Friday 26 April: Grandparents' Day: 2nd period only (demonstration)
Monday 29 April: Introductory lecture to Oedipus and Antigone; history of drama handout; lecture of Oedipus' story and of Seven Against Thebes Tuesday 30 April: Begin reading Oedipus in class; work on Frankenstein paper at home Wednesday 1 May: Oedipus 159–177 due by class time Thursday 2 May: Oedipus 178–195 due by class time Friday 3 May: 1st Friday Mass, period 2; workday for Frankenstein paper, period 4 Monday 6 May: Oedipus 196–213 due by class time Tuesday 7 May: Oedipus 214–231 due by class time; collaborative mini-project: Oedipus and Aristotle Wednesday 8 May: Field Trip; Frankenstein paper/story due before the school day Thursday 9 May: Workday for mini-project Friday 10 May: Workday for mini-project Monday 13 May: Mini-project presentations Tuesday 14 May: Field trip to the Shakespeare Theatre Wednesday 15 May: Begin Antigone in class Thursday 16 May: Antigone: 59–77 due by class time Friday 17 May: Medieval Day Monday 20 May: Antigone 78–95 due by class time Tuesday 21 May: Antigone 96–113 due by class time (4th period, no class, but read with the schedule) Wednesday 22 May: Antigone 113–end due by class time Thursday 23 May: Review of Theban plays: Prep for debate Friday 24 May: Prep and practice for debate Aristotle's Poetics Tips and Admonitions for Debate Monday 27 May: Memorial Day; review materials available; here is JPII Letter to Women (see exam review) Tuesday 28 May: Debate; exam review overview Wednesday 29 May: Debate; exam review essays Thursday 30 May: In-class writing: Antigone Friday 31 May: Exam review short answer; optional "Frost" rewrite due Monday 3 June: Last day of classes before exams: Exam review Monday 26 February: Introduction to Frankenstein, European Romanticism; Frankenstein SQs
Tuesday 27 February: (Period 2 will meet; Period 4 has Gala practice) Here is an audio book version to help you as you read the paper book; Reading 1 due (readings are listed on the SQs); here is a little disquisition on the novel's use of the word "dæmon"; here is a checklist for your SQ Wednesday 28 February: SQ for Reading 1 due; present sq as a mini-example of academic writing, well written, short, low-stakes practice; see how well you can make and defend a claim, blend and cite, etc. Thursday 29 February: Reading 2 due Friday 1 March: (Period 2: All-School Mass; Period 4 meets) SQ for Reading 2 due; Activity for Reading 2 Monday 4 March: Reading 3 due; Bildungsroman of Victor; Frost at Midnight Tuesday 5 March: SQ for Reading 3 due; the monster's appearance Wednesday 6 March: Reading 4 due Thursday 7 March: Reading 4 SQ due Friday 8 March: Reading 5 due Monday 11 March: Reading 5 SQ due; here is a very cool geography project done by librarians at the University of Maryland (Be careful not to read past where we are in the novel!) Tuesday 12 March: Rewrite/Revision of earlier essay due in class; submit new version as link to the Google Doc; hand in on paper the old, graded version and any intermediate draft work Wednesday 13 March: (2nd period: No class) Reading 6 due; Review of literary terms; Review of Readings 1-6 and set-up for test Thursday 14 March: (2nd period: any remaining Reading 6 + SQ) Reading 6 SQ due Friday 15 March: Test: literary terms and Frankenstein, Readings 1–6 Monday 18 March: Period 2: Revise one SQ as second-draft academic writing (work on this assignment in class; ask questions); here is checklist for revision Period 4: Work on poem, begin reading 7 Tuesday 19 March: Period 2: Revised SQ due; work on poem/begin Reading 7; here is the French dictation to help you practice Period 4: Gala practice; homework: revise SQ Wednesday 20 March: Period 2: Reading 7 due; French dictation, section of "Frost" (10 lines required, more possible) Period 4: Revised SQ due; French dictation Thursday 21 March: Period 2: Reading 7 SQ due Period 4: Reading 7 due (no SQ) Friday 