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Date	Assignment	Other Info
8/30	Welcome Back!	AP Students: To order required texts, please CLICK HERE.
8/31	Practice Exam: Multiple Choice
9/2	Practice Exam: Timed Writing HW: Complete Anglo-Saxon Research Questions and Obtain a college entrance essay prompt
9/7	Intro. to Beowulf HW: Brainstorm life experiences for College Essay - fill a page
9/9	Power Outage - No School
9/13	*HW: Discuss the fight scenes as depicted in Seamus Heaney's translation and John Gardener's adaptation of Beowulf* . How does point of view affect tone and meaning? 1 pg.**
9/15	Read "Araby" and answer Study Qs HW: Read "The Dead" and answer Study Qs HW: College Essay Rough Draft
9/19	Due: College Essay Rough Draft HW: Begin to Annotate Ch. 1 of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man HW: Revise College Essay Rough Draft	Back to School 9/19
9/21	Due: College Essay - Revised Rough Draft HW: Continue to Annotate Ch. 1 of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man HW: Complete an Essay Chart and Analysis	Barnes & Noble Book Fair 9/20
9/23	Due: Ch. 1 Presentations HW: Annotate Ch. 2 of Portrait of the Artist... HW: Complete a typed (double-spaced) draft of College Essay - Attach all previous drafts
9/27	Due: College Essay - Revised Rough Draft II HW: Annotate Ch. 2 of Portrait of the Artist...
9/29	Due: College Essay Final Draft Due: Ch. 2 Presentations
10/3	HW: Annotate Ch. 3 of Portrait of the Artist...
10/5	Due: Ch. 3 Presentations
10/7	HW: Annotate Ch. 4 of Portrait of the Artist... \|HW: Annotate Ch. 4 Passages
10/11	Due: Ch. 4 Presentations
10/13	HW: Annotate Ch. 5 of Portrait of the Artist... HW: Read "The Tool of the Martyr" and write a rhetorical précis.
10/17	Due: Ch. 5 Presentations
10/19	In-Class Essay - Portrait of the Artist
10/21	HW: Answer Questions: Hamlet 1.1-1.4 HW: Write a rhetorical précis for Johnston's Intro to Hamlet	Hamlet 1.1-1.2 Hamlet 1.3-1.4
10/25	HW: Answer Questions: Hamlet 1.5-2.2	Hamlet 1.5-2.1 Hamlet 2.2
10/27	HW: Answer Questions: Hamlet 3.1-3.2 HW: Write a rhetorical précis for "The Central Question of the Play"	Hamlet 3.1 Hamlet 3.2
10/31	HW: *Answer Questions: Hamlet* 3.3-3.4**	Hamlet 3.3-3.4
11/2	HW: Answer Questions: Hamlet 4.1-4.4 *HW: Write a rhetorical précis for Hazlitt's Hamlet* Essay**	Hamlet 4.1-4.4
11/4	HW: *Answer Questions: Hamlet* 4.5-4.7**	Hamlet 4.5-4.6 Hamlet 4.7
11/8	HW: *Answer Questions: Hamlet* 5.1-5.2**	Hamlet 5.1 Hamlet 5.2
11/10	Hamlet Quiz
11/15	In-Class Essay - Hamlet
11/17	Essay Scoring
	Thanksgiving Break
11/28	HW: Read Macbeth I.i - I.vi (annotate or answer Qs) HW: Create a Good Wives' Guide from the POV of Lady Macbeth	*Macbeth* I.i - I.vi
11/30	*HW: Macbeth* -** I.vii - II.iii	Macbeth - I.vii - II.iii
12/2	*HW: Macbeth* -** II.iv - III.iv	Macbeth - II.iv - III.iv
12/6	HW: Macbeth - III.v - IV.ii	Macbeth - III.v - IV.ii
12/8	*HW: Macbeth* -** IV.iii - V.ii	Macbeth - IV.iii - V.ii
12/12	*HW: Macbeth* -** V.iii - V.viii	Macbeth - V.iii - V.viii
12/14	Macbeth - In-Class Essay
12/16	Macbeth Essay Scoring HW: Annotate: "The Eagle," "Winter," "Spring," and one additional poem of your choice from Section 1. Begin studying Allusions and Poetry Terms I	Poetry Packet
	Happy non-denominational, multi-cultural, politically appropriate seasonal observance!
1/4	HW: Complete a Poetry Analysis Worksheet for : "A Study of Reading Habits," "Mirror," and one additional poem of your choice from Section 2.
1/6	HW: Apply TPCASTT analysis to: "When my love swears that she is made of truth," "The world is too much with us," "A Hymn to God the Father," and one additional poem of your choice from Section 3.
