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 English 4

 AP Language and Composition

Your assignments are posted below each week and you are expected to keep up with them.  The policies are in my handouts. You need Models for Writers everyday, and you need the vocab book on Fridays. AP workbooks can remain on my shelves.

Week of January 25:

Jan 26: You need your copy of The Soloist

Jan 28: You need to have your AP workbook with you--it can't be a used one

Week of Feb. 1:

Feb 1: Read and take notes on thesis, organization, diction, syntax, rhetorical devices in "Unforgettable Miss Bessie" and "I Just Wanna Be Average"

Feb 3: Lit terms--a to didactic quiz, spelling, definitions, examples (tentative)

Feb 5:  you need to have your vocabulary book with you and the fill ins the first two chapters completed

Week of Feb 8:

Feb 8: Soloist project is due.  See handout.

Feb 10: lit terms quiz

Feb 12:  Voc 1-2 assessment/quiz; units 3-4 fill ins completed

If we are off from snow on Wed the 10th we will have lit terms quiz on 11th. If we are off the 11th from snow, we will do lit terms on the 12th and hold the voc 1-2 quiz for Friday, the 19th.

 Week of Feb 15:

Feb 16:  Sullivan Ballou letter analysis due--later than Tue means ten points off each day you are late

Feb 17: Voc 1-2 quiz (from Friday), go over 3-4

Feb 19: Voc 3-4 quiz, go over 5-6

Week of Feb 22

Feb 23:  You should be prepared to finish your group work in 30 in on Monday and be ready to do the worksheet/organizer on Pliny, pages 546-550

Feb 24:  In class writing continues--finish Pliny graphic organizer

Feb 25: You should read Tacitus, pages 538-44--in class writing

Feb 26:  In class writing continues--finish Tacitus graphic organizer

Feb 27: Have your lit book and vocab book 

Week of March 1:

Mar. 1 : Pliny essay

Mar 2: Tacitus essay

Mar 3:  Should have read Orwell's "A Hanging" in your Models for Writers book

Mar 5:  Voc 5-6 quiz  and going over 7-8, 7-8 quiz on March 19

Week of March 15:

We are working on graphics and comparison/contrast this week.

Mar. 18: I will be out and you need your Models for Writers book and your vocabulary book.

Mar 19 :Voc 7-8 quiz, Last day to make up work for the marking period.

April 1 (Wed): Voc quiz 9-10

April 13: Read and annotate "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King--available on internet, heck my links

PLEASE BRING PERMISSION SLIPS AND $15 FOR FIELD TRIP ASAP

April 14:  lit terms onomatopoeia to rhetorical question

April 16: tentative date for argument essay

April 22: Field trip to Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre

Last week of April

Synthesis essay this week in class, practice for the AP test

April 30: Voc 11-12 due

Week of May 3

Reading, writing, and AP Practice

 Week of May 10

AP practice

May 13: Bring big gray world lit book with you

May 14: voc 13-14quiz

May 21: voc 15-16 quiz

May 27 (thur): voc 17-18quiz

June 4: Voc 19-20 quiz

June 11: voc 21 quiz

 

 Honors English 2

Week of January 25:

We will start class with The Soloist so please bring that on Tuesday, Jan 26.  Start reading The Crucible now.

Jan 26: The Soloist

Jan 29: You should have read and taken notes on pages 2-15 in your text. 

Week of Feb. 1:

Feb 2:  Answer the questions on the discussion board site for the colonial period

Feb 3:  Read and take notes on Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation," pages 22-32, looking for the ways God controls people

Feb 4:  Read and take notes on Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" pages 54-59, looking for the relationship between people and humanity

Feb 5:  You should have completed the fill ins and critical reading in your vocabulary book for chapters 1-2. Next Friday we will have a quiz/test on 1-2 (spelling, definition) and go over 3-4

Feb. 8: The Soloist project due, read Equiano's "The Interesting Narrative of Oludah Equiano" in texbook and take notes

Feb 9:  Go to handouts and weblinks and paste the following into your notebooks:  a picture of a spinning wheel with its parts, a picture of a loom with its parts, the poem "Huswifery," and the poem "Upon What Base"

Feb 10: You should have finished reading The Crucible

Feb 11 or Feb 15: Tentative date for Colonial Period test

Feb 12:  Voc 1-2 quiz on spelling and definitions, go over 3-4

Week of Feb 15:

2/17: Crucible...

