Tuesday 10 March: Purgatorio introduction
Wednesday 11 March: No class; Gala practice Thursday 12 March: Canto 1 Friday 13 March: Cantos 2 and 3 *****Move to Distance Learning***** Here's the Dante background overview. Here's the handout about Cantos 2 and 3 ************************************************************************************************************************************************** Week 1 Wednesday 18 March: Begin with these notes; read Cantos 4 and 5; after reading, visit the discussion forum for English 10 on Jupiter; you are required to make two posts to process your reading, per the questions and instructions there; this assignment is due by 5pm. ***Notes for the discussion forum: In Jupiter, this shows up in your Messages and is marked "required." You should be able to see everyone else's comment and then add your own. Feel free to refer overtly to other people's comments: "As Fiorela notes, I think that Pia...but I think this for a different reason..." Make your relationships with the various ideas clear. Thursday 19 March: Here is a screencast that introduces distance learning (material from yesterday) and responds to the Canto 4 discussion forum; Here is a screencast that handles Canto 5 and introduces the student presentations. Please make sure you watch the business about Paolo and Francesca, beginning about 4:50 so that you get that outside information from Inferno. Cantos 6, 7, 8; after reading, complete this worksheet individually--you may talk to others about the text but not share answers--scan and hand in as a pdf through Dropbox by 5pm today; Here is the overview of student presentations as a handout. To scan the worksheet, use a free scanner app on your phone--Ella S likes the scanner in Notes on iPhone. I use Adobe Scan, but there are others that produce pdfs as well. Work must be in pdf form to be graded. You may also label clearly and type, convert to pdf and upload to Dropbox. Friday 20 March: Cantos 9 and 10; After reading, please complete these questions and submit the worksheet as a pdf via Dropbox by 5pm. NB: I ask you to speculate about symbolism. Please don't look up answers on the Internet but actually speculate on your own, based on your reading. I won't count off for reasonable answers that ultimately don't line up with what the critics say, and they disagree, anyway! We'll talk through the received answers on our Zoom call Monday. Here are screencasts that give more information about Cantos 1 and 2, Cantos 3-7 (since we've already done strong work with 4 and 5, it is easy for me to go faster and to get to material you need), and Cantos 8-9. You need to watch these videos to get information not otherwise available on handouts or earlier screencasts. Thanks for spending the time. Here's the handout that's the basis of the screencasts. The screencasts answer many of the questions asked on the handout. ************************************************************************************************************************************************** Week 2 Monday 23 March: Have you watched the Ante-Purgatory screencasts? If not, do that now; Cantos 11 and 12; attend Zoom call at 2:05; please read before the call. You do not need a phone number to attend a Zoom call. Download the Zoom app to your phone (or make an account on your laptop) and use my personal Zoom number to join the meeting: 755 804 5754. Tuesday 24 March: Cantos 13 and 14; after reading, visit discussion forum; think through Canto presentations Today's discussion board asks for one well developed response. See the instructions on the discussion board for details. You must use short, frequent quotations, correctly blended and cited, to receive credit. Wednesday 25 March: Cantos 15 and 16; after reading, visit the Discussion Forum. Today's forum, the last of this kind, asks for one well developed response for you to post after you have completed the reading. Thursday 26 March: Canto 17, Review Cantos 1-17; do the review before you attend Zoom call: Group 1: 1:30-2:10: Emeli, Bella, Rachel, Lupe, Brianna, Katherine, Ella