Monday 15 April: Introduction to Jane Austen
Tuesday 16 April: Reading 1 due (all the readings are listed at the bottom of this page) Wednesday 17 April: Reading 2 due, character sketches (20 min); point of view activity (20 min to work on this) Thursday 18 April: Point of view activity due if not completed yesterday in class; Reading 3 due Friday 19 April: No classes; Jane Austen Day! Monday 22 April: Reading 4 due Tuesday 23 April: Review of material so far; in-class scenes and activities Wednesday 24 April: Reading 5 due Thursday 25 April: Reading 6 due Friday 26 April: Probably not too much time in class because of Grandparents' Day Monday 29 April: Reading 7 due Tuesday 30 April: Reading 8 due Wednesday 1 May: Reading 9 due Thursday 2 May: No class; 10th Grade Field Trip Friday 3 May: Reading 10 due Monday 6 May: AP Gov Exam Tuesday 7 May: Reading 11 due Wednesday 8 May: Reading 12 due Thursday 9 May: Reading 13 due Friday 10 May: Reading 14 due Monday 13 May: Reading 15 due Tuesday 14 May: Field Trip to Shakespeare Theatre to see Macbeth film and for activities Wednesday 15 May: AP Gov Field Trip Thursday 16 May: Ros Ballaster Introduction due; Here are propositions for you to consider; propositions, teams, and sides decided; format given (this class is a lot because of Medieval Day tomorrow) Friday 17 May: Medieval Day; No classes Monday 20 May: Workday for debate; Workday for debate: ideas, tasks, brainstorming; don't forget JSTOR; here is that sheet of transitional expressions from class Tuesday 21 May: Workday for debate; final exam materials available Wednesday 22 May: Workday for debate; final book annotation check; here is the prompt for the reflection (one per group is fine; absent students should also submit one so I can see how involved they are) Thursday 23 May: Debate: Proposition 1: The novel argues that opposing termperaments are necessary for successful relationships; Teams: Monica, Susanna, Sarah; Neg: Sofia, Nati, Annie, Gabby Friday 24 May: Debate: Proposition 7: The main value of the novel is sensibility, and sense is a kind of sensibility; Teams: Aff: Georgia A., Marie, Kit; Neg: Georgia G., Isabella, Valentina Monday 27 May: Memorial Day; No school Tuesday 28 May: Exam Review overview Wednesday 29 May: Point of view paragraph rewrite due; exam essays review Thursday 30 May: Exam short answer review Friday 31 May: AP Lang intro--research paper sequence, how Lang is different, etc.; Flannery O'Connor intro Monday 3 June: Workday for exam essays Reading 1: 5-29 Reading 2: 30-53 Reading 3: 54-75 Reading 4: 76-98 Reading 5: 99-121 Reading 6: 122-145 Reading 7: 146-170 Reading 8: 171-199 (a little long but thrilling) Reading 9: 200-223 Reading 10: 224-252 Reading 11: 253-274 Reading 12: 275-295 Reading 13: 296-316 Reading 14: 317-335 Reading 15: 336-353 (end) After you read the assignment and look at Esolen's footnotes and endnotes for the canto, please feel free to solidify your understanding with material from the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies or from the Digital Dante Project at Columbia University. The material from the University of Texas is also helpful.
