English Department

Honors 09 English

WEEK OF 5-10 TO 05-14:

Tuesday, 05-11--

  • Read and discussed "Writing as an Act of Hope."
  • Life Is Beautiful
  • Self-Reflection activity (masks) due today!

WEEK OF 05-03 TO 05-07:

    Friday, 05-07--

  • S1: Read and discussed "Night" by Eli Weisel and "Bourges and I" by Jorges Bourges. Students were assigned a reflection activity, which is due on Tuesday, 05-11. (The reflection activity requires students to identify qualities of their personality that they show on the outside, and qualities that they keep hidden inside. They are then to create either two separate masks or one mask split in half that visually represents the inner and outer self.)
  • S2: Read and discussed "A Good Day" by Primo Levi and "Bourges and I" by Jorges Bourges. Students were also assigned the reflection activity, which is due on Tuesday, 05-11.

    Wednesday, 05-05--

  • S1: Read and discussed "Song of a Citizen" and began reading "Night."
  • S2: Began reading and discussing "A Good Day" by Primo Levi.

    Tuesday, 05-04--

  • S1: Watched a video clip of "Night" by Eli Weisel; Read and discussed "A Good Day" by Primo Levi; turned in and shared thing poems.
  • S2: Finished presentations; turned in thing poems.

WEEK OF 04-26 TO 04-30:

    Friday, 04-30--

  • Present research projects
  • Holocaust poem: In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself
  • "Thing" poem due Tuesday!

    Wednesday, 04-28--

  • Review works cited
  • Read and discuss modernistic poetry
  • Write "thing" poem and "time" poem (due Tuesday)
  • Projects due Friday!!

    Tuesday, 04-27--

  • Finish introduction to Modernism/Postmodernism
  • Read and discussed sonnets written by Rainer Maria Rilke and Pablo Neruda (p
  • m due Tuesdayp. 856-859 and 937-939).
  • Modernism projects due Friday (deadline change!)

WEEK OF 04-19 TO 04-23:

Friday, 04-23-- (SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY!!)

  • Galileo testing
  • Work on modernism project with partners

Wednesday, 04-21--

Tuesday, 04-20--

  • Romeo and Juliet exam
  • Work on final drafts R&J essay (final due Friday!)
  • Share poems

WEEK OF 04-12 TO 04-16:

Friday, 04-16--

  • Finish West Side Story--compare to Romeo and Juliet
  • Rough drafts of cause and effect essays due today.
  • Final drafts of cause and effect essays due Friday, 04-23.
  • Romeo and Juliet exam Tuesday, 04-20!

Tuesday, 04-13--

  • West Side Story (similarities and differences between WSS and R&J)
  • Rough drafts of R&J essay due Friday!!

Monday, 04-12--

  • Review cause and effect writing
  • Share and critique cause and effect R&J essay thesis
  • S3: poetry contest poems due
  • Acts III-V vocabulary due Friday!!

WEEK OF 04-05 TO 04-09:

Wednesday, 04-09--

  • Finish Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene III.
  • Watch the end of Romeo and Juliet.
  • Intro. Romeo and Juliet cause and effect essay (thesis statements due Monday).

Wednesday, 04-07--

  • Finish Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene III.

Tuesday, 04-06--

  • Editing practice (bell work)
  • Romeo and Juliet, Acts IV and V, to Scene III--read and discussed
  • "I Would Rather..." poetry assignment (due Wednesday for S1, and Friday for S3).
  • Montague/Capulet shield assignment due! S1--today; S2--tomorrow

WEEK OF 03-29 TO 04-02:

Tuesday, 03-30--

  • Romeo and Juliet Act II-- finish video section
  • Romeo and Juliet Act II, Scenes I and II-- read and discuss
  • S1: Acts I and II vocabulary due
  • S3: Personal Journal Response #3 due
  • Both: Personal Journal Response #4 due tomorrow!

WEEK OF 03-23 TO 03-26:

Friday, 03-26--

  • S1: Personal Journal Response #3 due; S3: Act I and II vocabulary due.
  • S1: Act I and II vocabulary due Tuesday, 03-30; S3: Personal Journal Response #3 due Tuesday.
  • Act II Quiz: If you were absent today, you will need to schedule to make up the quiz during Coyote Skills or after school one day next week.
  • Watched Act II Romeo and Juliet movie.
  • Personal Journal Response #4 due Wednesday, 03-31.

Tuesday, 03-23--

  • Personal Journal Response #2 due
  • Act II, Scenes IV and V--read and discuss
  • Act II, Scenes IV small group discussion
  • Vocab for Act I and II is due Friday 03/26 for S3 and Tuesday 03/30 for S1.
  • Personal Journal Response #3 is due Friday 03/26 for S1 and Tuesday 03/30 for S3.

WEEK OF 03-08 TO 03-12:

Wednesday, 03-10--

  • Personal Journal Response #1 due! (PJR #2 due Tuesday after Spring Break)
  • Romeo and Juliet, Act I quiz
  • Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene I and part of II-- read and discussed

Tuesday, 03-09--

  • Field trip to see "Taming of the Shrew" at the Higley Performing Arts Center!!

