Welcome to British Literature I!
8/19: Introduction to the course.
8/20: Share results of class surveys. Begin unit on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. We will discuss unit objectives and biographical information on Robert Louis Stevenson. A study guide sheet on the first three chapters of the book will be given out in class and is due tomorrow.
8/21: Study guide sheets will be collected and gone over. A study guide sheet for the next chapter will be given out and is due Monday.
8/24: Study guide sheet #2 (Danvers Carew Murder) will be collected. We will discuss the chapters read so far. Study guide sheet #3 (Incident of the Letter et al) will be given out and is due tomorrow. A list of vocabulary words and definitions for the novel will be given out.
8/25: Study guide sheet #3 will be collected and we will discuss our answers. Study guide sheet #4 (The Last Night) will be given out and is due tomorrow.
8/26: Study guide sheet #4 will be collected and we will discuss our answers. The last study guide sheet for the novel #5 will be given out and is due tomorrow.
8/27: Study guide sheet #5 will be collected and we will discuss our answers to that sheet as well as the novel in its entirety.
8/28: In class, students will break up into groups and discuss some of the themes found in the novel. In particular, we will be looking at the concepts of EVIL and DOPPELGANGERS.
8/31: Review for tomorrow's part of the Unit Test on Jekyll and Hyde- vocabulary. Students wil have an in-class assignment to complete to accompany this.
9/1: Vocabulary Test on Jekyll and Hyde. With remaining time, we will review for tomorrow's second part of the Unit Test.
9/2: Unit Test on Jekyll and Hyde.
9/3: Watch the Jekyll and Hyde film.
9/4: Continue watching the film.
9/8: Continue watching the film.
9/9: Conclude film. Go over Jekyll and Hyde unit test.
9/10: We begin our unit on the Anglo Saxon/ Medieval Period.
9/11: We begin Beowulf.
9/14: Beowulf- Grendel Attacks the Danes and The Coming of Beowulf- Study guide questions will be handed out in class and are due tomorrow.
9/15: Discuss Grendel Attacks the Danes and The Coming of Beowulf. New study guide questions will be given out for The Battle with Grendel. These are due tomorrow.
9/16: Discuss The battle with Grendel and collect study guide questions. New study guide questions for The Battle with Grendel's Mother, The Battle with the Dragon, and The Funeral Fire will be given out. The questions for the The Battle with Grendel's Mother are due tomorrow.
9/17: Discuss The Battle with Grendel's Mother. Read lines 580-825 from The Battle with the Dragon for tomorrow and answer corresponding study guide questions.
9/18: Discuss lines 580-825. Read the rest of The Battle with the Dragon for Monday and answer questions.
9/21: Discuss Beowulf in its entirety- go over study questions to be handed in. Go over attributes of the Anglo-Saxon hero and follower.
9/22: Reading quiz on Beowulf- The Battle with Grendel's Mother, The Battle with the Dragon, and The Funeral Fire. Work on handout "And the Winner Is..." in class. A vocabulary worksheet will also be given out in class. Both handouts are due tomorrow.
9/23: Go over handouts. Beowulf poster assignment will be assigned and is due next Thursday, 10/1.
9/24: Review for tomorrow's unit test on Beowulf.
9/25: Beowulf Unit Test.
9/28: NO SCHOOL- Faculty Retreat.
9/29: Watch the film of Beowulf. Beowulf posters are due Friday.
9/30: Continue watching film. Beowulf posters are due Friday.
10/1: Conclude film and complete follow-up to it. Beowulf posters are due tomorrow.
10/2: Share Beowulf posters. Begin next unit- The Power of Faith and an Introduction to the English Language.
10/5: Introduction to the Canterbury Tales.
10/6: Finish background information on The Canterbury Tales and begin reading together in class. Study sheets for the pilgrims will be given out in class and are to be filled in accordingly. Study questions for The Prologue will also be given out. We will discuss the exposition of the prologue, along with the first 2 pilgrims- the Knight and the Squire.
10/7: Read and discuss pp. 97-100.
10/8: Read and discuss pp. 100-103. Possible reading quiz?
10/9: Read and discuss pp. 103-105. Possible reading quiz?
10/12: NO SCHOOL!
10/13: Continue reading The Prolgue in class. We will discuss The Merchant through The Guikldsmen.
10/14: NO SCHOOL-Testing Day.
10/15: We will read and discuss from The Guildsmen (p.103) through The Woman from Bath (p.106)
10/16: We will read and discuss The Parson (p.106) through The Manciple (p.108) The class will be broken up into groups and given a pilgrim to work on and present to the class.