S., Taylor Group 2: 2:15-2:55: Rose, Ella B., Fiorela, Cara, Vivian, Sofia, Ashley, Maggie Friday 27 March: End of third marking period; Test Cantos 1-17. This test is available as a Juno Pod. You can find it on your To Do list in Jupiter. You may start this test between noon and 2pm, and you have an hour to take it. Please don't use notes, give or receive help, per Brookewood Handbook. ************************************************************************************************************************************************** Week 3 Monday 30 March: Purgatorio journals assigned; Cantos 18 (Maggie) and 19 (Ella S.) Presentations will be posted here after noon; after you have read and viewed the presentations, visit the discussion forum. You have until 6pm to comment and presenters have until midnight to summarize the discussion's best answers to the discussion questions. Students presenting may upload presentations to the Dropbox in whatever form you have chosen; you may also email them or send me a link if you end up uploading to YouTube or similar. See March 19 (above) or Jupiter assignment for the assignment sheet. Here is Maggie's Canto 18 presentation Here is Ella S's Canto 19 presentation *** Tuesday 31 March: Cantos 20 (Katherine) and 21 (Ella B.) Look at the Discussion forum highlight and summary written by Ella S. Maggie made her highlight and summary as a screencast; listen to complete your learning •Read Cantos 20 and 21 •View Katherine's Canto 20 presentation •View Ella B.'s Canto 21 presentation •Hit the discussion board before 6pm *** Wednesday 1 April: Wonder Wednesday *** Thursday 2 April: Cantos 22 (Sofia) and 23 (Rose); Zoom call (all students) 2-3pm to discuss Cantos 18-23 Read at the Discussion forum highlights and summaries Read Cantos 22 and 23 Here is Sofia's Canto 22 presentation Here is Rose's Canto 23 presentation Remember the Zoom call at 2pm Hit the discussion board before 6pm; please be sure to read the directions before you post, as they contain some common errors we should clean up ***** Friday 3 April: Cantos 24 (Rachel) and 25 (Vivian) Read at the Discussion forum highlight and summary written by Sofia Read Cantos 24 and 25 Here is Rachel's Canto 24 presentation Here is Vivian's Canto 25 presentation Hit the discussion forum between 12:30pm and 6pm; please be sure to read the directions before you post, as they contain some common errors we should clean up *************************************************************************************************************************************************** Week 4 Monday 6 April: : Cantos 26 (Ashley) and 27 (Emeli) Read the student-contributed discussion forum highlight and summary Read Cantos 26 and 27 Here is Ashley's Canto 26 presentation Here is Emeli's Canto 27 presentation Hit the discussion forum between noon and 6pm Tuesday 7 April: Cantos 28 (Lupe) and 29 (Brianna) Review summaries and highlights from yesterday Read Cantos 28 and 29 View Lupe's Canto 28 presentation Brianna's Canto 29 presentation Hit the discussion forum before 6pm Wednesday 8 April: Wonder Wednesday *************************************************************************************************************************************************** Week 5, When we return from Easter Wednesday 15 April: Wonder Wednesday Thursday 16 April: Read summaries and highlights from last week Read Cantos 30 and 31 View Taylor's Canto 30 presentation View Bella's Canto 31 presentation **Make notes on Taylor's and Bella's SQs for discussion during Zoom call (no discussion forum today) Cantos 30 (Taylor) and 31 (Bella); Zoom call (all students) 2-3pm to discuss Cantos 24-31 Friday 17 April: Read Cantos 32 and 33 View Fiorela's Canto 32 presentation View Cara's Canto 33 presentation Visit the discussion forum before 6pm *************************************************************************************************************************************************** Week 6 Monday 20 April: Purgatory journals due (5 short [150-200 words], 5 long [400+ words]), see assignment