9/1 Class Expectations/Course Overview
9/2 Diagnostic Essay
9/3 Students should bring a copy of the summer reading, their Study Guide started (will be due end of next week but good for reviewing the novel for test tomorrow), lyrics of a song that would be ideal for a soundtrack of the summer reading book (related to character or theme), a favorite quote from the text.
9/4 Assessment over Summer Reading (Check test worth 100 pts)
9/7-8 DIDLS with Opening scene
9/9 Hero Journey (Ning)
9/10 " "
9/11 Study Guide Due first of period--hard copy (100 pts homework)
9/14 See Ning post, "The Alchemist," for the Personal Journey narrative (short story) assignment which will be due 9/22 printed (100 pts) On 9/22 you will read your story.
Be the hero of your own journey. What will be your story?
Use Journey Cycle for your personal legend/dream. Label each stage. Create a Canva or Prezi or write a short story of achieving your personal legend/dream. You may use events that have already happened and those you want to happen. What trials do you anticipate? Mentors? Consider different definitions of success:
https://medium.com/@sailorsandwich/be-the-hero-of-your-own-story-d797a362954b
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/write-your-story-change-history-brad-meltzer
See Narrative and Presentation rubrics on Website.
In preparation, use your Study Guide and we will do a poetry assignment in class Tuesday, 9/15:
Students answer these questions for “Road Not Taken” and “Choices.” Apply to The Alchemist. Be prepared to apply to themselves in journey paper.
Speaker--
Dramatic Situation--
Message--
Tone--
Discuss “Choices.” How does the Frost poem and this one relate to The Alchemist? Look up the author. Now do an autobiographical/psychological interpretation of the poem. Look up, read, and analyze together “Dream Deferred.” C/C to Choices and novel. Use the 3 poems and novel to defend this statement: “A cynic is a disillusioned idealist.”
Monday, Sept. 21—unit test--The Alchemist (100 pts)
9/22--Read Journey stories
IMPORTANT: Starting the week of 9/28, each student must build a vocabulary list. Keep the words with definitions in your notebook and be ready to show them at any time for a homework grade. These should come primarily from words you encounter in books we read for English class or literary terms but any words that will useful to you on the SAT are fine. (ex) Bildungsroman--German word meaning "novel of formation/education/coming-of-age/initiation or rite of passage story (examples) The Giver, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Alchemist, Catcher in the Rye
9/28-10/3 Improving your writing/grammar/usage for standardized tests and university
Read/study the following link on Ning: Writing Revision and Usage. To check for understanding, we will complete worksheets in class. After this week you will be held accountable in writing assignments for comma splices, fragments, run-ons (5 each); errors in subject-verb agreement, pronoun -antecedent agreement, apostrophes, use of the semi-colon, verb tense shifts, capitalization (2 each). Learn these basic rules now and apply them throughout the year/your high school career. If you don't understand rules we cover, come in for additional help.
10/5 Went over 1st page of writing revision/usage test/students completed rest of test in class
10/6 Go over writing/usage test. Begin Creation Stories/Birth of Literature: Genesis chapters 1-3/pages 3-10 (Earth's creation/Adam and Eve)
10/7 Discuss Bible story of creation.
10/8-9 Read and do questions--Turtle's Back (link below)
10/11-12 MAP testing
10/13 Discuss "World on the Turtle's Back": http://kenstonlocal.org/klee/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/WorldOnTurtlesBack.pdf
10/14 Read a summary of Greek story of Pandora: http://heights.fms.k12.nm.us/faculty_staff/wleupold/0409EC95-00757F35.45/Pandora's%20Box.pdf
10/15 Holiday
10/16 Discuss Pandora's Box and compare/contrast to other 2 creation stories.
10/19 Homework: Complete the following for Pandora's Box story: plot (conflicts), setting, characters, point of view, theme, symbols.
We'll compare/contrast all 3 stories on these elements in columns. From this we'll form an outline for a Comparison/Contrast essay.
10/20 Outline for C/C essay/last 15 minutes get The Odyssey from library./ Worked together on differences and similarities of 3 stories.
10/21 Fill in the outline using this template For 10/26 Read and begin Study Guide for Chapters 1-3 of The Odyssey. (You should have picked up your book from library or downloaded the .pdf by now.)
