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English 4 (H)

"Practice what you wish to become."

-Benjamin Franklin

Course Standards

Shakespeare Link 

literarylink.com

Harvard Writing Center

A Gallery of Archetypes Archetypes 101 Archetypes Myths and Characters Archetypes Cowden

Ancient Greek Drama & Theatre Greek Drama/Culture Greek Drama Classic/Western Civilization

Tips for film viewing:  Part I   Part II

April 2008

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 1984 Review packets
HW: Read "Newspeak"
1
1984
Newspeak

Review
2
1984
Passages
Multiple choice
Groups
3
Passages
Analyze/Discuss
4
Vocab #10 pre

1984
Passages
5
6
7
1984
Groups
Essay prompts
Analyze/
Discuss
8
Essay prompts
Groups exchange outcomes of discussions
9
Discussion/ Review
10
In-class writing on 1984
11
Vocab Quiz #10
12
13
14
Shakespeare Background
15
Hamlet
16
Hamlet
17
Hamlet
18
Hamlet

Vocab #11 pre
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20
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Hamlet
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Hamlet
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Hamlet
24
Hamlet
25
Hamlet

Vocab #11 Quiz
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27
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Hamlet
29
Hamlet
30
Hamlet
 




February 2008

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Monday-Thursday: Check the board in A6 for work.  
Get your copy of 1984 by Friday, February 15.
 
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Vocab @@#7 Quiz
2
3
4
Diyanni

Poetry- Speaker

"The Road Not Taken"
5
Diyanni

Poetry-

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

6
Diyanni

Poetry-

"Naming of Parts"


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Diyanni

Poetry

8
Diyanni

Poetry "Descripton of the Morning"

Vocab #8 pre
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10
11
"The Birds began... '

Compare 2 poems
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13
Vocab. Ex. 8  pp. 94-95
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Vocab. Ex. 8  pp. 95-96
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Vocab.  Quiz    # 8  
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December 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

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Saturday

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2
3
Oedipus

Scene 2
4
Oedipus

Scene 3-4

5
Oedipus

Exodos
6
Oedipus

Review/Interp

7
Oedipus

Review/Interp

Vocab #6 pre
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9
10
Oedipus

Writing Prompts

Film
11

Film
12

Film
13
14
Vocab #6 Quiz

Essay due
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November 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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2
3
4
5
 Flies

Projects
6
Flies

Projects

Film
7
Flies

Projects

Film

8
Flies

Projects

Film
9
Vocab- pre #5

Flies

Review
10
11
12
Veterans Day
13
Project:
Discussion groups
Schedule on the board

Writing
14
Project:
Discussion groups
Schedule on the board

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Project:
Discussion groups
Schedule on the board

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Writing Assignment due

Vocab Quiz #5
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Be sure to buy a copy of Lord of the Flies by Friday, October 12.

October 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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2

DUE:
Vocab. Ex p.38 Sentences & p. 39 Synonyms


3

Vocab. Ex.    p. 39 Antonyms & p. 40 Right Word

Counselor Visit Apps Info

HW: Read "War" on page 439
4
LIT:


Response/ Writing

"War"
5
Vocab Quiz #3

Summary/ Review
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7
8
Columbus  Day

observed
9
10
11
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Vocab 1-3 Quiz- moved to 10/16

Bring Lord of the Flies to class

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14
Chapters should be read by the date shown
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 Flies 1

Vocab quiz 1-3
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Flies 2

School wide testing
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Flies 2
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Flies 3
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21
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Flies 4
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Flies 5
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Flies 6
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Flies 7
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Flies 8
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Flies 9
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Flies 10
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Flies 11
November 1   Flies 12 



For Tuesday, 9/18:  Go to literarylink.com/writing (click on link); print out the article on close reading/explication of a text (It is the first article under "Learning the Basic Literary Skills); read the article; mark the main points of the article and annotate the article;  be prepared to comment on the article at the beginning of class.

