Weekly Agenda 2.6-2.10

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Poem Presentations

Critical Annotation Format

Review Chapters 1-4

• Symbolism, Foreshadowing, Irony, Satire

1935 MOVIE

HW READ chapters 5-7 by 2.7;

Check Journals  /30

Close Study Chapter 6

Turn in 2-3 Critical Annotation Drafts for review and credit by Friday.

WEDNESDAY

Presentations

Return Timed Essay

-review

HW READ Chapters 8-11 for Friday.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Quiz 7-11

Presentations

Review Chapter 8-11

• imagery
• twin cities
• characterization

HW Read Chapters 12-18 for TUESDAY

READING JOURNAL #5: INDEPENDENT Letters due TUESDAY on 12-18

Weekly Agenda 1.30-2.3

MONDAY

Timed Writing #2 (Dbl-Poem)

HW

Chapters 4-6 by Tuesday, 2.1 (Bk 1)

TUESDAY

One-Word Reading Quiz

• Mr. Lorry passage analysis
• Miss Manette analysis
• review “Book the FIrst”
• #4: character poem

HW Read in Book 2, Chapters 1-4 for Friday, Feb 3rd.

WEDNESDAY

SSR-TALE

-no new entry, add to #4, create s/m/t chart, prepare to share with class

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Review S/M/T

• analysis of light
• tie to Bible;symbolism

Critical Annotation samples, template

“Book the Second” Chapters 1-4

-review: symbols and character

-French Nobility

-”the spectre”

HW Read chapters 5-7 by Feb 7th;

AND, complete 3 annotations by TUESDAY.

Recommended Pacing:

READ

chapters 1-4 by Feb 3rd

chapters 5-7 by Feb 7th

chapters 8-10 by Feb 10th

Weekly Agenda 1.23-1.27

Read Book 1, pages 5-58

Chapter 1-3 by Thursday, 1.26

Chapters 4-6 by Tuesday, 2.1

MONDAY (get Books)

Review

Reading Journal #2

HW Finish Exit Ticket for selected Poem; Read/Skim through Perrine’s pp55-61; 99, 103, 143.

Critical Annotations due FEB 10th

TUESDAY

Novel Unit Handout

-review questions

-review terms

Read through and take notes on Perrine’s.  

A Tale of Two Cities

-timeline and biography highlights

READ Book 1: Chapters 1-3 by THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY

Review Poetry Timed essay

-norming packet

--group work

-rubric and reflection

-rewrite a paragraph

THURSDAY

Characterization

-characterization

--character poem

--Mr. Lorry

-vocabulary

-close-reading

FRIDAY

Poetry Timed Writing #2

Read Book 1: Chapters 4-6 for TUESDAY

Weekly Agenda 1.17-1.20

POETRY

TUESDAY

College Center

WEDNESDAY

Record top 3 choices for Poet Study

-reveal Poet Research Project Components

Critical Reading LINKS

-"The Poetry Crowd" by Donald Hall

-Reading Discussion 1/2 sheet preparation
Dylan's Nobel

HW If you are required, please type a brief justification for why you want your poet.

THURSDAY

Poetry Timed Writing Essay

-for a grade

FRIDAY

Get books!

Poet Study

-final choices

-first steps

LAPTOPS

-initial research, etc

HW

Read “The Signalman”

Reading Journal #2

-answer Recalling #2; Interpreting #4; Critical Thinking #s1-3; Understanding, pick 2 of 4. Read and take notes on Perrine's 55-61

Welcome Back! Weekly Agenda 1.10-1.13

Poetry

Tuesday

Semester Reflection

Wednesday

Journal

-table of contents

Course Outline Review

Wed-THURSDAY

S&S

-Chapter 11 and 12

Musicality and Rhythm

-Pages 856; 874-879

HW Reading Journal #1:

Musical Devices

Read “The Waking” p860; Q1,2

Read “Woman Work” p865; Q 3,5

Read “Traveling through the dark” p871; Q2

Read “Ars Poetica” p1023; Q2a on p872

Rhythm and Meter

Read “Had I the Choice” p890; Q3

Read “Break, Break, Break” p896; Q1,2

Read “Her Kind” p897; Q2,3

FRIDAY

Review Perrine’s; review final multiple-choice;

HW Narrow down your choice of poets to 2-3; poetry.org; poets.org; famouspoetsandpoems.com; poetryfoundation.org

AND, add to your glossary of terms in your reading journal.

Weekly Agenda 12.12-12.16; 12.19

Miller: The Death of a Salesman

MONDAY

Watch the end of Hamlet

Read Miller’s article “Tragedy and the Common Man”

-shared annotations

-swap responses

HW Journals (don’t forget 50 vocabulary words) due MONDAY.  Upload Hamlet essay to turnitin.com; Read ACT II for Thursday.

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY

Plot Structures

TERMS

Tragic Characters/characterization: temporary, measuring, subordination, volatility, exploitation, conquest, superlatives

TROPES: father/son, broken pedestal, fatal flaw, anachronic order, deconstruction, mimesis, recognition, reversal, catharsis, staging (4th wall-voyeurism)

THURSDAY-FRIDAY-MONDAY

Finish discussing and watching parts of Miller’s play

Choose and practice Monologue performance.

FINAL: Tuesday, December 20th

Weekly Agenda 12.5-12.9

H A M L E T

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Review ACT 3 through action versus inaction; how does the evidence connect to major conflicts: reason and passion;

order and chaos;

revealing and concealing;

honesty and deception

WATCH Branagh in ACT 3: what do you notice about staging and interpretation of character?

Present Parody

HW Read ACT 4 for THURSDAY; ACT 5 for FRIDAY.  FInish review in #10.

WEDNESDAY

Review #11

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Review Acts 4-5

ACT 4: What has Hamlet done; what has he become?

-equivocation; “The body is…”

-delay and inaction

-Claudius, foe

What becomes of a sour “state?”

-Laertes, character foil

-Ophelia, Imagery (flowers, innocence)

-father, brother, lover (too many ?)

ACT 5: The duel; Fortinbras

Consider: Pages 307, 339

HW Journal #12: New York Style Review

ESSAY: HAMLET-Choose one prompt and respond in a short essay, prepare to share; Begin reading Death of a Salesman, ACT 1 for TUESDAY.