Week 2:4 (Oct. 21-24)

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Seniors:  Reading Schedule 2:1-6, Mythology Quiz Preview2nd Six Weeks’ Poetry PacketMLA Template (New and Improved), Tone WordsNotes on Middle English through Early Modern English (The Elizabethan Era) and Hamlet, Hamlet Response JournalDocumentary with David TennantHamlet Essay PromptsTips for Reading ShakespeareHamlet Act I Vocab

Hamlet Audioplay: Act I (≈:50), Act II (≈:37), Act III (≈:58), Acts IV-V (≈1:23)

Freshmen: Literary Analysis Task, Figurative Language ReviewGE Vocab ListGE Journal Questions for Ch. 1-10, GE Journal Questions for Ch. 11-20 (1st period2nd period4th period5th period, and 6th period), Weaving and Citing GuideGE Theme LogGE AudiotextColormarking #6, GE E-Text (Whole Novel), GE Graphic Novelization of Ch. 23-25

Week 2:3 (Oct. 14-18)

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Seniors: Reading Schedule 2:1-6Frankenstein JournalFrankenstein AudiotextTone WordsMythology Quiz Preview

Freshmen: PSAT TipsLiterary Analysis Task (an in-class piece asking students to analyze how Shakespeare transformed Ovid’s story of “Phoebus and Daphne” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Week 2:1 (Sept. 30-Oct. 4)

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Seniors: 2nd Six Weeks’ Poetry PacketMLA TemplateFrankenstein Response JournalReading Schedule 2:1-6Frankenstein Audiotext, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” E-text, Tone WordsOpen Response Prompts

Freshmen: Proofreading ExpectationsGE Vocab ListTheme LogColormarking #5Theme Analysis #1 (Instructions, Prompt, and Rubric), GE Ch. 1-10 Journal QuestionsGE Audiotext, GE Graphic Novelization for Ch. 11-13

Week 1:6 (Sept. 23-27)

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Seniors: 2nd Six Weeks’ Poetry PacketMLA TemplateJane Eyre Vocab AssignmentFrankenstein Vocab AssignmentFrankenstein Response Journal, Paradise Lost E-TextReading Schedule 2:1-6Rubric for Thursday’s In-Class Poetry Essay, Frankenstein Audiotext

Freshmen: GE NotesGE Vocab ListGE Theme Log, Colormarking #4Turnitin Registration Instructions and Theme Analysis #1Proofreading ExpectationsGE Graphic Novelization Ch. 3-7GE Graphic Novelization Ch. 8-10GE Audiotext

Week 1:5 (Sept. 16-20)

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Seniors, this is a pretty busy-looking week, but if you follow the reading schedule and complete the journal responses as you read through the novel, you’ll be fine.  Remember to always follow MLA format in your poetry responses.  The physical composition book (the vocab assignments) will not be due until the end of next week, but you should try to wrap up the JE assignment assignment and move on to the Frankenstein vocab if you haven’t already.  Take note: we’ll be doing something really useful (i.e. beneficial for Friday’s assessment) in class on Tuesday.  Here’s a nifty online-only handout that gives you 10 tips for the AP Lit multiple choice portion.  And here’s a link for Paradise Lost.

Freshmen: Great Expectations NotesGreat Expectations Vocab ListGreat Expectations Theme Log, Great Expectations AudiotextTheme Writing #2Colormarking #4Great Expectations Graphic Novelization Ch. 1-2Journal: Journal ExpectationsProofreading ExpectationsUsage NotesLiterature TermsTheme Writing #1“The Scarlet Ibis” Questions“The Cask of Amontillado” Questions

Week 1:4 (Sept. 9-12)

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Seniors: Poetry Response PacketMLA TemplateReading Schedule for 1:2-1:6Jane Eyre Vocab AssignmentFrankenstein Vocab AssignmentFrankenstein Response JournalProse Essay (Middlemarch) Rubric

Freshmen: Colormarking #3Short Stories Vocabulary & DefinitionsGreat Expectations NotesGreat Expectations Vocab ListGreat Expectations Theme Log, “Thank You, Ma’am” E-textJournal: Journal ExpectationsProofreading ExpectationsUsage NotesLiterature TermsTheme Writing #1“The Scarlet Ibis” Questions“The Cask of Amontillado” QuestionsTheme Writing #2

Week 1:3 (Sept. 3-6)

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Seniors: Poetry Response PacketMLA TemplateReading Schedule for 1:2-1:6Jane Eyre Vocab AssignmentFrankenstein Vocab Assignment, Frankenstein Response Journal

Freshmen: Course SyllabusColormarking #2, Explanation of Lexile ScoresColormarking #3Short Story VocabularyGE Notes; Journal: Journal ExpectationsProofreading ExpectationsUsage NotesLiterature TermsTheme Writing #1“The Scarlet Ibis” Questions“The Cask of Amontillado” QuestionsTheme Writing #2

Week 1:1 (Aug. 19-23)

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Welcome to a new school year! I’ve posted the week’s agenda for all to see. This is a weekly occurrence, usually done on Friday for the week which follows. I strongly encourage students and parents to check the weekly agenda in the case of a student being absent, being confused, or simply being smart by planning ahead. Below, you’ll find downloadable versions of this week’s in-class handouts along with a few other helpful bits.

Seniors: Bell ScheduleSummer PacketCourse SyllabusDiscussion InstructionsPoetry ResponsesPlagiarism NotesJane Eyre JournalMythology E-textSiddhartha E-textJane Eyre E-text, MLA Template (for Poetry Responses), Siddhartha Essay Rubric

Freshmen: Campus Map, Bell ScheduleFreshmen ActivitiesCourse SyllabusFour QuestionsVocab Presentation Instructions and Word List (specific word assignment obtained in class), Colormarking #1Journal ExpectationsLiterature Terms (specific directions given in class), It’s a Secret to Everybody