September 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  1
2
3
Labor Day  Holiday
4
Review "Hills Like White Elephants"
5
Vocab:
pp. 24-25

Sentences &  Synonyms
6
Vocab:
pp. 25-26

Anotnyms & Right Word
7
Vocab:

Quiz #1
8
9
10
Stating Themes  

Handout: Poe's theory of the short story

Read: "Litlle Things" 

11
Analyze/ Evaluate "Little Things" in terms of Poe's theory

Other critics

12
Groups
13
Writing
14
Vocab 2 pre
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16
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Writing Rubric

Standards

Sample

HW: Read article on close reading (see above)

HW: Vocab- pp.31-32
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Close Reading/ Explication of a text

DUE:   Vocab: p. 31 Sentences & p. 32 Synonyms

HW: Vocab- pp. 32-33
19

Close Reading

DUE:
Vocab: p. 32 Antonyms & p. 33 Right Word
20
21

Vocab     Quiz #2

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Teacher Meeting
25
Review: "Ben Was Swell"

Read: "The Storm"

HW: Read " I Stand Here Ironing" on page 433
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Review "The Storm"

Theme: Insight/ Morality

QUIZ on "I Stand Here Ironing
27
"Ironing"

Case Studies on characters

Charaacter- ization
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Vocab       Pre #3  

"Ironing" Theme
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30
 



August 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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Course Intro
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Summer Reading Test
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Fiction:
Two stories -

Read

Record General impressions and preferneces

23
Groups

Using questions on the worksheeet, record your group's response to each item

24
Groups

Finish Worksheets

Begin discussion & comparison & contrast of the two stories.


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26
27
Review stories

Return Essays

Writing - "Appointment"

HW - Read "Guests of the Nation" on page 46

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Partners/
Groups

Analyze "Guests"

Groups

HW - Read "Response" to "Gusets"




29

Finish Group discussion of "Guests of the Nation"

Respond to HW reading


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Bring Vocab Books

Unit 1 - preview

 

May 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Monday: Essay drafting - Bring 1984, prompt sheets   1
Presentation on Existentialism

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" Poetry Review

Drafting/Editing

2
Review

Drafting
Peer editing
Revising
3
Review

Editing
Revising
Polishing
4
Founders Day
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April 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
2
1984

Lit Circle

to end of Part 3

Vocab p. 120 Sentences
3
1984

Interp

Vocab p. 122
Right Word
4
1984

Interp

Vocab. Quiz #10
5

Holy Thursday
6

Good Friday
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8
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1984
Group Discussion
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1984
25
Realism

26
Naturalism

Vocab 11 PRE
27
Poetry
Sound Devices

Vocab Ex.   p 127
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29
30
Essay Drafting

1984

Prompts
 


March 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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2
3
4
5
1984
Totalitarianism
Groups
6
1984 Chapter 1
part 1
7
Writing

Analyze passage

8
1984
Ch. 1
parts 1-2

9
Vocab #8 review

Reading
10
11
12
Return essays

Style - Diction

Lit Circle directions
13
Vocab #8 Quiz

Project Groups meet  & plan esp. FACT SHEET
14
Saint
Patrick's
Day
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Lit Circles

Ch. 1 through section vii
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Vocab 9 Preview

Reading
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18
19
Orwell Bio

20
Vocab 9 Exercises
21
Lit Circle

to Ch. 2 / 5
22
Poetry
"The Centaur"
Groups
23
Vocab Quiz 9

Reading

24
25
26
Lit Circle

to ch. 2/10


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1984

Interp


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1984

Interp
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February 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Be sure to have your copy of 1984 in class on Thursday, March 1.  1
Hamlet - film
2
Hamlet - film
3
4
5
In class essay
6
Begin Style Analysis

Tone

Groups:

"Company Man" - Ellen Goodman
7
Vocab p. 87-89
Sentences/Right Word

Five aspects of style

Groups



8
Groups compare results
9
Vocab Quiz #7

Style Analysis cont'd
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11
12
Style Analysis

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Style Analysis/Close Reading
14
Library - Prep for research and class presentations
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Q/A on research project

A reading of Hamlet
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Vocab pre #8

Discuss yesterday's reading
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Presidents Day


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Ash Wednesday
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January 2007

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  1
New Year's Day
2
Hamlet
3
Hamlet
4
Hamlet
5
Hamlet
6
7
8
Hamlet
9
Hamlet
10
Hamlet
11
Review
12
Review
13
14
15
Martin Luther King Day
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Semester Exam
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22

Begin 2nd Semester

Directions for Hamlet paper

Character Readings
23


 Hamlet
24

- Hamlet
25

Film - Hamlet

26

Vocab #7 preview

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December 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 We will be reading and viewing Oedipus the King December 4,5,6 1
2
3
4
Oedipus the King

HW- Vocab - p. 61 - complete the sentences
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Oedipus

Vocab p. 61


HW - Vocab choose the right word, p.
63
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Oedipus

Vocab, p. 63


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Oedipus
essay

In class

8
Vocab Quiz #5

Review


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Hamlet
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November 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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2
Counselor visit
3

4
5
6
Group presentations and discussion
7
Group presentations and discussion
8
Philosophical discussion

Good/Evil

Prep for essay
9
In class essay
10
Veterans Day
11
12
13
Drama

Bring Diyanni book to class
14
Drama

Greek Drama

Tragedy

15
Drama

Background
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Thanksgiving Week
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Oedipus the King

Reading

HW: Read Scene I and Ode I
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Oedipus the King

Reading

Check board for pages
29
Oedipus the King

Check board
30
Oedipus the King

Check board
Friday:
 Vocab preview #5
 


Bring your copy of Lord of the Flies to class every day.

