Wednesday 4 January: Midterm overview; Begin poetry (not on midterm): lyric and narrative; Poetry unit begins: Lyric vs narrative (samples for illustration: "Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz, "The Boy" by Marie Howe, other selections from students)
Thursday 5 January: Introduce Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets (see Perrine), Twentieth- (and Twenty-first-) Century sonnets; vocab list for midterm distributed Friday 6 January: More sonnet samples; what a sonnet can do (themes); student samples; sonnet assignment made (here is checklist); midterm short answer review distributed Monday 9 January: Iambic pentameter; writing lines Tuesday 10 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 11 January: Midterm review in class: Vocabulary game for house points (What!) Thursday 12 January: Midterm review in class: Short answer review Friday 13 January: Last-minute midterm review: Essay review Midterms: The English Midterm is on Tuesday, January 17, at 8:45am in Fellowship Hall Sir Gawain and the Green Writing Project assignment available; here is the student sample we looked at in class
Gawain recitation assigned; here is the website for the Middle English option; the Lady's monologue on the color symbolism of green is here Here's a pdf for a collection of Arthurian stories Monday 28 November: Begin Sir Gawain creative writing in class; brainstorming and ideas Tuesday 29 November: Writing in alliterative verse and hearing meter; Henry V research topics assigned Wednesday 30 November: Mrs. Walsh on a field trip Thursday 1 December: Begin reading Henry V in class Friday 2 December: Background presentations; Begin reading Henry V in class December 5–9: Read forward in class; homework all week is to work on creative writing and recitation Monday 12 December: Begin in class at 3.6.117 (entrance of Montjoy) but skip 3.7; HW: Continue to work on recitation and creative writing, read up to tomorrow's starting point, if needed Tuesday 13 December: Begin in class at 4.4 Wednesday 14 December: Poetry Out Loud all-school competition Thursday 15 December: Begin class at 5.1 Friday 16 December: Gawain recitation due Monday 19 December: Have finished Henry V; Henry V Culminating activities including Have finished Henry V; relationship of the monarch to the people discussion; here is the assignment for the in-class writing Tuesday 20 December: Gawain creative writing due; review activities leading to in-class writing Wednesday 21 December: In-class writing: Henry V (anyone eligible for extra time may begin during break) Due dates Gawain project check (update in writing) Friday, December 9 Gawain recitation in class Friday, December 16 Gawain creative writing due Tuesday, December 20 These due dates are announced far enough in advance that there will not be extensions. Monday 7 November: Vocabulary quiz; Workday for Beowulf project
Tuesday 8 November: Begin Sir Gawain in class; alliterative verse; bob-and-wheel; HW is to continue working on project Wednesday 9 November: Continue Sir Gawain in class; HW is to continue working on project Thursday 10 November: Continue Sir Gawain in class; HW is to continue working on project Friday 11 November: Fitt 2 due through p. 75; here is the handout from class Monday 14 November: Beowulf projects due Tuesday 15 November: End of Fitt 2 due; Here is the handout from class; Recitation assigned; use this website if you choose Middle English Wednesday 16 November: Fitt 3 due; parallels and their significances Thursday 17 November: Fitt 4 due; parallels and their significances Friday 18 November: 10th Grade Field Trip with Fr. Jose Monday 21 November: Poetry OutLoud classroom competition; Review of Gawain material for test Tuesday 22 November: Test: Sir Gawain Sir Gawain and the Green Writing Project assignment available Gawain recitation assigned; here is the website for the Middle English option; the Lady's monologue on the color symbolism of green is here Thanksgiving Break Friday, October 14: Confessions Personal Essay due; 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; HW: Work on academic essay; make an appointment for an essay check-in to keep you on track
Monday, October 17: Beowulf in class (writing at home) Tuesday, October 18: Beowulf in class (writing at home); vocabulary assigned Wednesday, October 19: Beowulf in class Thursday, October 20: Beowulf: Read to p. 59, we'll complete the last chunk of Reading 1 in class Friday, October 21: Beowulf Reading 2 due; scored in-class activity; Last day to receive feedback on academic paper draft or ideas Monday, October 24: Beowulf Reading 3 due Tuesday, October 25: Beowulf Reading 4 due; vocabulary due Wednesday, October 26: Confessions Academic paper due; Beowulf reading in class Thursday, October 27: Beowulf Reading 5 due Friday, October 28: No school! Poetry OutLoud introduced Monday, October 31: 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. Tuesday, November 1: Beowulf review in class; here are additional passages for review Wednesday, November 2: Beowulf test; Beowulf project assigned Thursday, November 3: Proposals approved in class; Workday for Beowulf project Friday November 4: Beowulf vocab quiz; Workday for Beowulf project; project update due; receive Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 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 Having a panic because you left your book at school? Here is a pdf for emergency use only. The page numbers will be wrong if you are doing a SQ, so you would want to fix them before handing in.
