STONE - ENGLISH IV/CN
3RD
NINE WEEKS
January 4, 2010 – March 26, 2011
MONDAY
3 – School Holiday
4
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TUESDAY
Intro to 1302, syllabus
WEDNESDAY
5
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Intro to Shakespeare
Shakespeare toolbox
THURSDAY
6
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Intro to Hamlet
FRIDAY
7
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Hamlet
Read Act I, scenes I, ii, iii
Read Act I, scenes iv, v
14
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Hamlet
10
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Hamlet
Journal Question over Act I
11
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Hamlet
12
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Hamlet
13
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Hamlet
HW: read Act II
HW: review Act II, chk for
understanding
18
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Hamlet
HCC CLASSES BEGIN
HW: read Act III, scenes i, ii
HW: finish Act III, check for
understanding
20
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Hamlet
 In-class essay on Hamlet
(Essay #1)
HW: read Act V, scene i
HW: finish reading the play!
24
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Hamlet
25
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Hamlet
26
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Hamlet
27
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Hamlet
28
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Hamlet
31
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Hamlet group work and
presentations, Research
paper
1 Febuary
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Hamlet group work and
presentations, Research
paper
2
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3
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4
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7
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8
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9
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15
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Hardy’s Mayor of
Casterbridge
• Quiz on Act I - III
17 – School Holiday
Hamlet group work and
presentations, Research
paper
14
· introduction to Hardy, The
Mayor of Casterbridge
19
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Hamlet
Hamlet group work and
presentations, Research
paper
Hamlet group work and
presentations, Research
paper
HW: read Act IV
21
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Hamlet
Hamlet group work and
presentations, Research
paper
10
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Hamlet Exam
11
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View pop culture references
to Hamlet & other class’
video projects
16
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Hardy’s Mayor of
Casterbridge
17
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Hardy’s Mayor of
Casterbridge
18
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Hardy’s Mayor of
Casterbridge
HWK: read Chapters 1-6 (1-39)
HWK: read C 7 – 13 (40-82)
HWK: read C 14-23 (83-161)
View pop culture references
to Hamlet & other class’
video projects
Hamlet Research paper due
(Essay #2)
MONDAY
21 – School Holiday
TUESDAY
22
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Hardy’s Mayor of
Casterbridge
WEDNESDAY
23
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Summarizing
discussion/lecture
THURSDAY
24
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Literature Circle, “Is
Henchard a tragic hero?”
FRIDAY
25
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Literature Circle, “Is
Henchard a tragic hero?”
HWK: read C 24 - 28 (162-198)
HWK: read C 29– 34 (199-240)
HWK: read C 35 – 40 (241-282)
HWK: read C 41 – end (283326)
28
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Hardy’s Mayor of
Casterbridge
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view selected movie clip
(emphasis on
characterization)
7
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Hardy’s Mayor of
Casterbridge
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Group Presentation of
textual reference analysis
1 - March
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view selected movie clips
(emphasis on transition from
Romanticism to Victorian
Age)
2 – ELA TAKS?
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view selected movie clips
(emphasis on transition from
Romanticism to Victorian
Age)
3
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4
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8
 review for exam
10
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Mayor of Casterbridge
EXAM
11
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Peer editing of Hardy essay
12
 Hardy Essay Due (Essay #3)
14
15
16
17
18
21
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Poetry (Romantics,
Shakespearean sonnets,
Victorian) ->
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Intro to types of sonnets,
Shakespeare’s sonnets
HWK: read 18,55,116,130,138 in
Living Lit p 944-946
22
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Shakespeare’s sonnets
(18,55,106,116,130,138) group annotation analysis
23
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Shakespeare’s sonnets
(group annotation analysis)
24
 group presentations of sonnet
annotation/analysis
25
 intro to Romantics: (Carpe
Diem poems) Herrick’s “To
Virgins, to make much time”
group work: further textual
analysis of characterization,
tragic hero, or transition form
R to V
group work: further textual
analysis of characterization,
tragic hero, or transition form
R to V
LAST DAY OF NINE WEEKS
4th Nine Weeks
March 29, 2010 – June 3, 2010
MONDAY
28
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Carpe Diem poets: Marvell’s
“To his coy mistriss” 9936937 in Living Literature
TUESDAY
29
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Keats “Ode on a Grecian
Urn”, elements of a romantic
ode
4
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HWK: “How do I love thee? p.
1043 in Living Literature
5
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Joyce’s “Araby”
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Intro to Greene’s “The
Destructors”
Introduction to
Contemporary British
Literature (Joyce, Woolf,
Greene, Lawrence)
HW: read Joyce’s “Araby” p33 in
Living Literature
11
• Intro to Woolf, bio, literary
significance
• Journal: “Who are you? How do
you define yourself?”
• view Woolf bio video
HW: read Greene’s “The
Destructors” p948 in EoL
12
• Woolf’s theory of no
insignificant details, metaphors,
stream of consciousness, “life in
one day”
• read “morning scenes” from
Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours
• show scene 2 (morning scene)
of The Hours
18
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introduce “Your life in one
day” project
WEDNESDAY
30
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Intro to Victorian poets,
Browning’s “How Do I Love
Thee?”
THURSDAY
31
 Essay #4 HCC mid-term (inclass essay)
Critical analysis of a poetry
selection
6
7
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FRIDAY
1 – April
8
Greene’s “The Destructors”
Fitness Day
Fitness Day
13
• excerpts from Mrs. Dalloway &
The Hours: examine use of
metaphor, stream of consc.,
meaning in insignificant details,
rhythmic repetition
• view the cake scene from The
Hours, discuss metaphoric
meaning
14
• show suicide scene from The
Hours
• read “The Death of the Moth”
• 15 minute journal, relating
Woolf’s suicide to her
contemplations on death
15
• in-class essay on “Moth” (major
grade)
19
“Your life in one day” project
20
Work on Lit Theory Analysis
project ->
21
Work on Lit Theory Analysis
project ->
22 – School Holiday
25
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Work on Lit Theory Analysis
project ->
26 – TAKS testing
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27 – TAKS testing
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28 – TAKS testing
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29 – TAKS testing
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2–M a y
3
4
5
6
{Government, French Lang}
{ComSci, Spanish Lang, Statistics}
{Calculus, Chinese}
{Eng Lit, Germ Lang, Japanese, French Lit}
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Lit Theory presentations
Lit Theory presentations
Lit Theory presentations
{US History, European History, Studio Art}
Review for HCC final
HCC Final Exam
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
9
10
11
{Biology, Music Theory, Physics}
{Envi Sci, Chem, Psych}
{Italian, Art History}
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THURSDAY
FRIDAY
12
13
{Econ, World History }
{Human Geography Spanish Lit, Latin}
English Language and
Composition Exam!!!
HCC SEMESTER ENDS
16
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GRADES DUE BY NOON
17
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Lit theory application/ film
analysis using The Warriors
18
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Lit theory application/ film
analysis using The Warriors
19
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Lit theory application/ film
analysis using The Warriors
20
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Lit theory application/ film
analysis using The Warriors
23
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Lit theory application/ film
analysis using The Warriors
24
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Lit theory application/ film
analysis using The Warriors
25
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Lit theory application/ film
analysis using The Warriors
26
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Lit theory application/ film
analysis using The Warriors
27
30 – Memorial Day
31
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2
3
Spring Semester Exams
School Holiday
Spring Semester Exams
Spring Semester Exams
Spring Semester Exams
out of school