WEEK OF 03-01 TO 03-05:

Friday, 03-05--

  • Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scenes IV and V-- read and discussed
  • Personal Response Journal #1 due Wednesday, 03-10

Wednesday, 03-03--

  • Worked on Act I vocabulary
  • Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scenes II and III-- Read and discuss
  • S3: Final 2 presentations

Tuesday, 03-02--

  • Romeo and Juliet, Act I-- Read and discuss (stopped halfway through scene II)
  • Finish and review drama terms
  • S1: Final presentation

WEEK OF 02-22 TO 02-26:

Friday, 02-26--

  • Social Issues bell work
  • Romeo and Juliet, Act I Scene I

Thursday, 02-25--

  • Began working on drama terms (S1 finish for HW).
  • Finish presentations (4 groups in S3 will present tomorrow)
  • S1--handed out books and read prologue.
  • Perfect Mate HW due (S3 due tomorrow)

Tuesday, 02-23--

  • Renaissance Presentations
  • Perfect mate homework (due Thursday, 02-25)

WEEK OF 02-15 TO 02-19:

Friday, 02-19--

  • Galileo benchmark testing
  • Notecard/source card and works cited check
  • Work on presentations with groups (due Tuesday)

Tuesday, 02-16:

  • Shakespeare power point
  • Vocabulary 3 practice
  • Turn in Words often Confused handout

WEEK OF 02-08 TO 02-12:

Friday, 02-12--

  • Fire or Ice Literary Judgments due!!
  • Essay Exam on Middle Ages/Stories
  • Finish Words Often Confused handout (due Tuesday)

Wednesday, 02-10--

     S1-- Enter courses for next year.

     S1/S3-- Worked with partners on research project and finished discussing  words often confused. Due Friday: Fire and Ice literary judgment and vocabulary 3 antonyms, synonyms and sentences.

Tuesday, 02-09--

  • Vocab list 2 quiz
  • Vocab list 3, HW due Friday, 02-12
  • Edit/revise Fire and Ice literary judgments (final drafts due Friday, 02-12 with picture of "vision")
  • Words Often Confused handout (due next week...Tuesday)
  • review source and note cards (research due tomorrow!)

WEEK OF 02-01 TO 02-05:

Friday, 02-05--

  • Vocabulary #2 practice
  • Vocabulary #2 homework due!
  • Fire or Ice? Literary judgement essay: 1st draft due Tuesday, 02-09.

Wednesday, 02-03--

  • Dante's Inferno: Continued reading and discussing Cantos 3, 5, and 34.
  • Vocabulary list #2: Sentences and antonyms/synonyms due Friday 02/05.

Tuesday, 02-02--

  • Vocabulary list #1 quiz
  • Renaissance research project (research due Wednesday, 02-10)
    • For information on source and note cards, refer to your orange Writing Matters book, pages 273-275.
    • For information on your works cited page, refer to your paper guidelines handout
  • Dante's Inferno: In S1 we left off in the middle of Canto 1, and in S3 we left off in the middle of Canto 3.
    • Dante website: http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/

WEEK OF 01-25 TO 01-29:

Friday--

  • Vocabulary homework due!
  • Vocabulary activity
  • Read and discuss "How Siegfried was Slain."
  • Analyze a literary foil: Compare Siegfried and Hagen.
  • Hearing testing

Wednesday--

  • Sentence repairs due!!
  • Read and discuss "The Song of Roland." Compare Roland to Odysseus/Achilles.
  • Vocabulary homework due on Friday!!

Tuesday--

  • Vocabulary, list #1 (HW: Students are to find a synonym and antonym for each of the 10 vocabulary words and then use each word in a sentence. Vocabulary HW is due Friday, 01-29.)
  • Sentence Repairs (Students are to edit and revise sentences taken from their recent essays. The HW is due Wednesday, 01-27.)
  • Introduction to the Middle Ages (First 14 slides only)
  • Began reading "Song of Roland."

WEEK OF 01-18 TO 01-22:

Friday, 01-22--

  • Essays due!
  • Completed "Sundiata" heroic qualities comparison activity
  • Read and discussed "The Fisherman and the Jinnee"
  • S1--Skills Review

Tuesday, 01-19--

  • Registration for 2010-2011
  • Finish "Sundiata"--read and discuss
  • Homework: finish essays (due Friday)

WEEK OF 01-11 TO 01-15:

Friday, 01-15--

  • Review and turn in apostrophe homework.
  • Fables and word choice activity due.
  • Finished oral presentations
  • Began reading and discussing "Sundiata," an African epic.
  • REMINDER: Your essays are due Tuesday, 01-21 if you are planning on entering them in the contest; otherwise, they are due on Friday, 01-24.

Wednesday, 01-13--

  • Finish Word Choice review and notes. Students were assigned a paragraph to revise for word choice and sentence fluency, which is due Friday, 01-15.
  • Review apostrophe rules. Homework: Complete page 794, part B in your orange The Writer's Craft book. (due Friday, 01-15)
  • Oral traditions presentations                    

Tuesday, 01-12--

  • Quiz over African Literature
  • Oral traditions presentations (due today!)
  • Due date on fables extended until Friday!!
  • Grand Canyon Essay Contest essay assignment (final draft due Wednesday, 01-20)
  • S1 only: Began review on Word Choice

 

WEEK OF 01-05 TO 01-08:

    Tuesday, 01-05--

  • Introduction to African and Middle Eastern Literature (700 BC to 1700 AD): Students read and answered questions related to the culture, history and literature of Africa and the Middle East (quiz on Tuesday, 01-12) (The Elements of Literature: World Literature pages 492-502)
  • Students learned about and read African trickster tales, dilemma tales, chain tales, and the oral tradition (The Elements of Literature: World Literature pages 506-513).
  • Homework: The Oral Tradition (due Tuesday, 01-12). Students are to choose a fable, fairy tale, proverb, folk tale, myth, or legend that they enjoy and that represent a value they hold. Students will share their story orally to the class and write a one or two paragraph explanation of how the story represents the value.