22 March: No school; Gala practice Monday 25 March: Period 2: Reading 8 due; Period 4: No class; Maryland Day Tuesday 26 March: Period 2: Reading 9 due; Period 4: Reading 8 due Wednesday 27 March: Period 4: Reading 9 due; Everyone: French dictation, whole section of "Frost" due Easter Break Monday 8 April: No class; Gala day off! Tuesday 9 April: Review of Frankenstein so far; themes and style Wednesday 10 April: Reading 10 due Thursday 11 April: Recitation in class: section of "Frost" + coda due Friday 12 April: Reading 11 due (no SQ) Monday 15 April: Reading 12 due Tuesday 16 April: In-class writing: "Frost at Midnight" and Romanticism Wednesday 17 April: Reading 13 due Thursday 18 April: Reading 13 SQ due; review materials available Friday 19 April: Jane Austen Day Monday 22 April: Review for Frankenstein test Tuesday 23 April: Frankenstein test; paper assigned; book due for annotation check Wednesday 24 April: Discuss paper topics; propose paper topic by the end of class Thursday 15 February: "Ithaka" due; Macbeth in-school field trip culminating in word journals, Aristotle, and Guilt-o-meter activities
Friday 16 February: Informal presentations about word journals, Aristotle, and Guilt-o-meter; HW: Act 1 and 2, choose 2 SQs from each and answer with notes, then take 1 of your answers and expand into a well written paragraph. All answers should refer to passages. The paragraphs should blend and cite. Here are the Macbeth handouts: Intro, journals, Act I, Act II, Act III, Act IV, Act V. For the SQs, please write notes for two questions from each act and then choose one question from Acts I and II and one question from Acts III–V to write a proper paragraph answer for. Each paragraph (total of 2 for the whole assignment) should include a topic sentence, passages blended and cited as discussed, and good commentary asserting your answer clearly and emphatically. Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents Day Tuesday 20 February: 2nd period no class; 4th period Act 1 and 2 activities due Wednesday 21 February: 2nd period Acts 1 and 2 activities due; 4th period Acts 3, 4, and 5 activities due Thursday 22 February: 2nd period Acts 3, 4, 5 activities due; Prep for test; here is a review; here is a key to the review Friday 23 February: Test: Macbeth Homework-free weekend (what!) but you must go see the play Monday 26 February: Have some notes about the production--what surprised you? what different choices would you make? Friday 8 December: 2nd period: Begin Odyssey; 4th period: No class, All-School Mass
Monday 11 December: Snow delay! Period 4: Odyssey Book 1 due; here are some study questions to keep you on track (these will be handled in class--they are not assigned except in class, severally, for discussion) Tuesday 12 December: 2nd period: Odyssey Book 1 due; 4th period: No class, Poetry Out Loud Wednesday 13 December: Mrs. Walsh on field trip; read Odyssey in class (remainder for homework) Thursday 14 December: Discussion of Odyssey Books 1 and 2; here are study questions for Book 2 (for discussion) Friday 15 December: Odyssey 3 due; Odyssey presentations assigned Monday 18 December: Odyssey 4 due Tuesday 19 December: Prep for Bildungsroman of Telemachus Wednesday 20 December: Bildungsroman of Telemachus in-class writing Please remember that presentations have to happen in order. As per the policy, if you miss your presentation, even for a good reason, we will cover the book in class and you will have a writing assignment in lieu of your presentation. If we miss a day because of snow, the reading schedule will continue, though presentations will lag a bit until we can catch up. Thursday 4 January: "Ithaka" introduced; Odyssey vocabulary Friday 5 January: 2nd period: No class, All-School Mass; 4th period Odyssey 5 due Monday 8 January: 2nd period: Odyssey 5; 4th period Odyssey 6 Tuesday 9 January: 2nd period: Odyssey 6; 4th period Odyssey 7 