English IV AP– Winter/Spring 20163rd nine weeks

January 5, 2016 – March 11, 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
4 – In-service DayWEEK 1 / 5– New Semester
  • Pass back essays from Final Exam/Discuss scoring AP Test
  • Introduce new play PYGMALION
/ 6
  • BEGIN Reading Pygmalion
/ 7
  • AP MC Practice Test
/ 8
  • AP MC Practice Test

11WEEK 2
  • Poetry Timed Writing
/ 12
  • Score Poetry Timed Writing in Groups
/ 13
  • Prose Timed Writing
/ 14
  • Score Prose Timed Writing in Groups
/ 15
  • Q3 Timed Writing
  • Major Grade Practice Test

18WEEK 3
Martin Luther King, Jr
Birthday Observed
School Holiday / 19
  • Quiz on Act I and II of Pygmalion
  • Discussion of the Play
/ 20
  • Pygmalion
/ 21
  • Pygmalion
/ 22
  • Pygmalion
Saturday, Jan 23 SAT
25WEEK 4
  • PROGRESS REPORT #5
  • Pygmalion Q3 Timed Writing50% of Major Grade with Fences Essay
/ 26
  • Fences
/ 27
  • Fences
/ 28
  • Poetry--Sound
/ 29
  • Fences
  • Homework—one paragraph over sound devices

1 – FebruaryWEEK 5
  • Fences
  • AP MC Poetry--Sound
/ 2
  • Fences
/ 3
  • Fences
  • Grade Journals
/ 4
  • Poetry--Meter
/ 5
  • Fences
  • Applied Practice Online due-Poetry

8WEEK 6
  • Practice with Q3 Fences
/ 9
  • Q3 on Fences 50% of Major Grade
/ 10
  • Silent Reading Short Shorts
/ 11
  • WORK WITH GROUP
/ 12
  • Group Assigned Short Story
  • BEGIN PRESENTATIONS
PROGRESS REPORT #6
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
15WEEK 7
OFF / 16
  • Presentations over Short Shorts
  • HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT FOR POETRY—DUE FRIDAY NIGHT!
/ 17
  • PRESENTATIONS OVER SHORT SHORTS
/ 18
  • Intro to Poetry RESEARCH PAPER/Silent Reading Day
/ 19
  • Silent Reading Poetry again and write poetry prompt for your research paper

22WEEK 8
  • PRACTICE WITH AP MC FOR POETRY
/ 23
  • Timed Writing over Poem 50% of Major Grade
/ 24
  • AP MC over Poetry 50% of Major Grade
/ 25
  • Library
/ 26
  • Library

29WEEK 9
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Outline Paper and Write Thesis and Topic Sentences
/ 1 – March
  • Outline Paper and Write Thesis and Topic Sentences
/ 2
  • Short Story—“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
/ 3
  • Short Story with Quiz in AP Format over Cathedral
  • Read “A&P”
/ 4
  • Debrief over Poetry Timed Writing
[End of 3rd 9 weeks]
Saturday, March 5 SAT
7
  • Read “A&P”
Rough draft of research paper was due Sunday, March 6—quiz grade for T4 / 8
  • Short Story—“War Dances” by Sherman Alexie
  • INTRODUCTION TO INDEPENDENT NOVELS
/ 9
  • Short Story—continue with Sherman Alexie story
/ 10
  • Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”
/ 11
  • TIMED WRITING—PROSE ANALYSIS “SHORT STORY”

14WEEK 10
/ 15 / 16 / 17 / 18

English IV AP – Spring 20164th nine weeks

March 21, 2016 – June 2, 2016

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
21WEEK 11
  • Independent Novels—Intro with introductory passages
(Rough Draft of Research Paper—Quiz Grade) / 22
  • Independent Novels—Silent Reading
/ 23
  • Independent Novels—Silent Reading
  • In Groups, students will make suggestion for COW Quiz
/ 24
  • Independent Novels
  • QUIZ GRADE OVER IR-COW
/ 25
Major Grade—Research Paper is due by Sunday night at midnight
Good Friday
School Holiday
28
WEEK 12
  • Independent Novels—Work in groups on locating the setting using definition of setting from Harmon/ Use Setting Prompt for Homework Assignment
/ 29– STAAR ELA: 9th
  • Independent Novels-Silent reading
/ 30
  • Independent Novels—Pick your prose passage and write a prompt.
/ 31 – STAAR ELA 10th
  • Independent Novels
  • QUIZ GRADE—Prose Analysis
/ 1 – April
  • Independent Novels—Silent Reading
  • Homework Assignment—Setting due on Sunday night

4WEEK 13
  • Independent Novels—Silent Reading
/ 5
  • Independent Novels—Write your own question 3 prompt.
/ 6
  • Independent Novels—Work with themes
27 Days until the Test!!! / 7
  • Last Day of Silent Reading
  • Work with AP MC
/ 8
  • QUESTION 3 OVER INDEPENDENT NOVEL FOR MAJOR GRADE
PROGRESS REPORT #7
Saturday, April 9 ACT
11WEEK 14
  • Prose Timed Writing—Cold Reading
/ 12
  • MC Practice
/ 13
21 Days until the Test
  • Debrief on Prose and Prose Practice
/ 14
  • Discussion/Group Work on Poetry
/ 15
  • Poetry Timed Writing—Id Numbers/Peer Scoring

18WEEK 15
  • Peer Score Poetry Timed Writing
/ 19
  • Debrief on Poetry and Prose Timed Writings
/ 20
  • MC
14 Days until the Test!! / 21
  • Poetry Timed Writing—Instructor Score
/ 22
  • Practice with Q3 Timed Writing in Class

25WEEK 16
  • Timed Writing Q3—ID Numbers/Peer Scoring
/ 26
  • Peer Scoring Q3
/ 27
  • Timed Writing for Major Grade-Q3
  • 7 Days until the Test!!
/ 28
  • MC—Major Grade
/ 29
  • Timed Writing—Student Selected
PROGRESS REPORT #8
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
2 –MayWEEK 17
{AM: Chemistry; Environmental Science; PM: Psychology}
  • Debrief—Timed Writings
[STAAR window is May 2-6 for all non ELA tests] / 3
{AM: Computer Science, Spanish Language; PM: Art History, Physics 1}
  • Roulette with Q3
/ 4
{AM: English Literature; PM: Japanese, Physics 2}
EXAM DAY EXAM DAY / 5
{AM: Calculus; PM: Chinese}
Senior Thank-you Notes / 6
{AM: German; US History; PM: European History}
Senior Thank-you Notes
Saturday, May 7 SAT
9WEEK 18
{AM: Biology, Music Theory; PM: Physics C} / 10
{AM: US Government; PM: French Language, Spanish Lit} / 11
{AM: English Language; PM: Italian, Macroeconomics} / 12
{AM: Comp Gov, World History; PM: Statistics} / 13
{AM: Microeconomics, Human Geo; PM: Latin}
16WEEK 19 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
23WEEK 20 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
Spring Semester Exams
30WEEK 21
Memorial Day
School Holiday / 31
Spring Semester Exams / 1 – June
Spring Semester Exams / 2
Spring Semester Exams / 3
Graduation!
Saturday, June 4 SAT
Saturday, June 11 ACT