October 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
Get your copy of
 Lord of the Flies this week!
2
Return paragraphs

Evaluate Thesis Statements

Handout: "The Bill"  Read for Wednesday

3
"Hills Like White Elephants"

Theme Sheets

Discuss/
Develop a Thesis Statement for paragraph due Thursday



HW: Voc pages 42-43 for class tomorrow
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Voc. pp 42-43



HW: Voc. pp. 45-47 for class tomorrow
5
Voc. pp. 45-47

Draft of paragraph due

Paragraph due typed on Monday with draft attached

6
Bring your copy of Lord of the Flies to class

VOCAB Review Test 1-2-3

Quiet Reading
7
Read Lord of the Flies chapters 1
8
Read Lord of the Flies
9

Paragraph due

Flies,
Ch. 1
due

HW: Read ch. 2 of Flies
10
Flies,
Ch. 2
due

Quiz

Turn in Paragraph on :Hills Like White Elephants" plus draft
11
Flies,
Ch. 3
due
12

Flies, Ch. 4 due
13
Vocab Preview #4

Review

Reading
14
Read Lord of the Flies, chs. 5-6-7
15
16
Teacher Work day No class
17

Due: chs. 5-6-7
18
School Wide Testing

No class

HW: chs. 8-9-10
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Due: chs. 8-9-10
20

Vocab #4 exercises

p.54 Sentences

p. 56
Right Word
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Read Lord of the Flies;

Finish the book by Tuesday, 10/24

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23
Lord of the Flies, ch.9.
Analyze

Reading: Chs. 11-12

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Flies, ch. 10

HW: Vocab p. 54 - Sentences
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Flies,  ch. 11

Vocab. p. 54 - Sentences

HW: Vocab p56 - Right Word
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Flies, ch. 12


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Review

Vocab Quiz #4

Quiet Reading
28
Vocab quiz postponed to Monday 10/30
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Flies - Interp project

Vocab #4 quiz
31
LIBRARY Groups research interp approach
 Wednesday, 11/1 Groups meet to organize their class presentations

Thursday, 11/2 Counselor visit

Friday, 11/3 Vocab preview #5 & groups finish plans

Next week: MTW - class presentations


September 2006

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

  1
Vocab Quiz #1

Turn in Response sheet for "I Stand Here Ironing"

Review

Quiet Reading
2

Homework: Reread "I Stand Here Ironing"
3
4
Labor Day
5
Quiz on  "I Stand Here Ironing"

Begin  case study character analysis
6
Continue Character analysis/case study
(groups)
7
Begin: Close Reading/ Explication of text
8
Vocab Preview #2

Review

Quiet Reading
9
Next week: Close Reading/ Writing about Lit
10
11
Begin: Close Reading/
Explication of a text

Lecture/Notes
12

Story TBA

HW: Vocab.    p. 31  Sentences

13

Story analysis

Vocab: Ex. Sentecnes p. 31

HW: Vocab. Ex. p33
Right Word
14
Story analysis

Vocab. Ex. p. 33 Right Word
15
Vocab Quiz #2

Review

Quiet Reading
16
17
18
Explication/ Close Reading

"Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister"

19
Explication cont'd

"Soliloquy"

HOMEWORK: Read "The Trout"

Annotate & Explicate
20
"The Trout"

Groups:
Analyze/Discuss

Reports
21
Story
22
Voc #3 preview

Review

Quiet Reading
23
24
25
Writing about Literature

Quiz

Themes of "The Trout"

Paragraph

HW: Read Diyanni page 1-17
26

The Pleasures of Reading

Writing about Literature

"Hills Like White Elephants"

HW: Type up the final copy of your paragraph and turn it in tomorrow.

HW: Vocab p38 - Sentences
27

Discuss/Analyze "Hills Like White Elephants"

Turn in paragraph: Staple first draft behind the final copy.

Vocab: p. 38

HW: Vocab p. 40  Right Word
28

Reports to class on group discussions of "Hills Like White Elephants"