Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Week of 11/28

Periods 5/6
Vocab Quiz Friday
We will begin Romeo and Juliet this week.  Be sure that you're keeping up with your study guides.





PERIOD 7 CALENDAR
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28
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Textbook sonnets


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Textbook sonnets

1                             2
“Dark Lady” Sonnets


*Sonnet creation
assignment

                                                  2nd practice poetry essay
                                                

  

December  2016
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
4

5
Sonnet review
A few extra sonnets? 
(John Donne and John Milton)
6
SONNET QUIZ

7
Poetry essay review

8
Macbeth Introduction
9
Macbeth Act 1- Scenes 1-3


*Sonnets due
10

11

12
Act 1- Scenes 4-7
13
Act 2- Scenes 1-2

Assignment of Close Reading Activity


14
****MR. WAGNER ABSENT

SHORT Essay Quiz on Act 1

15
Act 2- Scenes 3-4




16
Act 3- Scenes 1-3



Assignment of Vocab List #5
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18

19
Act 3- Scenes 4-6
20
Act 4- Scenes 1-3


21
 ACTS 3 AND 4 QUIZ

Assignment of Short Historical Essay assignment

Assignment of Article Response Activity
22
Act 5- Scenes 1-4

Close reading due


23
11:00 A.M. dismissal
24

25

26
27
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30
31
**Finish the last few scenes of the play over the break. 

**Article Response and Short Historical Essays are each due Monday, January 9th

**Vocab Quiz 5 on Wednesday, January 11h

Notes: We will not have a quiz on Act 5 of Macbeth.  There will be some overarching questions for the entire play on the midterm. 







PERIOD 8 CALENDAR
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29
Group Work
“The Worms of the Earth Against the Lions” (please have this read before class)
and
“Shakespeare’s Sister”

Pg. 179
30
<<<<< Review
1                              2
Group Work                             <<<<< Review
“On Seeing England
 for the First Time” (please
have this read before class)
and
“XXIII” from Midsummer          

**Short response paper assignment
More Calendars with US Holidays: Dec 2016, Jan 2017, PDF Calendar

December  2016
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
4

5
Lord of the Flies
Chapters 1-2


6
LotF
Chapters 3-4

Vocab WS 8+13 Check
7
LotF
Reviewing/Catching up

Short response paper due  
8
LotF
Chapters 1-4 Quiz
9
Vocab Quiz 8+13
10

11

12
LotF
Chapters 5-6
13
LotF
Chapters 7-8
14
LotF
Chapter 9


15
 Reviewing/Catching up
16
LotF
Chapters 5-8 Quiz
17

18

19
LotF Chapters 10-12


20
LotF Final Discussion
21
LotF Overall quiz
22
LotF theme activity


23
11:00 A.M. dismissal
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25

26

27

28

29

30

31


Notes: I would like you to produce another critical review (much like you did for 1984).  You will be asked to talk about one theme and one character from Lord of the Flies.  
This will be due FRIDAY, 1/6/17.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Week of 11/21

Periods 5/6
There is no vocab for this short week; we will talk about Shakespeare and preface our reading of Romeo and Juliet

Period 7
Vocab Quiz Tuesday

Period 8
We will present our Contemporary Tales this week

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Week of Mon., 11/14 Update

Periods 5/6
Vocab Worksheet 6B Due Tuesday; Quiz Friday
Night Test Wednesday

Period 7
Please follow the given calendar (Essay test on The Awakening and A Doll's House FRIDAY).

Period 8
Please follow the given calendar (Canterbury Tales test FRIDAY, including characters, background from the textbook and my "homemade" notes, and craft/structure/conventions information from the textbook).

Monday, November 7, 2016

Monday, 11/7

Periods 5/6
Vocab WS Due Tuesday
Quiz Friday

Keep up with your Night study guides and character charts.


Periods 7/8
Please see the given November Calendars