Borkert / Calderwood
English 10 Academic
First Quarter Syllabus
August 31/ Sept 1
Monday/Tues
September 2/3
Wednesday/Thurs
September 4/8
Friday /Tues
September 9/10
Wednesday/Thurs
September 11/14
Friday/Monday
September 15/16
Tuesday/Wed
September 17/18
Thursday /Friday
September 21/22
Monday/Tuesday
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Introduction to class / Get to know you/Icebreaker
Textbooks issued
Writing Expectations
Basic Outline
Writing Rubric
Introductory writing/Journal write
HW: Hand Bio
 Parts of speech–nouns, pronouns, antecedents
 Vocabulary lists
 Anglo Saxon culture/ Origins of Language
 Diagnostic
 Archetypes
HW: Vocab list 1
Hand Bio DUE
 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
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Vocabulary 1 quiz
“Grendel”/“Beowulf”/ “The Battle with Grendel” due
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Vocabulary 2 due
Artifact # 1 Due
“Beowulf’s Last Battle”/ “The Death of Beowulf”/
“Mourning Beowulf “ due
Vocabulary 2 quiz
Review of 5-paragraph structure and thesis statements
Anglo-Saxon Poetry—“The Wanderer” + “The Wife’s
Lament”
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Affix quiz 1
Parts of speech—prepositions & objects (PN/PA/DO/IO)
Hero’s Journey design due
Borkert / Calderwood
English 10 Academic
First Quarter Syllabus
September 23/24
Wednesday/Thurs
September 25/28
Friday/Monday
September 29/30
Tuesday/Wed
October 1/2
Thursday/Friday
October 5/6
Monday/Tuesday
October 7/8
Wednesday/Thurs
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Caesura
Beowulf outline due
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Beowulf 45 minute write
Parts of speech—conjunctions
Sentence types
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Vocab 3 quiz
Canterbury Tales: Prologue
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Verbals—gerunds
Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner’s Tale
Artifact # 2 Due
TPFASTT for Victorian poetry due
Affix quiz 2
Verbals—infinitives
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Vocabulary 4 due
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Vocabulary 4 quiz
Verbals quiz
Morte D’Arthur
Miracle/Morality/Mystery plays
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Clauses
Introduction to Sonnets & Renaissance poetry
TPFASTT: The Passionate Shepard/Nymph’s Reply due
Shakespearean Sonnets
Sonnet analysis
Parts of speech quiz 2
Verbals—participles
Intro to Chaucer
Vocab 3 due
October 9/13
Friday/Tuesday
October 12
October 14/15
Wednesday/thurs
No School /Holiday
 Review clauses
 Sonnet quiz
 Vocabulary 5 due
 Shakespeare’s Life and Times
 Intro to Macbeth
Borkert / Calderwood
English 10 Academic
First Quarter Syllabus
October 16/19
Friday/Monday
October 20/21
Tuesday/Wed
October 22/23
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Phrases
Vocabulary 5 quiz
Macbeth Act I
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
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Macbeth Act V and Review
Vocabulary 7 due
Thursday/Friday
October 26/27
Monday/Tuesday
October 28/29
Wednesday/Thurs
October 30
Friday
End of 1st Quarter
November 2-3
Vocabulary 7 quiz after break
Punctuation—commas, semicolons, colons
Macbeth TEST
No School/Teacher Workday