Thursday 29 February: Explication due; Dante/Purgatory introduction; Purgatory diagram; student-led discussions introduced; Canto 1 Friday 1 March: Cantos 2 and 3 Monday 4 March: Cantos 4 and 5; connections to Inferno 5; Paolo and Francesca Tuesday 5 March: Cantos 6-8; here is worksheet for 6–8 Wednesday 6 March: Cantos 9 and 10; here is worksheet for 9 and 10; here's a handout that reviews Cantos so far; here is a "Steps" handout for Canto 9; here are screencasts I made during the Covid lockdown, which review Cantos 1 and 2, Cantos 3-7, and Cantos 8-9 Thursday 7 March: Student-led discussions begin: Cantos 11 (Sofia) and 12 Friday 8 March: Cantos 13 and 14 Monday 11 March: No class; Gala practice Tuesday 12 March: Cantos 15 and 16 (Isabella, both Cantos); Canto 17, Review Cantos 1–17; Answers to the review Wednesday 13 March: Test Purgatorio 1–17 Thursday 14 March: Purgatory journals assigned; Cantos 18 and 19 (Georgia G.) Friday 15 March: Cantos 20 (Nati) and 21 Monday 18 March: Cantos 22 (Georgia A.) and 23 Tuesday 19 March: Cantos 24 (Gabby) and 25 (Susanna) Wednesday 20 March: Cantos 26 (Sarah) and 27 (Annie); here is the link to the Purgatorio organization chart we are developing collaboratively; journal ideas; here is journal brainstorm handout I have posted in the materials on Jupiter art images relating to Purgatorio for your classroom and Purgatorio journal use. Thursday 21 March: Cantos 28 (Valentina) and 29 (Kit) Friday 22 March: No school; Gala practice Monday 25 March: No class; Maryland Day Festival Tuesday 26 March: Cantos 30 (Monica) and 31 (Marie) Wednesday 27 March: Cantos 32 and 33 Review; here's the key to review; Conceptual Review, Purgatory; make sure you know the sins in the order of the mountain of Purgatory and the contents of the pageants, at the level of detail described on the review with blanks. Begin prepping for Dante Costume Party! Easter Break Tuesday 9 April: Class canceled for Cameron family Rosary; receive handout for Dante costume party Wednesday 10 April: Additional review for Purgatory test; sign up for Dante Costume Party Thursday 11 April: Purgatory test Friday 12 April: Dante Costume Party Monday 15 April: Purgatory journals due by class time (5 short[150–200 words], 5 long [400+ words]); begin Sense and Sensibility Wednesday 24 January: Lyric vs narrative (samples for illustration: "Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz, "The Boy" by Marie Howe, other selections from students) HW: Look at the Kunitz and Howe and make some notes about their interactions with lyric and narrative elements.
Thursday 25 January: Introduce Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets (see Perrine), Twentieth- (and Twenty-first-) Century sonnets Friday 26 January: More sonnet samples; what a sonnet can do (themes); student samples; sonnet assignment made (here is checklist) Monday 29 January: Iambic pentameter; writing lines Tuesday 30 January: Rhyme and gesture; image, metaphor, and symbol; how to write a symbol in your poem (i.e., "The natural object is the adequate symbol."); Decide on sonnet topic and write couplet; hand in work so far Wednesday 31 January: Review of sonnet ideas so far: lyricism, Petrarchan sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet, gestural structure, iambic pentameter, student sonnet samples, professional sonnet samples. HW: Brainstorm poem: people, relationships, objects, art (begin with the concrete) Thursday 1 February: Accessible language (Howe, Kunitz); Dense language (Hopkins, Owen); discuss brainstorming; write a couplet; ; Effects of line (Glück); HW: build more poem (keep it imagistic) Friday 2 February: Class collaborative sonnet (solving problems of rhyme and meter); Work time for sonnet; HW: build more poem Monday 5 February: Image, symbol, metaphor, allusion; Brainstorming and workday; HW: build more sonnet Tuesday 6 February: Draft of sonnet due for workshop; consider a meeting with the teacher this week to discuss sonnet; HW: Work on sonnet; choose poem for explication; upload poem choice (title and author) to assignment in Jupiter