Syllabus—English 9
Shawn McMullen Chen
Fall 2015 (first 5 weeks schedule)
26-28 August
Wednesday—Policies and Expectations (minimum day)
Thursday—Join Turnitin.com
Friday—Grammar Packet—nouns (grammar section notebook)
31 August-4 September
Modeling a Poem—“Lullaby for a Daughter”
Grammar—Nouns
Final copy due Friday September 11
Mythology books, Begin reading
Handout 1-- The 12 Gods of Olympus/The Lesser Gods
Thursday –Library Orientation
Friday—Library Orientation
7-11
September
Labor Day
Mythology Handout 2—The Creation
HW reading pages 71-94
Humanities Connection; Goya and Rubens “Saturn Devours One of His Children” (classnotes section of notebook)
Grammar (more practice, application)
Poem due Friday
Thursday and Friday: Cupid and Psyche Reader’s Theater (questions in Classnotes section)
14-18 September
Monday Local Holiday
Creation Myths and notes (packet posted on website)
The Lovers—group work for short skits (Handouts section number 3)
The “loves” of Zeus (back side handout 3)
Friday Minimum Day
21 -25 September
Comparative Creation Myths due Tuesday
Monday--“Lovers” presentations HW read 159-176—Jason and the Golden Fleece Grammar section notebook--Pronouns
Tuesday—Lover’s Skits presentations
Wednesday Local Holiday
Jason’s quest—(Handout number 4) the Chart/characteristics of a hero Homework—Perseus, 197-208
Thursday —The story of Theseus pages 209-223 in class. Homework—Hercules, 224-243
Friday—The four heroes, a comparison . Check Mythology notes in handouts section—12 Olympian gods, Lesser gods, the creation, the lovers, the heroes chart,
28 September- 2 October
Monday: modernize (handout 5) 12 Labors of Hercules
Icarus poems—annotations
Painting “The Fall of Icarus” by Breughal (classnotes section)
Tuesday--The Trojan War (handout 6)—Reader’s theater “The Judgment of Paris” HW read pages 255-290 Due Tuesday Oct 6
Wednesday Office Hours/Collaboration Day; Finish Reader’s Theater
Thursday/FridayMovie, Helen of Troy Homework—Greek or Trojan (Handout 7) Astrology and the Greeks
HW: reading The Odyssey pages 291-319—Sailing from Troy, The Lotus Eaters, The Cyclops Homework—The land of the Dead (Handout 7)
Friday HW The Odyssey—The Sirens, Scylla and Charbidis, The Cattle of the Sun God (Handout 8—They Odyssey)
Hometown Fair—No Homework