English IV Assignments
Assignments are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances
1/24
Course requirements/seating charts
Distribute Vocabulary Workshop books,literature and grammar books
Introduce Lessons 1 & 2 vocabulary/assign exercises (Due Day 4)
Distribute Kings and Queens of England handouts
Brainstorm on England-history/culture
Begin discussion of geography of England
Read Anglo-Saxon Intro in Adventures, pp.2-11/answer Study Guide 1
questions
1/25
Discuss overview of Anglo-Saxon culture
Complete geography of England
Video -Touring England-take notes
Study vocabulary list
1/28
Book covers due on literature book
Discuss Anglo-Saxon history and literature/board notes
Video- Tribal Legacy (15 minutes)
Read Anglo-Saxon Age handouts
1/29
Discuss characteristics of a hero and epic poetry
Read p. 20 in Elements on Dragon Slayer and Epic Hero in class
Discuss history of Beowulf/handouts on Beowulf
1/30
Vocabulary 1 Quiz
Assign reflective essay on heroic characteristics (Due Day 13)
Read "Life in 999:A Grim Struggle" p.47 in Elements in
class
Read Beowulf, pp.11-19 in Adventures/do accompanying worksheets
View Beowulf video
Review for historical background test
1/31
Anglo-Saxon historical background test
Discuss elements of elegiac poetry
Read "The Seafarer" in class
Explain implied metaphors
Complete questions to poem and metaphor examples
2/1
Review themes found in "The Seafarer"
Explain importance of Anglo-Saxon riddles
Do Anglo-Saxon riddles in class
Do riddle exercise sheet
2/4
Read selection by Bede
Answer Reading Check questions
Discuss Old English Language/handouts
View video on Old English
Do Exercise 1 & 2, p. 42 in book/dictionary work
2/5
Vocabulary 2 Quiz
Distribute Grendel books
Discuss existentialism
Begin review of parts of the sentence
2/6
Hero essays due
Review for Anglo-Saxon Literature Test
Continue with parts of the sentence/multiple subjects and verbs
2/7
Anglo-Saxon Literature Test
Review parts of sentence-subject/verbs/complements
Assign Grendel/Chapters 1 & 2
Continue parts of the sentence/complements
2/8
Introduce Middle Ages literature
Continue grammar review-/multiple subjects-vebs,complements sheets
Discuss Grendel
Chapters 1 & 2
Read Grendel chapters 3 & 4
2/11
Overhead notes on Middle Ages
Rules on Courtly Love
Discuss Grendel-Chapters 3and 4
Complete multiple subject/verb/complement sheets
2/12
Vocabulary 2 Quiz
Continue notes on Middle Ages
Watch video Knights (10 min)
Read handout on monikers
Read Grendel-Chapters 5 & 6
2/13
Grammar Test-parts of the sentence
Watch part of Westminster Abbey video
Discuss Middle Ages
Read Grendel- Chapter 7
Continue discussion of Middle Ages/Overhead notes
Read Introduction and do Study Guide 5
Read Grendel-Chapter8
2/14
Read Medieval handout/Answer questions
Finish Middle Ages notes on types of literature
Begin Becket
Read Grendel- Chapter 9
2/15
Overhead notes and handouts
Read Chaucer's life, p. 55-56/do Selection Test questions
Read p, 57 on introduction
Continue Becket
Read Grendel-Chapter 10
2/18
Continue Becket
Discuss Grendel
Early Release
2/19
Vocabulary 4 quiz
Begin reading/discussing characters in Prologue
Practice recitation of Middle English
Read Grendel-Chapter11-12
Continue Becket
2/20
Continue reading and discussion of Prologue
Read
Knight-Monk/Take notes
Practice recitation of Middle English
Begin pronoun activity sheets
Discuss Grendel/Read letter from John Gardner
2/21
Discuss Knight-Friar
Do pronoun review sheets
Practice recitation of Middle English
Read Merchant-Skipper/Take notes
2/22
Discuss Merchant-Skipper
Read Doctor-Reeve
Practice recitation of Middle English
Go over pronoun review exercises
Review for Grendel
Test
2/25
Grendel Test
Discuss Doctor-Reeve
Read Summoner,Pardoner,remainder of Prologue
Practice Middle English recitations
