Thursday 14 October: Confessions personal essay due; Begin Beowulf in class; 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
Friday 15 October: Confessions topics due; Beowulf in class (writing at home) Monday 18 October: Writing in class Tuesday 19 October: Beowulf in class; writing at home Wednesday 20 October: No class; BOOST testing Thursday 21 October: Beowulf in class; writing at home; extra credit: visit hot seat to have draft approved Friday 22 October: Draft of paper due; draft is the best version of the paper you can produce in the time allotted; feedback is most meaningful when you don't already know your errors! HW: Complete Reading 1 Monday 25 October: Reading 1 due; Drafts returned to students; here is in-class activity for Reading 1 Tuesday 26 October: Reading 2 due; in-class activity Wednesday 27 October: Reading 3 due; vocabulary assigned Thursday 28 October: Reading 4 due; vocabulary due Friday 29 October: No school; final Confessions paper due to the Jupiter turn-in by 10pm. Poetry OutLoud introduced Monday 1 November: Finish vocabulary discussion and finish discussion of Reading 4 Tuesday 2 November: Reading 5 due Wednesday 3 November: Reading 6 due; review available; vocab cards/chart due for review (or come to office hours another day) Here is a discussion of the digressions. You can use it as a credible resource for interpreting the digressions/interstitial stories. Thursday 4 November:Beowulf review in class Friday 5 November: Beowulf test; Beowulf project assigned Monday 8 November: Proposals approved in class; Workday for Beowulf project Tuesday 9 November: 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 Orientation: Policy Sheet
Thursday 2 September: Poem recitations; receive Confessions and SQs; Unlucky 13 review Friday 3 September: Poem recitations; Confessions intro lecture Monday 6 September: No classes; Labor Day Tuesday 7 September: Read and annotate Confessions Book 1 due Wednesday 8 September: Confessions Book 1 SQ due; discussion of vocabulary Thursday 9 September: Confessions Book 2 due, along with one SQ Friday 10 September: Vocabulary word due; Books 1 and 2 further activities Monday 13 September: 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 14 September: Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in class Wednesday 15 September: Confessions Book 4 Thursday 16 September: Confessions Book 4 SQ due Friday 17 September: Confessions Book 5 and one SQ due Monday 20 September: Prep for in-class writing Tuesday 21 September: In-class writing Confessions, Books 1–5 Wednesday 22 September: Practice Vocabulary quiz; Confessions Book 6, no SQ due; Culminating assignments available Thursday 23 September: Discussion of Book 6; Reading of Book 7 due (it's hard--just read once carefully, annotating and doing your best) Friday 24 September: Confessions Book 7 due with one SQ Monday 27 September: Vocabulary test #1; more work with Book 7 Tuesday 28 September: 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 Wednesday 29 September: Book 9 in class Thursday 30 September: Book 9 due HW: Work on culminating assignments Friday 1 October: Insights from the end of Book 9; Workday for culminating assignments, esp. with an eye to prepping for test Monday 4 October: Review for test Tuesday 5 October: 2 Revised SQs due; mini-presentations Wednesday 6 October: Additional review Thursday 7 October: All Day Festival: Our Lady of the Rosary Friday 8 October: Confessions test Monday 11 October: No school; Columbus Day Tuesday 12 October: Thesis statement development; Checklist for essay; Paper topics and thesis statements Wednesday 13 October: No classes; PSAT Deadlines for Confessions assignments: Personal essay due Thursday 14 October; Academic Essay topic due Friday, October 15; Draft (best product possible in time allotted) due Friday, October 22; Final version due Friday October 29. Monday 26 April: Introduction to Sense and Sensibility; here is last year's screencast
