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English 4 Honors

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Students,

 

On this page you will find our daily agenda as well as links, attachments, and directions that will take you to other pages in order to complete your work.  It is expected, as Honors students, that you visit this page several times a week.  I may direct you to this site during class using laptops and iPads and/or the day before a class assignment in order to prepare for the following day's lesson.

 

If you're submitting work electronically please email it to msgay00@gmail.com

 

Class Syllabus- Click here

Essential Questions- Click here

Quarter 1- Click here

 

Day/Date
Daily Agenda w/ Links to Assignments
Important Due Dates 
Tues. 10/29

 

1. Vocab Quiz! 

2. Intro- New EQ's

3. How to write a proposal- Emerging Issues Forum

4. Homework- Read A Modest Proposal 

 
Wed. 10/30

1. Warm up

2. CORE- How to Write a Proposal

3. Proposal Work

*Turner's, Josh's- here

*Girls, Fleet & Justin- here

4. Swift- A Modest Proposal- What's Convincing?

HW: Write your own "modest" proposal (modeled after p. 442)

 
Thurs. 10/31

1. Warm up- "Modest Proposals"- Share out

2.  Read Mary Wollstonecraft- Discuss Ethos, Logos, Pathos

3. Relevance of Wollstonecraft to Today 

 
Fri. 11/1

1. Warm up

2. Think about your bucket list. In the Renaissance, the writers had a similar thought: "Carpe Diem." They wrote everything with this urgency in mind. Read the poems below and complete the handout. 

- To His Coy Mistress

- To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time

- The Constant Lover

- To Althea, From Prison

- When I Consider How my Light is Spent

3. Handout for poems- emailed to me by end of class (MAKE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME ON IT!)

4. Proposal Work- Use the google docs to work on your own proposal- Look over what the other group wrote. Edit as needed to craft your proposal. DO SO IN A DIFFERENT COLOR SO I CAN SEE THE EDITS!  

Turner's and Josh's- click here

Girls, Fleet, and Justin- click here

 
Mon. 11/4

1. Warm up- EI Proposals- Final Draft due Wed! 

2. Review Poetry- Ethos, Logos Pathos

3. Argumentative short speech- due tomorrow!

4. Vocab 8- Quiz Friday! 

Vocab 8 Quiz Friday!

EI Final Proposals due Wed!

Tues. 11/5

1. Present Speeches

2. Peer Edit- EI Proposals- Finals due tomorrow! 

3. Poetry Analysis- due 11/15

Poetry Analysis- due 11/15
Wed. 11/6

1. CORE- Vocab Passage 8

2. Final Draft- Proposals due! 

3. Intro-  British Romanticism

4. William Blake's "The Tyger" and "The Lamb"

4. Poetry Analysis- due 11/15

5. Wordsworth- My Heart Leaps Up I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The World Is Too Much With Us, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

 
Thurs. 11/7

1. Warm up

2. Wordsworth- see yesterday

3. HW: Create a response based on our nature walk today. What parts of nature evoke emotion? 

 

Fri. 11/8

Early Release

1. Vocab 8 Quiz! 

2. HW:  Samuel Coleridge- Kubla Kahn

Lit Analysis and EQ's due 11/15 
Tues. 11/12

1. Warm up: Do you have a professional resume? If you do, what is included on it? 

2. Byron- She Walks in Beauty

3. Percy Bysshe Shelley- Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind

 
Wed. 11/13

1. CORE Time: Resume Building and Cover Letters- Also See College Board

2. Keats- Ode on a Grecian Urn, When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be

Lit Analysis/EQ's due on Fri!  
Thurs. 11/14

1. Warm up: What questions do you have about your literary analysis?

2. Conclude Romantic Poetry

3. Workday- EQ's

 
Fri. 11/15

1. Lit Analysis due!

2. EQ's due!

3. Argument Project (due 11/20)

Google doc for topics

Argument Project- due 11/22
Mon. 11/18

Argument Project Workday! (Remember your sources: Check places like the library website, Google Scholar, etc) 

MLA Reminders: 

In text citations 

Works Cited

MLA Sample Paper

 
Tues. 11/19 Argument Project Workday!   
Wed. 11/20 Argument Project Workday!   
Thurs. 11/21 To the Zooo! Argument Project due tomorrow! 
Fri. 1/22

Argument Project due!

Present Speeches to class! 

