English IV AP
Mr. Page
Third Quarter
2015
WEEK ONE
January 6
January 7/8
January 9
Welcome back; return poetry & song paper; grammar instruction; discuss
research novels
Pride and Prejudice study questions; irony assignment
Semester Report Cards. Pride and Prejudice irony assignment
WEEK TWO
January 12
January 13
January 14/15
January 16
Pride and Prejudice analysis
Pride and Prejudice test review
Pride and Prejudice test
Introduction to Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
WEEK THREE
January 19
January 20
January 21/22
January 23
Student Holiday - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jonathan Swift’s poetry and satire
Unit 7 vocabulary quiz; Pope’s An Essay on Man
Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
WEEK FOUR
January 26
January 27
January 28/29
January 30
RESEARCH NOVEL SHOULD BE READ
Library time; introduction to stacks and literary databases
END OF THREE WEEKS. Library time: work on annotated bibliography
assignment
Library time; complete annotated bibliography assignment
Research prospectus due;
WEEK FIVE
February 2
February 3
February 4/5
February 6
Annotated bibliography due; Romantic poetry: Robert Burns
Restoration test review
Restoration Test
Romanticism lecture
WEEK SIX
February 9
February 10
February 11/12
February 13
Complete Romantic Age lecture; Romantic poetry: Robert Burns
Romantic poetry: Burns & Blake
Wuthering Heights reading check quiz; Romantic poetry: Blake &
Wordsworth
Romantic poetry: Wordsworth & Coleridge
WEEK SEVEN
February 16
February 17
February 18/19
February 20
Student Holiday
END OF SIX WEEKS. Romantic poetry: Wordsworth & Coleridge
Unit 8 vocabulary quiz; Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
WEEK EIGHT
February 23
February 24
February 25/26
February 27
Wuthering Heights
Romanticism test review
Romanticism test
PROGRESS REPORTS. Research paper conferences; Film study: Apocalypse
Now
WEEK NINE
March 2
March 3
March 4/5
March 6
Film study: Apocalypse Now
Film study: Apocalypse Now
Peer-edit term paper
Film study: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse)
March 9 – 13
SPRING BREAK
WEEK TEN
March 16
March 17
March 18/19
March 20
Film study: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Heart of Darkness
Unit 9 vocabulary quiz; Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Film study packet due; END OF 3RD QUARTER; Heart of Darkness
FOURTH QUARTER
WEEK ELEVEN
March 23
March 24
March 25/26
March 27
Grading scale:
Heart of Darkness
“The Secret Sharer”
“The Child by Tiger”
Last day to Submit Term Paper; Conrad Unit review
SUMMATIVE
Pride and Prejudice test
Restoration test
Romanticism/Wuthering Heights test
Annotated Bibliography & Research Paper Rough Draft
FORMATIVE
Unit 7 vocabulary quiz
Research prospectus
Wuthering Heights reading check
Unit 8 vocabulary quiz
Unit 9 vocabulary quiz
Film study packet