sheet on 30 March or on Jupiter assignment; Review materials available Tuesday 21 April: Review Purgatory, have completed the fill-in-the-blank review before the call; Zoom call 2pm-3pm for all Wednesday 22 April: Wonder Wednesday; Jane Austen Day! Thursday 23 April: Test, Purgatory Friday 24 April: Read Letter to Cangrande della Scala; make notes for discussion *************************************************************************************************************************************************** Monday 27 April: Zoom call 2-3 to discuss letter and prep assignment Tuesday 28 April: Workday for Cangrande assignment Wednesday 29 April: Wonder Wednesday; Medieval Day! Thursday 29 April: Workday for Cangrande assignment Friday 30 April: Cangrande assignment due Thursday 13 February: Henry introduction research day; working on papers at home
Friday 14 February: No class; half day Tuesday 18 February: Reading Henry in class; working on papers at home Wednesday 19 February: Final draft of poetry paper due; Poetry presentations; Reading Henry at home, through 2.2 Thursday 20 February: Poetry presentations; Reading Henry at home, 2.3 and 2.4 Friday 21 February: Poetry presentations; No homework because of the school play Monday 24 February: Discuss 2.2-2.4 (end of Act 2) and read in class; HW: Read 3.1-3.2 Tuesday 25 February: Carnevale, no class; HW: Read 3.3-3.5 Wednesday 26 February: Activities through 3.5; HW: Read 3.6 and 3.7 (through end of Act 3) Thursday 27 February: Activites through Act 3; HW: Notes on Henry’s soliloquy, 4.1 Friday 28 February: No class; St. Anselm's tournament Monday 2 March: Notes on Henry’s soliloquy due; Read on in class Henry's soliloquy-->St. Crispan's Day; HW: Read 4.4-4.6. Tuesday 3 March: Discussion and reading on; Read 5.1-entrance of Katherine 5.2.100 Wednesday 4 March: Finish the play! Classwork-->homework connecting character to theme Thursday 5 March: Finish material with character and theme; themes in the play; specific discussion about the relationship of the monarch to the people; HW: Role of the monarch exercise Friday 6 March: Prep for in-class writing Monday 9 March: In-class writing: Themes and characters in Henry V Week of 9 December: Finish Chaucer, have an overview of lyric vs. narrative poetry, introduce Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, Twentieth- (and Twenty-first-) Century sonnets
Monday 16 December: Snow Day! Tuesday 17 December: More sonnet samples; what a sonnet can do (themes); student samples Wednesday 18 December: Iambic pentameter; writing lines Thursday 19 December: Rhyme and gesture; image, metaphor, and symbol; how to write a symbol in your poem (i.e., "The natural object is the adequate symbol.") Friday 20 December: Drafting the sonnet; midterm study guide available Christmas Break Monday 6 January: Sonnet review; sonnet checklist Tuesday 7 January: "A Green Crab's Shell": Gestural structure Wednesday 8 January: Midterm review Thursday 9 January: "A Green Crab's Shell," "Shirt": Speaker and occasion; Other examples: effects of form Friday 10 January: Draft of sonnet due for workshop Monday 13 January: "A Green Crab's Shell," "Shirt": Image, symbol, metaphor, allusion Tuesday 14 January: Antithesis, oxymoron, paradox Wednesday 15 January: Poems from The Wild Iris: Effects of line Thursday 16 January: Midterm review; sonnet due Friday 17 January: Midterm review Midterms: English Midterm will be Tuesday, 21 January, 8:45 in Heavener Hall Monday 27 January: Explication assigned; Choose poem for explication; let me know in class or email your selection by midnight Tuesday 28 January: Workday for poem explication: speaker and occasion Wednesday 29 January: Workday for poem explication: theme Thursday 30 January: Workday for poem explication: form Friday 31 January: Half day; No class Monday 3 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 4 February: Workday for poem explication: image Wednesday 5 February: Workday for poem explication: sound Thursday 6 February: No class; Field trip to the Folger to see Merry Wives of Windsor Friday 7 February: Putting it all together; draft of paper due by midnight Monday 10 February: Poetry unit review Tuesday 11 February: Receive feedback on papers; begin Henry V Wednesday 12 February: Poetry unit test Final draft of paper due Wednesday 19 February Presentations Wednesday and Thursday 19 and 20 February Tuesday 12 November: Vocab quiz; brief intro to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; begin reading in class
