English 12 DP: Fall Tentative (9/5/17)
Love Medicine and Seamus Heaney Schedule
Readings Due: Assignments Due:
9/5: Introductions
9/6: “The World’s Greatest Fisherman,”
9/7: “Saint Marie,” “Wild Geese.”
9/8: “The Island”
9/11: “The Beads”
9/12: “Lulu’s Boys”
9/13: “The Plunge of the Brave,”
9/14: “Flesh and Blood”
9/15: “A Bridge”
9/18: “The Red Convertible”
9/19: “Scales”
9/20: “Crown of Thorns”
9/21: “Love Medicine”
9/22: “Resurrection”
9/25: “The Good Tears”
9/26: “Crossing the Water”/Expand Study Guide
9/27: Concluding discussions/Expand Study Guide
9/28: Expand Study Guide: Study Guide Due on turnitin.com
9/29: Summative Assessment: In-Class Essay
10/2: Intro to Seamus Heaney PPT
10/3: “Digging”
10/4: “Churning Day”
10/5: “Death of a Naturalist”,
10/6: “Blackberry Picking”
10/9: “Mid-Term Break”
10/10: “Mossbawn: Two Poems…”
10/11: “Bogland”
10/12: Review Day
10/13: First Heaney Summative Commentary
10/18:
10/19:
10/20: MEA. NO SCHOOL.
10/21: MEA. NO SCHOOL.
10/24:
10/25:
10/26: Review day
10/27: Heaney Theme/Motif Summative Quiz (Final. NO RETAKES)
10/28: “Funeral Rites”
10/11: “North”
11/1: “Bog Queen”
11/2: “The Grauballe Man”
11/3: “Punishment”
11/4: “Badgers”
11/7: Review Day
11/8: Second Seamus Heaney Commentary
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Date: Reading Due: Assignments Due:
11/9: Shakespeare/Visual Art Presentation/Hand out Hamlet/
11/10: 1.I and I.II (View Branagh and Olivier)
11/11: Analyze: “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,” Quarter 1 Ends
11/14: I.III and IV Comm. 1 Due
11/15: I.V, II.1
11/16: II.II.1-230 “What a piece of work is a man!”
11/17: II.II.231-605 (Branagh, Burton)
11/18: No School.
11/21: Analyze: “O, what a peasant rogue and slave am I!” Comm. 2 Due
11/22: III.I (Branagh, Hawke)
11/23: Analyze: “To be or not to be” Comm. 3 Due
11/24: Thanksgiving
11/25: No School
11/28: III.II “Nay do not think I flatter”
11/29: III.III
11/30: Analyze: “O, my offense is rank…”, “Now I might do it…” Comm. 4 Due
12/1: III.IV “Look here upon this picture, and on this”
12/2: IV.I, II, III
12/5: IV.IV,
12/6: Analyze: “How all occasions do inform against me” Comm. 5 Due
12/7: IV.V
12/8: IV.VI and VII
12/9: V.I (Hand Out Individual Commentary Passages) Grave Digger Friday
12/12: Analyze: “Alas, poor Yorick!” Comm. 6 Due
12/13: V.II
12/14: Plot Review/ Complete Study Guides
12/15: Plot Review/ Complete Study Guides Study Guide Due
12/16: Hamlet Final Test (No Retakes)
12/22 – 1/3 Winter Break
1/7: Hamlet Passage Commentary due to turnitin.com