 
Mon. 11/25

1. Finish speeches

2. KAES Slogan!

Google doc here 

3. Work on Resumes- due tomorrow! 

 
Tues. 11/26

1. Resume Peer edit!

2. Slogan Work 

3. Intro to the Victorian Period (p. 678-690)

4. HW: Importance of Being Earnest- Act I

Audio here

 

Wed. 11/27-Fri.

11/29

Thanksgiving Break!   
Mon. 12/2

1. Warm up 

2. Importance of Being Earnest- Act II 

3. Vocab 9- Quiz Friday 

Vocab Quiz 9 Friday!
Tues. 12/3

1. Warm up- What is the correlation betweeen "bunbuyring" and wearing social masks? 

2. Importance of Being Earnest- Finish Act II and III

 
Wed. 12/4

1. CORE- Vocab Passage 9

2. Importance of Being Earnest  PSA - due tomorrow! 

 
Thurs. 12/5

1. Warm up: Agree or Disagree? The Importance of Being Earnest is a satirical look at a variety of social ills that Wilde would like to see changed. 

2. Film PSA- Importance of Being Earnest 

3. IBE Film

Quizzes Tomorrow!  
Fri. 12/6

Vocab Quiz 9! 

IBE Quiz!

 
Mon. 12/9

1. Warm up

2. Robert Browning- "My Last Duchess"

3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning- "Sonnet 43"

HW: *How is our own life reflected in our writing? (Or: drawing, band, etc). Just like EBB's writing was autobiographical, how do things in your life reflect what's going on? (Think Ms. Gay's example with writing and running). 

4. Vocab 10- Quiz Friday!  

*Don't forget to send Ms. Gay work!*

EQ's due Fri!

Victorian Lit Quiz Fri!

Vocab 10 Quiz Fri!  

Tues. 12/10

1.Warm up: Brainstorm a list of things that you think people look to in times of trouble. Pick one and write one line about it. 

2. Arnold- "Dover Beach" 

3. Tennyson- "Lady of Shalott" 

4. HW: Read Kipling- "The Mark of the Beast" (pp. 733-743)

 
Wed. 12/11

1. Core- Vocab 10 Passage

2. Review Kipling 

3. Work on EQ's

4. Intro to Dickens- pp.689-691

5. Dickens' Excerpt

 
Thurs. 12/12

1. Warm up

2. Continue Dickens Excerpt

3. Dickens Review Questions- All due at the end of the period! 

Vocab Quiz tomorrow!

Victorian Lit Quiz tomorrow! 

Fri. 12/13

1. Vocab 10 Quiz

2. Victorian Lit Quiz

3. EQ's due!  

 
Mon. 12/16

1.  Warm up

2. Intro to Modern Period- Review Prezi 

3. Brave New World- Project due 1/10/14, Outline due 1/3/14

4. Focus-War: 

T.S. Eliot- "The Hollow Men"

Churchill- "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" 

 
Tues. 12/17

1. Warm up 

2. Focus-Clashes of Culture

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

Jawaharlal Nehur: "The Noble Mansion of Free India" 

3. Brave New World 

 
Wed. 12/18

1. Warm up 

2. Discoveries: 

Yeats- The Second Coming

Akhmatova- Lot's Wife, All the unburied ones, & I am not one of those who left the land 

 
Thurs. 12/19

1. Warm up 

2. Ourselves Among Others:

Thomas- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 

Neruda- Sonnet 79

 
Fri. 12/20 KAES Green Christmas   

Thurs. 1/2

1. Warm up: Scratch sheet of paper- What questions do you have about your outline due tomorrow?

2. Analyze Emerging Issues Project Proposals

3. Project Workday

4. Vocab 11- Quiz 1/8

Outline due tomorrow!

 

Vocab Quiz- 1/8

Fri. 1/3

 1. Warm up 

2. Conferences- BNW Projects (Outlines due!)

3. Discussion- Negative Utopia

 
Mon. 1/6

1. Vocab Passage 11

2. Exam Study Guide

3. Project Workday 

 
Tues. 1/7

1. Review for Exam

2. Project Workday  

Vocab quiz tomorrow! 

Wed. 1/8

Vocab Quiz 11

 
Thurs. 1/9

1. Review for Exam

2. Project Workday 

EQ's due tomorrow! 
Fri. 1/10

Brave New World Project Due!

EQ's due!

 
Tues. 1/14 Final Exam!  

 

 

 

 

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