Quarter 1 2011
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Mrs. Burgess
Honors English II (4x4)
TEST DAYS: Wednesday and Thursday
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Welcome – roll and seating
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Class overview - syllabus, calendar, class expectations, supplies, summer reading
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Writing Assessment due Friday, 8/27 (Us and Them)
HW: Signed syllabus; obtain supplies (composition notebook and sticky notes); format and print Epic of Gilgameshhttp://www.aina.org/books/eog/eog.htm by
Fri. 8/27
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Reading Survey (collect signed syllabus)
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Annotation – define and model using Introduction to Epic of Gilgamesh
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Review summer reading assignment – Test 9/12 Bring your book!
HW: Download documents from my website (http://mrsburgess.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/ )
Signed syllabus; obtain supplies; format and print Epic of Gilgameshhttp://www.aina.org/books/eog/eog.htm by 8/30
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Annotate excerpt by Allende p974
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Discuss Solzhenitsyen, Allende and PEN Charter
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Return and revise writing: Considering the words of these authors, why should we study world literature?
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Workshop Us and Them
HW: Signed syllabus; obtain supplies; format and print Epic of Gilgameshhttp://www.aina.org/books/eog/eog.htm by 8/30
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Intro to Sumerian Literature, Egyptian and Hebrew Literature Holt p4-18
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EOG – Read and annotate prologue and “The Coming of Enkidu”
HW: Summer reading Test 9/12
EOG - Finish annotating “The Prologue””
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FORMATIVE Test
HW: EOG - Annotate “Prologue and Coming of Enkidu, Ch 2-Forest Journey”
HW: Summer reading Test 9/12 – bring book
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Prologue and Coming of Enkidu” collaborative work on reading and annotating through chapter 3
HW: EOG – finish Annotating “3-Ishtar” and chapter 4 Search for Everlasting Live
HW: Summer reading Test Tuesday 9/12 -- bring book
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Paideia on Ch 1-2 on Tuesday – must have annotated text!!!!!
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Discuss character analysis; model outline using Gilgamesh
HW: Summer reading Monday 9/12 bring book
****Finish reading Gilgamesh
9/5
LABOR DAY
Tues. 9/6
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Paideia: Discuss “The Coming of Enkidu” and “The Forest Journey” (ch 1, 2)
HW: EOG - Annotate “Ishtar and the Death of Enkidu” (ch 3)
Summer reading Test Monday 9/12 bring book
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Paideia: Discuss “Ishtar and the Death of Enkidu” (ch 3)
HW: EOG – Annotate “Search for Everlasting Life” (ch 4)
Summer reading Test Monday 9/12 bring book
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Paideia: Discuss “Search for Everlasting Life” (ch 4)
HW: EOG – Annotate “The Flood,” “The Return” and “The Death of Gilgamesh” (ch 5, 6, 7)
Summer reading Test Monday 9/12 bring book
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Paideia: Discuss “The Flood,” “The Return” and “The Death of Gilgamesh” (ch 5, 6, 7)
Intro Concept chart for characterization
HW: Write 5 principles using 2 or more concepts identified
Summer reading Test Monday 9/12 bring book NO BOOK = NO GRADE and NO MAKE-UP
***Summer Reading Test -- NO BOOK = NO GRADE and NO MAKE-UP
HO Study Guide EOG – work with partner
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Archetypes
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Epic criteria
Review for EOG Test –
Star Trek Darmok episode – compare/contrast with EOG
EOG TEST
HW: Read “ Background information Hebrew Bible – annotate (pick up handout when finished with test)
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Intro to Hebrew Bible Bckgrnd notes – Power Point Intro – Why study Bible?
o Discuss Repetition, structure, archetype, symbolism, theme
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HO Orange Bible as in Literature -HW: Read Genesis:pps3-5 Creation Heaven and Earth; pps7-8 Creation In the Garden; pps18-19 Forbidden
Fruit; *Take notes
Groups Discuss the readings and answer the questions
**Handout Cry Beloved Country and reading calendar
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Intro to Islam -- The Koran (p542-545 – handout from Holt Lit)
Background notes: Five Pillars of Islam – Muslim Beliefs
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Read The Exordium, The Cessation – understand didactic literature, repetition, antithesis, tone
o Antithesis, repetition, diction, detail, syntax, etc. (WNB)
o View of Allah (WNB)
Group Research – Islamic culture topics
Review Hebrew and Islamic literatures – study guide
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HW: study for test
Wed. 9/7
Th. 9/8
F. 9/9
M 9/12
T 9/13
W 9/14
Th 9/15
F 9/16
M 9/19
T 9/20
NO SCHOOL
W 9/21
TH 9/22
PrReport
F 9/23
M 9/26
T 9/27
W 9/28
TH 9/29
F 9/30
M 10/3
T 10-4
W 10/5
TH 9/29
F 9/30
M 10/3
T 10/4
W 10/5
TH 10/6
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TH 10/13
F 10/14
M 10/17
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TH 10/20
F 10/21
M 10/24
T 10/25
W 10/26
TH 10/27
F 10/28
Hebrew Literature and Islamic Beliefs Test
Begin background reading Intro to the Middle Ages – Holt Text pps 588-600
Writing Workshop
Introducing text analysis using Great Books, Great Ideas
Students will outline essay using worksheet – choose one great idea to apply to this quarter’s literature
HW: outline due Friday
In-class essay write using outline created
Introduce Ovid’s Metamorphosis
Ovid
Ovid
Middle Ages: Silent read Holt Text pps 588-600 and page 645
Take Notes
Intro to The Middle Ages – power point – take notes
HO Dante’s Inferno Cantos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 33, 34
HO Organizer Read and annotate Canto 1 together
HW: Read and annotate Canto 2
Canto 2
Canto 3
Canto 4
Canto 5
Canto 33
Canto 34
Wrap and review—study guide for test on Thursday
Collaborate on completing study guide for test
Dante and Ovid Test
Understanding Tone in Non-fiction articles
Non-fiction articles 1 and 2
Non fiction articles
Non-fiction articles
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Intro to Greek Tragedy – theater, vocabulary, mythology, tragedy
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Oedipus Rex
o Read prologue (exposition, character development, flashback) and parados
o WNB Response
HW: Finish reading though parados; IR Short Sheet #1 – due Fri. 10/16
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Oedipus Rex - Read and discuss scene 1 and ode 1; start reading scene ii; WNB Response
HW: Finish reading scene 2 and ode 2 (through pp. 235); IR Short Sheet #1 – due Fri. 10/16
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Oedipus Rex – review Part 1; start reading scene 3, ode 3, scene 4 and ode 4; WNB Response
HW: Finish reading through pp. 252; IR Short Sheet #1 – due Fri. 10/16
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Oedipus Rex – discuss through ode 4; read and discuss exodus
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Review terms and characters
HW: Study for test on Greek Tragedy and Oedipus (terms, characters, quotes); IR Short Sheet #1 – due Fri.
10/16
Oedipus Rex and Greek Tragedy test
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Introduce masks project
HW: Mask – due Tues. 10/25
HO Study Guide for Mid-term
Critical articles about Oedipus – groups discuss
Groups work on mid-term study guide
Mask Projects due -Review for midterm
Mid Term – cumulative: includes all literature and concepts for entire quarter
NO SCHOOL TEACHER WORKDAY