Orientation: Policy Sheet Thursday, September 1: Poem recitations; receive Confessions and SQs; Unlucky 13 review Friday, September 2: Poem recitation due in class; Confessions intro lecture Monday, September 5: No classes; Labor Day Tuesday, September 6: Read and annotate Confessions Book 1 due; discussion of vocabulary process Wednesday, September 7: Book 1 SQ due; vocabulary words discussed Thursday, September 8: Book 2 due, along with one SQ; more vocabulary discussion Friday, September 9: Finish vocab discussion; Books 1 and 2 further activities Here is the Confessions list, with page numbers. Monday, September 12: Confessions Book 3 due, along with one SQ; Here is an article about the Hortensius; SQ writing redux, questions about common errors or passage blending Tuesday, September 13: Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in class Wednesday, September 14: Confessions Book 4 due Thursday, September 15: Book 4 SQ due Friday, September 16: Confessions Book 5, along with one SQ Monday, September 19: Prep for in-class writing Tuesday, September 20: In-class writing Confessions, Books 1–5 Wednesday, September 21: No class; Summer Reading #2 Thursday, September 22: Confessions Book 6, along with one SQ; Culminating assignments available Friday, September 23: Discussion of Book 6; Reading of Book 7 due (it's hard--just read once carefully, annotating and doing your best) Monday, September 26: Confessions Book 7 due with one SQ; practice Vocabulary Test Tuesday, September 27: Vocabulary Test #1; more work with Book 7 Wednesday, September 28: Book 8 due, carefully annotated; read over SQs, but no SQ due; tie-ins to "The Allegory of the Cave" and Plato's Hierarchy of Knowledge; HW: Begin work on culminating assignments Thursday, September 29: Book 9 in class Friday, September 30: Book 9 due; HW: Work on culminating assignments Monday, October 3: Insights from the end of Book 9; Workday for culminating assignments, esp. with an eye to prepping for test Tuesday October 4: Review for test Wednesday October 5: Additional review Thursday, October 6: 2 Revised SQs due; mini-presentations Friday, October 7: All Day Festival: Our Lady of the Rosary Monday, October 10: No school; Columbus Day Tuesday, October 11: Confessions test Wednesday, October 12: No classes; PSAT Thursday, October 13: Academic essay thesis statement development; Checklist for essay; Paper topics and thesis statements Friday, October 14: Personal Essay due Academic Essay due Wednesday, October 26 Monday 4 April: Introduction to Jane Austen; Prep for Dante Costume Party
Tuesday 5 April: Dante Costume Party Wednesday 6 April: Begin Sense and Sensibility together in class Thursday 7 April: Reading 1 due (all the readings are listed at the bottom of this page) Friday 8 April: No classes; Jane Austen Day! Monday 11 April: Reading 2 due; point of view activity Tuesday 12 April: Reading 3 due Wednesday 13 April: Reading 4 due; hand in point of view activity by the end of the day Easter Break! Monday 25 April: Review of material so far; in-class scenes and activities Tuesday 26 April: Reading 5 due Wednesday 27 April: Reading 6 due Thursday 28 April: Reading 7 due, WOD quiz #5 Friday 29 April: Reading 8 due Monday 2 May: Reading 9 due Tuesday 3 May: Review of material so far; in-class scenes and activities Wednesday 4 May: Reading 10 due Thursday 5 May: Reading 11 due Friday 6 May: Reading 12 due Monday 9 May: Reading 13 due Tuesday 10 May: Reading 14 due Wednesday 11 May: Reading 15 due; WOD #6 Thursday 12 May: Ros Ballaster Introduction due Friday 13 May: No classes; Gala practice Monday 16 May: Here are propositions for you to consider; propositions, teams, and sides decided; format given Tuesday 17 May: Workday for debate: ideas, tasks, brainstorming; don't forget JSTOR Wednesday 18 May: Workday for debate; final exam materials available Thursday 19 May: Workday for debate; 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) Friday 20 May: No classes; Medieval Festival Monday 23 May: BOOST testing for Grade 10 Tuesday 24 May: Debate Wednesday 25 May: Field Trip to Mormon Temple Thursday 26 May: Exam review Friday 27 May: Last Day of Classes before Final Exams 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.
