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Honors Senior English Syllabus
Spring 2015
Stephanie Heintz Wood
Nine Weeks One
Jan26TEACHER WORKDAY
27TEACHER WORKDAY
28Introductions, Lord of the Flies review, expectations, MLA in brief
29Summer reading TEST and thematic essay assignment
30LOTF discussion and vocabulary
Feb 2Baseline assessment and vocabulary due, Hiroshima article
3Thematic essay due, Introduction to Anglo-Saxons, Kennings
4Beowulf, Part I
5BeowulfPart II,LOTF Vocabulary quiz
6Final day with Beowulf, shields assignment and workday
9 Essays returned, MLA/essay workshop and discussion
10Middle Ages notes and Ballads: “Lord Randall” and “Bar the Door”
11EARLY RELEASE DAY!! The Canterbury Tales “Prologue”
12Complete “Prologue” discussion and “The Knight’s Tale”
13Revisions of LOTF essay DUE!Creative prologue assigned
16Castle photos and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
17“The Pardoner’s Tale” and Creative prologues DUE
18Shields DUE! And Review
19ANGLO-SAXON AND MIDDLE AGES TEST
20Article: “What Women (Really) Want” and letters
23Research paper workshop and Senior Project Proposals
24Research in library
25Library/conferencing
26Library/conferencing
27TEACHER WORKDAY/SNOW DAY
Mar 2Note cards and bib cards due, Works Cited page due!
3Outlining
4Outlines due!/Conferencing
5Rough drafts/Conferencing
6First two pages of draft due COMPLETED with documentation
9Renaissance notes and Carpe Diem poetry
10Carpe Diem assignment, Sonnets—Shakespearean or Petrarchan
11EARLY RELEASE DAY! Group sonnets
12Individual Carpe Diem poems DUE!
13Final paper and research packet DUE!!, Renaissance project intro
16Renaissance Project Workday in class/library
17Metaphysical poets—Donne and Jonson, TPCASTT
18EARLY RELEASE DAY! Ben Jonson
19Poetry explication (TPCASTT) in class, “The Prodigal Son”
20excerpt from Paradise Lost
23Shakespeare intro with Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt (digital)
24Macbethintro.
25Macbeth and comma usage
26Macbeth and comma usage
27Macbeth and comma usage
30Macbeth and comma rules
31Macbeth and comma rules
Apr1Final day with Macbeth/Review
2RENAISSANCE FINAL TEST
3TEACHER WORKDAY!
**RENAISSANCE PROJECTS AND PRESENTATIONS DUE APRIL 13**
*Coming up for the Second Nine Weeks:A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Restoration, the Romantic Era and Frankenstein, Victorian Era, Modernism, and students will also be assigned a poetry explication paper.