Senior English: World Literature
2007-2008 Syllabus

December 1
Monday
day 5

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 3.2

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What you should have read by today: Hamlet 3.3-4

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Continue the discussion of Hamlet 3.4

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What you should have read by today: Hamlet 3.4

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What you should have read by today: Hamlet 3.4

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Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on 3.1-3.4 and Hamlet vocabulary 21-40

December 8
Monday
day 4

What you should have read by today: Hamlet act 4

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

AM Assembly schedule (mass)

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 5.1

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Continue discussion of Hamlet 5.2

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Finish the discussion of Hamlet

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Review for the Midterm Exam

AM Pep Rally

January 5
Monday
day 1

Welcome back and storytelling

What you should have read by today: Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

"A Modest Proposal" power point

Enlightenment and Romanticism Vocabulary

What you should have read by today: "A Modest Proposal"

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What you should have read by today: "A Modest Proposal"

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What you should have read by today: Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman pages 1-5

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Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Swift and 1-20 of Enlightenment/Romanticism vocabulary (it goes beyond Swift!).

Enlightenment/Romanticism Essay assignment

Vindication power point

January 12
Monday
day 6

What you should have read by today: Vindication (pages 1-5)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today: Vindication (pages 6-10)

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Enlightenment/Romanticism Essay assignment

What you should have read by today: Vindication (pages 11-15)

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What you should have read by today: Vindication (16-end)

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Continue Vindication

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Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Wollstonecraft and 21-40 of Enlightenment/Romanticism Vocabulary list

PM Pep Rally Schedule

January 19
Monday

What you should have read by today: Wordsworth "Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey" page 1

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Wordsworth Power Point

World Literature Document Folder

What you should have read by today: Wordsworth "Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey" page 2

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

AM Assembly Schedule (mass)

What you should have read by today: Wordsworth "Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey" page 3

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What you should have read by today: Wordsworth "Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey" read to the end

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January 26
Monday
day 3

What you should have read by today: Alexander Pushkin, "The Queen of Spades" (pages 1-10)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Pushkin Power Point

World Literature Document Folder

Enlightenment/Romanticism Essay assignment

What you should have read by today: Pushkin "The Queen of Spades" (pages 11-end)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Career day

What you should have read by today: Pushkin "The Queen of Spades"

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What you should have read by today: Pushkin "The Queen of Spades"

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Also, bring thesis and topic sentences of the Enlightenment/Romanticism Essay by 8 AM (double space and type them) for your Writing Workshop 1 grade

February 2
Monday
day 2

What you should have read by today: John Keats, "Ode on Melancholy"

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Also, bring thesis and topic sentences of the Enlightenment/Romanticism Essay by 8 AM (double space and type them) for your Writing Workshop 1 grade

Keats Power Point

World Literature Document Folder

What you should have read by today: Keats "Ode on a Nightingale "

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Enlightenment and Romanticism Examination

Enlightenment/
Romanticism Exam Study Guide

Solidarity day (special schedule)

AM Assembly schedule

Week 6

February 9
Monday
day 1

Draft One of Enlightenment/ Romanticism Essay due—Writing Workshop (at least two pages; be sure you are keeping all drafts stapled to the back of the latest draft)

  World Literature Document Folder

Peer Edit Sheet Writing Workshop

What you should have read by today: Gustave Flaubert, "A Simple Heart" pages 1-10

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Also bring a revised first body paragraph at 8 AM. It must have at least three quotations properly incorporated, each of which must be thoroughly analyzed.

Flaubert Power Point

Realism and Modernism Vocabulary

What you should have read by today: Flaubert, pages 11-20

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Continue with Flaubert pages 21-end

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Flaubert quiz on text and 1-20 of Realism and Modernism vocabulary

AM Assembly schedule (late start)

February 16
Monday

What you should have read by today: Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry "Archaic Torso of Apollo"

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

World Literature Document Folder

Draft two of Enlightenment/Romanticism essay due for Writing Workshop in class: Bring your revised paper (typed, at least three pages) for workshop (make sure you are keeping all drafts stapled to the back of the final draft)

Also bring a revised first body paragraph at 8 AM. It must have at least three quotations properly incorporated, each of which must be thoroughly analyzed.