Wednesday 10 January: 2nd period: Odyssey 7; 4th period: Odyssey 8 Thursday 11 January: 2nd period: Odyssey 8; 4th period: review for midterm Friday 12 January: Review for midterm Here's the vocab review Here's the short answer review Here's the transitional expression sheet Here's the Tarika Sankar essay with the great transitions Here's the Checklist for Essay Monday 15 January: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, no classes Midterms Snow days; mayhem. Here is updated schedule Wednesday 24 January: Odyssey presentations begin; Odyssey 9 (4=Lauren); Brookewood classic Classics video Thursday 25 January: Odyssey 10 (2=Mela, 4=Sean) Friday 26 January: Odyssey 11 (2=Audrey, 4=Ella) Monday 29 January: Odyssey 12 (2=Elena, 4=Lucia) Tuesday 30 January: Odyssey 13 (2=Danika, 4=Bridie); vocabulary quiz Wednesday 31 January: Odyssey 14 (2=Penny, 4=Stella) Thursday 1 Feb: (skip Odyssey 15) Odyssey 16 due (2=Lucy) Here is a summary to help you with skipped books. Friday 2 February: (skip Odyssey 17, 18); 2: no class, All-School Mass; 4: Odyssey 19 due (Marija) Monday 5 February: 2: Odyssey 19 (Charlie); 4: (skip Odyssey 20), Odyssey 21 due (Gabriela); French dictation "Ithaka" Tuesday 6 February: 2: (skip Odyssey 20), Odyssey 21 due (Vivi); 4: No class, Gala practice Wednesday 7 February: Odyssey 22 due (2=Luci, 4=Agnes) Thursday 8 February: Odyssey 23 due (2=Bella, 4=Lilian); let me know if you would like to recite "Ithaka" any class day between now and Feb. 15 (others due that day); Danika recites! Stella recites! Rosselyn too! Friday 9 February: Odyssey 24 due (2=Lily, 4=Rosselyn); Odyssey review materials available; Lauren recites! Ella too! Monday 12 February: No classes; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 13 February: Odyssey test Wednesday 14 February: Workday for paper re-write (2nd period); No class 4th (All-School Mass) Thursday 15 February: "Ithaka" due; 9th Grade In-School Field Trip: Macbeth; Paper re-write assigned Tuesday 14 November: Begin Agamemnon in class while working on project at home; Agamemnon introduction; order of projects established
Wednesday 15 November: Continue Agamemnon in class while finishing project at home; here is link to a reasonable production; here is part two; here is the handout about MLA style Thursday 16 November: Project presentations Day 1 Friday 17 November: 9th grade on field trip to St. Alphonsus and Walters Monday 20 November: Project presentations Day 2 Tuesday 21 November: Project presentations Day 3 if needed (Project presentation quiz the day after projects are finished but not the Monday of return from Thanksgiving) Thanksgiving Break Monday 27 November: 2nd period: Read forward in Agamemnon 4th period: Presentation quiz Tuesday 28 November: Both periods, for Tuesday have read through p. 36; here is Aristotle's definition of tragedy Wednesday 29 November: Reading through p. 65 due; Poetry OutLoud in-class competition; here, in answer to Bella's excellent question, is a student paper on the fire-beacon and its plausibility Thursday 30 November: Have finished the play Friday 1 December: No class 2nd period (First Friday Mass); Agamemnon review; here is a summary of the full Oresteia Monday 4 December: Agamemnon review; here is handout from class Tuesday 5 December: Agamemnon test; Agamemnon essay topics distributed Wednesday 6 December: Thesis generation workshop Thursday 7 December: Thesis gauntlet activity Friday 8 December: 2nd period: Begin The Odyssey; 4th period: No class, All-School Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception The essay on Agamemnon is due Tuesday 19 December by 10pm. A student submitting an essay should: • work entirely on the same Google Doc • give me editing access to the Doc • turn in the link to the Google Doc through the Jupiter slot This is a straightforward process that we have practiced and completed for other assignments in the first quarter. At this point, if I receive from you a pdf or if I have to request access to your document, I will have to deduct half a letter grade once I can finally grade the essay. Books of The Iliad we will read: 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 16, 22, 23, 24
