Week 1
Mandala
Silent Exchange
Constructed and negotiated meaning
Michael Ondaatje "Application for a Driving License"
William Stafford "Traveling Through the Dark"
Week 3
Reading logs for "Oedipus Rex"
write 1st essay on self selected topic-due Monday
Seminar discussions of reading
learn names of fellow students
Week 4
choral reading
English notes
essay on "Oedipus Rex"
reading logs collected
reading workshop
Week 5
review English notes
Monologues
Essay test
begin "Hamlet"
reading workshop
Week 6
"Hamlet" Act 1 and Act
2
supplemental material and text for "Hamlet"
complete reading logs and discuss
begin textual analysis for performance
decide on the role of the Ghost
Physicalize
flow writing
reading workshop
Week 7
Callect reading logs
Performances-Act1, scene5, Act2 scene2
Pantomine-Act2 scene1 lines 1-83
Video workshop-Get thee to a nunnery
Choral-To be or not to be
Paper-Does Claudius want to be a father to Hamlet?
Reading workshop
Week 8
Flow Writing- "This above all..."
"To be or not to be.." speech
Quiz-Act 2
Multiple interpretation of the Nunnery scene
Student performance
Physicalize
Week 9
Review mousetrap scene-write paper 1 ptds due Wednesday
Physicalize soliloquies-Act 3, scene 3
the closet scene
Character committees
Quiz- Act 4
the mad scene
Reading workshop
Week 10
Mad scene
Gravediggers
Last Gasp
Reading Logs for Act 5
Quiz- Act 4
Reading Workshop
Week 11
conclusion of Hamlet
English notes
Monologues
In class- AP type essay test
Reading workshop
Week 12
Monologues
Esay test-Hamlet
Reading Workshop
Week 13
Create Poetry Anthology
Reading Workshop
Week 14
Continue Poetry anthology and analyse individual
poems
Reading workshop
Week 15
Finish poetry anthology
Literature Circle & Share
End of year letter
Winter Break
Week 17
DYRI-Beowulf
Discuss book/favorite passage
Style Analysis terminology
Dictation
Discussion of "War Against Evil"
Paper due-Monday 700 words
Reading workshop
Week 18
Flow
Discuss Beowulf themes
English Notes
In class Essay
Modest
Proposal-analysis
Week 19
A Modest Proposal
Satire presentations
Reading workshop
Week 20
Review
2 Essay questions: 1.Satire, 2.Reading workshop
Spring Semester
Week 1
Begin Lord of the Flies
Flow
Dictation
HWK-essay on "The Why of War"
Reading workshop
Help in understanding Lord
of the Flies
Week 2
Flow-Rewrite 1ptds
Lord of the Flies -Chapter 2-6
Reading workshop
Notes and Discussion
Week 3
Lord of the Flies-read pp.58-158
Discuss quotes
Essay-conflict negotiation
Reading workshop
Week 4
Read Lord of the Flies
Essay due Friday-"This is What I Stand For"
Week 5
Lord of the Flies presentations-due Wed. and Thurs.
Reading workshop
Week 6
Concluding discussion of Lord of the Flies-ESSAY test
Flow: Why is privacy important?
Begin reading -1984
Reading workshop
Week 7
Flow
Continue reading 1984 (to p.115)
Due Friday- Ten Alternative Sources of News(not the big 7)
Reading workshop
Help on 1984(for
those who don't know how to find things on this site)
Week 8
Flow-If you were the president
Read -1984 Book 2
Study questions
Reading workshop
Personification essay due
Week 9
Flow
Notes-Discussion Media & War in 1984
Dictation
Quotation Illustration
Reading Workshop
Week 10
Finish 1984
Notes collected 4/11
Shared Inquiry
Essay exam
Reading Workshop
Memorize "Much
Madness is Divinest Sense" by Emily Dickenson
Easter Break
Week 12
1984 pp.232-end
Choral reading-review
Reading workshop
HWK(due Friday) 5 objects that are symbols to you
Week 13
Conclude 1984
Essay test -Thursday(read afterward)
Reading workshop
Principles of" Newspeak" and the first sentence of A Tale of Two
Cities
Week 14
Testing-CAT
Of Mice and Men-characterizations
Robert Burns poem
Dictation
Reading workshop
Week 15
Finish "Humor Book"
Pygmalion-Read/Watch film
Reading Workshop
Week 16
Humor book