FALL SEMESTER- 2007

 

 

    

 

 8/30

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Introduction to the course

  • Homework: signed course descriptions due tomorrow (see link above)

  • Homework:  The Great Questions (see link above) typed, MLA format.  Due tomorrow.

  • Homework: Religion of the Greeks (see link above).  Read and be ready to discuss Tuesday.

  • Homework:  Plato's Republic (see link above).  Read and be ready to discuss by Wed.

  • Homework:  Oedipus (see link above).  Read by 9/12.

  • IB Orals

  • IB Breakdown

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Welcome

  • Course Description.  Due signed by tomorrow.

 

 8/31

ENGLISH III- HONORS

·      International Baccalaureate program requirements & assignments

·       SAT prep vocabulary assignments

o     Group 1 Quiz Fri., 9/7

·       AP Language &  Composition Requirements

·       Sign-ups for IB Oral Presentation assignments

·       Discuss The Great Quesions.

·      Homework:  The Religion of the Greeks (due Tues.) and Oedipus (due 9/12)

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

 

  • Course Description.  Due

  • Intro to Independent Reading Project (group). Sign up for novels on Tuesday.

  • Homework:  Homer's The Odyssey (see link above) due Monday, September 24

  • Homework:  Oedipus (see link above): have it read by Wed., Sept. 5.

  • Homework:  Personal Statement (see link above) due Fri/, Sept. 14
9/3

LABOR DAY

 9/4

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Course description stragglers due

  • REMINDERS:  Oedipus due 9/12...Vocab group 1 quiz on Fri....Plato's Republic Bk 10 due tomorrow

  • Discussion questions for The Religion of the Greeks

  • Sign-ups for IB Oral presentations

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Course description stragglers due

  • REMINDERS:  Oedipus due read by tomorrow...Odyssey due the 25th...personal statements due the 14th.

  • Sign-ups for independent reading

  • Work time for personal statements

 

 

 9/5

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Republic reading quiz

  • Discussion questions for Republic

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Quiz on Oedipus

  • Discuss play

  • Discussion Questions for Oedipus

 

 9/6

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Review study questions and Republic

  • Review reading quizzes

  • Project assignment:  Independent Greek play assignment (play due in class on 9/10)

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Seating chart

  • Review Oedipus discussion questions

  • HOMEWORK:  Oedipus log assignment.  Also, Oedipus as the Tragic Hero assignment/.  Both due tomorrow

 

 9/7

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Vocab quiz 1

  • Poetics quiz

  • Discuss Poetics

  • HOMEWORK:  "The Idea of Tragedy," "The Classical Definition of Tragedy," and "The Comic View" (see links above) due read by 9/10

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Poster assignment:  Aristotle's definition of tragedy and Oedipus

 
9/10

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Literary criticism research (Troy Librarian)

  • Discuss homework

  • 2nd play check-off

  • Homework:  log assignment for The Comic View.  Study questions and log assignment for Oedipus due Friday.  Play due read by Friday

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Poster presentations and discussion.  In-class essay on Oedipus starts tomorrow.

  • Homework:  Read Odyssey

 

 9/11

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Aristotle questions due

  • Log assignment for The Comic View due

  • Discussion

    • Reductions

    • Abstracts

    • Aristotle's Poetics

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • In-class Oedipus essay- day one

  • All Oedipus written work returned

  • HOMEWORK: 

    • Oedipus text, questions and log by Friday

    • Oedipus reduction by Mon.

    • Literary Crit. article on 2nd Greek play due 9/18

    • Abstract o n Murray article by Mon. (see link above)

 

 

 

 9/12

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • In-class work day on one or more of the following:

    • Oedipus text, questions and log

    • Oedipus reduction

    • 2nd Greek play

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Essay- day two

 

 

 9/13

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • In-class work day on one or more of the following:

    • Oedipus text, questions and log

    • Oedipus reduction

    • 2nd Greek play

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Essay- day three

 

 9/14

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Oedipus due.  Reading quiz.

  • Vocab quiz 2

  • Discussion questions and log due

  • Discussion

    • Aristotle (continued)

    • Oedipus

    • Greek unit test-9/19.  What to study.

  • HOMEWORK:

    • Oedipus reduction due Mon.

    • Murray abstract due Mon.

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Finish in-class essay (first 20 minutes)

  • Personal statements due

  • HOMEWORK:

    • Homer's Iliad:  entire portfolio (see above) due read by Mon.  Print and bring to class.

 
9/17

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Due: 

    • Oedipus reduction

    • Murray abstract

  • Discussion

    • Compare-and-contrast essays

    • Oedipus (continued)

  • Assignment:  Poster demonstrating Aristotle in Sophocles

  • HOMEWORK:

    • Literary Crit. article for 2nd play due tomorrow

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss Iliad portfolio

  • HOMEWORK:

    • Log assignments for Iliad (due tomorrow)

     

 9/18

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Due: 

    • Literary criticism article

  • Poster assignments- continued.  Begin presenting

  • Greek Unit assignments returned

  • HOMEWORK:

    • Begin studying for Greek Unit exam on Friday

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Iliad Quiz

  • Discussion of Iliad, the genre of epic, and the epic hero

 

 9/19

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Poster presentations (continued)

  • Students registered in Turnitin.com

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Review of essay on death and the godlike character in Homer's poems.