10/19: Continue group presentations. Finish up The Summoner and the Pardoner.
10/20: Finish the entire Prologue. "Name That Pilgrim" worksheets will be given out in class and worked on for tomorrow. Tomorrow there will be a reading quiz on The Prologue from pp. 102-114.
10/21: Quiz on the second part of The Prologue. Introduce The Pardoner's Tale. Read The pardoner's Tale pp. 117-122 for Friday. Possible reading quiz?
10/22: In-class group work on the subject of Irony. Lecture and group work to follow.
10/23: Discuss the Pardoner's Tale. Possible reading quiz.
10/26: Introduce the Wife of Bath's Tale. Go over background information (handout) and give out study questions for the actual reading of the tale. The study questions will be collected at the beginning of class tomorrow and there will be a reading quiz to follow.
10/27: Study guide sheets will be ciollected. Quiz will be taken and a discussion of the tale will follow.
10/28: Finish discussion of the Wife of Bath's Tale and work on Vocabulary worksheets to be given out in class. Worksheets are due at the end of the period.
10/29: Review for tomorrow's unit test on The Canterbury Tales.
10/30: Unit Test on The Canterbury Tales.
11/2: As a follow-up to the Canterbury Tales unit, we will watch the film "A Knight's Tale" which is the first actual tale of the Canterbury Tales. Students will be given a written follow-up assignment at the end of the film on Wednesday.
11/3: Continue watching the film.
11/4: Continur watching film.
11/5: Finish watching film. A writing follow-up to the film will be given out in class and is due next Wednesday 11/11.
11/9: Discussion of Big Idea 3- The World of Romance- The Knight, Chivalry, Courtly Love, and the legend of King Arthur. Homework: Read Le Morte d'Arthur pp. 198-204 and answer on looseleaf to be handed in, Questions 1-5 on p. 205. This will be turned in tomorrow.
11/10: Collect questions for homework. Discuss Le Morte d'Arthur. If time, we will begin our unit on The Renaisance. Remember you writing assignment for "A Knight's Tale" is due tomorrow.
11/11: Continue introduction to The Renaisance. We will focus on Big Idea ONe- Humanists and Courtiers and the development of the Sonnet.
11/12: Read Queen Elizabeth's "On Monsieur's Departure" and "Speech to the Troops." The literary element of TONE will be introduced and discussed.
11/13: Read Edmund Spenser's Sonnets 30 and 75.
11/16: NO SCHOOL- Faculty Institute Day.
11/17: Read Marlowe's "A Passionate Shepherd to His Love."
11/18: Read Sir Walter Raleigh's "the Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" and compare/contrast it to yesterday's poem by Marlowe.
11/19: We begin our study of William Shakespeare by reading and discussing Sonnets 116 and 130. Students are to answer the study questions in their packets.
11/20: We will read and discuss Sonnets 73 and 29. Study packets should be completed in class and will be collected at the end of the period.
11/23: We will read and discuss Shakespeare's monologues: To Be Or Not To Be and All the World's a Stage. A handout detailing the two pieces will be given out and discussed in class.
11/24: We will finish discussing the monologues. Happy Thanksgiving!!!
11/30: We begin our introduction to Macbeth!! Nymerous handouts will be distributed.
12/1: Review for tomorrow's open book test on the Sonnets.
12/2: Sonnet Open Book Test.
12/3: Read and discuss Macbeth Act I, Scenes 1-3. Finish up Act I for tomorrow.
12/4: Discuss Act I, Scenes 4-7. Quiz on Act I on Monday. Act One worksheet is due Monday as well.
12/7: Finish up discussion of Act I. There will be a quiz on Act I tomorrow and the study questions for Act I will be collected.
12/8: Quiz on Act I. Act I Study Questions will also be collected. We will begin reading Act II in class. Act II study questions will also be given out. Students are to finish reading Act II for tomorrow's class and answer the study questions.
12/9: Students will read Act II in class and work on answering study questions.
12/10: Discuss Act II together in class with emphasis on study questions.
12/11: Act II quiz. Study questions for Act II will be collected.
12/14: We begin Act III-Scenes 1-2.
12/15: Continue reading Act III, Scenes 3-4.
12/16: Finish reading Act III. There will be a quiz on Act III tomorrow. Study questions will also be due tomorrow. If time remaining, we will read Act IV, Scene 1
12/17: Quiz on Act III. Study questions for Act III will be collected. New study questions for Act IV will be given out in class and we will continue reading Act IV.
12/18: Finish up Act IV.
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