Tuesday 27 April: Reading 1 due Wednesday 28 April: Reading 2 due; point of view activity Thursday 29 April: Reading 3 due Friday 30 April: No class; Jane Austen Day Monday 3 May: Reading 4 due Tuesday 4 May: Cangrande assignment due by 10pm; Time to work on paper in class or read on in novel Wednesday 5 May: Reading 5 due; here is the handout for today Thursday 6 May: Reading 6 due Friday 7 May: Reading 7 due Monday 10 May: Reading 8 due Tuesday 11 May: No class; Medieval Festival Wednesday 12 May: Readings 5–8 activities Thursday 13 May: Reading 9 due Friday 14 May: Reading 10 due Monday 17 May: Reading 11 due Tuesday 18 May: Reading 12 due Wednesday 19 May: Readings 9–12 activities Thursday 20 May: Reading 13 due Friday 21 May: Reading 14 due Monday 24 May: Reading 15 due; Culminating discussion; debate format, teams, resolutions established; final exam review materials Tuesday 25 May: Ros Ballaster introduction due; workday for debate Wednesday 26 May: Workday for debate Thursday 27 May: Debate Friday 28 May: No class; Half day Monday 31 May: No class; Memorial Day 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) (Thursday 4 March: Dante/Purgatory introduction; Purgatory diagram; student-led discussions introduced Friday 6 March: Canto 1; draw numbers for student-led discussions Monday 8 March: Cantos 2 and 3 Tuesday 9 March: Cantos 4 and 5; connections to Inferno 5; Paolo and Francesca Wednesday 10 March: Cantos 6 and 7; here is worksheet for 6–8 Thursday 11 March: Canto 8 Friday 12 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 last year that review Cantos 1 and 2, Cantos 3-7, and Cantos 8-9 Monday 15 March: Student-led discussions begin: Cantos 11 (Elise) and 12 (Izzy) Tuesday 16 March: Cantos 13 and 14 (Anna) Wednesday 17 March: Cantos 15 (Elif) and 16 (Abigail) Thursday 18 March: Canto 17 (Lucia), Review Cantos 1–17; Answers to the review Friday 19 March: Test Cantos 1–17 Monday 22 March: Purgatory journals assigned; Cantos 18 (Isis) and 19 (Ruthie) Tuesday 23 March: No class; Gala practice Wednesday 24 March: Cantos 20 (Molly) and 21 (Morgan) Thursday 25 March: Feast of the Annunciation Afternoon Festival; no class Friday 26 March: Cantos 22 (Allison) and 23 (Cristina) Monday 29 March: Cantos 24 (Benedetta) and 25 (Becky) Tuesday 30 March: Cantos 26 (Gabby) and 27 (Isha) Wednesday 31 March: Cantos 28 (Lilly) and 29 (Portia) Easter break Monday 12 April: Cantos 30 (Nadia) and 31 (Franchi) Tuesday 13 April: Cantos 32 (Grace) and 33 (Yahfyah) Wednesday 14 April: Purgatory journals due (5 short[150–200 words], 5 long [400+ words]); Review; here's the key to review Thursday 15 April: No class; Gala practice Friday 16 April: Conceptual Review, Purgatory; here is the chart on the board by group(remember limited time) with some additions from Becky; 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. Monday 19 April: Test, Purgatory; HW: Read Letter to Cangrande della Scala Tuesday 20 April: Cangrande assignment made and begun in class Wednesday 21 April: In-class activity: Apostolic Letter Candor Lucis aeternae of the Holy Father Francis on the VII Centenary of the death of Dante Alighieri; here are discussion questions for today's Harkness. Thursday 22 April: Gala rehearsal Friday 23 April: No class; Gala filming Cangrande assignment due: May 4 Monday 4 January: Poetry unit begins: Lyric vs narrative (samples for illustration: "Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz, "The Boy" by Marie Howe, other selections from students); introduce Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets (see Perrine), Twentieth- (and Twenty-first-) Century sonnets; HW: Finish reading "The Nun's Priest's Tale"
Tuesday 5 January: Any remaining "Nun's Priest" due; Chaucer seminar and set-up for midterm Chaucer question; Chaucer activity Wednesday 6 January: Midterm study guide available; More sonnet samples; what a sonnet can do (themes); student samples (not uploaded here because student material--handed out in class and emailed to remote students); sonnet assignment made (here is checklist) Thursday 7 January: Iambic pentameter; writing lines; HW: Decide on sonnet topic and write couplet Friday 8 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.") Monday 11 January: Drafting the sonnet; sonnet checklist Tuesday 12 January: "A Green Crab's Shell": Gestural structure Wednesday 13 January: "A Green Crab's Shell," "Shirt": Speaker and occasion; Other examples: effects of form Midterm short answer review Thursday 14 January: Draft of sonnet due for workshop Friday 15 January: Lessons from workshop, review for midterm Monday 18 January: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day; no classes Midterms Midterm for English 10 will be 10:30am Thursday ************ Welcome to Q3 Monday 25 January: Review of poetry concepts so far: Lyricism, sonnet forms, gestural structure, speaker