Third Six-Weeks

Jan. 16/17: Semester exam

Jan. 15:Work on "Hills Like White Elephants" postcard assignment

4A: Semester exam

Jan. 11/14: 6-weeks test

Read "Hills Like White Elephants" in textbook--postcard assignment--due 1/22 (B-day) 1/23 (A-day)

Jan. 9/10: "To Autumn"--apply TPS-FASTT and quiz

Continue discussion of snow man poesm for test

Jan. 7/8: Poetry analysis & interpretation--TPS-FASTT

Apply TPS-FASTT to "The Snow Man" and "Boy at the Window"

Discuss questions for poems above with group--finish next class (this is in preparation for the six-weeks test)

Dec. 20/21: Sonnet presentation

Imagery in poetry--select 1 poem from -#34-38 or 40 in textbook and answer questions that follow the poem

Dec. 18/19: Sonnet presentations

Denotation & connotation--exercise p. 601

Select poem from #24-26, 28, or 29 & answer questions

H.W.: read pp. 607-610

Dec. 14/17: Prepare for sonnet presentation with partner

(alternate assignment for absentees)

Dec. 12/13: Sonnet--"My mistress' eyes" (p.888)

Dec. 10/11: Submitted research papers

Sonnet--"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" (p.889)

Dec. 6/7: Hamlet essay test

Select play for independent reading--journal & reading due Jan.

9/10

Complete response questions for poem selected from Ch. 1 in

textbook

Dec. 4/5: Peer review of 1st draft of research paper

Poetry--read pp. 561-568 in textbook

Handout--research paper grade sheet

Nov. 30/Dec. 3: Hamlet panel discussion

Handout Hamlet essay test questions--prepare for test on

Dec. 6/7

Return and discuss soliloquy timed writings

Nov. 28/29: Finish Act 5 group discussion questions

Timed writing--soliloquy from Act 4

Nov. 26/27: Act 5 of Hamlet

Group discussion questions--complete assigned question to

share next class

Assigned Hamlet panel discussion questions for Nov. 30 (A) /

Dec. 3 (B)

Nov. 19/20: Turn in 2 paragraphs of research paper

Continue Hamlet -- read up to Act 5

Looking Ahead:

• Jan. 16--Semester exam (1B, 3B)
• Jan. 17--Semester exam (1A, 2A)
• Jan. 22/23--postcard assignment due

Semester Exam:

Timed writing using play or novel from this semester (student's choice)

Extra Credit Opportunities:

Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad--bring to class by Jan. 15/16

Lord of the Flies play at Bath House Cultural Center w/ 1-page review