10/23-24 No School
10/26 Study Guide Due Chapters 1-3 The Odyssey/Discuss.
10/27 Continue discussion/12 Olympian gods Assignment in class (finish at home): 1. Who were the 12 Olympian gods/goddesses on Mt. Olympus? Give Greek and Roman names and their domain. 2. List characters (mortal and immortal) from The Iliad, dividing them by Greeks and Trojans. Gives roles, descriptions, and significance of each.
10/28 Greek Theater/Mythology. Go over work from yesterday.
10/29 Mythology Continued
10/30 Chapters 4-5 due with Study Guide
11/2 Discuss chapters 4-5/Quiz to check for understanding and close reading skills/Add this info. to your Study guide if needed.
11/3 Discuss chapters 4-5/Be sure your Study Guide answers these questions in chapter plot summaries: Book 4: 1. What is Antinoos’ plan to destroy Telemachos. BOOK V: 1. Who is Hermes, and what is his mission? 2. What can Hermes do with his wand? 3. Who is holding Odysseus captive? 4. What is Calypso’s reaction to having to let Odysseus go? 5. What is the main problem Odysseus faces while traveling by sea? 6. What happens to Odysseus at the end of Book 5?
11/4 Reading Time for chapters 6-7 due 11/10 Be sure your plot summaries covers these questions: BOOK IV: 1. What “subliminal” message does Athena give to Nausicaa while she lies sleeping? 2. Who is the only person who doesn’t run away from the terrifying Odysseus? Why doesn’t she run away? 3. Is it pure luck that Nausicaa helps Odysseus? Explain. 4. What does the fact that Odysseus won’t bathe in front of the girls tell us about the kind of person he is? 5. Does Nausicaa believe her parents will help Odysseus? 6. Why won’t Nausicaa let Odysseus ride in her cart? 7. What instructions does she give Odysseus? BOOK VII: 1. What craft are the Phaiacians best known for? 2. How is Odysseus treated as a guest?
11/5-9 No School
11/10 Chapters 6-7 due with Study Guide
11/11 Discuss Chapters 6-7 and fill out this sheet (download): Elements of the Epic Hero Cycle (due 11/12)
11/12 Elements of Poetry applied to The Odyssey
11/13 Chapters 8-9 --finish Study Guide
11/16 8-9 Study Guide Due
11/17 Discuss Chapter 9
11/18 No School
11/19 Chapters 10-11 due at end of period
11/20 Discuss chapters 10-11
Assign project options to be done alone or with a partner: (All must be posted to Ning by due date 12/7. See presentation rubrics under "Important Links.") You may NOT use power point. Experiment with Canva, Prezi, Glogster, etc.
1. Create a new character for The Odyssey--creature, monster, god or goddess, mortal--and write an additional chapter to the epic poem using this character to develop plot and themes of a journey/hero story. Use Homer's style as your poetic form. Upload as a blog post or Prezi if you wish to illustrate with pictures.
2. Make a trailer of The Odyssey using Animoto or iMovie using plot and other elements to attract viewers (readers) –teacher will question them about their purpose and choices made given the 30 second time constraint.
3. Cast of Characters (traditional depictions) using Prezi or iMovie— (review characters—mortals, gods, monsters—from Greek mythology and discuss how they are depicted through classical art which reflects cultural values)
4. Casting an Odyssey movie using modern actors using Prezi or iMovie-- (explore universal characters in the work and discuss as director, characteristics and functions of each character and why the casting choice)
5. Odysseus’s theme song—compose and perform live (extending understanding of epic heroes, discuss choices made due to Odysseus’ characteristics—unique or typical of epic heroes, c/c to theme songs students chose for Santiago, discuss how to create a melancholy tone/evoke emotion, link to Alchemist author who said loved ones often are obstacles to the hero’s journey, discuss men/women behind heros then and now (ex) military wives
6. Penelope’s lament—compose and perform live (consider point of view and tone/compare and contrast to Gilgamesh lament students wrote/discuss what makes poetry different from prose—images, phrases from Penelope’s world (setting), Penelope’s character), link to Alchemist author who said loved ones often are obstacles to the hero’s journey/Fatima, discuss men/women behind heros then and now (ex) army wives
7. Review/apply Epic Cycle in The Odyssey using Glogster
8. Identify and justify choices of Significant Quotes and Themes using Glogster
11/23 Chapters 12-13 due
11/24 Reading 14-15
11/25 Chapters 14-15 due
11/26 Chapters 16-17 due
11/27 Reading 18-19 for 11/130
11/30 Chapters 18-19 due
12/1 Reading 20-21
12/2 20-21 due
12/3 Reading 22-24
12/4 22-24 Due/Odyssey Study Guide Due (100 pts)
12/7 Begin presenting projects (100 pts) which should be uploaded to Ning before this date.
