Borkert
English 10 Honors
First Quarter Syllabus
Sept 1
Tues
Sept 3
Thurs
Sept 7
Sept 8
Tues
 Introduction to class / Get to know you/Icebreaker
 Textbooks issued
 Writing Expectations
 Keynotes expectations and grading of the notes
 Basic Outline
 Writing Rubric
 Introductory writing/Journal write
 Handout HTRL Introduction and Chapter 10
 HW: Hand Bio; Finish reading HTRL
 Parts of speech–nouns, pronouns, antecedents
 Vocabulary lists
 Anglo Saxon culture/ Origins of Language
 Diagnostic
 Discussion of keynotes with examples
 Archetypes
 Book Orders
 Honors Portfolio Expectations
HW: Vocab list 1
Hand Bio DUE
NO SCHOOL/ Labor Day
 Parts of speech –adjectives, adverbs, subject/verb
agreement
 Overview of analytical writing—thesis statements,
outlines
 Hero’s archetypal journey
 Review diagnostics
 Vocabulary 1 due
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Parts of speech quiz 1
Background to Beowulf
Read in Class: “Grendel”/”Beowulf”
Hero’s Journey design
Monday
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Sept16
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Vocabulary 1 quiz
30 min. timed write
HTRL Chapter 3 & 9 in class
HTRL Chapter 1 due
“Grendel”/“Beowulf”/ “The Battle with Grendel”
keynotes due
Artifact #1 Due
Affix quiz 1
Parts of speech—prepositions & objects (PN/PA/DO/IO)
Hero’s Journey design due
Sept 10
Thurs
Sept 14
Borkert
English 10 Honors
First Quarter Syllabus
Wed
Sept 18
Friday
Sept 22
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Tuesday
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Sept 24
Thursday
Sept 28
Monday
Sept 30
Wednesday
Oct 2
Friday
Oct 6
Tuesday
Oct 8
Thursday
Vocabulary 2 due
Artifact # 1 Due
“Beowulf’s Last Battle”/ “The Death of Beowulf”/
“Mourning Beowulf “ keynotes due
Vocabulary 2 quiz
Review of 5-paragraph structure and thesis statements
Anglo-Saxon Poetry—“The Wanderer” + “The Wife’s
Lament”
Caesura
Beowulf outline due
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Beowulf 45 minute write
Parts of speech—conjunctions
Sentence types
Intro to Chaucer
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Timed Write – Essay on Chivalric Codes
Introduction to Sonnets & Renaissance poetry
HW: TPFASTT
Parts of speech quiz 2
Verbals—participles
Canterbury Tales: Prologue
Vocab 3 due
HW: Memorize The Prologue for recitation
Vocab 3 quiz
Recite The Prologue
Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner’s Tale, The Knight’s
Tale, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
 HTRL Chapter 25 due
HW: Finish reading tales for quiz
 Canterbury Tales Quiz
 Verbals—gerunds
 Artifact # 2 Due
 Morality/Miracle Plays
 Morte D’Arthur
 Affix quiz 2
 Verbals—infinitives
 Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
 Vocabulary 4 due
Borkert
English 10 Honors
First Quarter Syllabus
October 12
Oct 13
Tuesday
October 14/15
Wednesday/Thurs
October 16/19
Friday/Monday
October 20/21
Tuesday/Wed
October 22/23
NO SCHOOL /Holiday
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Clauses
TPFASTT: The Passionate Shepard/Nymph’s Reply due
Shakespearean Sonnets
Sonnet analysis
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Review clauses
Sonnet quiz
Vocabulary 5 due
Shakespeare’s Life and Times
Intro to Macbeth
Macbeth Video Project
Sonnet SIFTS DUE
Phrases
Vocabulary 5 quiz
Macbeth Act I in class
Clauses vs. phrases
Vocabulary 6 due
Macbeth Act II
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Clauses and phrases quiz
Macbeth Act III
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Vocabulary 6 quiz
Macbeth Act IV and V
Artifact #3 DUE
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Macbeth TEST
Vocabulary 7 due
Macbeth video project DUE
Vocabulary 7 quiz after break
Punctuation—commas, semicolons, colons
Intro to Frankenstein
HW: Read Frankenstein, Ch. 1-9
Thursday/Friday
October 26/27
Monday/Tuesday
October 28/29
Wednesday/Thurs
October 30
Friday
End of 1st Quarter
November 2-3
NO SCHOOL/Teacher work days