Here is a link to the chart we started today. Feel free to add material from Canto 10; you may also add color or otherwise improve its aesthetics. (Thursday 24 February: Dante/Purgatory introduction; Purgatory diagram; student-led discussions introduced Friday 25 February: Canto 1; draw numbers for student-led discussions Monday 28 February: Cantos 2 and 3; draw numbers for student-led discussions Tuesday 1 March: Cantos 4 and 5; connections to Inferno 5; Paolo and Francesca Wednesday 2 March: Cantos 6 and 7; here is worksheet for 6–8 Thursday 3 March: Canto 8 Friday 4 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 7 March: Student-led discussions begin: Cantos 11 (Ashlee) and 12 (Mairin) Tuesday 8 March: Field Trip with Fr. Medina Wednesday 9 March: Cantos 13 and 14 (Adrianna); WOD Quiz #3 Thursday 10 March: Cantos 15 and 16 (Ana) Friday 11 March: Canto 17, Review Cantos 1–17; Answers to the review Monday 14 March: Test Purgatorio 1–17 Tuesday 15 March: Purgatory journals assigned; Cantos 18 and 19 (Gabriela) Wednesday 16 March: Cantos 20 (Clara) and 21 (SHannan) Thursday 17 March: Cantos 22 and 23 (Sara) Friday 18 March: Cantos 24 (Astrid) and 25 (Lucy) Monday 21 March: Dante catch-up; journal ideas; here is journal brainstorm handout Tuesday 22 March: Cantos 26 (Nicole) and 27 (Clare) Wednesday 23 March: Cantos 28 (Sydney) and 29 (Keira) Thursday 24 March: Cantos 30 (Fiat) and 31 (Margot) Friday 25 March: Cantos 32 (Bella) and 33 (Siena) Monday 28 March: Workday for Purgatory journals; WOD Quiz #4 Tuesday 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. Wednesday 30 March: Additional review for test Thursday 31 March: Test, Purgatory Friday 1 April: Workday for Purgatory journals Monday 4 April: Purgatory journals due (5 short[150–200 words], 5 long [400+ words]); Prep for Dante Costume Party Tuesday 5 April: Dante Costume Party Wednesday 6 April: Field trip to the Shakespeare Theatre to see Merchant of Venice Thursday 7 April: Begin Sense and Sensibility in class Friday 8 April: No class; Jane Austen Day Welcome to Q3!
