Mon. 8/26 

1. Welcome back! 6 Word Memoir Activity

2. Syllabus

3. Interest Survey

4. Overview/Task Instructions- Graphic Organizer Unit 1

5. Vocab Unit 1

-Unit 1 Presentation/graphic organizzer

due Wednesday 8/28

-Vocab Unit 1 Quiz- Friday 8/30 

1. Bell Ringer- How did English come to be? 

2. Discipline Presentation

3. Group work- Anglo Saxon Period

1. Bell Ringer- How can you connect the Anglo Saxons to the 21st Century? 

2. Group Presentation/Graphic Organizers due!

3. Intro to Anglo Saxon's/ Beowulf 

4. Read Beowulf Part 1- Read 2-4 for HW

Group Presentation due! 

HW: Read 2-4 in Beowulf for tomorrow!

1. Bell Ringer- Solve the Anglo Saxon Riddle

2. Beowulf Part 1 and Analysis

3. Complete #11 on p. 32

4. Explanation of EQ's/due dates

5. Vocab Reading Passage (practice for quiz)

Fri 8/30 

1. Vocab Quiz 1!

2 Conclude Beowulf Part 1, Move on to Part 2

3. Beowulf Political Ad Poster

1. Bellwork- Get with groups and finish Beowulf Political Ad Poster

2. VIP for a VIP (Auditorium- 10:15-11:15) 

Weds. 9/4

1. Bellwork: Vocab Quiz Corrections

2. EQ Explanation- Work on 2 and 4- All are due on Test day! 

3. Reexamining the Hero

EQ's Due- 9/24!

Mon. 9/9 

1. Bell Ringer: What is satire?

2. Present Projects

3. Discuss Language Changes- From Old English to Middle English

4. Modern Examples of Satire

1. Bell Ringer- Brainstorm- Problem Solving

HW:  Read Prologue- The Canterbury Tales

1. Bell Ringer: Discuss Research (problem solving) 

2. Intro to Chaucer

3. Discuss Prologue

4. Vocab Practice- Quiz- Friday 

Vocab Quiz 9/13

HW: Finish vocab practice/Prologue

1. Bell Ringer: What is the narrator's view of the Knight?

2. Discuss the rest of the portraits (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/CT-prolog-para.html)

3. Intro- Narrative- due 9/23

Narrative- due 9/23 

HW: Read All Portraits and do chart (Except the Pardoner)

1. Vocab Quiz 2

2. Finish Prologue to Canterbury Tales (Discuss Pardoner)

HW: Due Mon:

 Who would you be in the CT and why? (Give textual evidence) 

1. Bell Ringer: Describe at least four instances where Chaucer reveals the inner nature of pilgrims by their appearance.

2. Vocab 3

3. The Wife of Bath's Tale

Vocab Quiz 3 Friday! 

HW: Finish WOB Satire

1. Bell Ringer: Research Update

2. How to Write a Professional/Business Email- Discussion of Tone

3. Finish Discussion of Wife of Bath

1. Bell Ringer/CORE Time: Vocab Practice

2. 1/2 Class- Media Center

Sample MLA Paper

1. Bell Ringer: Research/Problem Solving Share out 

2. The Pardoner's Tale- Irony Discussion and Review Questions

2. 1/2 Class- Media Center- Work on Personal Narrative

1. Vocab Quiz 3

2. Conclude "The Canterbury Tales"

3. Discuss Unit Essential Questions 

4. HW: Problem Solving Progress Sheet due Mon 

Narrative due Monday!

Test/EQ's due Tuesday!

1. Bell Ringer: What do you need to know for your test tomorrow? 

2. Review for Test

3. CT Film

4. Share out- Problem Solving  

1. Bell Ringer:  What does the word renaissance mean? What does this mean to you? 

2. New EQ's 

3. Overview/Task Instructions- Graphic Organizer Unit 2- Renaissance Period

1. Thank you notes

2. Group Presentations/KWL's due

1. Warm up

2. Finish KWL presentations

3. Vocab 4

4. Intro to Renaissance/Shakespeare

5.Shakespearean Sonnets- finish for homework!

HW: Shakespearean Sonnets 

Vocab Quiz Friday!

1. Warm up 

2. Thank you notes- finish and leave with Ms. Gay

3. Hamlet- Act 1

4 Study Questions- Act 1 of Hamlet 

1. Warm up 

2. CORE Time- ACE Strategy- How to employ that in writing

3. Intro to Hamlet

4. Read Act 1, Scene 1 Together

1. Warm up

2. Vocab 4 Practice

3. Act I, Scenes iii-v

4. Theme Tracker

1. Vocab Quiz 4

2. Warm up

3. Read Act II, scene i - Hamlet

HW: Bring an article (printed out) about political corruption. 

1. Warm up

2. Share out news articles

3.Watch Act II, scene ii- Analyze soliloquies

4. Critical Analysis Essay- due 10/21

5. Vocab 5

1. Warm up

2. Read Act III, scene i. 

3. Analyze Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be" in Act III- Compare with Brett Favre's Soliloquy...Answer the comparison questions

4. Update Theme Tracker- Act II

1. Warm up

2. CORE Activity

3. Read Act III

4. Hamlet- Looking back at Act III- Complete for scenes i and ii (due tomorrow!)

1. Warm up

2. HW: Read Act III, Scene iii 

1. Warm up

2. Vocab Quiz

3. Finish reading Act III and finish Looking back at Act III sheet

1. Warm up

2. Review Act III

3. Act IV- Update theme tracker 

4. Vocab 6- quiz Friday!

1. Warm up

2. Finish Act IV

3. Roles of Women Activity (Document here) 

1. Core Activity 

2. Emerging Issues Project 

1. Vocab Quiz! 

2. Act V- Hamlet

Field Trip! 

1. Essay due!

2. Act V- Hamlet

3. Update Theme Tracker 

4. Vocab 7- Quiz Friday 

1. Warm up

2. Conclude Hamlet- Silent Discussions

3. Review for test tomorrow

1. Hamlet Test/EQ's due! 

2. CORE- Extension Activity

1. Warm up

2. Vocab Review

3. Vocab Check

1. Vocab Quiz 7

2. Finish up Hamlet Extension