Monday: Modern Poetry (Yeats, Auden, Eliot); final review list provided
Tuesday: G. Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
Wednesday: The Truman Show--connections to 1984
Thursday: The Truman Show--connctions to 1984
Friday: senior final, first period; final review for juniors
Monday: Return Argumentative Essays; 1984 Test
Tuesday: Multiple Choice practice
Wednesday: AP Language Test
Thursday: The Truman Show, connections to 1984
Friday: The Truman Show, connections to 1984
Monday: M. Arnold and "Dover Beach"; R. Kipling and "Recessional"
Tuesday: R. Browning, "My Last Duchess," and poetry writing
Wednesday: Tennyson and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; Kipling and "The Last of the Light Brigade"
Thursday: Hardy and "The Darkling Thrush"; Introduction to the Modern Period
Friday: 1984 Test (vocabulary and literature; essay due on
Monday)
Monday: T. Hardy, "Channel Firing"
Tuesday: In-class essay, Argumentative Writing
Wednesday: Synthesis Question Preview
Thursday: Synthesis Question; documentation of sources
Friday: Multiple Choice practice
Monday: Rhetorical Analysis and Byron's "Speech to Parliament: In Defense of the Lower Classes"
Tuesday: Multiple Choice practice
Wednesday: Victorian Poetry, Thomas Hardy
Thursday: 1984 Quiz, Part II (literature and vocabulary)
Friday: In-class essay (argumentative)
Monday: Charles Dickens, excerpt from Hard Times
Tuesday: Poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "Ulysses," "Charge of the Light Brigade'
Wednesday: Poetry by Thomas Hardy: "The Man He Killed," "Channel Firing"
Thursday: 1984 Quiz Part II (literature and vocabulary)
Friday: Romanticism Projects due
Monday: In-class essay: Satire/Humor in "Coyote v. Acme Company"
Tuesday: Review for AP Test, the Argumentative Essay
Wednesday: Oklahoma (theater)
Thursday: 1984 Quiz (literature and vocabulary), Part I
Friday: 3 argumentative prompts, group exercise
Monday: Romanticism and Social Protest: Shelly, "Men of England;" Byron, "Speech to Parliament"
Tuesday: Romanticism Today: Supertramp, "The Logical Song;" Introduction to the Victorian Era
Wednesday: Oklahoma (theater)
Thursday: 1984 Quiz (literature and vocabulary), Part I
Friday: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities; assign Romantic project (due Fri. 5/1)
Monday: George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"
Tuesday: 1984 Introduction
Wednesday: Introduciton to Satire, Jonathan Swift
Thursday: Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
Friday: multiple choice questions, "Modest Proposal"
Monday: Paradise Lost / Diction (vocabulary list)
Tuesday: Satire, Mark Twain: Letters from the Earth
Wednesday: Paradise Lost, syntax
Thursday: Wordmasters #2
Friday: PL Vocabulary Quiz
