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2010-2011
Calendar
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Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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23 Opening day
procedures;
Common Vocabulary,
Course Guidelines,
Scoring Rubric |
24
Discuss the
differences between AP Language and AP
Literature. View and discuss a released AP Lit
test |
25
Practice multiple
choice questions from released AP Lit test |
26
Crime &
Punishment Test
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27
Literary Terms
Quiz; distribute textbooks; assign critical
research |
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30
Students meet with
counselors for college application information |
31
Class discussion
over C&P |
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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1
Class discussion
over C&P
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2
Discuss angles and
critical views missed during the previous
Socratic discussions. |
3
Assign excerpts
for Wednesday's test; Assign
C&P
essay |
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6
Labor Day
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7
Distribute writing
portfolios; work on C&P essay
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8
C&P Test
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9
Turnitin.com
instructions
Essay Due |
10
Write six-word
autobiographies; discuss college applications |
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13
College Essay
posting
assignment; Assign college essay
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14
Read introductory
material in Perrine's text over tragedy and
comedy; lecture over tragedy |
15
Post six-word
memoirs; read prologue and scene 1 of "Oedipus
Rex" |
16
Continue reading
"Oedipus Rex"
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17
Finish reading
"Oedipus Rex"
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20
Read introductory
material over Comedy in Perrine's; answer
discussion questions over "Oedipus Rex"
College Essay
Due |
21
Answer the
discussion questions over "Oedipus Rex"
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22
View The
Importance of Being Earnest
Scholastic Information |
23
View The
Importance of Being Earnest
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24
View The
Importance of Being Earnest
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27
Discuss the
elements of comedy in The Importance of Being
Earnest |
28
Exam over
Earnest, "Oedipus Rex," comedy, and tragedy |
29
Anglo Saxon
lecture
notes
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30
Lecture quiz;
begin reading and discussing
Beowulf
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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1
Continue reading
Beowulf
Assign Anglo Saxon
Boast |
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4
Finish reading
Beowulf
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5
Middle Ages
lecture
notes
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6
Read
"The
Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales
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7
Complete
characterizing Chaucer's pilgrims; create
arguments based on the introduction of each
pilgrim |
8
Boast
Presentations
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11
School Holiday |
12
Read "The Wife of
Bath's Tale"
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13
Late Arrival (PSAT)
Discuss approaches
to tomorrow's timed writing over TCT
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14
Timed Writing
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15
Lecture over the
literary importance of The Canterbury Tales
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18
Read and discuss
"Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady"; research a
critical article over TCT from the
library database. Print, read, annotate, and
prepare for a discussion |
19
Class discussion
over last night's research
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20
Timed Writing
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21
Discuss
yesterday's writing; lecture background
information over Hamlet; begin reading
Act I
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22
Discuss Hamlet
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25
Read Dante's
Inferno
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26
Discuss Hamlet
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27
Finish reading Act
I
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28
Complete Applied
Practice questions over Act I
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29
Complete quiz over
Act I
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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1
Read Act II, scene
1
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2
Finish reading Act
II.
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3
Discuss major
themes presented in the first two acts of
Hamlet; read Act III, scene 1, focusing on
the "to be or not to be" speech |
4
Continue reading
Hamlet
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5
Continue reading
Hamlet
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8
Reading Quiz
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9
Read Act III
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10
Finish Act III
Late Arrival (TAKS
Benchmark) |
11
Read Act IV
Late Arrival |
12
Read Act V
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15
Finish reading
Hamlet
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16
Hamlet
Essay
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17
Discuss essays /
topics concerning the play
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18
Dante's
Inferno Test
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19
Research two
critical essays over Dante's Inferno
Vocabulary Quiz
1 |
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22
Socratic
Discussion over Dante's
Inferno |
23
Socratic
Discussion over Dante's
Inferno |
24
Thanksgiving |
25
Thanksgiving |
26
Thanksgiving |
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29
Dante's Inferno
writing assignment |
30
Read Edward
Albee's "The Zoo Story" |
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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1
Discuss
Existentialism and Theatre of the Absurd,
relating them to "The Zoo Story" |
2
Vocabulary Quiz
2
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3
Read
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
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6
Read
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead |
7
Read
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead |
8
Read
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead |
9
Read
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead |
10
Vocabulary Test
(1-3) |
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14
Final Exams
1st Period
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15
Final Exams
2nd-3rd
Periods
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16