12/7-12/11 Present/review for midterm test.
12/14-18 Exams
Review: Study Guides for The Alchemist, Creation Stories (Pandora, Genesis, Turtle's Back) Comparison Contrast (see your outline, too), Odyssey; class notes, Greek Mythology, Epic Hero, Writing Revision /Usage, Literary terms (see outline on Study Guide), DIDLS (diction, images, details, language, syntax--literary techniques/strategies an author uses to convey theme and tone), Journey Cycle (see below)1. The Call to Adventure
2. Refusal/Hesitation of the Call
3. The Threshold
4. Supernatural Aid/Mentor
5. The Road to Trials
6. The Experience with Unconditional Love
7. The Ultimate Boon
8. The Crossing or Return/ Master of Two Worlds (Hero stays or sets out again)
1/4-1/6 Answer these questions on Oedipus Rex. Due end of 1/6.
1/7 Study Guide due end of period #1-3, 8. (Answers to questions count as plot summary.)
1/8 Discuss Oedipus Rex thus far.
1/12 Go over questions
1/13-15 Continue reading Oedipus. These questions must be answered IN CLASS ON NOTEBOOK PAPER AND TURNED IN AT END OF EACH PERIOD. YOU MAY NOT WORK ON THEM AT HOME UNLESS ABSENT. QUESTIONS DUE END OF CLASS 1/15.
Read Greek Tragedy.
1/18 Go over Oedipus Questions/Greek Drama/Comedy
1/19 Characteristics of Tragic Hero—will have to know these 12 as they relate to Oedipus
1/20 Writing Assessment--just bring paper and a pen to class
1/21 Relate all 12 to a tragic hero from film or another book you’ve read/ Aristotle's Poetics Chpts 5-19, 22-26 in class
Chapters 5-19, 22-26, Poetics/Finish 12 characteristics of tragic hero
1/22-25 Cecil Bowra, Chapter 5 of Sophoclean Tragedy ;Cleanth Brooks and Robert Heilman, Chapters 5 and 6, Understanding Drama; Cedric Whitman, Chapter 7 of Sophocles: A Study of Heroic Humanism
1/25 Discuss Krutch and Miller on Modern VS Classical Tragedy
1/67 Midyear Writing Assessment/Check out Grendel from library and bring to class on Friday.
1/27 Tragic Hero Essay review/outline done in class
1/28 Write tragic hero essay in class. Prove Oedipus is a tragic hero using the 12 characteristics of the tragic hero, giving an example of each from the play. (200 pts)
1/29 Bring Grendel to class; Introduction.
2/1 Finish reading chapters 1-2 in class.
2/2 Bring Beowulf to class for close reading of the Battle with Grendel. Grendel Study Guide chapters 1-2 due tomorrow.
2/3 Discuss Grendel 1-2 with Study Guide completed.
2/4 Grendel 3-4--completing Study Guide in class.
2/5 3-4 Study Guide due first of class/discuss.
2/8 Grendel 5-6 due with Study Guide/Discuss
2/9 Explained Worldview assignment again and assigned partners/topics/Assigned Worldview article on Ning for classwork and chpts 7-9 Study Guide due Monday first of period
2/15 Grendel Study Guide chapters 7-9 due first of period/Discuss
Close Read passage/analyze using DIDLS death of the hart in chapter 9
2/16 Reading Grendel 10-12/Finishing Study Guide; Receive class codes for Turnitin.com. Plot section of Study Guide must be uploaded to turnitin by midnight on 2/17.
