English IV – AP
McMillan
2nd Six Weeks Syllabus (always subject to alteration)
WEEK 1
28 Sept.
29 Sept.
30 Sept.
1 Oct.
2 Oct.
WEEK 2
5 Oct.
6 Oct.
7 Oct.
8 Oct.
9 Oct.
WEEK 3
12 Oct.
13 Oct.
14 Oct.
15 Oct.
16 Oct.
WEEK 4
19 Oct.
20 Oct.
Introduce Heart of Darkness. Discuss title – denotation/connotation. Explore the
structure of the novel and how that may affect its meaning and purpose. Assign study
guide.
HW: Read The Thames Setting and Preparation for the Journey, respond to the Study
Guide questions, and be prepared to discuss your findings tomorrow.
Class discussion. Setting, characterization, frame story, connections to Poisonwood
Bible so far?
HW: Read The Journey: The First Stage, respond to the Study Guide questions, and be
prepared to discuss your findings tomorrow.
SSR/Study Guide work day. Read The Central Station and The Journey to the Inner
Station, respond to the Study Guide questions, and be prepared to discuss your findings
tomorrow.
Study Guide Progress Check (This grade will go on the second grading period.)
Class discussion. Changes in setting, new characters, conflicts and/or potential for
conflict, characters as symbols, allusions.
HW: Read Life on the River, respond to the Study Guide questions, and be prepared to
discuss your findings tomorrow.
Vocabulary Quiz #3. Assign Vocabulary #4.
SSR
Read The Arrival and the Inner Station, respond to the Study Guide questions, and
be prepared to discuss your findings on Monday.
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Study Guide Progress Check
Class discussion. Changes in setting, new characters, conflicts and/or potential for
conflict, characters as symbols, allusions.
HW: Read The Intended, respond to the Study Guide questions, and be prepared to
discuss your findings tomorrow.
Read Patrick Brantlinger’s “Cultural Perspective” article, and take notes.
Finish reading Brantlinger’s article and taking notes.
Whole class discussion based on Brantlinger’s article. Turn in notes.
Return The Poisonwood Bible Close Reading Essays and discuss.
Close Reading Excerpt from The Beet Queen. Discuss connection to Marlow’s arrival.
Turn in Warm Ups
Complete Close Reading Activity from yesterday.
Study guide due tonight by midnight to Turnitin.com
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Final discussion of the novel. Focus on thematic ideas as expressed through characters,
their conflicts, the allusions present in the novel, the resolution, etc.
Prepare for MG essay tomorrow.
Thematic Free Response Essay over Heart of Darkness.
Senior Picnic in the AM
Heart of Darkness APMC Packet
Heart of Darkness APMC Packet
Vocabulary Quiz #4. Assign Vocabulary #5.
Discuss APMC responses.
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Discuss Literary Exploration (LitEx) Research Paper
Novel selection and topic commitment form must be completed and turned in by Friday,
Nov. 6.
Assign EXTRA CREDIT: Memorize, for recitation and performance, a continuous
soliloquy or monologue of 30 or more lines. Due on the day that we read your selected
passage in class.
Read the Introduction to the play. Annotate. This information will help you to understand
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English IV – AP
McMillan
2nd Six Weeks Syllabus (always subject to alteration)
22 Oct.
the play and to anticipate and analyze some of the elements of this piece of literature as we
go.
Assign reading parts.
Begin reading aloud Act I, scenes 1-2. Discuss mood, plot/sub-plot, suspense, and
imagery. Characterize Horatio; speculate on the nature of the ghost.
Prepare for Timed Write – Discuss Previous Close Reading Essays and look at sample.
23 Oct.
Hamlet Close Reading Timed Write
21 Oct.
Turn in Warm Ups
WEEK 5
26 Oct.
27 Oct.
28 Oct.
29 Oct.
30 Oct.
WEEK 1
2 Nov.
Continue Hamlet, Act I, scene 2. Discuss mood, plot, sub-plot, suspense and imagery.
Characterize Hamlet; discuss foreshadowing and any other details of exposition; discuss
Polonius’ advice to his son.
Continue Hamlet, Act I, scene 2. Discuss mood, plot, sub-plot, suspense and imagery.
Characterize Hamlet; discuss foreshadowing and any other details of exposition; discuss
Polonius’s advice to his son.
Discuss literary terms for Hamlet.
Practice paraphrasing and analyzing literary elements using the Act II Paraphrasing Activity
(each group will paraphrase and analyze 1 page of selected excerpts and share with the class.)
Continue Hamlet, Act I, scene 3-4. Explore the 3 main characters in scenes 2 and 3: King
Claudius, Polonius, and Hamlet (Lesson 3, Handout 5). Compare Hamlet and Horatio.
Examine Hamlet’s speech in Scene 4; characterize Laertes; examine Ophelia’s relationship
with her father.
Finish reading Act I, scenes 4-5. Close read for revelations about character and theme. Read
and discuss the implications of the ghost’s revelations to Hamlet and Hamlet’s response.
How is the “time out of joint”?
Examine the play’s structure using Lesson 4, Handout 6 “The Triple Play.”
Vocabulary Quiz #5. Assign Vocabulary #6.
Finish Discussion of yesterday’s close reading exercise.
3rd SIX WEEKS
Act I Quiz
APMC 4,5,6,7
Finish APMC 4,5,6,7
3 Nov.
View scenes from Act I from a film version of Hamlet.
4 Nov.
Discuss similarities and differences. Author’s purpose vs. director’s purpose: Are they the
same or different? Evidence?
Begin Act II. Discuss Polonius’s character as revealed in his instructions to Reynaldo and his
5 Nov.
treatment of Ophelia. Note details of Hamlet’s antic disposition. Respond to characters of
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as well as to the continuing developments with Fortinbras.
LitEx Commitment Form Due
6 Nov.
Continue Act II, scene 2. Discuss Polonius’s character as revealed in his instructions to
Reynaldo and his treatment of Ophelia. Note details of Hamlet’s antic disposition. Respond to
characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as well as to the continuing developments with
Fortinbras.
HW: Complete “Prose and Poetry: Why and When” Activity; Lesson 6, Handout 8.
Quizzes can happen anytime, without warning, and they will count as a daily grade.
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