Rilke Power Point

Edit Sheet for Draft Two Writing Workshop

What you should have read by today: Rilke "The Panther"

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Bring the full draft to class for checklist.

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz

Noon Schedule

February 23
Monday
day 4

You will receive the reading: Virginia Woolf "A Mark on the Wall"

Enlightenment/Romanticism essay due (attach to the back all official drafts--thesis and topic sentences [final version only], edited body paragraphs, and two workshop drafts)

PM Assembly Schedule (early dismissal)

Checklist for Literary Analysis Essay

Woolf Power Point

World Literature Document Folder

No School. TAPPS at SAA

What you should have read by today: Virginia Woolf "A Mark on the Wall"

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

AM Assembly Schedule (mass)

Continue Woolf

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Continue Woolf

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March 2
Monday
day 3

Realism and Modernism exam

(see home page for turnitin.com code. Everyone submit your essay)

World Literature Document Folder

What you should have read by today: What to have read by today: Pablo Neruda, "Stationary Point" and "Ode to an Artichoke"

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Pablo Neruda Power Point

What you should have read by today: Neruda "Clenched Soul"

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Film in class Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern. If you're absent, you must see the film on your own time and write a review of it.

PM Pep Rally Schedule

End of Third Quarter

March 9
Monday
day 2

Grades due

World Literature Document Folder

Lispector Power Point

senior retreat

March 16-20

March 23
Monday
day 1

What you should have read by today: Clarice Lispector's "The World's Smallest Woman"

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Lispector Power Point

Woman Warrior powerpoint

Woman Warrior vocabulary list

Kingston introductory note

World Literature Document Folder

Finish film

What you should have read by today: Lispector

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Lispector

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AM Assembly schedule (mass)

Lispector

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What you should have read by today: Achebe (through part 1, chapter 6)

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Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Lispector only

March 30
Monday
day 6

Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Read "No Name Woman" section for today.

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Assignment of Fourth Quarter Writing project

World Literature Document Folder

Fourth Quarter Writing Project

Kingston "No Name Woman"

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Kingston "No Name Woman"

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Kingston "No Name Woman"

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Kingston "No Name Woman"

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Quiz

April 6
Monday
day 5

Kingston "White Tigers"

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Description of Fourth quarter writing project (typed and double spaced) due by 8 AM

Progress reports due

World Literature Document Folder

Fourth Quarter Writing Project

Kingston "White Tigers"

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Reading/Vocabulary Quiz

Kingston "White Tigers"

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Kingston "White Tigers"

AM Assembly schedule (prayer service)

April 13
Monday

School holiday

Kingston "Shaman"

You should have the full novel read and marked with your marginalia

First Draft of FourthQuarter Project due for writing workshop in class (have the essay already printed out by the time of the bell. You should have at least three pages completed to receive the full grade).

Kingston "Shaman"

AM Assembly schedule

Kingston "Shaman"

Reading Quiz

PM Pep Rally schedule

April 20
Monday
day 1

Kingston "At the Western Palace"

Exam Study Guide for Post-Colonial Literature

World Literature Document Folder

Kingston "At the Western Palace"

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Kingston "At the Western Palace"

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Kingston "At the Western Palace"

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Kingston "At the Western Palace"

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Reading/Vocabulary Quiz

Near Noon schedule

April 27
Monday
day 6

Kingston "Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe"

Kingston "Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe"

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Kingston "Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe"

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Kingston "Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe"

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Fourth Quarter Writing Project due (see home page for reminders)

AM Assembly schedule

May 4
Monday
day 5

Film: Central Station (if you miss class time, you'll need to see the film for the final exam)