Monday 25 September: Receive drafts in class; discuss drafts; quick intro to The Iliad. HW: Work on revising essay for Thursday Tuesday 26 September: Continue reading Book 1 in class. Epic, the oral tradition (here is the class handout); book annotation; HW: Finish reading Book 1 Wednesday 27 September: Book 1 due. Comparative translations; HW: Finalize essay Thursday 28 September: Keats final essay due; Iliad Book 2 handled in class; Singer of Tales video clips; sample Unlucky 13 quiz; here is a blank quiz; here is a key. Please read directions. Email tonight if questions, as I will not be in school tomorrow. Friday 29 September: Unlucky 13 quiz; Comparative translation exercise in class; HW: Everyone should read Book 3, up to just line 178. Feel free to read ahead (and annotate) if you have time Monday 2 October: 2nd period: Comparative translation discussion and paragraph writing, discuss the Paris–Menelaus duel; HW: Finish paragraph 4th period: Book 2 presentation (not a reading you have done); Singer of Tales video clips; HW: Finish paragraph Tuesday 3 October: School closed for funeral of Regina Marigold Bronzi Wednesday 4 October: Translation paragraph due; HW: Read and annotate Book 3 Thursday 5 October: Book 3 due; Read Book 5 Friday 6 October: No class; Full-Day Festival Day for Our Lady of the Rosary Tuesday 10 October: Book 5, through p. 180 (~line 566) due Wednesday 11 October: PSAT Thursday 12 October: Rest of Book 5 due Friday 13 October: Read ahead in Book 6; vocab for discussion in class Monday 16 October: Book 6 due Tuesday 17 October: Book 9 due; Unlucky 13 corrections (period 4) Wednesday 18 October: Continued discussion of Book 9; vocab review; Unlucky 13 retest (period 4) Thursday 19 October: Book 16 due Friday 20 October: Vocab quiz #2, 2 lists; getting from Book 16 to Book 21 Monday 23 October: Book 22 due Tuesday 24 October: Book 22 activity continued, ideas discussed Wednesday 25 October: Book 23 due Thursday 26 October: Read book 24 in class; remaining reading is homework Friday 27 October: No classes; Archdiocesan Professional Day Monday 30 October: Book 24 due Tuesday 31 October: Iliad Review Wednesday 1 November: No class; All Saints Festival Thursday 2 November: Iliad in-class writing Friday 3 November: More review! Here is the second review; here is the second review with the citations for the passages. N.B: Be sure that, when you write about context, you refer to the situations and events surrounding the quoted passage itself (rather than answering with a mere paraphrase of the passage itself). Monday 6 November: Iliad test; project ideas distributed Tuesday 7 November: Mrs. Walsh on Field Trip; workday for project Wednesday 8 November: Workday for project Thursday 9 November: Workday for project; more project parameters Friday 10 November: Workday for project; 4th period doesn't meet because of Veterans Day Observance Monday 13 November: 9th grade on field trip to Italian Embassy Tuesday 14 November: Begin Agamemnon in class while working on project at home; order of projects established Wednesday 15 November: Continue Agamemnon in class while finishing project at home Thursday 16 November: Project presentations Day 1 Friday 17 November: 9th grade on field trip to St. Alphonsus and Walters Monday 20 November: Project presentations Day 2 Tuesday 21 November: Project presentations Day 3 if needed (Project presentation quiz the day after projects are finished but not the Monday of return from Thanksgiving) Thursday 7 September: Policies (expect 20 min of English homework/night), what is this notion of office hours?, notebook, poem practice (anybody ready?)
