Mrs.Donna Bowles 

STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION as of August 10, 2008)  

English IV Honors Level 

               Course Focus: British Literature

Daily:     Journal Writing ,Grammar Practice

Weekly: Two vocabulary lessons  with quiz  and Current Event article  

     *These assignments may vary due to class and school activities, weather, and rate of learning.

Tentative Literature Units of study: Beowulf, Frankenstein, Grendel, Dr. Jekyll...Hamlet, Macbeth, Paradise Lost, Fairy Queen, 1984, Brave New World, Various Sonnets, Silas Marner, Lord of the Flies, Pygmalion

Week One- August 25-29

TEST over summer reading-Wuthering Heights and reader's journals due-First Day of Class!

Classroom introduction, procedures, assign texts, complete information cards

Vocabulary study: lessons 1-2  vocab. quiz #1

Literature- Anglo-Saxon Period- Beowulf

Week Two-

Vocabulary study: lessons 3-4 , vocab quiz #2

Literature: Beowulf 

Seminar-Introduce Paideia Seminar

 Week Three-

Vocabulary study: lessons 5-6  quiz #3

Literature-

Seminar: "Pledge of Allegiance"

 Week Four-

Vocabulary study: lessons 7-8 quiz #4

Literature-

Writing:

Week Five-

Vocabulary study:9-10 quiz #5

Literature-

  Week Six-

Vocabulary study: TEST lessons 1-10  (100 word test)

Literature-

Week Seven-

Vocabulary study: lessons 11-12  quiz #6

Literature-

Writing: The Research paper-Literary Analysis

  Week Eight-

Vocabulary study: lessons 13-14 quiz #7

Literature:

Writing: The Research paper

  Week Nine-

Vocabulary study: lessons 15-16 H, quiz #8

Literature

Writing: The Research paper 

 Week Ten-

Vocabulary study: lessons 17-18 quiz #9

Literature-  

Writing:  The Research paper

 Week Eleven-

Vocabulary study: 19-20 quiz #10

Literature-

 Week Twelve-

Vocabulary study: 100 word TEST lessons 11-20

Literature-

  Week Thirteen-

Vocabulary study: lessons 21-22

Literature:

Week Fourteen

Vocabulary study: lessons 23-24

Literature-

 Week Fifteen-

Vocabulary study: lessons 25-26

Literature-

Week Sixteen-

Vocabulary study: 27-28

Literature-

 Week Seventeen-

Vocabulary study: lessons 29-30

Begin exam review

 Week Eighteen-Exam review-

Vocabulary study: