HONORS HUMANITIES II
DATE
Monday
4/21
Tuesday
4/22
TOPIC/ACTIVITIES
 Movie: Tartuffe
 Finish movie- hour 4 only
 Work day/study hall on questions
HW= Questions on Tartuffe
Wednesday
 Collect questions on Tartuffe
4/23
 Guidelines for notes due next Thursday (5/1)
 General background information about the Enlightenment
Thursday
 Guided reading of chapter 25
4/24
 Read John Locke excerpt (pgs. 136-137) and be sure you are
able to answer the 7 questions at the end
Friday
 Reactions to John Locke
4/25
 Read Jean-Jacques Rousseau (pgs. 248-149)
 Begin comparison of Hobbes/Locke/Rousseau
DATE
Monday
4/28
TOPIC/ACTIVITIES
 Complete comparison of Hobbes/Locke/Rousseau
 Enlightenment era arts- notes
 Begin background information on Jonathan Swift and satire
(if time)
Tuesday
 Complete background on Jonathan Swift and satire
4/29
 Read “A Modest Proposal” with focused questions
 Discussion of the work
Wednesday
 Background on Voltaire and Liebnitz’s optimism, as well as
4/30
picaresque and buildingsroman
 Read Candide (pgs. 229-231)
HW= Notes/documented outline for research paper
Thursday
 Collect notes/documented outline
5/1
 Read Candide (pgs. 231-234)
 Reading check on books 1-9
Friday
 Read Candide (pgs. 234-238)
5/2
 Reading check
 Read further in Candide (pgs. 238-245)
DATE
Monday
5/5
Tuesday
5/6
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TOPIC/ACTIVITIES
Complete reading from Friday
Final reading check on Candide
Discussion of the novel
Background on the European slave trade
Read Montesquie (pgs. 247-248) and discuss
Review Rousseau (pgs. 248-249) and discuss
Compare and contrast, also explaining how they fit in with
Englightenment thinking
Enlightenment feminism
Read pages 249-252 and answer questions
The American Enlightenment (TBD)
Wednesday
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5/7
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Thursday
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5/8
Friday
 The American Enlightenment (TBD)
5/9
HW= Research paper due to turnitin by midnight 5/11 and hard
copy in class on Monday
DATE
Monday
5/12
Tuesday
5/13
Wednesday
5/14
Thursday
5/15
Friday
5/16
DATE
Monday
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TOPIC/ACTIVITIES
Collect research paper
Model presentation for final (exam) presentation
Review sheet for Enlightenment unit test
Enlightenment unit: objective test
 Enlightenment unit: essay test
 Characteristics of Romanticism: time period; political
thoughts and events; arts; poetry and lyric poetry; nature and
Rousseau; music; painting; women; relationship to the
Enlightenment
 Continue characteristics of Romanticism from yesterday
TOPIC/ACTIVITIES
 Industrial Revolution: what do you know?
5/19
Tuesday
5/20
Wednesday
5/21
Thursday
5/22
Friday
5/23
DATE
Monday
5/26
Tuesday
5/27
Wednesday
5/28
Thursday
5/29
Friday
5/30
DATE
Monday
6/2
Tuesday
6/3
Wednesday
6/4
Thursday
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Marx and Communism (pgs. 321-322)
Read and discuss “The Communist Manifesto” (pgs. 327-331)
Liberalism and John Stuart Mill
Read and discuss “The Subjection of Women”
Slavery, abolitionism, and the women’s movement
Read and discuss “Declaration of Sentiments” and “What to
the Slave is the 4th of July”
 “Classic” arts in the Industrial Revolution: architecture,
painting, and sculpture
 Addition of photography
MEMORIAL DAY RECESS
TOPIC/ACTIVITIES
MEMORIAL DAY
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Announce order of presentations for next week
Literature and realism (pgs. 345-347)
Read and discuss “The Old Curiosity Shop”
Begin discussion of the ‘Thinkers and Writers’
Continue ‘Thinkers and Writers’
Read and discuss “Notes from the Underground”
Test on Industrial Revolution era- open notes
 Computer lab to work on presentation
TOPIC/ACTIVITIES
 Presentations
 Presentations
 Presentations
 Presentations
6/5
Friday
6/6
DATE
Monday
6/9
Tuesday
6/10
Wednesday
6/11
Thursday
6/12
Friday
6/13
 Graduation celebration
JUNIORS ONLY:
 Movie: Arts and the Humanities
TOPIC/ACTIVITIES
JUNIORS ONLY:
 Movie: Arts and the Humanities
No class- Exams 1-3
Hour 4 exam: turn in review
Hour 6 exam: turn in review
NO SCHOOL- WELCOME TO SUMMERTIME!