Tentative date for Colonial Test is now 2/18

2/19:  Voc 3-4 quiz, 5-6 due

Week of Feb 23:

Feb 23:  Starting The Crucible--you need to have read it or know more about it than you have so far... and you need that book with you daily for now

Feb 24:  Test on the Colonial writers and period

Feb 25: Crucible again until Friday

Feb 27:  voc 5-6 quiz, 7-8 due

Week of March 1:

Mar 1: Voc 5-6 quiz, go over 7-8

Mar 2-4: Crucible

Mar 5:  voc 7-8 quiz with 9-10 due

Week of March 8:

March 12:  Voc 9-10 quiz, 11-12 due

Week of March 15:

March 16:  Essay test on The Crucible--you will be colloborating

March 17:  Start bringing the textbook again

March 18: Id badges or trading cards due for The Crucible

Week of March 28:

April 1 (Wed): Tenative date for test on Revolutionary Period writers--objective

Week of April 12: Start reading Night for May 10

April 13:  Have read "The Devil and Tom Walker"

April 14:  Have read "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"

April 16: Voc 11-12 quiz, 13-14 due

Week of April 19:

Start reading Night for May 10

April 19:  Projects due on Revolutionary Period

April 20: Have a copy of "Young Goodman Brown" either printed out from the internet or pasted into your notebook. Have it read. Think of it as an allegory

April 22: Have either Night or voc with you because I will be on a field trip--also bring yout textbook--READ "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER"  and "The Oval Portrait" FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 23, pages  158-179

April 23: Voc 13-14 quiz, 15-16 due

April 26: Read Cooper's 137-148

April 29:  Test on the short stories , I hope

April 30: Voc 15-16 quiz, 17-18due--I corrected themistake from earlier about the units

May 3:  Objective and essay test on Romantic period writers

May 7:  Voc 17-18 quiz, 19-20 due

May 10: Night should be read, possible day of the test on Bryant and the Fireside poets

May 11 poetry test with index card

May 14: voc 19-20 quiz, 21 due

May 21: Last voc quiz 21

May 24: Night essay test--you can have a 3 by 5 index card with quotations

June 1: Night projects due--see handouts project 3

June 7: poetry project due--in handouts under poetry project 2

June 14:  To Kill a Mockingbird should be read

 

 

 

 Literature and Culture

Hi and welcome to second semester.  This is the first time Literature and Culture: The Twentieth Century and Beyond has been offered. I hope you will enjoy some of the things I have planned.
 
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Week of Jan 25:
 
Jan 26: The Soloist--How does the movie director try to make sound visual?  What parallels are drawn between Lopez and Ayers?  Is Ayers being exploited by Lopez? What changes were made to Lopez's character and why? 
 
Feb 8:  The Soloist Project due--listed in the  handout section
 
Feb 10:  You need 5 movie posters from any one genre that you pick with you on Wed.
 
Feb 12:  Test on Twelve Angry Men--combination of objective and essay--you need a pencil
 
Week of Feb 15:
 
Feb 17-18: meet in media center--bring any laptops, bring yor 5 movie posters
 
Week of Feb 22:
 
Feb 23:  Analyzing Movie poster Project due
 
Reading assignments will be announced in class
Week of March 1:
 
Mar 1: Read "The Cat, a Goldfinch and the Stars," "Bees and People," and "Araby"--group work
Mar 2: Finish group work on stories and discuss. Read "Rhinoceros"
Mar 3: Finish group work on "Rhinoceros" and discuss
Mar 4: Read "Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu" and "No Witchcraft for sale" and start group work
Mar 5: Finish above stories.
 
Week of March 28:
Discussion of movie trailers--project in the handouts section on film trailers for 20th century short stories
 
April:
PLEASE BRING PERMISSION SLIPS AND $15 FOR FIELD TRIP ASAP
April 14:  "Coffee shop--open mic" poetry day--bring your favorite poem (suitable for reading in a Catholic school) today--this is an assignment
April 16: Tentative date for poetry test
 
April 19 (monday):  Movie trailer due for 20th century short story--see handouts or the hard copy given in class
 
 
April 22: Field trip to Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre--need money for lunch
Last week of April:
April 30: Test on Glass Menagerie
 
May 3:  Glass Menagerie Test--objective and essay
May 4: Rear Window
May 7:  Poems on characters due
May 11: Rear Window worksheet due
May 17; tim Kolesk coming to class
May 19 or May 20 ish--Our Town test