and occasion; effects of form; sample poems from Sound and Sense; HW: work on sonnet; pdf assignment Tuesday 26 January: image, symbol, metaphor, allusion; HW: work on sonnet Wednesday 27 January: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox; Poem for Harkness; HW: work on sonnet Thursday 28 January: Final sonnet due, along with draft work, in one uploaded pdf file with the version to grade on top--or on paper in class; celebratory reading; explication assignment made; poem choices possible Friday 29 January: No classes; March for Life Monday 1 February: Poem choices due; poems from The Wild Iris: effects of line Tuesday 2 February: Workday for poem explication: speaker and occasion Wednesday 3 February: Workday for poem explication: theme Thursday 4 February: Workday for poem explication: form Friday 5 February: Workday for poem explication: image Monday 8 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 9 February: Workday for poem explication: sound tropes Wednesday 10 February: Putting it all together; draft of paper due by 10pm Thursday 11 February: Poetry unit review; poetry review #2 Friday 12 February: No class; half day Monday 15 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 16 February: Poetry unit test; receive draft feedback Wednesday 17 February: Henry V introduction in class; History handout; Related Plays handout; HW: work on finalizing paper Thursday 18 February: Snow day! HW: work on finalizing paper Friday 19 February: Snow day! HW: finalize paper Final version of poetry paper due by class time Monday 22 February; Presentations Monday (volunteers eligible for extra credit), Tuesday, Wednesday Henry V Background Notes due Wednesday 24 February by 10pm. Thursday 25 February: In-school Field Trip: Henry V; character-theme handout; HW: 20 minutes of notes Friday 26 February: Last of the poetry presentations; 20 minutes in order to deepen the character and theme notes; here is the assignment for the upcoming in-class writing Monday 1 March: Character-Theme activity; prep for in-class writing Tuesday 2 March: In-class writing Wednesday 3 March: Henry round-up; relationship of the monarch to the people discussion; handout for activity Monday 16 November: No class; Mrs. Shirvanian's funeral
Tuesday 17 November: Begin Sir Gawain in class; alliterative verse; bob-and-wheel Wednesday 18 November: Beowulf project due Thursday 19 November: Poetry OutLoud Classroom Competition; Vocab review Friday 20 November: Vocabulary quiz Monday 23 November: All of Fitt 1 due Tuesday 24 November: Fitt 2 due through p. 75 only; here is the handout from class Thanksgiving Break Monday 30 November: Extra day off! Tuesday 1 December: Extra day off! Wednesday 2 December: End of Fitt 2 due; Here is the handout from class; Recitation assigned; use this website if you choose Middle English Thursday 3 December: Fitt 3 due; parallels and overall discussion Friday 4 December: Fitt 4 due; parallels and overall discussion Monday 7 December: Review of Gawain material for test Tuesday Tuesday 8 December: Sir Gawain and the Green Test; Sir Gawain and the Green Writing Project assignment available Wednesday 9 December: Canterbury Tales introduced in class; HW: work on creative writing; here is the General Prologue; here is "The Nun's Priest's Tale" Thursday 10 December: General Prologue in class; HW: work on creative writing Friday 11 December: General Prologue group work in class; HW: work on creative writing; Here is a checklist for the creative writing assignment to remind you of standards. Monday 14 December: "The Nun's Priest's Tale" begun in class; HW: work on creative writing Tuesday 15 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 Wednesday 16 December: Snow day! Teacher available for help with Gawain creative writing; here are the first two stanzas of the student sample we discussed in class Thursday 17 December: Poetry OutLoud during class; Sir Gawain recitation due before school, during break, during lunch, or after school; teacher feedback for writing project available by email--I'll make you a screencast Friday 18 December: No class; half day! Teacher feedback still available this afternoon; Sir Gawain creative writing project due as a pdf uploaded to the assignment in Jupiter by 9pm. Please include all materials in one file as a pdf, with the final version of the poem on top and all draft work and any marked drafts underneath. Please label clearly and please make the first thing I see when I open the document the final version, the one you want me to grade. Christmas Break Monday 19 October: Begin Beowulf in class (write draft of paper at home); 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