by 10pm Wednesday 7 February: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox; Poem for Harkness; explication assigned Thursday 8 February: Explication day 1: Speaker and Occasion Friday 9 February: Final sonnet due; celebratory reading; Explication day 2: Theme Monday 12 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 13 February: No class; Gala practice Wednesday 14 February: Explication day 3: Form Thursday 15 February: Explication day 4: Image Friday 16 February: Explication day 5: Sound; Trope Review; here's a vowel chart; putting it all together Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents Day Tuesday 20 February: Notes pages and draft of paper due in class; Poetry unit review; poetry review #2 Wednesday 21 February: Poetry unit test Thursday 22 February: Workday for poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Here is explication checklist; here is a helpful handout as you go to make your explication into a presentation Friday 23 February: Poetry presentations (Nati); HW: review notes; finalize paper Monday 26 February: Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Tuesday 27 February: Poetry presentations (Susanna, Sofia); HW: review notes; finalize paper Wednesday 28 February: Open-note quiz on presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Thursday 29 February: Poetry paper due; Begin Purgatorio Thursday 8 December: Introduction to Henry V, background presentations assigned (not homework, as homework is to work incrementally on the Gawain poem); Here is a general info handout; here is a handout about the relation of Henry V to other plays
Friday 9 December: Workday for background presentations Monday 11 December: Henry V background presentations due Tuesday 12 December: Begin reading Henry V in class; Gawain project update due (2 stanzas) Wednesday 13 December: Gawain workday (Mrs. Walsh on field trip) Thursday 14 December: More Henry V; Let's see how far we are in Henry V and begin having readings at home... Friday 15 December: Gawain conferences in class Monday 18 December: Read in class Tuesday 19 December: Read in class Wednesday 20 December: Gawain poem due; celebratory reading; Christmas at Camelot Thursday 4 January: Receive midterm review; begin Act III in class, HW: Finish Act III Friday 5 January: Review Act III, begin Act IV, HW: Read through 4.4 (p. 175) Monday 8 January: Pick up at 4.5 Tuesday 9 January: Pick up at 5.2, HW: finish the play Wednesday 10 January: Prep for in-class writing Thursday 11 January: In-class writing Henry V Friday 12 January: Review for midterm Midterm reviews: Overview Vocab list; Beowulf vocab list with asterisks to indicate etymology needed Short Answer (Quotation) Practice Here's the transitional expression sheet Here's the Tarika Sankar essay with the great transitions Here's the Checklist for Essay Tuesday 14 November: Begin Sir Gawain in class; alliterative verse; bob-and-wheel; HW is to continue working on project
Wednesday 15 November: Continue Sir Gawain in class; HW Fitt 2 due through p. 75 Thursday 16 November: Continue Sir Gawain in class; Fitt 1 and the beginning of Fitt 2, focusing on symbolism; Here is the handout from class Friday 17 November: End of Fitt 2 due; Here is the handout from class Monday 20 November: Vocabulary quiz (Confessions words and Beowulf words) Tuesday 21 November: Beowulf projects due Thanksgiving Break Monday 27 November: Fitt 3 due to p. 125; parallels and their significances Tuesday 28 November: Rest of Fitt 3 due; Poetry OutLoud Classroom Competition Wednesday 29 November: Fitt 4 due; parallels and their significances Thursday 30 November: Review of Gawain material for test Friday 1 December: Test: Sir Gawain Sir Gawain and the Green Writing Project assignment available Here is a student sample: Notice how the student handles line length and stressing the alliteration, among other aspects Gawain recitation assigned; here is the website for the Middle English option; the Lady's monologue on the color symbolism of green is here Monday 4 December: Come to class with an idea for a simple quest story; feel free to adapt from Le Mort D'Arthur...or your favorite (medieval) Disney movie Tuesday 5 December: Process work in class: Isolating the poem, outlining/storyboarding the stanzas, choosing the letters to alliterate, controlling line length Wednesday 6 December: Workday for poem; conferences available Here is a video with the opening lines of Beowulf; here is another resource
