements:
Monday--Critical paper due
Thursday--AP test on The Awakening
Friday--Acts I and II quiz on Hamlet

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Lesson plans for the week of October 29-November 2


Objectives: The students will be able to complete a style analysis and 
either a feminst or reader response analysis of The Awakening.  The students 
will be able to recognize and identify the elements of Romanticism in poetry 
and in The Awakening.  The students will be able to analyze and explicate a 
poem.  The students will be able to read and analyze Shakepeare's Hamlet.

Presentation:
Monday--Wednesday--Continue reading, responding, and analyzing Romantic 
conventions in poetry.  Quiz on Romanticism.

Thursday--Multiple Choice practice

Friday--Analysis of previous poem from the AP test.

Measurements:
Wednesday--Romanticism quiz
Thursday--multiple choice practice
Friday--3-5 page Reader Response or Feminist study of an element of style 
analysis using either type of criticism--do not overlap with the article 
written by the critic or at least deviate from the critic's viewpoint. Begin 
reading Hamlet for next Thursday--Acts I and II.

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Lesson plans for the week of October 22-26

Objectives:
The students will be able to analyze The Awakening on the basis of a 
stylistic analysis, a feminist analysis, and a reader response analysis.  
The students will be able to identify Romantic traits in poetry and in The 
Awakening.

Presentation: 
Monday-Thursday-The Awakening is due.  Quiz on reading the text and the 
beginning of a discussion of characterization, style, diction, local color--
Creole, the organization, etc.
Thursday--multiple choice practice and review
Friday--Romantic poetry--review a prior Literature prompt on a Romantic poem-
-Wordsworth

Measurements:
Monday--The Awakening quiz
Thursday--multiple choice practice

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Lesson Plans for the week of October 9-19

Objectives:
The students will be able to answer an AP level essay question connected to 
Grendel.  The students will be able to read, recognize, and identify 
Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets--along with Spenserian sonnets.  The 
students will be able to read, recognize, and explicate carpe diem poetry.  
The students will be able to read, recognize, and identify elements of 
Romanticism in poetry and read and explicate examples of this type of poetry 
as an introduction to The Awakening--due on October 22th (adjustment).

Second week--Oct. 15-19

Monday-Friday--Continue explicating Shakespearean sonnets, introduce carpe 
diem poetry, and the elements of Romanticism found in poetry as an 
introduction to The Awakening which is now due on MOnday, October 22.

Measurements:
Tuesday--Sonnet quiz
Thursday--Poetry explication of Shakespeare's Sonnets 73 and 116
Friday--elements of Romanticism quiz in poetry

Presentation:

Second week--Oct. 15-19

Monday-Friday--Continue explicating Shakespearean sonnets, introduce carpe 
diem poetry, and the elements of Romanticism found in poetry as an 
introduction to The Awakening which is now due on MOnday, October 22.

Measurements:

Tuesday--Sonnet quiz
Thursday--Poetry explication of Shakespeare's Sonnets 73 and 116
Friday--elements of Romanticism quiz in poetry

Measurements:
Tuesday--Grendel Test
Friday--Vocabulary III Quiz

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Lesson Plans for the week of October 1-5

Objectives:
The students will be able to discuss Grendel in terms of organization, 
syntax, and detail.  The students will be able to choose and integrate 
vocabulary from the texts into their world view.  The students will be able 
to answer multiple choice questions from previous tests.  The students will 
be able to begin reading the prologue of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

Presentation--
Monday--Students will answer multiple choice questions from previous tests.

Tuesday--Vocabulary III from Grendel--discuss and discuss the syntax of the 
novel in connection with theme.

Wednesday--"The Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales is due--quiz and then 
discuss.

Thursday--(Adjustment--10/2--multiple choice first)Continue the discussion 
of diction and detail in "The Prologue"

Friday--Begin an examination of "The Nun's Priest's Tale"

Tuesday--October 9  Grendel Test

Measurements:
Monday--multiple choice
Tuesday--Vocabulary III check
Wednesday--"The Prologue quiz"
Tuesday--Grendel Test
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Lesson Plans for the week of September 24-28

Objectives:  The students will be able to complete a full style analysis of 
the novel Grendel.  The students will be able to compare and contrast 
elements of the poem Beowulf and of the novel Grendel. The students will be 
able to choose and integrate vocabulary from the texts into their world 
view.  The students will be able to answer multiple choice questions from 
previous tests.  The students will be able to begin reading the prologue of 
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

Presentation:  
Monday--Vocabulary Quiz 2--grade in class; assign "The Prologue" of The 
Canterbury Tales for next Wednesday--(adjustment 9/25).

Tuesday--Quiz on Chapters 7-12 of Grendel; Discuss the novel and style 
elements--syntax, irony, tone.

Wednesday--Continue discussion of Grendel--pt. of view, organization, 
digression ; Vocabulary 3 due.

Thursday--In-class writing: comparison / contrast

Friday--Multiple choice in class--Review answers--"The Prologue" due 
Wednesday.

Measurements:

Monday--Vocabulary quiz; "The Prologue" due next Wednesday (adjustment 9/25)
Tuesday--Grendel quiz Chapters 7-12
Wednesday--Vocabulary 3 due
Thursday--In-class writing
Friday--Multiple choice

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Lesson Plans for the week of September 17-21

Objectives:  The students will be able to read and analyze Grendel, a novel 
that is a counterpart to Beowulf, the epic poem.  The students will be able 
to write about elements of style analysis regarding the novel.  The students 
will be able to compare and contrast the novel with the poem.  The students 
will be able to integrate vocabulary into their worldview.  The students 
will be able to apply analytical information to Beowulf in a test format.