Friday 8 September: (2nd period doesn't meet): Poem due in class; Jupiter assignment due (Use Google Docs; write me a note; make me an editor; upload link to the assignment turn-in on Jupiter) Beginning Monday, expect a new vocabulary word 3-4 times a week; we'll talk about building an etymological understanding of language Monday 11 September: Discussion of the poem; how does it work?; what does it mean?; how do we understand Keats's choices? what is the overall emotional effect? Tuesday 12 September: Making categories for support; moving toward a thesis statement Wednesday 13 September: (4th period does not meet; summer reading meeting #1) Writing the thesis statement Thursday 14 September: Introductory paragraph due; Writing topic sentences; establishing a line of reasoning; three ways of effecting transition; Unlucky 13 introduced; notebook discussion; Cornell notes; staying organized for high school Friday 15 September: Incorporating evidence into your argument; blend and cite; here are relevant handouts: checklist for essay and the student piece we looked at in class Monday 18 September: Submit intro paragraph, outline, and one body paragraph before class electronically to Jupiter; workshop in class Tuesday 19 September: Workday/conferences for essay; practice vocab quiz Wednesday 20 September: How to write a conclusion; here is the transitional expressions handout Thursday 21 September: Vocab practice; blend and cite practice; Unlucky 13 Friday 22 September: Vocab quiz; Workday/conferences in class; Solid draft* due by 10pm uploaded to Jupiter *A draft is the best version of the piece you can produce in the time allotted. It should be complete and feature the skills we have discussed. You want my comments to reflect ideas and skills you don't know or haven't thought of, so it makes sense to produce the best writing you can in the time allotted. Final draft of Keats essay, Thursday 28 September Unlucky 13 quiz, Friday 29 September Tuesday 2 May: Introduction to Macbeth; Read in class; HW: read through 1.3
Wednesday 3 May: Journals assigned; Review in class and read forward; read through the end of Act 1 for Thursday Thursday 4 May: Act 1 due; here is handout for today; Read forward in class; HW 2.2 and 2.3 Friday 5 May: No class; First Friday Mass Monday 8 May: Read forward in class; work on journals Tuesday 9 May: No class; field trip with Mr. Kantor Wednesday 10 May: Act 3, scenes 1-3 due; recitation assigned Thursday 11 May: Act 3, scenes 4-6 due; Act 3 SQs Friday 12 May: (Grandparents' Day) Reading forward; work on journals and recitations at home ***** Actor Ian Blackwell Rogers made videos of your speeches. Listen to what he has put together. He is an actor, of course, and you are a reciter--feel free to understand from his work one reading of your speech and to recite in a way that conveys meaning: "Two truths are told": Video, actor's script mark-up "They met me in the day of success": Video, (sorry, no actor's script mark-up for this one) "If it were done when 'tis done": Video, actor's script mark-up "Is this a dagger I see before me": Video, actor's script mark-up "My former speeches have but hit your thoughts": Video, actor's script mark-up Feel free to look at all of the marked up speeches to understand what the actor pays attention to as he learns the piece--the poetry, which you may at first ignore when learning sentence by sentence, dictates to the actor a lot about expression. ***** Monday 15 May: Reading forward; work on journals and recitations at home; at the end of this class, we are at the end of act 4; Act 4 SQs; reading into Act 5. Tuesday 16 May: Have read through 5.4; Continue from 5.4 in class; Activity 5.5 Wednesday 17 May: 5.6-end of play due; Act 5 SQs; Macbeth Guilt-o-meter Thursday 18 May: Workday for journals and recitation; materials for final exam available; here is the excerpt from JPII's Letter to Women Friday 19 May: No class; Medieval Day Monday 22 May: Macbeth review; here is the key to the review; here is a second review to help you study Tuesday 23 May: Macbeth journals due Wednesday 24 May: Macbeth test Thursday 25 May: Recitation due Friday 26 May: Review for final Exams begin 30 May (Tuesday) Thursday 16 March: Introductory lecture to Oedipus and Antigone; history of drama handout; lecture of Oedipus' story and of Seven Against Thebes