Monday 23 October: Introduction to Beowulf; here is the short video about the Old English we watched in class; here is the pronunciation sheet; here is other noteworthy and useful info; recitation assigned; HW: Work on academic essay; make an appointment for an essay check-in to keep you on track Tuesday 24 October: Beowulf in class (HW: Finish reading 1) Wednesday 25 October: Reading 1 activity; Beowulf in class (HW: Finish reading 2); some vocabulary covered Thursday 26 October: Workday for Confessions academic paper; Mrs. Walsh on field trip Friday 27 October: No classes; Archdiocesan Professional Day; paper due by 10pm Monday 30 October: Beowulf Reading 2 activity; HW: Reading 3 Tuesday 31 October: Reading 3 due; more vocabulary covered Wednesday 1 November: No class; All Saints Festival Thursday 2 November: Reading 3 skit executed; recitation practice Friday 3 November: Reading 4 due Poetry OutLoud introduced Monday 6 November: Beowulf Reading 5 due Tuesday 7 November: Beowulf Reading 6 due; review available Here is a discussion of the digressions. You can use it as a credible resource for interpreting the digressions/interstitial stories. Wednesday 8 November: Beowulf review in class; here are additional passages for review Thursday 9 November: Beowulf test; Beowulf project assigned Friday 10 November: Beowulf recitation due; Any remaining vocabulary added; Proposals approved in class Monday 12 November: Field trip the the Italian Embassy Tuesday 13 November: Begin Sir Gawain in class while you work on your project at home Vocab quiz the Monday before Thanksgiving! All the words. Beowulf project due the Tuesday before Thanksgiving! Beowulf Readings: Reading 1: pp. 49-69 Reading 2: pp. 69-103 Reading 3: pp. 103-135 Reading 4: pp. 135-165 Reading 5: pp. 165-197 Reading 6: pp. 197-end Thursday 7 September: Policy sheet, How to Annotate, and Tips for Success distributed; poem practice (can be due if you are ready: Nolite Timere). Check out this video--your excerpt begins at 1:28--if you have questions about pronunciation or sentence sense. Begin to read Augustine; free write in class: "Our hearts are restless until they rest in You."
Friday 8 September: Poem due for individual recitation in class; return to free write; Augustine handout and lecture (beginning). HW: Read half of Book 1; Book 1 due Tuesday. Monday 11 September: Shape a topic sentence for free write paragraph; Augustine lecture; here is transitional expressions sheet; HW: Finish Book 1. Tuesday 12 September: End of Augustine lecture; Book 1 due; "Hearts are restless" paragraph due at the end of class (HW: Read Book 2) Wednesday 13 September: Book 1 activities in class (HW: Book 2 SQ) Thursday 14 September: Book 2 due, along with one SQ (HW: Read Book 3) Answer a SQ, generally one of your choice, in a complete paragraph of 6–7 sentences, including a topic sentence that serves as a thesis for your answer and at least two short quoted passages, appropriately blended and cited (with the page number). Submit these questions on paper in your notebook (double spaced, written in pen) or via a Google Doc, uploaded to Jupiter as discussed. Friday 15 September: Book 2 activities, continued (HW: Book 3 SQ) Monday 18 September: Book 3 due, along with one SQ Tuesday 19 September: Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in class (HW: Read Book 4) Wednesday 20 September: Book 4 due (HW: Book 4 SQ) Thursday 21 September: Book 4 SQ due Friday 22 September: Catch up, Books 1–4, catch up on vocabulary Monday 25 September: Book 5 due Tuesday 26 September: Book 5 SQ due; prep for in-class writing Here is a pdf of The Confessions to help you search for words and images that recur in Books 1–5. Wednesday 