 

 9/20

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Study guide for tomorrow's exam

  • Poster presentations (continued)

  • HOMEWORK:

    • Re-submit Murray article abstract through Turnitin.com

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Comparison between Iliad and the movie Troy

 

 9/21

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Greek Unit exam

  • Discussion of the compare and contrast essay format

  • Calendar change:  2nd Greek Play Assignment now due Thursday, 9/27 (changed from Tuesday, 9/25)

  • Poster presentations (continued)

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Comparison between Iliad and the movie Troy (continued)

 
9/24

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discussion of the compare and contrast essay format (continued)

  • Introduction to American Modernism

  • Gatsby reading quiz- Chapters 1-3

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Comparison between Iliad and the movie Troy (continued)

 

 9/25

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discuss Gatsby

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Comparison between Iliad and the movie Troy (continued)

 

 9/26

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discuss Gatsby

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Introduction to Homer's The Odyssey

 

 9/27

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discuss Gatsby

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • The Odyssey Discussion

 

 9/28

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discuss Gatsby

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • The Odyssey Discussion

 
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
10/1

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discuss Gatsby

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Introduction to Homer's The Odyssey

 

 10/2

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discuss Gatsby-  Chapter 1

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss The Odyssey, Bks. 1-4

 

 10/3

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discuss Gatsby-  Chapter 1 and 2

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss The Odyssey, Bks. 1-4

 

 10/4

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discuss Gatsby-  Chapter 2

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss The Odyssey, Bks. 1-4

 

 10/5

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Begin IB Orals

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss The Odyssey, Bks. 1-4

 
10/8

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • IB Orals

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss The Odyssey, Bks. 1-4

 

 10/9

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • IB Orals

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss The Odyssey, Bk. 9

 

 10/10

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Gatsby discussion questions

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • The Odyssey Discussion Questions

 10/11

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • IB Orals (continued)

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss The Odyssey, Bk. 10

 

 10/12

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Gatsby Chapter Discussions

  • HOMEWORK:  Gatsby essay due next Friday

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss The Odyssey, Bk2. 11-12

 
10/15

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Begin IB Orals

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • The Odyssey Poster Assignment (theme/ motif review)

 

 10/16

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Gatsby Quote Analysis

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Finish and present Odyssey posters

 

 10/17

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discuss Gatsby Quotes, as well as Ch. 8.

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss conclusion of The Odyssey

 10/18

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Gatsby film version

  • HOMEWORK:  Gatsby essay due tomorrow

  • Monday, students are in the career center.

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Oh Brother Where Art Thou

  • HOMEWORK:  Greek Unit Exam on 10/23

  • Begin Dante's Inferno on 10/23

 10/19

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Gatsby film version

  • Gatsby essay due

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Oh Brother Where Art Thou
10/22

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Career Center

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discuss contrast between Oh Brother Where Art Thou Homer's The Odyssey

 

 10/23

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Finish Discussing Gatsby.

  • Review Essay requirements for junior IB English

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Check out Dante's Inferno. 

  • Introductory lecture on Inferno

 

 10/24

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Introductory lecture on Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Troy tech Mentor Breakfast-  Documentary on Dante's The Divine Comedy

 

 10/25

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Log Assignment:  How does Hemingway achieve the "Hemingway" journalistic style?  Give an example.  What is the effect of this style upon the audience?  How might it be said that this style is consistent with what we now know about high modernism?  Assignment due Monday.

  • Peer Edit:  The Great Gatsby essays.

  • HOMEWORK:  Read Hemingway's short story A Clean, Well-lighted Place (see link above), annotate it, and be ready to discuss on Monday.  Read Bigelow's A Primer of Existentialism.  Construct an abstract of the essay.  Due 10/31.

  • REMINDERS:  Gatsby unit exam on Monday.  Review all lecture notes, including the passages that were of particular interest in class discussion.  Also, reading quiz for The Sun Also Rises, Part I and Vocab Unit 8 on Tuesday.  Primer abstract due on 10/31. 

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Philosophy Questions completed in groups.  Be prepared to discuss and defend on Monday.

  • REMINDER:  Greek Unit Exam on Monday.

 

 10/26

STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY:  NO STUDENTS
10/29

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Log Assignment  due for The Sun Also Rises

  • The Great Gatsby Unit Exam

  • Discussion:  A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Greek Unit Exam

  • Discussion:  Philosophical Questions.