Wednesday 13 November: Fitt I due Thursday 14 November: Fitt II due Friday 15 November: No class; half day (Fitt III is long; start early) Monday 18 November: Fitt I and II activities Tuesday 19 November: Recitation assigned; use this website if you choose Middle English Wednesday 20 November: Fitt III due; Poetry OutLoud classroom competition Thursday 21 November: Work on recitation (Mrs. Walsh on Field Trip) Friday 22 November: Fitt IV due; parallels and overall discussion; here is a description of the pentangle Monday 25 November: Sir Gawain and the Green Test; Sir Gawain and the Green Writing Project assignment available; here's the handout about form Tuesday 26 November: No class; St. Cecilia's Day Thanksgiving Break Monday 2 December: Sir Gawain and the Green Writing Project begun in earnest Tuesday 3 December: Canterbury Tales introduced in class; extra credit stanza assigned; HW: work on creative writing; here is the General Prologue; here is "The Nun's Priest's Tale" Wednesday 4 December: "The Nun's Priest's Tale" day 1 in class; HW: work on creative writing Thursday 5 December: "The Nun's Priest's Tale" day 2 in class; HW: work on creative writing Friday 6 December: "The Nun's Priest's Tale" day 3 in class; HW: work on creative writing Monday 9 December: Chaucer Review Tuesday 10 December: Chaucer Test Wednesday 11 December: Sir Gawain recitation due Thursday 12 December: Poetry unit begins Sir Gawain Creative Writing due Monday 16 December Tuesday 15 October: Personal mini-essay due; Begin Beowulf in class
Wednesday 16 October: No class; PSAT in the morning & half-day for upper school Thursday 17 October: Beowulf in class Friday 18 October: Draft of Confessions essay due; Beowulf classwork through l. 370 due Monday 21 October: (People who left for sports may hand in Beowulf classwork today) Draft discussion; reading through p. 49 due Tuesday 22 October: Reading 1 due Wednesday 23 October: Reading 2 due Thursday 24 October: Paper conferences and workday Friday 25 October: No school; Archdiocesan Professional Day; Confessions paper due Monday 28 October: Reading 3 due Tuesday 29 October: Reading 4 due Wednesday 30 October: Reading 5 due Thursday 31 October: No class; Halloween festival; Reading 6 due; review available Friday 1 November: Beowulf review in class; Beowulf Quest for students on Italian trip (other students may take it this day as well if an extra grade is desired) Monday 4 November: Beowulf project assigned; last day to hand in Confessions in-class rewrite Tuesday 5 November: Proposals approved in class; Workday for Beowulf project Wednesday 6 November: Workday for Beowulf project; Beowulf quest Thursday 7 November: Workday for Beowulf project Wednesday 6 November: Workday for Beowulf project Thursday 7 November: Workday for Beowulf project; project update due at the end of class Friday 8 November: Workday for Beowulf project Monday 11 November: Beowulf project due (represents 5 class days and homework times, about 6 hours of work total) Tuesday 12 November: Vocabulary quiz; Begin Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Important dates: Essay final is due no later than midnight Friday 25 October, to the Dropbox; include pictures/scans of the marked draft if you submit electronically. In-class rewrite along with the old, marked original is due Wednesday 30 October. 