Friday 17 March: Begin reading Oedipus in class; work on Frankenstein paper at home Monday 20 March: Oedipus 159–177 due by class time Tuesday 21 March: Oedipus 178–195 due by class time Wednesday 22 March: Oedipus 196–213 due by class time Thursday 23 March: Oedipus 214–231 due by class time---in class today we finished the play! Tuesday 28 March: Workday for Frankenstein paper/story (Mrs. Walsh on a field trip) Wednesday 29 March: Frankenstein paper/story due in class; collaborative mini-project: Oedipus and Aristotle Thursday 30 March: Workday for mini-project Friday 31 March: No class; Maryland Day Festival Monday 3 April: Workday for mini-project Tuesday 4 April: Mini-project presentations Easter Break! Monday 17 April: Begin Antigone in class Tuesday 18 April: Antigone: 59–77 due by class time Wednesday 19 April: Antigone 78–95 due by class time Thursday 20 April: Antigone 96–113 due by class time Friday 21 April: No class; Jane Austen Day Monday 24 April: Antigone 113–end due by class time Tuesday 25 April: Review of Theban plays: Prep for debate Wednesday 26 April: Prep and practice for debate Thursday 27 April: Debate Friday 28 April: Debate Monday 1 May: In-class writing: Antigone Monday 23 January: Introduction to Frankenstein; European Romanticism; Frankenstein SQs
Tuesday 24 January: Here is an audio book version to help you as you read the paper book; Reading 1 due (readings are listed on the SQs) Wednesday 25 January: SQ for Reading 1 due; present sq as a mini-example of academic writing, well written short, low-stakes practice; see how well you can make and defend a claim, blend and cite, etc. Thursday 26 January: No class; Gala practice; Reading 2 due Friday 27 January: SQ for Reading 2 due; here is the checklist we looked at in class; Activity for Reading 2 Monday 30 January: Reading 3 due; Bildungsroman of Victor; Frost at Midnight Tuesday 31 January: SQ for Reading 3 due; the monster's appearance Wednesday 1 February: Reading 4 due Thursday 2 February: Reading 4 SQ due Friday 3 February: Reading 5 due; No class; First Friday Mass Monday 6 February: Reading 5 SQ due; here's a blog post I found about the different editions of the novel Tuesday 7 February: Reading 6 due; Review of literary terms; Review of Readings 1-6 and set-up for test on Thursday; here's the mapping project we looked at in class Wednesday 8 February: Reading 6 SQ due Thursday 9 February: Test: literary terms, "Frost at Midnight," and Frankenstein, Readings 1–6 Friday 10 February: Revise one SQ as second-draft academic writing (work on this assignment in class; ask questions); here is checklist for revision Monday 13 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 14 February: Revised SQ due; work on poem/begin Reading 7; here is the French dictation to help you practice Wednesday 15 February: Reading 7 due; French dictation, section of "Frost" (10 lines required, more possible) Thursday 16 February: Reading 7 SQ due Friday 17 February: Homework amnesty; discussion of the beginning of Reading 8 (read together in class) Monday 20 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 21 February: No class; Gala Practice! Wednesday 22 February: Reading 8 due Thursday 23 February: Reading 9 due; French dictation, whole section of "Frost" due Friday 24 February: Reading 9 SQ due Monday 27 February: Reading 10 due Tuesday 28 February: Reading 10 SQ due Wednesday 1 March: Recitation in class: section of "Frost" + coda due Thursday 2 March: Reading 11 due (no SQ) Friday 3 March: No class! First Friday Mass Monday 6 March: Reading 12 due Tuesday 7 March: In-class writing: "Frost at Midnight" and Romanticism Wednesday 8 March: Reading 13 due Thursday 9 March: Reading 13 SQ due; review materials available Friday 10 March: Review for Frankenstein test Monday 13 March: Frankenstein test; paper assigned; book due for annotation check Tuesday 14 March: Discuss paper topics; propose paper topic by the end of class Wednesday 15 March: Get started on paper or creative writing; No class; Gala practice |