Monday--Quiz on Grendel--writing then discussing.
Tuesday--continue the analysis--point of view, an application of 
existentialism to Grendel.
Wednesday--Vocabulary II quiz(adjusted on 9/18 until Friday)--review the 
vocabulary and investigate 
vocabulary in the new text.
Thursday--Full period Beowulf test. 
Friday--Continue the discussion of diction, detail, syntax in Grendel orally.
Finish Grendel for Tuesday, 9/26-Quiz


Measurements:
Monday--Grendel quiz
Wednesday--final draft of the Remembered Event
Thursday--Full period test
Friday Vocabulary 2 quiz  (adjusted 9/20 Thursday--delayed until Monday)

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Lesson Plans for the week of September 10-14

Objectives: The students will be able to complete a style analysis, epic 
poetry analysis, and a Anglo-Saxon poetical analysis of Beowulf. The 
students will be able to define and use words from Beowulf.  The students 
will be able to define and recognize the concepts of existentialism.  the 
students will practice multiplce choice questions from previous exams.

Monday--Work on a style analysis of Beowulf--especially syntax, 
organization, point of view, analysis.  Discuss the functions of certain 
passages--their reasons for their inclusion and insertion at that point.  
Assign Grendel--the first 7 chapters to be read by next Monday and the 
remainder for the following Monday.

Tuesday--Work on the Anglo-Saxon poetical analysis of the poem--cultural 
identity, values, kenning, caesura, hero--anti-hero, myth etc.

Wednesday--Bring in definitions and concepts of esistentialism and discuss.

Thursday--Vocabulary II from Beowulf--definition, part of speech, and 
sentences.  At least 5 words from Vocabulary I and II must be used on the 
Beowulf test scheduled on September 20.

Friday--Multiple choice questions from previous exams.

Measurements:

Monday--Final draft of the Remembered Event Essay

Thursday--Vocabulary II

Friday--Multiple choice


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Lesson Plans for the week of September 4-7

Objectives:  The students will be able to complete a style analysis, epic 
poetry analysis, and a Anglo-Saxon poetical analysis of Beowulf. The 
students will be able to define and use words from Beowulf.  The students 
will be able to write a Remembered Event Essay using a process rubric.

Tuesday--Remembered Event Rough draft; students will review and refine the 
rough drafts of thei essays, working on inserting figurative language, gaps, 
dialogue, and refinement of language.

Wednesday--A discussion of Beowulf and its style, culture, and conformation 
to epic poetry.

Thursday--Vocabulary quiz; further discussion of Beowulf.

Friday--The remainder of the poem is due with a quiz; a discussion of this 
section of the poem will ensue.

Measurements:
Tuesday--Rough draft of the Remembered Event essay
Thursday--Vocabulary quiz
Friday--Beowulf quiz

(Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the prior week's plans.)

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The Summer Reading assignments are due on Thursday, August 16th.

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Week of 8/20-8/24

Objectives:  The students will be able to

discuss and write about Life of Pi and Obasan using style analysis;
present ways that Foster's How to Read Literature . . . relates to both 
texts;
write the Remembered Event Essay as a prototype for a college essay.
read a required text for meaning and written analysis.

Monday--Detail and Organization assignment  Students will present their 
interpretations of the organization of Life of Pi and discuss other style 
analysis elements of the text.

Tuesday--Apply Foster's ideas to Obasan.

Wednesday--College Essay  We will learn how to create a Remembered Event 
Essay that can be used as a college text.  We will follow the process of the 
essay and the rationale behind the essay by reading the prompts and 
previouly written examples for assistance.

Thursday--Expectation sheet quiz; Remembered Event essay--the selection 
process and narrowing and focus process of the event will occur.

Friday--Contined shaping of the Remembered Event Essay.  Assign the first 
half of Beowulf to be read by 8/30.

Measurements:
Monday--Organization assignment
Tuesday--Foster assignment; Expectation Sheet return

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Week of August 27-31

Objectives:

The students will be able to read an Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf, and 
analyze the poem for poetic elements and elements of style.  The students 
will be able to begin vocabulary study determined by their assigned 
reading.  The students will be able to shape a Remembered Event essay for 
use as a college essay.

Experience:

Monday--The students will begin to shape their essay by determining their 
event and the outcome of the event.  The students will recognize and 
identify elements of Anglo-Saxon epic poetry in Beowulf by examining 
material on the Teacher Web page, using the projector as an aid. Students 
will begin their study of vocabulary by finding 15 words to define and 
typing them, writing the page number where found, defining the word with the 
appropriate connotation of usage, typing the definition, and writing a 
sentence that illustrates they comprehend the meaning of the word--due 
Thursday.

Tuesday--Students will work on the essay, pairing up and determining the 
strengths and weaknesses of the essay and adding dialogue, ideas left 
unsaid, and figurative language to flesh out the writing--further refinement 
due Wednesday.

Wednesday--Continue working on the essay; questions on vocabulary will be 
answered.  15 vocabulary words due Thursday.

Thursday--Review 15 vocabulary words; An examination of the essay will 
ensure; the rough draft of the essay will be due Monday--Typed.

Friday--Students will ask questions for 15 minutes about the assigned 
reading; A quiz will ensue and the asnwers reviewed.  The remainder of the 
poem is to be read by next Friday.

Homework and Measurements:

Monday--Event roughed out for the essay

Tuesday-Wednesday--progress on Remembered Event essay; 15 vocabulary words 
and sentences due Thursday

Thursday--Vocabulary words; questions and reading to page 89 of Beowulf due 
Friday

Friday--Questions on Beowulf and quiz

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