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Content
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
Skills
Assessment
Anglo Saxon Period
Read Period timeline
Outline period background
“Beowulf” – the epic poem
Read Old English – “Beowulf” and
Anglo Saxon Riddles
Anglo Saxon Riddles
Understand the epic poem and hero
Test on Riddles
Oral reading of “Beowulf”
Reading Check Quizzes
Answering text book questions
corresponding with the epic poem
Relate themes to characters and
plot
Analyze Beowulf as a hero
Creative Projects for “Beowulf”
Free Writing on “The Hero”
Written Test on “Beowulf”
Using Map to identify world
exploration during this period
Quiz on the map and the timeline for
the chapter
Determine Chaucer’s role in the
Tales themselves
Write a modern day frame tale
Medieval Period
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
“Prologue”
“The Pardoner’s Tale”
Identify and understand a frame
tale
Explore the backgrounds of each
of Chaucer’s 29 pilgrims
Read the Pardoner’s Tale and
identify its moral
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone
Write critically and responsively in
a journal;
Relate the theme of the hero in
“Beowulf” to the theme of the hero
in Harry Potter…
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Written questions on Timeline
Group work on the pilgrim’s
character sketches
Reading check quiz on “The
Pardoner’s Tale”
Open-notebook test on “The
Prologue” and “ The Pardoner’s
Tale”
Keep reader response journal on
Harry Potter… graded as quizzes
Supplements
Short Video on
“Beowulf”
Handout on
Chaucer’s life
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NOVEMBER
Skills
Assessment
Renaissance Period
Identify changes in Europe during
this period
William Shakespeare
Understand Shakespeare’s life and
work during the Renaissance
Quiz on Period Timeline
Supplements
View movie “Macbeth”
Quiz on Shakespeare’s life
Macbeth
DECEMBER
Oral Reading Grades of Drama
Shakespearean Sonnets
Read Shakespearean drama aloud
and
Relate themes to actions of
characters
Prove Macbeth to be a Greek tragic
hero
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone (cont.)
Read and write iambic pentameter
sonnet; identify purposes of
Sonnets
Quiz grade for journal entries
Macbeth Continued
Journal writing
Identify how fate played a role in
Macbeth
Creative Project on a Quote from
Macbeth
Relate themes again to characters,
particularly at the end of the drama
178
Answer questions at end of each Act
of Macbeth
Test on Shakespearean Sonnets
Test on Macbeth
View movie “Macbeth”
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JANUARY
The Romantic Period (Poetry)
William Blake – “The Lamb,”
“The Tyger,” “Holy Thursday”
Skills
Assessment
Determine the significant changes
in Europe during this period
Answer questions at the end of the
poems – turn in for quiz grades
Understand and identify repetition
in poetry
Students write poems
Robert Burns- “A Red, Red Rose”
Supplements
Short video on the
Romantic Poets
Test on Poets and their works
Identify dialect in poetry and
translate it
William Wordsworth- “Ode:
Intimations from Recollections of
Early Childhood”
FEBRUARY
Read the ode and relate
Wordsworth’s poem to their own
lives
Write poems in response to the
Romantic Period poet’s works
The Romantic Period (cont.)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – “Rime
of the Ancient Mariner”
John Keats – “Ode on a Grecian
Urn”
Understand rhyme
Relate Coleridge’s life to works
and how his life affected his works
Identify the changing moods of the
poem
Test on the poets and poems
Explain how apostrophe and
paradox are used in poem; identify
the symbol in poem
Write a short ode, modeling Keats’
ode
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Reading check quizzes
Video of dramatic
representation of
Coleridge’s “Rime…”
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MARCH
The Victorian Period (poetry)
Charles Dickens – David
Copperfield (segment)
Skills
Assessment
Identify the major changes in
society and literature during this
period
Group Projects on Victorian Poets
and their poems
Read and explicate poems
Test on various poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning“Sonnet 43”
Explore deeper meaning in poetry
Power Point Presentations on poets
and poems
Alfred Lord Tennyson –“Ulysses”
Read poetry in the proper rhythm
Robert Browning –“My Last
Duchess”
Research poets and their poems
New Directions Period (poetry)
Formulate the meaning of poem
through an understanding of the
poet’s life
Thomas Hardy –“Ah, Are You
Digging on My Grave?”
Gerard Manley Hopkins – “God’s
Grandeur”
Identify how nature is portrayed
within poetry
Begin to create a poetry binder
A.E. Housman – “When I Was Oneand –Twenty”
Rudyard Kipling- “If____”
William Butler Yeats- “When You
Are Old”
180
Supplements
Handouts on Poets
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Skills
Assessment
Supplements
APRIL
Conclusion of Poetry
Explicating new poems from eights
previous poets studied in March;
Writing own poem modeling one
of eights poets;
Critique their own poetry binders
Finish Poetry Binders (Test Grade)
Short answer sheets to answer during
the movie “My Fair Lady”
Video of “My Fair
Lady”
Quiz on George Bernard Shaw’s life
George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion
And Arms and the Man
MAY
Read modern drama; identify
dialect; associate social order with
the drama
Compare musical “My Fair Lady”
with Pygmalion
Compare the social issue of both
Shaw dramas
Dramatically reenact scenes from
both plays in class
Test on “My Fair Lady”
Test on “Arms and the Man”
The 20th Century Period
Understand mystery in novel
Daphne DuMaurier – Rebecca
(novel)
Short Stories
D.H. Lawrence –“Tickets, Please”
Graham Greene-“A Shocking
Accident”
Sylvia T. Warner- “A Shocking
Accident”
Frank O’Connor – “My Oedipus
Complex”
Give characterizations; identify
plot; analyze conflicts
Identify setting and explore the
importance of it to story
Reader Response Journal for
Rebecca (Quiz Grades)
End of Story Questions
Reading Check Quizzes
Test on Short Stories
Understand fantasy in short story
Associate irony in a short story
Generate own inferences at
conclusion of stories
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Plot Sheets for each
story
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Skills
Assessment
JUNE
Supplements
Movie Rebecca
Rebecca (cont.)
Identify the resolution of the
mystery of the novel
Reader Response Journals
Test on Rebecca
Compare/Contrast the movie to the
novel
182
Creative project to depict scene from
the novel Rebecca