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
01/07
WEDNESDAY
THURS/FRI.
01/08
01/9-10
Portfolio Reflections
Intro Senior Project
Intro/Background
Canterbury Tales
CT: Prologue and storyboard
SSR
HW: Finish CT storyboard
13
14
15
16-17
Due: CT Storyboard
Prologue discussion
Evidence/Inference
activity
“What Women Want”
circle discussion
DUE: Ev/Inf W of B
DUE: Study Guide “Wife of Bath”
Read “Wife of Bath’s
Tale”
“Wife of Bath” Timed Writing
Financial Aid
presentation (Mrs.
Lytle)
HW:
Evidence/Inference: W
of B’s attitude toward
clergy pg 182 stanza 1
Intro “Wife of Bath”
“The Pardoner’s Tale”, mini theater
HW:
Evidence/Inference
20
NO SCHOOL
MLK DAY
HW: Finish reading “The
Wife of Bath’s Tale”
with study guide
SSR
HW: Finish “Pardoner’s Tale”
HAVE YOU
THOUGHT ABOUT
WHAT YOU ARE
GOING TO MAKE
FOR YOUR SENIOR
PROJECT??
21
22
23-24
“Pardoner’s Tale”
Reading Quiz
Intro Satire
Due: Article
HW: Read and label
article (TBD) for
elements of satire;
study for CT test
Unit test: Canterbury Tales
Intro Google Docs, CT
Group Project
HW: Google Docs
Project
Article #2 (TBD): read, analyze,
discuss
SSR + One-Pager
HW: Google Docs Project
WORK ON YOUR SENIOR
PROJECT
27
28
29
01/30-01/31
Due: Google Docs
Project
Due: Advertisement
Due: Cornell Notes
Due: Swift Paragraph w/ TII.com
receipt
Restoration (Cornell)
Notes
Pgs. 550-559
Notes review activity
Intro Logical
Fallacies
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
TIC TOC—
How’s that
project
comin’?
02/04
02/05
02/6-7
Intro Gulliver’s Travels
DUE: Song Lyrics
Gulliver’s Travels:
Lilliputians
(Movie)
SSR + One-Pager
HW: Song Analysis
Essay
Gulliver’s Travels:
Lilliputians
(Movie)
HW: Find
Song
Lyrics
GT: Brobdingnagians w/ study
guide
GT study guide
HW: 2-3 page Song Analysis due
Monday
10
11
12
13-14
DUE: Full Draft of
Song Analysis (2-3
Pages)
GT: Yahoos and
Houyhnhnms + study
guide
Due: Senior Song
Analysis (2-3 pages)
GT written reflection:
Power/Leadership/Satire
HW: Revise Song
Analysis
GT: Yahoos and
Houyhnhnms + study
guide
GT Closure Activity/Presentations
Writing workshop:
Song analysis
02/03
Due: graphic
Organizer
Discuss “Modest
Proposal”
HW: Revise Song
Analysis
SSR
HAVE YOU STARTED YOUR
SENIOR PROJECT
ARTIFACT?
17
18
19
20-21
Machiavelli—The
Prince (pgs. 446-450)
with reading guide
Machiavelli—The
Prince (pgs. 446-450)
and reflection ¶
Socratic Seminar question prep
HW: Senior Project
HW: Senior Project
HW: Type Socratic questions
HW: Senior Project
24
25
26
02/27-02/28
AIMS Testing Day
AIMS Testing Day
Due: Speech Notes
Script writing and public speaking
Power and
Leadership Socratic
Seminar
Power and
Leadership Socratic
Seminar
Script writing and
public speaking
SSR
HW: Senior Project
HW: Speech Writing
notes (R80-84)
textbook
HW: Senior Project
HW: Senior Project Artifact
HW: Senior Project Script (Full
draft)
NO SCHOOL
HW: Senior Project
SSR + One-Pager
2+ weeks and
ticking…
YOU HAVE ONE
WEEK. ARE YOU
READY?
03/03
03/04
DUE: Full draft of
Senior Project Script
HW: Senior Project
Writing Workshop:
Scripts
HW: Senior Project
03/05
Due: Senior
Project
03/6-7
SSR
Select Senior Project presentation
dates for Q4
Binder checks
Portfolio organization