27 September: In-class writing, Books 1-5 of The Confessions Thursday 29 September: Book 6 due Friday 30 September: Join Mrs. Wicker's class for Confessions 1-5 party Monday 2 October: Book 6 SQ due; begin Book 7 in class Tuesday 3 October: School closed for funeral of Regina Marigold Bronzi Wednesday 4 October: Book 7 due--read as well as you can; this is the difficult one! Here are my teacher notes (what!) Thursday 5 October: Assigned SQ for Book 7 due Friday 6 October: No class; Our Lady of the Rosary Festival Day Monday 9 October: No classes; Columbus Day Tuesday 10 October: Book 8 due; in-class activity Wednesday 11 October: No class; PSAT Thursday 12 October: Book 9 due; in-class activity; culminating activities available Friday 13 October: Confessions review; Vocabulary quiz Monday 16 October: Work in class on culminating activities to study for test; 2 revised SQs due OR revised in-class writing due Tuesday 17 October: More review and workday because of field trips; Academic essay thesis development Wednesday 18 October: Confessions test; Extra credit: memorize the Augustine–Monica colloquy, due Thursday, Nov. 2 Thursday 19 October: Book annotation check; work on assignments; meet with teacher Friday 20 October: Personal essay due Monday 17 April: Introduction to Jane Austen; Prep for Dante Costume Party
Tuesday 18 April: Dante Costume Party Wednesday 19 April: Reading 1 due (all the readings are listed at the bottom of this page) Thursday 20 April: Reading 2 due; point of view activity Friday 21 April: No classes; Jane Austen Day! Monday 24 April: Reading 3 due Tuesday 25 April: Reading 4 due; hand in point of view activity by the end of the day; here is the checklist to help you see that you have completed it properly; here is a copy of Unlucky 13 usage errors Wednesday 26 April: Review of material so far; in-class scenes and activities Thursday 27 April: Reading 5 due Friday 28 April: Reading 6 due Monday 1 May: In-class activity (AP Gov Exam) Tuesday 2 May: Reading 7 due Wednesday 3 May: Reading 8 due Thursday 4 May: Reading 9 due Friday 5 May: Review of material so far; in-class scenes and activities Monday 8 May: Reading 10 due Tuesday 9 May: Reading 11 due Wednesday 10 May: Reading 12 due Thursday 11 May: Reading 13 due Friday 12 May: No class; Grandparents' Day performance in FH Monday 15 May: Reading 14 due Tuesday 16 May: Reading 15 due Wednesday 17 May: Ros Ballaster Introduction due; Here are propositions for you to consider; propositions, teams, and sides decided; format given (this class is a lot because of field trip tomorrow) Thursday 18 May: Reduced class; AP Gov field trip; clarifications and workday for debate Friday 19 May: Medieval Day; No classes Monday 22 May: Workday for debate: ideas, tasks, brainstorming; don't forget JSTOR; here is that sheet of transitional expressions from class Tuesday 23 May: Workday for debate; final exam materials available Wednesday 24 May: Workday for debate; final book annotation check; here is the prompt for the reflection (one per group is fine; absent students should also submit one so I can see how involved they are) Thursday 25 May: Debate: Proposition: The novel strongly prefers use (utilitarianism) to beauty. (Team 4, Affirmative; Team 3, Negative) Friday 26 May: Debate: Proposition: The novel argues that appearance in society is more important than expressing the reality of one’s feeling. (Team 2, Affirmative; Team 1, Negative) Reading 1: 5-29 Reading 2: 30-53 Reading 3: 54-75 Reading 4: 76-98 Reading 5: 99-121 Reading 6: 122-145 Reading 7: 146-170 Reading 8: 171-199 (a little long but thrilling) Reading 9: 200-223 Reading 10: 224-252 Reading 11: 253-274 Reading 12: 275-295 Reading 13: 296-316 Reading 14: 317-335 Reading 15: 336-353 (end) After you read the assignment and look at Esolen's footnotes and endnotes for the canto, please feel free to solidify your understanding with material from the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies or from the Digital Dante Project at Columbia University. The material from the University of Texas is also helpful.