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 Here is the Dropbox URL for any materials you wish to upload:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/S5CiLxvVjAOIjOgV0KnS Here it is as a link. This URL works; we used it all last year. Please try a different browser and/or ask classmates for help if you are having trouble getting your device to talk to the Dropbox. Wednesday 4 September: Welcome, policies; book annotation; "Testing 1-2-3" assignment made; Poem practice Thursday 5 September: Poem due in class; "Testing 1-2-3" due before class; Confessions distributed Friday 6 September: No class; afternoon assembly; begin reading Confessions Book 1 Monday 9 September: Augustine intro lecture; SQs available; SQ instruction; Unlucky 13 Common Errors Tuesday 10 September: Confessions Book 1 due, along with one study question; Discussion of SQ writing Wednesday 11 September: Book 1, continued; Plato's Ladder of Love; Vocabulary assigned Thursday 12 September: Confessions Book 2 due along with one study question Friday 13 September: Vocabulary (one word) due to Dropbox; Aeneas and Dido in prep for Book 3 Monday 16 September: Confessions Book 3 and one SQ Tuesday 17 September: Vocabulary discussed; here is master vocabulary list (student contributed; watch for corrections in class), Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in class Wednesday 18 September: Confessions Book 4 and one SQ Thursday 19 September: SQ writing redux; common usage errors and quotation integration review Friday 20 September: Confessions Book 5 and one SQ Monday 23 September: Prep for in-class writing Tuesday 24 September: In-class writing Confessions, Books 1-5; book annotation check Wednesday 25 September: Confessions Book 6, no SQ due; Vocabulary quiz; Culminating assignments available Thursday 26 September: Field Trip! I Henry IV at the Folger! Friday 27 September: No class; Book 7 SQ and vocabulary word due Dropbox (SQ may be turned in to tray, but vocab word must be submitted electronically) Monday 30 September (Picture Day): Confessions Book 7 discussed Tuesday 1 October: "Allegory of the Cave" continued; Book 8 begun in class Wednesday 2 October: No school; Funeral for Joseph W. McPherson Thursday 3 October: Confessions Book 8 due (no SQ) Friday 4 October: No class; afternoon festival (Lepanto Day); Book 9 SQ due to tray or via Dropbox Monday 7 October: Confessions Book 9 discussed Tuesday 8 October: Revised SQs due (2 questions) with marked originals (okay to submit revisions via Dropbox and to hand in marked originals in class); review; personal mini-essay assigned Wednesday 9 October: Review; essay assignments discussed; checklist for essay Thursday 10 October: Test: The Confessions Friday 11 October: Thesis workday Monday 14 October: No School; Columbus Day Tuesday 15 October: Personal mini-essay due; Begin Beowulf in class Wednesday 16 October: No class; PSAT in the morning & half-day for upper school Thursday 17 October: Beowulf in class Friday 18 October: Draft of Confessions essay due Important dates: Essay final is due no later than midnight Friday 25 October, to the Dropbox; include pictures/scans of the marked draft if you submit electronically. In-class rewrite along with the old, marked original is due Wednesday 30 October. **Vocabulary will be reviewed periodically in May; words accrue throughout the month**
Here is the Dropbox URL for any materials you wish to upload: https://www.dropbox.com/request/S5CiLxvVjAOIjOgV0KnS Monday 29 April: Reading 1 due Tuesday 30 April: Reading 2 due Wednesday 1 May: Reading 3 due Thursday 2 May: Readings 1-3 activities Friday 3 May: No classes; Medieval Festival Monday 6 May: Reading 4 due Tuesday 7 May: Reading 5 due Wednesday 8 May: Reading 6 due Thursday 9 May: No class; Field trip to the Shakespeare Theatre to see The Oresteia Friday 10 May: Reading 7 due Monday 13 May: Reading 8 due Tuesday 14 May: Reading 9 due Wednesday 15 May: Extra credit Cangrande assignment due; Readings 1-9 activities Thursday 16 May: Reading 10 due; no class, standardized test Friday 17 May: Reading 11 due Monday 20 May: Reading 12 due Tuesday 21 May: Reading 13 due Wednesday 22 May: Reading 14 due Thursday 23 May: Reading 15 due; Class canceled for spontaneous JWM field trip Friday 24 May: No class; Half day Monday 27 May: No classes; Memorial Day Tuesday 28 May: Discussion of