Quarter 3 2013 – Senior English
NOTE: YOU are responsible for budgeting your time for all reading and writing assignments
throughout the quarter. Nightly homework is not always explicitly listed, but you do have to
devote time EVERY night in order to keep up with the work (and your Senior Project). Look
ahead on the calendar to avoid conflicts with your work/extra-curricular schedules.
MONDAY
TUESDAY
01/08
WEDNESDAY
THURS/FRI.
01/09
01/10-11
Portfolio Reflections
Financial Aid
Presentation: Ms.
Lytle
CT: Prologue and storyboard
Intro/Background
Canterbury Tales
HW: Finish CT storyboard
16
17-18
New Year’s Writing
Goals
14
15
Due: CT Storyboard “What Women
Want” circle
Finish Prologue
discussion
SSR
“Wife of Bath” Timed Write
Read “Wife of Bath”
Intro “Wife of Bath”,
CT
“The Pardoner’s Tale”, mini theater
SSR
HW: Finish “Pardoner’s Tale”
21
NO SCHOOL
MLK DAY
22
23
24-25
“Pardoner’s Tale”
Reading Quiz
Intro Satire
Due: Article
Intro Google Docs,
CT Group Project
HW: Google Docs
Project
Article #2 (TBD): read, analyze,
discuss
HW: Read and label
article (TBD) for
elements of satire
SSR + One-Pager
HW: Google Docs Project
28
29
30
01/31-02/01
Due: Google Docs
Project
Due: Advertisement
Due: Cornell Notes
Due: Swift Paragraph w/ TII.com
receipt
Notes review activity
Intro Logical
Fallacies
Restoration (Cornell)
Notes
Pgs. 550-559
HW: Advertisement
HW: Finish Notes
Restoration/Swift Quiz
Historical
Background: Jonathan
Swift
“Modest Proposal”
SSR
HW: Typed ¶
explaining
Swift/Ireland/Englan
d conflict. Upload TII
w/ receipt
HW: “Modest Proposal” graphic
organizer
02/04
Due: graphic
Organizer
Discuss “Modest
Proposal”
Intro Senior Project
02/05
02/06
02/7-8
Due: Senior Project Song
Intro Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels:
Lilliputians
(Movie)
Gulliver’s Travels:
Lilliputians
(Movie)
GT: Brobdingnagians w/ study
guide
GT study guide
SSR + One-Pager
HW: 2-3 page Senior Song
Analysis
HW: Senior Project
Song
11
12
13
14-15
GT: Yahoo’s and
Houyhnhnms + study
guide
HW: 2-3 page
Senior Song
Analysis
GT: Yahoo’s and
Houyhnhnms + study
guide
HW: 2-3 page
Senior Song
Analysis
Due: Senior Song
Analysis
GT Closure Activity/Presentations
18
19
20
21-22
Machiavelli—The
Prince (pgs. 446-450)
with reading guide
Machiavelli—The
Prince (pgs. 446-450)
and reflection ¶
Federalist #10 and vocabulary
NO SCHOOL
SSR
GT written reflection:
Power/Leadership/Satire
SSR + One-Pager
HW: Federalist #10 Vocab
25
26
27
02/28-03/01
Due: Vocab
AIMS Testing Day
Federalist #10 Quiz
AIMS Testing Day
Federalist #10 Quiz
DUE: Typed Socratic questions
AND SSR Logs
Socratic Seminar
question prep
Socratic Seminar
question prep
Power and Leadership Socratic
Seminar
HW: Type Socratic
questions and SSR
Logs (pages added)
HW: Type Socratic
questions and SSR
Logs (pages added)
SSR
03/04
03/05
03/06
03/7-8
Due: Speech Notes
Outline Senior
Project Speech
Due: Senior Project
Due: Typed speech
In class rough draft of
Senior Project speech
Speech Workshop
Finish Federalist #10
HW: Study vocab
for Quiz
Media: critique and
analyze speeches
HW: Senior Project
Artifact
HW: Senior Project
Artifact
HW: Type speech
HW: Speech Writing notes (R8084) textbook
Select Senior Project presentation
dates for Q4