Tentative Semester Schedule
Spring 2007
Susan Henderson
Sophomore Honors Language Arts
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Literature |
Grammar |
Composition |
Vocabulary |
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Jan. 3-5 |
Start African literature: proverbs, Sundiata |
Editing Skills (DLP 18) |
Portfolios—what they learned last semester and what they still need to improve Review types of writing/subjective and objective through Scattegories type game Laws of Life |
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Jan. 8-12 (Jan. 10: PS 101) |
Things Fall Apart |
Editing skills DLP weeks 19 |
Laws of Life first draft due |
Unit 8 |
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Jan. 15-19 (Jan. 15 is MLK holiday, sub Jan. 18-19) |
Things Fall Apart |
Editing skills DLP 20-21 |
Laws of Life final draft due |
Unit 9 |
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Jan. 22-26 |
Indian Literature |
Editing skills DLP 22 |
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Review units 8 and 9 |
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Jan. 29-Feb. 2 |
Introduce medieval literature—compare to Indian literature and review epic/tragic heroes Song of Roland How Seigfried was slain |
Editing skills DLP 23 |
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Unit 10 |
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Feb. 5-9 (Feb. 7: PS 101) (Feb. 9: GCTE) |
Introduce King Arthur (major characters, background) Tennyson’s Galahad Mallory’s Lancelot |
Editing skills DLP 24 |
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Unit 11 |
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Feb. 12-16 |
Le Morte d Arthur sword in the stone Video comparison activity Tennyson’s The passing of Arthur Knights/chivalry test |
Editing skills DLP 25 |
Write own medieval hero tale |
Review units 10-11 |
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Feb. 19-23 (Feb. 19: holiday) |
Dante’s Inferno Cantos 1-3 (issues of translation) |
Editing skills DLP 26 |
Practice Gateway: heroes in cultures ***Need to design |
Review units 8-11 |
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Feb. 26-March 2 (Feb. 26 Gateway) |
Dante’s Inferno Cantos 4-5 Divide other cantos for study individually |
Editing skills DLP 27 |
Analysis of Dante’s canto |
Unit 12 |
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March 5-9 |
Finish Dante presentations Design own inferno assignment |
Editing skills DPL 28 |
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March 12-16 (March 12-13 Gateway) (March 14: PS 101) |
Inferno test Inferno designs due |
Editing Skills DLP 29 |
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Unit 13 |
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March 19-23 (March 19: staff dev) |
Start Renaissance Petrarch and Shakespeare poetry |
Editing skills DLP 30 |
Write own sonnet |
Review 12-13 |
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March 26-30 (GHSGT this week) M: 1st block, no 3rd Tu: 2nd block, no 1st W: 3rd block, no 4th Th: 4th block, no 2nd |
Midsummer Night’s Dream |
Editing skills DLP 31 |
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Unit 14 |
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April 10-14 (April 11: PS 101) (14th holiday?) |
Midsummer Night’s Dream—character chart, project choices |
Editing skills DLP 32 |
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April 9-13 (Gateway exams) Tu: 1st block, no 2nd or 3rd Th: 2nd block, no 1st or 3rd |
Midsummer Night’s Dream—types of comedy, review, test, project presentations |
Editing Skills DLP 33 |
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Unit 15 |
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April 16-20 |
Federigo’s Falcon Don Quixote Fontaine’s Fables Candide |
Editing skills DLP 34 |
Research/analysis paper on modern or contemporary authors/short stories |
Review 14-15 |
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April 23-27 |
Marlow’s Faust Romanticism: poetry |
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April 30-May 4 . |
Realism: Ibsen’s Doll’s House |
Editing skills DLP 35 |
Performance exam |
Review units 8-15 |
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May 7-11 |
Doll’s House |
Editing skills DLP 36 |
Peer edit lit crit essays |
Root words in vocabulary book (review lessons) |
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May 14-18 |
Modern poetry |
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Turn in lit crit esssays |
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May 21-23 Final exams M-W |
Final exam |
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