Work on pronoun review exercises
2/26
Discuss remaining characters in Prologue
Character Quiz from Canterbury Tales Prologue
Practice Middle English recitation
Pronoun/antecedent agreement rules and exercise sheets
2/27
Vocabulary 5 Quiz
Do final review agreement exercises
Notes on ballad characteristics
Read p.105-111 in text
Answer ballad questions
2/28
Discuss Arthurian legend background/board notes
Discuss concept of Romantic Hero/board notes
Discuss contributions of Sir Thomas Malory
Video-Great Books Le Morte D'Arthur
Read Coronation and Marriage of Arthur handouts/answer questions
2/29
Grammar test on agreement
Go over Coronation and Marriage questions
Discuss Language of Chivalry
VideoCamelot
3/3
Recitations due
Read Sir Gawain and Green Knight,pp.89-96
Answer Reading Check questions, p. 96
3/4
Discuss Pearl Poet
Read Growth of Language in text/Answer questions
Distribute research paper information/MLA handbooks
Do Pronoun worksheets on Nominative/Objective Cases
3/5
Vocabulary Quiz 6
Review sheets on medieval literature
Read Study Guide 6/Answer questions
3/6
Medieval Literature Test
Do pronoun exercises/Appositive, Elliptical phrases, Who,whom
Open-Book quiz on Renaissance Intro
3/7
Media Center research
Read Renaissance handout/Answer questions
3/10
Media Center research
Answer Michael Drayton poem questions
Read p. 152-53 on Sonnets
Petrarchan/Shakespearian Sonnet handout
3/11
Media center research
Read biography of Thomas Wyatt,p. 149
Answer handout questions to Wyatt's poetry/Handout
3/12
Discuss "Whoso List to Hunt" and "Divers Doth Use",
pp.150-151
Do pronoun review exercises
Read works of Sir Phillip Sidney,pp.158-159
Begin study of Sir Edmund Spenser ,p. 154-57
Research paper rubrics
3/13
Pronoun Test
Media Center
Complete Spenser questions/Discuss Spenserian sonnets
Read Faerie Queen handouts
3/14
Review exercise on meter and scansion
Do exercise on scansion and Spenserian stanzas
Begin discussion of parallel structure
3/17
Do parallel structure exercises/make corrections
Discuss poems of Elizabeth, Essex and Raleigh
Read biography of Raleigh and Marlowe, p. 161
3/18
Vocabulary 1-150 Review Test
Do activities on Marlowe and Raleigh poems
Introduce Vocab 7 words
Begin Anne of a Thousand Days
3/19
Discuss poetry of Marlowe & Raleigh
Discuss parody and speaker
Read biography of Shakespeare, p. 164-165
Continue video
3/20
Answer questions on Shakespeare's life
Answer questions on Shakespeare's London/use handout
Read and discuss Sonnets 18-130 in class, p.167-169
3/21
Go over Shakespeare's London questions
Do Lyrics of the early Renaissance questions
Review sheet for Renaissance Lit Test/Group work
3/31
Renaissance Lit Test
Continue video
4/1
Discussion of Jacobean Age/Board notes
Vocab 7 Quiz
Puritan handout/Questions
4/2
Introduce metaphysical poetry
Read selections by John Donne, p. 263+ in text/Handouts
Complete Meditation 17 questions
4/3
Continue John Donne selections
Discuss Meditation 17
Do Valediction forbidding Mourning in class
Do Holy Sonnets/Answer questions
4/4
Outlines due
Discuss shaped verse, p. 273
Introduce Ben Jonson, Tribe of Ben, p.281-82
Read On my First Son, p. 282
4/7
Introduce Cavalier poetry
Read poems of Herrick,Suckling,Lovelace,p.
290+
Answer handout questions on poems
Study for Vocab 8 Quiz
Read To His Coy Mistress in class
4/8
Vocabulary 8 Quiz
Answer questions on To His Coy Mistress
Discussion of KJVB/Read study guide
Read bio of Samuel Pepys, p. 358
Read Diary, p. 359+
Answer Reading check Questions 1-5 and Study& Discussion questions 1 & 2
Read information packet on John Milton
4/9
Discuss importance of Samuel Pepys & Diary
Introduce John Milton
Read sonnet selections in class, p. 301-303
Introduce Paradise Lost/Literary epic/Devices used
Handouts on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Garden of Eden,etc.
