Borkert / Calderwood

English 10 Academic

First Quarter Syllabus

August 31/ Sept 1
Monday/Tues /
  • Introduction to class / Get to know you/Icebreaker
  • Textbooks issued
  • Writing Expectations
  • Basic Outline
  • Writing Rubric
  • Introductory writing/Journal write
  • HW: Hand Bio

September 2/3
Wednesday/Thurs /
  • Parts of speech–nouns, pronouns, antecedents
  • Vocabulary lists
  • Anglo Saxon culture/ Origins of Language
  • Diagnostic
  • Archetypes
HW: Vocab list 1
Hand Bio DUE
September 4/8
Friday /Tues /
  • Parts of speech –adjectives, adverbs, subject/verb agreement
  • Overview of analytical writing—thesis statements, outlines
  • Hero’s archetypal journey
  • Review diagnostics
  • Vocabulary 1 due

September 9/10
Wednesday/Thurs /
  • Parts of speech quiz 1
  • Background to Beowulf
  • Read in Class: “Grendel”/”Beowulf”
  • Hero’s Journey design

September 11/14
Friday/Monday /
  • Vocabulary 1 quiz
  • “Grendel”/“Beowulf”/ “The Battle with Grendel” due

September 15/16
Tuesday/Wed /
  • Affix quiz 1
  • Parts of speech—prepositions & objects (PN/PA/DO/IO)
Hero’s Journey design due
September 17/18
Thursday/Friday /
  • Vocabulary 2 due
  • Artifact # 1 Due
  • “Beowulf’s Last Battle”/ “The Death of Beowulf”/ “Mourning Beowulf “ due

September 21/22
Monday/Tuesday /
  • Vocabulary 2 quiz
  • Review of 5-paragraph structure and thesis statements
  • Anglo-Saxon Poetry—“The Wanderer” + “The Wife’s Lament”
  • Caesura
  • Beowulf outline due

September 23/24
Wednesday/Thurs /
  • Beowulf 45 minute write
  • Parts of speech—conjunctions
  • Sentence types

September 25/28
Friday/Monday /
  • Parts of speech quiz 2
  • Verbals—participles
  • Intro to Chaucer
  • Vocab 3 due

September 29/30
Tuesday/Wed /
  • Vocab 3 quiz
  • Canterbury Tales: Prologue

October 1/2
Thursday/Friday /
  • Verbals—gerunds
  • Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner’s Tale
  • Artifact # 2 Due
  • TPFASTT for Victorian poetry due

October 5/6
Monday/Tuesday /
  • Affix quiz 2
  • Verbals—infinitives
  • Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
  • Vocabulary 4 due

October 7/8
Wednesday/Thurs /
  • Vocabulary 4 quiz
  • Verbals quiz
  • MorteD’Arthur
  • Miracle/Morality/Mystery plays

October 9/13
Friday/Tuesday /
  • Clauses
  • Introduction to Sonnets & Renaissance poetry
  • TPFASTT: The Passionate Shepard/Nymph’s Reply due
  • Shakespearean Sonnets
  • Sonnet analysis

October 12 / No School /Holiday
October 14/15
Wednesday/thurs /
  • Review clauses
  • Sonnet quiz
  • Vocabulary 5 due
  • Shakespeare’s Life and Times
  • Intro to Macbeth

October 16/19
Friday/Monday /
  • Phrases
  • Vocabulary 5 quiz
  • Macbeth Act I

October 20/21
Tuesday/Wed /
  • Clauses vs. phrases
  • Vocabulary 6 due
  • MacbethAct II

October 22/23
Thursday/Friday /
  • Clauses and phrases quiz
  • Macbeth Act III

October 26/27
Monday/Tuesday /
  • Vocabulary 6 quiz
  • Macbeth Act IV

October 28/29
Wednesday/Thurs /
  • Macbeth Act V and Review
  • Vocabulary 7 due

October 30
Friday
End of 1st Quarter /
  • Vocabulary 7 quiz after break
  • Punctuation—commas, semicolons, colons
  • Macbeth TEST

November 2-3 / No School/Teacher Workday