 

 10/30

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Sun Also Rises Reading Quiz- Part I/ Vocab Unit 7

  • Introduction of Pastiche assignment (due 11/2)

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Introduction of group Canto assignment

 

 10/31

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discussion: A Primer on Existentialism

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Finish discussing Cantos 1-3 of Dante's Inferno

 

 11/1

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discussion: A Primer on Existentialism

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Work time:  Inferno Circle Presentation Assignment

 

 11/2

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discussion: A Primer on Existentialism

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Work time:  Inferno Circle Presentation Assignment

 
11/5

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Sun Also Rises Quiz/ Vocab Quiz 8

  • Abstract on a Primer on Existentialism and Gatsby pastiche due

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Inferno Circle Assignment presentations

 

 11/6

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Grade postings

  • Discussion of A Primer on Existentialism

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Inferno Circle Assignment presentations

 

 11/7

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Discussion:  The Sun Also Rises-  Chapter 1

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Inferno Circle Assignment presentations

 

 11/8

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • AP Practice exercise:  Reading and annotation of Angelou's Graduation.

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Inferno In-class essay-  Day 1

 

 11/9

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • AP Practice exercise:  Essay on Angelou's Graduation.

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Inferno In-class essay-  Day 2

 
11/12

VETERANS DAY-  NO SCHOOL

 11/13

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • IB Oral presentations on The Sun Also Rises

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Introduction to Jane Eyre

  • Inferno Hell Projects due

 

 

 11/14

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • IB Oral presentations on The Sun Also Rises

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Inferno in-class essay- Day 3

 

 11/15

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • IB Oral presentations on The Sun Also Rises

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Lecture:  Victorian Art

 

 11/16

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • IB Oral presentations on The Sun Also Rises

  • A&E Biography on Ernest Hemingway

  • Study Questions-  TSAR Book I due

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Hell Project presentations

  • HOMEWORK:  The Sun Also Rises log assignment (see link above).  Also, read novel through Ch. 11 (quiz Monday)

 
11/19

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Vocab Quiz 9

  • TSAR study questions- Book II

  • Discuss The Sun Also Rises

  • Introduction of The Stranger chapter presentation assignment

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Hell Project presentations- (continued)

  • Jane Eyre reading quiz-  Chs. 1-11

  • Victorian Art discussion (continued)

 

 11/20

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • TSAR Study Questions-  Book III

  • Discuss The Sun Also Rises

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Hell Project presentations

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 11/21

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Sun Also Rises poster assignment

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 11/22

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY-  NO SCHOOL

 11/23

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY- NO SCHOOL
11/26

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Sun Also Rises in-class essay

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 11/27

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Sun Also Rises in-class essay

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 11/28

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Sun Also Rises in-class essay

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 11/29

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • In-class essay conclusion

  • Gatsby essays returned and discussed

  • HWK:

    • Poster Assignment (see web link) (due tomorrow)

    • Abstract:  The Myth of Sisyphus (due tomorrow)

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 11/30

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Abstracts due

  • Poster presentations-  The Sun Also Rises

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 
12/2

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Stranger reading quiz (also vocab unit 10)

  • Final discussion points-  The Sun Also Rises

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/4

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Final discussion points- The Sun Also Rises

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/5

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Stranger discussion

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/6

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Stranger discussion

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/7

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Stranger discussion

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 
12/10

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Stranger discussion

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/11

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Stranger discussion

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/12

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Stranger Discussion

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/13

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Stranger Discussion

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/14

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • The Stranger Discussion

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Jane Eyre

 
12/17

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Waiting for Godot reading quiz

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • In-Class Essay-  Jane Eyre

 

 

 12/18

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Godard's Breathless

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • In-Class essay-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/19

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Godard's Breathless

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • In-class essay-  Jane Eyre

 

 12/20

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Godard's Breathless

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Film version of Jane Eyre

 

 12/21

HAPPY HOLIDAYS
1/7

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Godot IB Orals

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Film-version-  Jane Eyre

 

 1/8

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Godot IB Orals

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Discussion-  Independent Reading project

 

 1/9

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Godot IB Orals

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Group work time-  Independent Reading project

 

 1/10

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Godot IB Orals

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Group work time-  Independent Reading project

 

 1/11

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Class Discuission-  Waiting for Godot:  Act I

  • Reminder:  Study Questions due Monday.  Log Assignment (see web link) due Wednesday

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Group work time-  Independent Reading project

 
1/14

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Class Discuission-  Waiting for Godot:  Act I

  • Review Godot Study Questions (due today)

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Independent Reading Project Presentations

 

 1/15

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Class Discuission-  Waiting for Godot:  Act I

  • Review Godot Study Questions (due today)- cont'd

  • Hand back and discuss TSAR essay

  • Calendar Updates:

    • Final Essay (TSAR revision, The Stranger, Waiting for Godot) due Monday via turnitin.com

    • Rough draft of IB Assignment 2 (Godot Pastiche) due on final exam day

    • No final exam

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Independent Reading Project Presentations

 

 1/16

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Review Godot Study Questions (due today)- cont'd

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Independent Reading Project Presentations

 

 1/17

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Independent Reading Project Presentations

 

 1/18

ENGLISH III- HONORS

  • Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman

ENGLISH IV- WORLD LIT

  • Independent Reading Project Presentations

 
1/21

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday:  No School

 

 1/22

Final Exams

 

 1/23

Final Exams

 

 1/24

Final Exams

 

 1/25

Semester Records Day: 

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