4/10
Read Paradise Lost in class
Answer Study Guide 40 questions
Finish Vocabulary Check from Paradise Lost
Discuss Growth of English Language, p. 323-24 in class
Introduce John Bunyan's contributions
Read Pilgrim's Progress selection in text, pp. 318-322
Do Reading Check 1-5 and Study-Discussion 1,2,4 at end of selection
4/11
Discuss importance of Pilgrim's Progress
Review for Jacobean Literature Test
Begin grammar-types of phrases
4/14
Vocabulary 8 Quiz
Continue grammar-prepositional phrases
Complete prepositional phrases exercises
Do Study Guide 42 on Restoration/18th Century
4/15
Jacobean Age Literature Test
Finish Study Guide 42
Complete Selection Test 34
Read 18th century handout/Answer questions
4/16
Check work done on 11/9
Discussion of 18th century/board notes
Discuss verbals
Do activities on infinitive uses
Go over vocab words for Vocab Quiz 10
4/17
Discuss infinitive exercises
Introduce characteristics of neo-classical literature
Introduce satire techniques
Introduce Daniel Defoe
Read Journal of the Plague Year, pp.366+
Complete worksheets on comparison of writers, subordination,run-ons
4/18
Discuss Defoe's work
Introduce participles/Do activities on handout
Introduce J. Swift and use of satire
Read Elegy on Death of Mad Dog/Apples
Read Elegy on Death of Famous Late General
Discuss structure of Gulliver's Travels
Study for Vocab 10 Quiz
11/16
Vocab 10 Quiz
Read A Modest Proposal in class/Answer handout questions
Do remaining activity on punctuating participial phrases
11/19
Research Papers Due
Discuss Swift's work and satirical techniques
Eliot Engel's lecture on Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theater
Read Addison & Steele, p. 390-393
Read Alexander Pope, p. 400-401
11/20
Discuss contributions of Addison & Steele
Discuss Alexander Pope and Rape of the Lock
Dead Poets' Society
Study Guide for 1984/Handout on Totalitarianism
Read Age of Johnson, p. 417-420
Read bio of Boswell, p. 425
11/21
Discuss Johnson and Boswell
Dead Poets' Society
11/26
Review vocab words 251-275
Discuss elements of Pre-Romantic movement
Read poetry of William Blake, Robert Burns, pp. 442+
Distribute 1984 books/Read One,I-III/Answer questions 1-12
11/27
Review of verbals/Introduce gerunds
Do handout activity on gerund sheet
Discuss literary elements of 1984/Read "Shameful Secret" handout
Read and discuss Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Discuss chapter questions and characterization in novel
Read Part One, IV-VI in novel and answer questions
11/28
Discuss 1984
Read handouts on Patriot Act/Privacy Concerns
Answer questions on 18th century novels, p.449+ in book
Finish gerund exercises
Read next part of 1984/Answer questions
11/29
Answer questions on Growth of Language, p. 450 in book
Go over gerund exercises
Do review sheets on verbals in class
Begin Book Two of 1984
Study for vocab quiz 11
11/30
Vocab 11 Quiz
Discuss 1984, Book One and Book Two/
Finish remainder of Book Two/Answer questions
Review exercises on verbals
Study for verbal test
12/3
Grammar Test-Verbals
Read Romantic Age Intro/Answer Study Guide 56 questions
Read 1984 Book Two ,IX-X/Have questions ready
12/4
Discuss literary techniques in Book Two 1984
Answer Selection Test 51 on Romantic Age
Read Age of Romanticism and answer questions
Read bio of Wordsworth in text,p. 473+
Read "Lonely As a Cloud" handout and Lucy poem in text, p. 482+/Answer questions
Begin Book Three, I and II in 1984
12/5
Discuss "My Heart Leaps Up" and "The World is Too Much With Us", pp.485-86
Discuss Wordsworth's philosophy
Do group work on privacy issues 1984
12/6
Read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
Discuss questions to short story
Read Coleridge bio., p.490-491
Answer imagery questions to "Kubla Khan", p. 513-514
Read Book Three, III-IV/Do study guide questions
Study for Vocab 112 Quiz
12/7
Discuss contributions of Coleridge
Discuss importance and construction of Rime of Ancient Mariner
Discussion of major themes of alienation and reconciliation
Vocab 12 Quiz
View Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Find examples of figurative language in Rime of Ancient Mariner
12/10
Finish Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Find examples of figurative language from poem
Discuss remainder of 1984
Review for 1984 test
Read bio of Jane Austen and Lord Byron, pp. 521, 526-27
12/11
1984 Test
Discuss biography of Byron
12/12
Read Byron selections in text, p. 526 +/Take notes
Answer questions to Don Juan excerpt in text
12/13
Vocabulary Review Test 151-298
Answer questions on Byron's works
Discuss Shelly and read selection in text, pp.543+
12/14
Read bio of Keats, p. 556-57
Read Keats poetry in text
Answer questions/Group work
12/17
Discuss contributions of Keats
English Romantic Poets video
Review for test
12/18
Romantic Age Test
Begin grammar-types of clauses
12/19
Dickens Day
Professor Eliot Engel lecture on Dickens
1/3
Discuss Victorian Age Study Guide
Read handouts on Victorian novelists/Language changes
View Price of Progress segment/Answer questions
Go over noun clauses exercises
1/4
Introduce adverb clauses/Do exercises
Discuss Tennyson,Browning,Hardy
Read about PRB,Victorian mourning practices
Read E.B. Browning's love sonnets
Read Houseman's poetry selections
1/7
Review adverb clauses
Discuss remaining Victorian authors
Begin 20th century introduction
Do noun/adjective clauses review sheet
1/8
Discuss 20th century authors
Read biographical sketches of assigned authors
Exam review
1/9
Discuss remaining authors and selections
Discuss Absurdist Theater
Begin exam review
1/10
Pinteresque drama, p. 1072
Pygmalion,p.1009
Exam review
1/11
Pygmalion, p. 1009
Exam review