overall novel; What's at stake; overview of debate Wednesday 29 May: Introduction essay to Sense and Sensibility by Ros Ballaster due; Debate proposition set up and voting; format for debate; work time for debate Thursday 30 May: Workday for debate Friday 31 May: Debate Monday 3 June: May vocabulary test (here's a sample test); Review for exam English exam is Tuesday 4 June, 8:30 a.m. Exam review materials: Cumulative vocab list Final review sheet 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) Here is the Dropbox URL for any materials you wish to upload: https://www.dropbox.com/request/S5CiLxvVjAOIjOgV0KnS Tuesday 12 March: Dante intro Wednesday 13 March: Canto I Thursday 14 March: Cantos II and III Friday 15 March: No class; gala rehearsal; Cantos IV and V Monday 18 March: Cantos VI and VII Tuesday 19 March: No class; afternoon festival Wednesday 20 March: Canto VIII Thursday 21 March: Cantos IX and X Friday 22 March: Student-led discussions begin: Cantos XI and XII; poem due for recitation Monday 25 March: No class; afternoon festival Tuesday 26 March: Cantos XIII (Chiara) and XIV (Aleana) Wednesday 27 March: Cantos XV (Allison) and XVI Thursday 28 March: Canto XVII (Aleksandra), Review Cantos I-XVII; Answers to the review Friday 29 March: Test Cantos I-XVII Monday 1 April: Purgatorio journals assigned; Cantos XVIII (Gracie) and XIX Tuesday 2 April: March Vocabulary test; Cantos XX (Grace M.) and XXI Wednesday 3 April: Cantos XXII (Grace O.) and XXIII Thursday 4 April: No class; half day Friday 5 April: No class; gala practice Monday 8 April: No class; gala day off Tuesday 9 April: Cantos XXIV, XXV, and XXVI (Katya) Wednesday 10 April: Cantos XXVII, XXVIII (Aggie) Thursday 11 April: Cantos XXIX (Ashna), XXX (Bryanne); March Vocab Re-take available at the beginning of lunch Friday 12 April: No class; Jane Austen Day Monday 15 April: Cantos XXXI, XXXII (Gabri) Tuesday 16 April: XXXIII (Gabri); Purgatorio journals due (5 short [150–200 words], 5 long [400+ words]); Review materials available **Easter Break** Wednesday 24 April: Review, Purgatorio; answers to plot review with blanks Thursday 25 April: Review, Purgatorio Friday 26 April: Test, Purgatorio Tuesday 26 February: Bring laptops/tablets to class; Henry V background research intro
Wednesday 27 February: 10th Grade Henry V day! Thursday 28 February: Vocabulary review; some cumulative activities Friday 1 March: Half day; No class (St. Anselm's Tournament) Monday 4 March: February Vocabulary test; cross-cutting theme round-up Tuesday 5 March: Speeches and themes notes due (20 minutes of work); discussion Wednesday 6 March: Characters and themes notes due (20 minutes of work); sample prompt for in-class writing Thursday 7 March: Prep for in-class writing Friday 8 March: In-class writing, Henry V Monday 11 March: Reflections on Henry V; viewing of final scene Here is the Dropbox link for any materials you wish to upload:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/S5CiLxvVjAOIjOgV0KnS Monday 28 January: Choose poem for explication; let me know in class or email your selection by midnight Tuesday 29 January: Snow dismissal! Wednesday 30 January: Snow day! Thursday 31 January: Gestural structure; speaker and occasion Friday 1 February: Half day; No class Monday 4 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 5 February: Theme; Form Wednesday 6 February: Image Thursday 7 February: Sound Friday 8 February: Putting it all together; draft of paper due by midnight Monday 11 February: Draft returned to students; workday to discuss comments and make progress Tuesday 12 February: Diction: Denotation and connotation Wednesday 13 February: Effects of line; Enjambment Thursday 14 February: Final paper due Friday 15 February: Half day; No class Monday 18 February: Presidents' Day, No school Tuesday 19 February: Poetry unit review; Cold poem exercise; Poem to go with cold poem exercise Wednesday 20 February: Snow day Thursday 21 February: Poetry unit test Friday 22 February: Poetry explication presentations Monday 25 February: Poetry explication presentations |