Film: Central Station (if you miss class time, you'll need to see the film for the final exam)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Post Colonialism exam

Film: Central Station (if you miss class time, you'll need to see the film for the final exam)

Stories

May 11
Monday
day 4

Last day for seniors

AP exams from the 12th through the 16th

August 18
Monday
day 1

World Literature Document Folder

Achebe Power Point

August 19
Tuesday
day 2

Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Bring your book to class

Senior meeting fourth period

Summer Reading Exam

Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Bring your book to class

Assignment of the Personal/College Essay

Bring your book to class

August 25
Monday
day 6

Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Bring your book to class

Personal/College Essay prompt and theme and a scene. Due by 8 AM for teacher review. All writing turned in to me should be double spaced and should have an MLA heading (for a Writing Workshop grade)

Achebe

Bring your book to class

Counselor visit

Counselor visit

AM Assembly schedule (late start for students)

Cliches and Trite Expression

Show, don't tell

Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Bring your book to class

AM Assembly schedule

September 1
Monday

Achebe

Bring your book to class

Achebe

Bring your book to class

Achebe

Bring your book to class

First Draft of Personal/College Essay due for Writing Workshop in class. All writing you submit should be double spaced and should have an MLA heading (attach the previous workshop draft). This is the Writing Workshop 2 grade. Due at 8 AM

AM Assembly schedule (late arrival all)

Prayer service fourth period

Achebe

Bring your book to class

September 8
Monday
day 3

Achebe

Bring your book to class

Post-First Draft Writing ideas

World Document Folder

Today you'll have a substitute. You should work on your revisions of your college essay, read and write marginalia for Sappho, and/or read and write marginalia for Medea (a book).

What you should have read by today: Sappho, "Throned in Splendor"

What you should bring to class: Your hard copy of the text marked with marginalia

Sappho Power Point

Ancients Vocabulary

Today you'll have a substitute. You should work on your revisions of your college essay, read and write marginalia for Sappho, and/or read and write marginalia for Medea (a book).

What you should have read by today: Sappho, "Like the very gods" and "Some there are"

What you should bring to class: Your hard copy of the text marked with marginalia

Sappho

School closed

September 15
Monday
day 2

Finish Sappho today

Progress Reports due

World Literature Document Folder

AM Assembly schedule (late start for students)

September 22
Monday
day 1

Continue with Sappho

(If you haven't already shown your marginalia for all three poems, do so today)

World Literature Document Folder

Finish Sappho and begin Medea.

What you should have read by today: First half of Medea

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Medea Power Point

Medea study guide

Medea (second half)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Parent-teacher conferences 5:30-7:30

Continue Medea

AM Assembly day (late start)

Second Draft of Personal Essay due for Writing Workshop in class (attach both previous workshop drafts, have it in MLA format, have it printed out and stapled before the bell rings in order to receive the full workshop grade.

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today:

Edit Sheet: Writing Workshop

September 29
Monday
day 6

Continue Medea

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World Literature Document Folder

How to tell an Argument from a Fact

Finish Medea and begin Li Po

College Essay due. Turn it in to turnitin.com. Click here for information.

What you should have read by today:

Li Po, "Dialogue in the Mountains" and "Sitting Alone on Ching-T'ing Mountain"

What you should bring to class: The text marked with marginalia

Li Po Power Point

What you should have read by today: "The Sun Rises and Sets" and "Yearning"

What you should bring to class: The text marked with marginalia

Ancients Examination

October 6
Monday
day 5

Marie de France,"Yonec," pages 1-8

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World Literature Document Folder

Marie de France Power Point

"Yonec" Vocabulary

Courtly love handout

What you should have read by today: "Yonec" pages 9-16

What you should bring to class: The text marked with marginalia

Final deadline to turn in the final paper to turnitin.com

Finish Marie de France and begin Dante's Inferno

What you should have read by today: Dante's Inferno, canto 1 (the Dark Wood of Error)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Inferno Power Point