Tuesday 20 October: Beowulf in class (writing at home) Wednesday 21 October: Beowulf in class; finish reading through p. 49 Thursday 22 October: Beowulf classwork through p. 49 Friday 23 October: Draft of paper due; draft is the best version of the paper you can produce in the time allotted; feedback is most meaningful when you don't already know your errors! Monday 26 October: Drafts returned to students; Reading 1 due; here is in-class activity; remote students should take quiz during tutorial Tuesday 27 October: Reading 2 due; here is in-class activity Wednesday 28 October: Reading 3 due; here is one of the two in-class activities; vocabulary assigned Thursday 29 October: No class; surprise Fall Break! Any late-breaking paper-revision questions? Mrs. Walsh is available to answer questions this afternoon and evening Here is the flyer for Poetry OutLoud. Friday 30 October: No school; final Confessions paper due to the Jupiter turn-in by 10pm. Monday 2 November: No class; Halloween Festival Tuesday 3 November: Reading 4 due; vocabulary due to discussion forum Wednesday 4 November: Reading 5 due Thursday 5 November: Reading 6 due; review available; vocab cards/chart due for review (or come to office hours another day) Friday 6 November: Beowulf review in class Here is a discussion of the digressions. You can use it as a credible resource for interpreting the digressions/interstitial stories. Monday 9 November:Beowulf quest; Beowulf project assigned Tuesday 10 November: Proposals approved in class; Workday for Beowulf project Wednesday 11 November: Workday for Beowulf project Thursday 12 November: Workday for Beowulf project; project update due; receive Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Friday 13 November: No class; half day for parent conferences 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 3 September: Welcome to class; poem discussion
Friday 4 September: No class, but poem is due by appointment before the Welcome Assembly at Circle Manor Tuesday 8 September: Augustine intro lecture; book annotation; SQs available; SQ instruction; Unlucky 13 Common Errors Wednesday 9 September: Confessions Book 1 due; Discussion of SQ writing Thursday 10 September: Book 1, continued; 1 SQ due; Plato's Ladder of Love; Vocabulary assigned Friday 11 September: Confessions Book 2 due along with one study question Monday 14 September: Vocabulary (one word) due to Discussion Board; don't save all the reading until the last minute... Tuesday 15 September: Confessions Book 3 and one SQ Wednesday 16 September: Vocabulary discussed (see Discussion Board for student contributions); Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in class Thursday 17 September: Confessions Book 4 and one SQ Friday 18 September: SQ writing redux; common usage errors and quotation integration review Monday 21 September: Confessions Book 5 and one SQ Tuesday 22 September: Prep for in-class writing Wednesday 23 September: In-class writing Confessions, Books 1-5; book annotation check Thursday 24 September: Confessions Book 6, no SQ due; Culminating assignments available Friday 25 September: Half Day; No class Monday 28 September: Confessions Book 7 and 1 SQ due; receive returned work Tuesday 29 September: Vocabulary quiz 1; Book 7 in more depth Wednesday 30 September: 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 1 October: Book 9 in class; HW: work on culminating assignments Friday 2 October: Book 9 in class; HW: work on culminating assignments Monday 5 October: Insights from the end of Book 9; Workday for culminating assignments, esp. with an eye to prepping for test Tuesday 6 October: Review for test Wednesday 7 October: 2 Revised SQs due; mini-presentations Thursday 8 October: Additional review Friday 9 October: Confessions test Monday 12 October: No school; Columbus Day Tuesday 13 October: Workday for culminating assignments Wednesday 14 October: No class; PSAT day Thursday 15 October: Personal essay due; Proposal and thesis writing Friday 16 October: No class; festival day OLOR (proposal due to Jupiter turn-in by lunch) Due dates for Confessions assignments 2 Revised SQs: Wednesday, October 7 Personal Essay: Thursday, October 15 Essay: Proposal due: Friday, October 16 Draft due: Friday, October 23 (returned to you Monday, October 26); Draft is the best version you can produce in the time allotted, so that feedback can be maximally helpful. Final due: Friday, October 30 by 10pm uploaded to the turn-in in Jupiter Here is a more student-friendly version of materials discussed elsewhere
