1st Six Weeks – E4
Aug. 25 – Oct. 3
2014-2015
SUN.
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SAT.
24
August 25
Welcome!
26
House Rules/Sorting
Social Networking
27
RC
Anglo Saxon History
28
Social Networking
29
Passport
Continue Anglo Saxon
History
30
3
RC
Paragraph One of College
Essay Due EOP – House
Work
4
G1 practice
School Picture Day
5
Passport USA
TPoDG Discussion 1
House Work – Discussion
Summary
6
D–1
D–1
D–1
Q–1
10
RC
Continue Beowulf
Beowulf Poem
Assignment – House
Work
11
G2 practice + Folder
Continue Beowulf
Beowulf House Work
12
Life App – School Song
Finish Beowulf
Excerpts from Grendel
Beowulf House Work
13
Q–1
16
G3 + Folder
Beowulf Poems due
How Beowulf Should
Have Ended
17
RC
Early Release Day
18
G3 practice + Folder
Arthurian Legend
Courtly Love notes
19
Passport International
TPoDG Discussion 2
House Work – Discussion
Summary
20
T–1
T–1
Q–1
23
G4 + Folder (Body Politik)
24
RC
Satire Notes
The New Yorker caption –
House Work
25
G4 practice + Folder
Finish Satire Notes
New Yorkers due
26
Passport USA
Middle English notes
Prologue Rap
Canterbury Tales
27
D–1
1
No School – Fair Day
2
“The Miller’s Tale”
3
Life App
Canterbury Road Trip
XC Scrapbook Due
4
T–1
Q–1
Introductions, procedures
31
7
14
September 1
No School – Labor Day
8
5 Little Words
Remind 101 Sign Up
Robert Browning
“Porphyria’s Lover”
Andrew Wyeth
“Christina’s World”
15
5 Little Words
Beowulf Test
Beowulf House Work
Homecoming
Week
22
28
22
5 Little Words
“Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight”
29
5 Little Words
“The Wife of Bath”
Get a copy of The Portrait
of Dorian Gray by 9/2
2
G1 + Folder – House
Work
Copy of The Portrait of
Dorian Gray
College Essay topics
What Colleges Look For
9
G2 + Folder
Read Beowulf
w/character handout
Kennings, Alliteration,
Caesura, Hemistich
“The Lady of Shalott”
“If I Die Young” video
“Not My Best Side” + art
30
Timed G Quiz
Folder Selection
Pep Rally
Cut off for Progress Report
Pep Rally
End of Term 1
Aug. 25 – Oct. 3
1st Six Weeks – E4
2014-2015
OTHER BIG IDEAS:
6 Daily Grades
3 Test Grades
Update another Arthurian Legend
The Decameron – Federigo’s Falcon (an Italian King Arthur)
House Work – 7 stops for a road trip – design a story to accompany your stop – Quiz
The Poet Speaks of Art (find art + pairings) House Work (need computers this day)
Use opening of “Othello” when teaching Shakespeare next six weeks
Gawain – not the only story about him
Metaphor ppt after the Othello intro
Heart of Darkness as second blog – Read a bit each week and discuss on Thursdays in class. Have to bring in research to tie in.
Everyone has to take notes. In the conversation with research they can tie in or counter the research. Show them a good blog.
Teach the hollow men at the end. Teach “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” at the beginning. Macbeth and Guy Fawkes piece has to
be taught prior to “The Hollow Men”.
HOD Discussion 3: Chapter 1, lens 2
Colonization history to pair with HOD
FAKE BOOK FOR E4 SORTING
GAME CUBE BAG FOR AP3 SORTING