Final Exams
4th-5th
Periods
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17
Final Exams
6th-7th
Periods
End of Semester |
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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3
Student Holiday |
4
Discuss the
components and design of a
Petrarchan Sonnet; assign Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein |
5
Counselors meet with seniors in
auditorium |
6
Read and analyze
"London, 1802" and "Composed upon Westminster
Bridge" |
7
Read and analyze
William Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much
with Us" |
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10
Discuss components
of Shakespearean sonnets; read, analyze, and
discuss Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 |
11
In groups,
complete a four-square analysis of assigned
Shakespearean sonnets |
12
In groups,
complete a four-square analysis of assigned
Shakespearean sonnets |
13
Group
presentations of Shakespearean sonnets
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14
Sonnet Quiz
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17
MLK Day |
18
Sonnet Timed
Writing |
19
Review timed
writing; analyze poem/prompt used |
20
Sonnet Test |
21
Reading day; you
will need your copy of
Frankenstein |
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24
Discuss basic
tenets of Romanticism; in a dialectical journal,
apply the elements of Romanticism to
Frankenstein's first six chapters |
25
Discuss
Romanticism as it applies to the first 12
chapters of Frankenstein
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26
Frankenstein
Quiz over chapters 1-12
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27
Discuss
Romanticism as it applies to the first 12
chapters of Frankenstein
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28
Vocabulary Quiz
4
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31
Independent
reading day |
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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1
How to craft an "interesting" literary
argument |
2
Frankenstein
Essay |
3
Discuss
yesterday's essay prompts |
4
No School
"Snow" Day |
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7
Read Samuel Taylor Coleridge's
"Rime
of the Ancient Mariner" |
8
In groups, plan and begin four-square
analysis of "RotAM" |
9
Finish
four-square
analysis of "RotAM" |
10
Four-square
presentations |
11
Vocabulary Quiz
5 |
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14
"Rime of the
Ancient Mariner" Test |
15
Discuss
analysis of Coleridge's
"Kubla Khan" |
16
Introduce
plays for independent reading; share critical
arguments over "Kubla Khan" |
17
Introduce
William Blake; read and analyze "The Tyger" |
18
Vocabulary Test
(4-6)
End of six
weeks |
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21
School Holiday |
22
Read and
analyze William Blake's "The Tyger" and "The
Lamb" |
23
Guest
Speaker: Dr. Williams discussed the choice plays |
24
Discuss "The
Tyger" and "The Lamb" |
25
Read and
analyze Percy Shelley's and Horace Smith's "Ozymandias" |
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28
Select a
"sleep" poem with a partner; read and
analyze the poem and create a complex argument
for the poem |
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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1
TAKS
Testing-Late Arrival
Discuss sleep
poems |
2
TAKS
Testing-Late Arrival
Discuss sleep
poems |
3
Poetry Timed Writing |
4
Vocabulary Quiz
7
Discuss timed
writing |
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7
Recite Lord
Byron's
"She Walks in Beauty" |
8
Poetry Timed Writing |
9
Discuss timed
writing |
10
Independent
reading day |
11
Vocabulary Quiz
8 |
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14
Spring Break |
15
Spring Break |
16
Spring Break |
17
Spring Break |
18
Spring Break |
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21
Read,
analyze, and discuss John Keats' "Ode on a
Grecian Urn"
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22
Read and
discuss Wallace Stevens' "Of Modern Poetry,"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Constantly Risking
Absurdity," and Marianne Moore's "I, Too,
Dislike It"
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23
Discuss
choice plays
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24
Timed Writing over choice plays
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25
Discuss timed
writing
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28
Read and
discuss Victorian Poetry and the Victorian
Period |
29
Read and
discuss Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the Light
Brigade" |
30
Complete
discussion of Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the
Light Brigade" and "Break Break Break" |
31
Read and
discuss Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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Vocabulary Quiz 9 |
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4
WWI Poetry
(Rupert Brooke and Charles Sorley)
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5
WWI Poetry
(Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon) |
6
Poetry Test |
7
Review the
poems from yesterday's test |
8
Vocabulary Test (7-9) |
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11
Heart of Darkness |
12
Heart of Darkness |
13
Heart of Darkness |
14
Heart of Darkness |
15
Heart of Darkness |
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18
Heart of Darkness |
19
Heart of Darkness |
20
Heart of Darkness |
21
Heart of Darkness |
22
School Holiday |
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25
Heart of Darkness |
26
Heart of Darkness |
27
Heart of Darkness |
28
Heart of Darkness |
29
Practice AP
Exam |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
2
AP Exams
AM: Chemistry /
Environmental Science
PM: Psychology |
3
AP Exams
AM: Computer
Science A / Spanish Language
PM: Art History |
4
AP Exams
AM: Calculus
AB/BC
PM: Chinese
Language and Culture |
5
AM: English Lit. & Comp /
German Language
PM: Japanese
Language and Culture / Latin: Vergil |
6
AP Exams
AM: US History
/ German Language
PM: European
History |
9
AP Exams
AM: Biology /
Music Theory
PM: Physics B/C
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10
AP Exams
AM: US
Government and Politics
PM: Comparative
Government and Politics / French Language |
11
AP Exams
AM: English
Language and Comp
PM: Statistics |
12
AP Exams
AM:
Macroeconomics / World History
PM:
Microeconomics |
13
AP Exams
AM: Human
Geography / Spanish Literature
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Presentations |
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Presentations |
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Presentations |
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FINAL EXAMS |
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FINAL EXAMS |
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FINAL EXAMS |
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FINAL EXAMS |
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FINAL EXAMS |
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School Holiday |
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