DEBATE MATERIALS Here are the propositions and teams. Here is the debate format handout. Here is a checklist for grading. Here is a checklist you will use to evaluate the debate you watch. Here is the screencast designed to clear up any questions that have emerged about the debate format. EXAM MATERIALS **Here is the handout for the first review; here is the screencast in which I talk through the handout** Here is a review of what you might expect on the poetry portion of the exam; here is the second part of that review. Exam Rules You'll get your exam--poem questions and essay prompt--in your Jupiter message inbox by 9am Tuesday morning. In the 90-minute exam period, you will spend 30 minutes answering questions about a poem and then 60 minutes preparing and writing an essay on Sense and Sensibility. You should print out if you can the questions about the poem and answer them on the sheet itself. You should handwrite your essay, double-spaced on loose leaf paper. Please use pen. When you are finished, you should scan your response as one pdf document (of several pages) and upload to the assignment/turn-in in Jupiter. All regular-time tests should be handed in by 10:45am--this deadline includes 15 minutes for scanning and uploading. A student should not use the Internet once she has opened the prompt. *************** Annotations and Textbook Turn-In Please remember to turn in your Sense and Sensibility book at textbook turn-in so that I can give you credit for annotations. I'll give you your book back in September. The other book you need to return is Sound and Sense. You may keep the rest for your library. Finally, thank you for all so much for your work, energy, creativity, and resilience during this difficult time! **Page numbers for each reading are listed at the bottom of this page**
Monday 4 May: View Introduction to Sense and Sensibility screencast (here's the handout I use as a base); Reading 1 due Tuesday 5 May: Reading 2 due; weekly Zoom call 2-3pm (have completed reading 1 before call) Wednesday 6 May: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 7 May: Reading 3 due Friday 8 May: Reading 4 due; weekly assignment due Monday 11 May: Reading 5 due Tuesday 12 May: Reading 6 due; weekly Zoom call 2-3pm (have completed reading 5 before call) Wednesday 13 May: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 14 May: Reading 7 due Friday 15 May: Reading 8 due; weekly assignment made (due on Tuesday Zoom call); here is a screencast that explains it a little further Monday 18 May: Reading 9 due Tuesday 19 May: Reading 10 due; weekly Zoom call 2-3:30pm (have completed reading 9 before call) Wednesday 20 May: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 21 May: Reading 11 due Friday 22 May: Reading 12 due; weekly assignment due by midnight; exam review materials available EXAM REVIEW **Here is the handout for the first review; here is the screencast in which I talk through the handout** Here is a review of what you might expect on the poetry portion of the exam; here is the second part of that review. Monday 25 May: No classes; Memorial Day Tuesday 26 May: Reading 13 due; Zoom call to finish book and set up debate (have finished book before call) DEBATE MATERIALS Here are the propositions and teams. Here is the debate format handout. Here is a checklist for grading. Here is a checklist you will use to evaluate the debate you watch. Here is the screencast designed to clear up any questions that have emerged about the debate format. Wednesday 27 May: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 28 May: Workday for debate (Read Ros Ballaster's Introduction to your book) Friday 29 May: Workday for debate Monday 1 June: Debate by Zoom call 5-6 pm; Final exam will focus on Sense and Sensibility and a cold poem analysis Reading 1: 5-33 Reading 2: 34-58 Reading 3: 59-88 Reading 4: 89-113 Reading 5: 114-145 Reading 6: 146-170 Reading 7: 171-199 Reading 8: 200-224 Reading 9: 225-252 Reading 10: 253-281 Reading 11: 282-310 Reading 12: 311-335 Reading 13: 336-353 (end) |