2/17 Grendel Study Guide completed hard copy due first of period/Discuss
2/18-19 Partner Project preparation/Due on Ning 2/22
2/22-2/24 Present Grendel Projects (100 pts)
2/25 Prepare for Grendel Essay
2/29 Grendel Essay will be written in class. (100 pts) Grade will go on the 3rd trimester.
Twelve Chapters of Grendel Close Reading
3/1 Begin The Once and Future King--read Chapter 1 in class and show me plot summary and character list by end of period
3/2 Discuss Chpt 1/Read Chpt 2 in class. Plot summary/character list/1-4 on Study Guide due 3/3
3/3 Discuss Chpt 2/Read Chpt 3 " "
3/4 Discuss Chpt 3/Read Chpts 4-5 " "
3/7 Discuss Chpts 4-5 /Read Chpt 6-7 " "
3/8 Discuss 6-7; Read 8-9 " "/International Women's Day Emphasis
3/9 Discuss 8-9; Read 10-11
3/10 Discuss 1 0-11; Read 12-13
3/11 Discuss 12-13; Read 14-15
3/14 Reading 16-17/working on Study Guide.
3/15 Study Guide due through Chapter 17. Discuss. Revision of Grendel essay test due.
3/16 Reading Chpts 18-19
3/17 Discuss chpts 18-19.
3/18 Finish reading Book I over the break. Study Guide due printed and on Turnit in.com by first of class 4/5.
4/4 Upload to Ning a picture of the animal you would have Merlin change you into in The Sword in the Stone. Explain what this animal would teach you/Wart in the caption. Also due tomorrow is the printed, completed Study Guide at the first of class. Upload Guide to Turnitin.com as well. Each day the printed or uploaded is late your grade will be deducted 1 letter grade.
4/5 Study guide printed AND uploaded to Turnitin.com due today. Picture of animal with explanation due uploaded to Ning today.
4/6 OFK II Chapters 1-2 due with Study Guide
4/7 OFK II Chapters 3-4 due "
4/8 OFK II Chapters 5-6 due "
4/11 7-8
4/12 9-10
4/13 11-12
4/14 13-14
4/15 Finish Study Guide Book 2/due by first of class on 4/18 (100 pts Homework)
4/18 Printed copy of Book 2 due first of class/upload to turnitin.com/Medieval projects
Students will teach 2 chapters each in Books III and IV.(100 pt assessment) On the following due dates, be sure your Study Guide is complete. This will be part of your lesson plan in leading the class. You may ask questions concerning plot, characters, etc. Choose at passage you feel is most important in the chapter. Read it and explain how it moves the plot, character or theme development forward. Point out symbols, important quotes, etc. You will graded on how prepared you are and how well you deliver your lesson. Your peers' grades will be lowered 5 points if/each time they are disrespectful or disruptive during your presentation. Likewise, your grade could be lowered for disrupting the class when others teach.
4/19 Book 3 Chapters 1 and 2 Zouhair
4/20 Bk 3 3-4 Ranyah
4/21 Bk 3 5-6 Najma
4/22 Bk 3 7-8 Kenza B
4/25 Bk 3 9-10 Zak
4/26 Bk 3 16 and 25 Zineb
4/27 Bk 3 26, 28 Hind
4/28 29-30 Abla
4/29 No School
5/2 Bk 3 31, 32 Kenza el A
5/3 Bk 3 33, 34 Ali MAP TESTING HERE so Ali will present with Nicholas May 11
5/4-5/10 Bring your Once and Future King texts to class, paper and pen, a device to be used to finish Study Guide. Classwork grades will be taken.
5/11 Bk 4 5-6 Nicholas
5/12 Bk 4 7-8 Hamza
5/13 Bk 4 9-10 Souleiman/OFK
5/16 Bk 4 11-12 Rania T
5/17 Bk 4 13-14 Omar
5/18 Finish Study Guide for Bk 4 (100 pts homework) or 0.
5/19 Turn in hard copy of Bk 4 Study Guide first of period and upload to Turnitin.com Discuss Study Guides in class.
5/20 Discuss Arthur as a tragic hero
5/23 OFK Exam (200 pt assessment--essay and multiple choice)
5/24 Open Book Test--Note: if you do not bring a hard copy of the book to class, you will have to do this from memory. BRING A BOOK. (100 pts)
5/25 Begin Medieval Presentations and continue through 5/27 (100 pt homework)