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Ms. Beard
3rd Nine Weeks
*** Be sure your copy of Frankenstein is the 1831 edition, not the 1818 edition
Unit Objectives:
--develop writing style
--increase use of sentence variety
-- Discuss writing process and strategies.
--Develop accurate and appropriate thesis and organizational skills
--Recognize the various literary approaches to a text.
--Understand the tenants of Romanticism
--Analyze a text, prose and poetry, by implementing literary strategies
--Engage in various strategies in preparation for the AP Literature and Composition Test
--Engage in discussions exploring Shelley’s Frankenstein and a survey of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works
Essential Questions/ideas:
--What are the consequences of a technologically superior world?
--What does it mean to be human? To possess true life AND humanity?
--Mankind’s tendency to “play” God
--As we progress technologically, how do we balance our traditional moral and ethical values with said progress?
--What is the influence of Romanticism on the modern world?
January 7-11
Mon: Student Holiday
Tues: Discuss focus for unit; introduce Frankenstein (notes--background, themes)
HW: Read “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (You received this poem before the break—this should be review time)
Wed/Thurs: Discuss “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; grammar lesson
HW: continue reading “Rime”
Fri: grammar quiz (formative); Continue to discuss “Rime”
HW: read Frankenstein; letters through Chapter 8
January 14-18
Mon: Wrap-up discussion of “Rime”
Tues: Unit 8 Vocabulary Quiz (formative); Discuss elements of the Gothic novel
Wed/Thurs: Frankenstein Reading Check, letters through Chapter 8 (formative); Begin discussion of Frankenstein
HW: continue Frankenstein
Fri: Discuss Frankenstein
January 21-25
Mon: Holiday 
HW: continue reading Frankenstein
Tue: Review strategies for writing critically about literature; Discuss Frankenstein
Wed/Thurs: Test over Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Romanticism, Mary Shelley, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and gothic
literature (summative); continue discussion of Frankenstein
Fri: Continue discussion of Frankenstein
HW: Finish Frankenstein
January 28-February 1st
Mon: reading check quiz over Frankenstein, chapters 9-17 (formative); Discuss Frankenstein
Tues: Discuss Frankenstein
Wed/Thurs: Timed Essay (analysis of Frankenstein)--summative; Lit. circle discussions of Frankenstein
Fri: Unit 9 Vocabulary Quiz (formative); continue Lit. Circle discussions.
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February 4-8
Mon: Frankenstein (focus questions)
Tues: Discuss connections between novel and Byronic hero; review for test
HW: Read “The Birthmark” p. 416 in the Bedford; “The Minister’s Black Veil” p. 407 in the Bedford;
“Young Goodman Brown” p. 398 in the Bedford
Wednesday/Thursday: Frankenstein test (summative—entire novel, including notes, etc)
Friday: Unit 10 Vocabulary quiz (formative); Review Timed Writing results, complete reflection (formative)
HW:
February 11-15
Mon: Reading quiz over short stories (formative); discuss short stories/Hawthorne
Tues: Continue to discuss short stories
Wed/Thurs: Continue discussion
Friday: continue discussion; assign research paper over Frankenstein
February 18-22
Mon: Discuss short stories
Tues: Review strategies for writing critically about literature (writing practice)
Wed/Thurs: Test over Short stories (written)
Fri: prepare for research in the library; complete research prospectus in class and submit. (formative)
February 25-March 1st
Mon: Library Orientation
Tues: Library
Wed/Thurs: Library ***a minimum of 3 sources are due on block day of next week for student/teacher conferences. You are
required to submit the printed copy of your source with the attached bibliography card. Source should demonstrate some
form of research/reading (annotated, highlighted, etc)
Fri: Back in classroom—review sources/work on source cards
March 4-8
Mon: Mrs. Beard is back! ; continue to work on source cards/annotate articles
Tues: Research quiz (this assessment requires you to know the details of the assignment, due dates, etc.) --formative
Wed/Thurs: Student/teacher conferences regarding the research paper; source are due (formative)
Fri: Continue conferences; Assign The Importance of Being Earnest
March 11-15 Spring Break!!
March 18-22
Mon: Notes on Earnest
Tues: Discuss Earnest
Thurs: Writing Workshop: Intro/thesis statements for research paper (Formative). Bring two typed, formatted copies. Handwritten
work will not be accepted.
Fri: Unit 12 Vocab Quiz (formative); continue to discuss Earnest
March 25-27
Mon: Small group writing workshop: Bring two typed, formatted copies of revised intro/thesis.
Tues: Conference with teacher regarding intro/thesis. (formative to be counted on the next grading period)
Wed: continue conference. Intro/thesis statements NOT approved during these conferences must be resubmitted over the break.
You will be required to attach them to an email. Failure to do will result in a zero on this assignment.
Tutoring: room 1206: Monday/Thursday 2:50-3:20; other times by appointment only.
Make-ups: If you need to make up a quiz or test, please see me and we will work out a time. Students have one week to make up a test or quiz.
Absences: If you are going to be absent, the courteous thing to do is to let me know. If you are out for an extended time, please email me to make
arrangements to get any work you have missed. In addition, please check my website for handouts/notes/announcements. It is your
responsibility to keep up with the syllabus. You are held accountable for all quizzes, tests, and coursework EVEN if you missed the previous
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class. Again, contacting me when you are absent will help you stay on track.
Grading Policy:
75% summative
25% formative
AP/Dual Credit courses do not allow for retesting on either formative or summative assessments.
Summatives: 4 total—see syllabus for dates
Timed Writing
(2)
Frankenstein Test
Background test, Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Formatives: 13 total—see syllabus for dates
Frankenstein Reading checks (2)
Vocab Quizzes (5)
Sources for research paper
Research quiz
Short Pieces reading check
Research Prospectus
Writing Workshops (Research paper)
Grammar quiz