Second 9 Weeks Syllabus
10/26
*Finish Act II
*Work on Macbeth
Study Questions
10/27
*Renaissance
Lecture Quiz
*Macbeth
Vocabulary
11/2
11/3
*Read Act IV
*Act III & IV Quiz
*Work on Macbeth *Grammar Practice
Study Questions
10/28 & 29
*Act I & II Quiz
*Read Act III
*Work on Macbeth Study Questions
11/9
*Scene Rewrite
Due
*Grammar
Practice
11/10
*Test Review
11/4 & 5
*Macbeth Vocabulary Quiz
*Read Act V
*Work on Macbeth Study Questions
*Begin Scene Rewrite (TBD)
11/11 & 12
*Macbeth Test
*Macbeth Packet Due
*Grammar Practice
*Work on paper quotes.
11/16
*Start Sonnets
11/17
*Finish Sonnets
11/18 & 19
*In class Macbeth essay
10/30
Writer’s Workshop
*Explain In class
writing paper & begin
looking for quotes
11/6
*Scene Rewrite
11/13
Writer’s Workshop
*Evidence & analysis
*Work on paper
quotes.
11/20
*Sonnet Quiz
*Grammar Practice
11/23-27
Thanksgiving Break
11/30
*Read Pastoral
Poems
12/1
12/2 & 3
*Grammar Practice *Read Excerpt from Paradise Lost
*One-Pager Activity
12/4
*Metaphysical/Cavalier
Poetry
12/7
*Grammar
Assessment
*Test Review
12/14
*Final Exam
Review
12/8
*Test Review
12/11
*Final Exam Review
12/15
*Final Exam
Review
12/9 & 10
*Poetry Test
*Poetry Packet Due
*Final Exam Review
12/16
12/17
*Final Exams
*Final Exams
1, 2, & 5
3&6
12/18
*Final Exams
4&7
Second Quarter Unit Plan - English IV
Writing Focus: Macbeth Analysis Essay
Grammar: parts of speech; pronoun-antecedent agreement
Overarching Questions Macbeth: What is a Tragic Hero? How does the Renaissance culture influence the work? How do literary
devices influence the telling of the story? How does ambition influence action?
Macbeth
Objectives
TEKS
I can understand the following topics in the Renaissance time period and how it applies to literature:
Student will understand how the history and culture
 How the following topics affected society:
influence the author’s work and can support their opinion
 Faith
* Economy
with evidence from the text.
 Education
* Humanism
 The idea of the Renaissance man.
 The members of the Tudor dynasty and how they affected
literature.
 How poetry and drama changed.
 Shakespeare’s influence.
Thematic Ideas:
 The reflection of unnatural deeds in nature.
 Things are not always what they seem.
 The destructiveness of selfish ambition.
 The powerful influence of outside forces.
I can identify the following literary vocabulary in Macbeth:
 Imagery
*Paradox
 Foreshadowing
*Aside
 Soliloquy
I can identify and use the following vocabulary from Macbeth:
 Minion
*Chastise
 Corporal
*Surmise
 Prophetic
*Equivocate
 Appalls
*Scruples
 Carousing
*Augment
 Malice
*Purged
 Eminence
*Muse
 Diminutive
*Homage
 Appease
*Malevolence
 Oblivious
*Integrity
Content – While reading Macbeth I will be familiar with the plays:
 Plot
*Characters
 Conflicts
*Thematic concerns
Poetry
I can identify the following literary devices:
 Imagery
*Personification
 Rhyme scheme
*Tone
 Quatrain
*Turn
 Couplet
*Allusion
I can understand the following writing styles of the Renaissance period:
 Sonnets
*Religious writing
 Pastoral poetry
* Metaphysical poetry
Student can analyze the moral dilemmas presented in the
story and the problems faced and how they affect the
characters.
Student knows the meaning of the literary devices and
how their use affects the telling of the story.
Student can determine the meaning of words using
multiple sources.
Student can analyze the plot structure and advancement of
the story and characters.
Student can find examples of the literary devices in poetry,
and how their use affects the poem.
Students demonstrate knowledge of the different styles of
Renaissance writing and their unique traits.