Thursday 23 February: Isabel's presentation; Dante/Purgatory introduction; Purgatory diagram; student-led discussions introduced; Canto 1 Friday 24 February: No class; Gala practice Monday 27 February: Cantos 2 and 3 Tuesday 28 February: Cantos 4 and 5; connections to Inferno 5; Paolo and Francesca Wednesday 1 March: Cantos 6 and 7; here is worksheet for 6–8 Thursday 2 March: Canto 8 Friday 3 March: Cantos 9 and 10; here is worksheet for 9 and 10; here's a handout that reviews Cantos so far; here is a "Steps" handout for Canto 9; here are screencasts I made during the Covid lockdown, which review Cantos 1 and 2, Cantos 3-7, and Cantos 8-9 Monday 6 March: Student-led discussions begin: Cantos 11 and 12 (Maeve) Tuesday 7 March: Cantos 13 (Arianna) and 14 (Amanda) Wednesday 8 March: Cantos 15 (Nora) and 16 (Katie) Thursday 9 March: Canto 17 (Dani), Review Cantos 1–17; Answers to the review Friday 10 March: Test Purgatorio 1–17 Monday 13 March: Purgatory journals assigned; Cantos 18 (Marine) and 19 (Bella) Tuesday 14 March: Cantos 20 (Sofi) and 21 (Lily) Wednesday 15 March: Cantos 22 (Angie) and 23 (Pia) Thursday 16 March: Cantos 24 (Olivia) and 25 (Isabel) Friday 17 March: Dante catch-up; here is the link to the Purgatorio organization chart we are developing collaboratively; journal ideas; here is journal brainstorm handout Monday 20 March: Cantos 26 (Clem) and 27 (Ava the Great) Tuesday 21 March: Cantos 28 (Anna) and 29 (Madison) Wednesday 22 March: Cantos 30 (Claudia) and 31 (Sophia) Thursday 23 March: Cantos 32 (Anjola) and 33 (Vicky) Friday 24 March: No classes; Gala Eve Monday 27 March: No school Tuesday 28 March: English 10 Field Trip to the Shakespeare Theatre to see King Lear Wednesday 29 March: Review; here's the key to review; Conceptual Review, Purgatory; make sure you know the sins in the order of the mountain of Purgatory and the contents of the pageants, at the level of detail described on the review with blanks. Thursday 30 March: Additional review for Purgatory test Friday 31 March: No class; Maryland Day Festival Monday 3 April: Purgatory test Tuesday 4 April: Purgatory journals due (5 short[150–200 words], 5 long [400+ words]); Prep for Dante Costume Party, to be held after Easter break Easter Break! Monday 23 January: Review of sonnet ideas so far: lyricism, Petrarchan sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet, gestural structure, iambic pentameter, student sonnet samples, professional sonnet samples. HW: Brainstorm poem: people, relationships, objects, art (begin with the concrete)
Tuesday 24 January: Accessible language (Howe, Kunitz); Dense language (Hopkins, Owen); discuss brainstorming; write a couplet; HW: build more poem (keep it imagistic) Wednesday 25 January: Class collaborative sonnet (solving problems of rhyme and meter); Effects of line (Glück); HW: build more poem Thursday 26 January: Image, symbol, metaphor, allusion; Brainstorming and workday; HW: build more sonnet Friday 27 January: No class; guest speaker Monday 30 January: Draft of sonnet due for workshop; consider a meeting with the teacher this week to discuss sonnet; HW: Work on sonnet; choose poem for explication; upload poem choice (title and author) to assignment in Jupiter by 8am Tuesday Tuesday 31 January: No class; Gala practice; indicate poem choice on Jupiter by 3:30pm Wednesday 1 February: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox; Poem for Harkness; explication assigned Thursday 2 February Explication day 1: Speaker and Occasion Friday 3 February: Final sonnet due; celebratory reading; Explication day 2: Theme Monday 6 February: Explication day 3: Form Tuesday 7 February: Explication day 4: Image Wednesday 8 February: Explication day 5: Sound; Trope Review; here's a vowel chart to make Madison feel better about the whole thing; putting it all together Thursday 9 February: Notes pages and draft of paper due in class; Poetry unit review; poetry review #2 Friday 10 February: Poetry unit test Monday 13 February: Headmaster's Holiday; no classes Tuesday 14 February: Workday for poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Here is explication checklist; here is a helpful handout as you go to make your explication into a presentation Wednesday 15 February: Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Thursday 16 February: Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Friday 17 February: Poetry presentations; homework amnesty bumps all papers to Tuesday! Monday 20 February: Presidents' Day; no school Tuesday 21 February: Poetry paper due; Poetry presentations in class Wednesday 22 February: Open-note test on poetry presentations; we stop at 11:10 for Ash Wednesday Mass at 11:15; Begin Purgatorio, just in time for Lent! |