Reassertion of late policies Word of the Day; here is chart template Monday 24 January: Look at the midterm; 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 25 January: Accessible language (Howe, Kunitz); Dense language (Hopkins, Owen); discuss brainstorming; write a couplet; HW: build more poem (keep it imagistic) Wednesday 26 January: Class collaborative sonnet (solving problems of rhyme and meter); Effects of line (Glück); HW: build more poem Thursday 27 January: Image, symbol, metaphor, allusion; Brainstorming and workday; HW: build more sonnet Friday 28 January: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox; Poem for Harkness; HW: work on sonnet 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 6am Tuesday Tuesday 31 January: Explication day 1: Speaker and Occasion Wednesday 1 February: Explication day 2: Theme Thursday 2 February: Explication day 3: Form Friday 3 February: WOD quiz #1 (weekdays beginning 24 January) Final sonnet due; celebratory reading Monday 6 February: Explication day 4: Image Tuesday 7 February: Explication day 5: Sound; sound tropes Wednesday 8 February: 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 14 February: Headmaster's Holiday; no classes Tuesday 15 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 16 February: Gala practice; HW: review notes; finalize paper Thursday 17 February: Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Friday 18 February: WOD quiz #2 (weekdays beginning 24 January but special emphasis on 6-18 February); Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Monday 21 February: Presidents' Day; no school Tuesday 22 February: Poetry presentations; finalize paper Wednesday 23 February: Final poetry paper due; Test on poetry presentations (concepts applied to selected poems) The idea for this little chunk of time is that instruction continues in class for the Poetry unit while you are gathering materials and reviewing for the midterm as homework. Week of 3 Jan (many snow days): Midterm overview; Midterm study guide available; begin to gather materials; Poetry unit begins: Lyric vs narrative (samples for illustration: "Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz, "The Boy" by Marie Howe, other selections from students); Monday 10 January: Introduce Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets (see Perrine), Twentieth- (and Twenty-first-) Century sonnets; vocab list for midterm distributed Tuesday 11 January: More sonnet samples; what a sonnet can do (themes); student samples; sonnet assignment made (here is checklist) Wednesday 12 January: Iambic pentameter; writing lines; HW: midterm short answer review Thursday 13 January: Short answer review 1; vocab review 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 Friday 14 January: Last minute review for midterm Monday 8 November: Brainstorm Beowulf ideas; Have Beowulf project idea approved
Tuesday 9 November: Workday for Beowulf project; Receive Sir Gawain Wednesday 10 November: Begin Sir Gawain in class; alliterative verse; bob-and-wheel Thursday 11 November: Fitt 1 due through p. 37 due Friday 12 November: All of Fitt 1 due; Vocabulary quiz (two lists) Monday 15 November: Fitt 2 due through p. 75 only; here is the handout from class Tuesday 16 November: End of Fitt 2 due; Here is the handout from class; Recitation assigned; use this website if you choose Middle English; Beowulf project update completed in class Wednesday 17 November: Fitt 3 due; parallels and overall discussion Thursday 18 November: Beowulf project update in class; Fitt 4 due; parallels and overall discussion Friday 19 November: Poetry OutLoud Classroom Competition; Sir Gawain and the Green Writing Project assignment available; Review of Gawain material for test after Thanksgiving (take excellent notes!!); Gawain recitation assigned; here is the website for the Middle English option Thanksgiving Break Extra days off: Monday 29 November: Review Gawain; work on Beowulf project; Gawain review and calendar overview screencast available here; the Lady's monologue on the color symbolism of green is here Tuesday 30 November: Review Gawain; work on Beowulf project Wednesday 1 December: Beowulf project due for all students; informal presentations Thursday 2 December: Gawain test Friday 3 December: Canterbury Tales introduced in class; General Prologue in class; HW: work on creative writing; here is the General Prologue; here is "The Nun's Priest's Tale" Here is a checklist for the creative writing assignment to remind you of standards. Monday 6 December: General Prologue group work in class; HW: work on creative writing; Tuesday 7 December: "The Nun's Priest's Tale" begun in class; HW: work on creative writing Wednesday 8 December: Sir Gawain creative writing project due in completeness for check and workday; consider running a draft by the teacher--office hours available, as always; here are the first two stanzas of a student sample ; HW: Finish reading through "The Nun's Priest's Tale" Thursday 9 December: Discuss Chaucer; Work time for Sir Gawain creative project questions Friday 10 December: Prep for Henry V day Monday 13 December: Sir Gawain Recitation due in class; prep for Henry V day Tuesday 14 December: Prep for Henry V day Wednesday 15 December: Sir Gawain creative writing due; Henry V day! Thursday 16 December: Review and discussion and follow-up on Henry V Friday 17 December: In-class writing on Henry V Christmas Break |