1/10	HW: Apply DIDLS analysis to "After Apple-Picking," "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass," "The Widow's Lament in Springtime," and one additional poem of your choice from Section 4.
1/12	HW: Write an Explication for "The Hound," "Metaphors," "To His Coy Mistress," and annotate one additional poem of your choice from Section 5.
1/17	Test: Poetry Terms I HW: Write an Explication for "The Road Not Taken," "You, Andrew Marvell" and "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" Begin Studying: Poetry Terms 2
1/19	HW: Apply analysis method of choice to "Much madness is divinest sense," "The Chimney Sweeper," "Southern Cop," and one additional poem of your choice from Section 7.	Begin Semester Portfolio Project
1/23	Test: Allusions (Biblical and Mythological) HW: Apply analysis method of choice to "Out, Out - ," "On His Blindness," "Hero and Leander," and "Leda and the Swan"
1/25	Due: Poetry HW Folio #1 (Sections 1-7) HW: Apply analysis method of choice to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Design," and two additional poems of your choice from Section 9.	End Semester One
2/1	In-Class Essay - Poetry HW: Apply analysis method of choice to "Apparently with no surprise," "The Coming of Wisdom with Time," "The Apparition," and "The Flea."
2/3	In Class: Peer-Grading of Poetry Essays HW: Identify and discuss musical elements in "As imperceptibly as grief," "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and one additional poem of your choice from Section 11.
2/7	Due: Semester Portfolio Project HW: Apply Scansion to "Intro. to Songs of Innocence," and "It takes all sorts" from Section 12. (Also: Write an original Sonnet)
2/9	Quiz: Poetry Terms 2 HW: Apply analysis method of choice to "The Span of Life," "Sound and Sense," "I heard a fly buzz when I died," and "The Bench of Boors"	Poems to Know for Poetry Final Exam
2/13	HW: Apply analysis method of choice to "Death, be not proud," "Acquainted with the Night," and "A Christmas Tree"
2/15	HW: Annotate "The Canonization" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Complete the Prufrock Questions worksheet.
2/21	Poetry Final Exam and In-Class Essay Due: Poetry HW Folio #2 (Sections 8-16)
2/23	VPA Assembly In Class: Peer-Grading of Poetry Essays Please return borrowed copies of Sound & Sense HW: Annotate "The Origin of a Myth"
2/27	Frankenstein Full Text HW: Frankenstein Letters - Ch. 2	Letters Ch. 1-2
2/29	"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Ancient Mariner and Dore - Ppoint HW: Frankenstein Ch. 3 - 7	3-5 6-7
3/2	Monster Theory - Ppoint HW: Frankenstein Ch. 8 - 12	8-9 10-12
3/6	HW: Frankenstein Ch. 13-18	13-15 16-18
3/8	HW: Frankenstein Ch. 19 - 22	19-20 21-22
3/12	HW: Frankenstein Ch. 23-24	23-24
3/14	In-Class Essay - Frankenstein
3/16	Frankenstein Essay Scoring
3/20	HW: Heart of Darkness Questions p1-17	Heart of Darkness - Full Text
3/22	*HW: HOD* Questions p18-31 and HOD Overview Ppoint. View and take notes.**
3/26	*HW: HOD* Questions p32-46 and Write a rhetorical précis for "Africa and Africans in Heart of Darkness"**
3/28	*HW: HOD* Questions p47-63**
3/30	*HW: HOD* Questions p63-72**
4/3	In-Class Essay - HOD Apocalypse Now
4/5	Apocalypse Now
4/9-13	Spring Break - "Woo!"
4/16	HW: 1984 1.1 - 1.5 Annotate or complete a Reading Response Past 20 Open-Prompts - Align with Texts	1984 Full Text
4/18	HW: 1984 1.6 - 1.7 Annotate or complete a Reading Response	24 Hour Honesty Log
4/20	HW: 1984 1.8 - 2.1 Annotate or complete a Reading Response
4/24	HW: 1984 2.2 - 2.3 Annotate or complete a Reading Response	STAR Testing
4/26	HW: 1984 2.4 - 2.6 Annotate or complete a Reading Response	STAR Testing
4/30	HW: 1984 2.7 - 2.8 Annotate or complete a Reading Response
5/2	HW: 1984 2.9 Complete 2.9 Questions
5/4	*HW: 1984* 2.**10 - 3.3 Annotate or complete a Reading Response	2.9 Ppoint
5/8	HW: 1984 3.4 - 3.6 Annotate or complete a Reading Response
5/10	AP Lit Exams
5/14	Individual Novel Project
5/16
5/18	1984 Final Projects Due
5/22		Late Start
5/24
5/29
5/31
6/4	Individual Novel Project Due
6/6
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6/12	Single Period Day - Senior Checkout