Inferno Vocabulary

Inferno Essay Assigment

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 2-4 (Journey's start and the Opportunists)

What you should bring to class: The text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today: Inferno, canto 5 (Francesca and Paolo and the Gluttons)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Marie de France and Inferno canto 1, twenty words from Marie and Commedia vocabulary

PM Pep Rally Schedule

End of first quarter

October 13
Monday
day 4

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 5 and 6 (the Gluttons)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Grades due

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 7-9 (The Hoarders and the Wasters; and the Sullen and Wrathful, Styx and Dis)

What you should bring to class: The text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 10-12 (Farinata and Cavalcante; Heretics and Violent against Neighbors)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

October 17
Friday
day 1

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 13-14 (the Suicides, the Violent)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Inferno 2-8, vocabulary 10-30 and explication

October 20
Monday
day 2

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 15 (Brunetto Latino)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

World Literature Document Folder

Inferno Essay Assigment

What you should have read by today: Inferno, canto 16-17 (the Violent)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

October 22
Wednesday
day 4

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 18-19 (Geryon and Malebolge)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 20-21 (Simoniacs and Fortune Tellers)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today: Inferno, canto 21 (Grafters)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on cantos 9-18 and Inferno vocabulary 31-50.

October 27
Monday
day 1

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 22-23 (Grafters and Hypocrites)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Also bring your thesis and topic sentences for your Inferno paper for your first Writing Workshop grade by 8 AM (typed, double-spaced, with MLA heading; click here for sample)

World Literature Document Folder

Inferno Essay Assigment

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 24-25 (the Thieves)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today: Inferno, canto 26-7 (Ullyses)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today: Inferno, canto 28-9 (Guido da Montefeltro)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Continue with Dante

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Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on cantos 19-27, Inferno vocabulary 51-70

November 3
Monday
day 6

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 30-31 (Falsifiers, Giants, Fraud and Treachery)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Progress notices due

World Literature Document Folder

Inferno Essay Assigment

Draft one of the Inferno paper due for Writing Workshop in class (have your paper printed out and stapled before the bell rings. Please, have the marked and corrected copies of the thesis/topic sentences stapled to the back)

What you should have read by today: Inferno, cantos 32-34 (Ugolino and Stars)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

AM Assembly schedule

Finish the Inferno and describe the Purgatorio and Paradiso

Bring one revised body paragraph at 8 AM for my review

SAA Open House

Introduction of Hamlet 1.1

You don't need to do marginalia till after the exam.

AM Assembly schedule (late start)

Hamlet Power Point

Hamlet Vocabulary

November 10
Monday
day 5

Draft two of the Inferno paper due for Writing Workshop in class (have your paper printed out and stapled before the bell rings. Please, have the marked copy of the thesis/topic sentences and your edited body paragraph stapled to the back).

World Literature Document Folder

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 1.2

You don't need to do marginalia till after the exam.

Inferno Examination

Parent-teacher conferences 5:30-7:30

Peer Edit for Writing Workshop

Inferno Exam Study Guide

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 1.3

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

AM Assembly schedule (late start)

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 1.3

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

November
17
Monday
day 4

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 1.4-1.5

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

World Literature Document Folder

Checklist for Literary Analysis Essay

Inferno paper due

(check the checklist to see what to submit with the paper)

Continue with Hamlet

AM Assembly schedule

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 2.1

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 2.2 (through the "what a piece of work is a man" speech)

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

November 21 Friday
day 2

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 2.2

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

Reading/Vocabulary Quiz on Hamlet 1.1-2.1 and Hamlet vocabulary 1-20

November 24
Monday
day 3

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 3.1

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

What you should have read by today: Hamlet 3.1

What you should bring to class: Your text marked with marginalia

AM Assembly schedule

Thanksgiving holiday