Period 3: English 4 Honors Grading Period 1.2
Mrs. Krueger August 31 – September 4
This is a tentative assignment sheet—meaning that changes will sometimes be necessary. If changes are necessary, we will make them together during class. That is one of many reasons you should always retain each quarter’s assignment sheets behind the ASSIGNMENT tab in your binder. All classwork and homework are subject to grading. If you are absent, you are responsible for picking up any missed work and making up any missed work within five class days; otherwise the assignment will not be accepted There will be a 10 point penalty per day. REMINDER: Tutoring on Thursday afternoons by appointment.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/
CLASSWORK / ASSIGNMENTS DUEM
8/31
Acquisition
Application / EQ-RL3: Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
1. Warm-up #2*
· Apply formatting rules
2. Open-note Week 1 and Anglo-Saxon Poetry Quiz
3. PP: The Epic and the Epic Hero: http://www.slideshare.net/kristinvoolstra/epic-hero-powerpoint
· Class Notes
4. Background for Beowulf
· Class Notes
5. Lit Book: “The Wrath of Grendel” (41-43)
6. Wrap-up: Plot
· What is the setting?
· What is the exposition?
· What is the initiating event for the conflict?
· How does religion function in this section? / Creative Writing Assignment. Due tomorrow, 9/01.
· Follow all directions.
· Type the final product.
· Provide art that compliments the elegy.
· Quiz Grade
T
9/01
Acquisition
Application / EQ-RL3: Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
1. Creative Writing Due Quiz Grade
2. Warm-up #3
3. Vocabulary: Unit 1 Words
4. Lit Book: “The Coming of Beowulf” (43-48)
· Summarize each stanza.
5. Wrap-up:
· Why do you think the author included such a detailed description of Beowulf’s ship and crew?
· What is the effect of introducing Beowulf not at the beginning of the story but later on?
· Why is it significant that Beowulf is a gifted speaker?
· Why is it significant that Beowulf is a boaster? / Vocabulary: Complete the Synonyms and Antonym exercises on your handout. HW Grade
W
9/02
Acquisition
Application / EQ-RL3: Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
1. Vocabulary Homework Due
2. Warm-up #4
3. Vocabulary: Unit 1
· Go over homework answers
4. Video Clip: The Battle with Grendel
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pySQEbpNoKM (5:41 – 8:43)
5. Lit Book: “The Battle with Grendel” (48-50)
· Appositives as a feature of Old English poetry (49)
6. Wrap-up:
· What details provide realism?
· What details add a sense of epic grandness?
· Why can’t the swords of Beowulf’s men hurt Grendel? / Vocabulary: Complete the Right Word exercise. HW Grade.
R
9/03
Acquisition
Application / EQ-RL2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
1. Vocabulary Homework Due
2. Warm-up #5
· Turn in week’s warm-ups.
3. Vocabulary: Unit 1
· Go over homework answers.
4. Beowulf Thug Notes and Summary
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh8akuq-MDI (à2:30)
5. Lit Book: “The Last Battle” (56-59)
6. Wrap-up:
· How is Beowulf’s fight with the dragon different from his fight with Grendel?
· What lesson is taught about the loyalty of the Anglo-Saxon comitatus? / Vocabulary: Do the Completing the Sentence exercise.
F
9/04
Acquisition
Application / EQ-RL2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
1. Vocabulary Homework Due
2. Go over vocabulary homework.
3. Beowulf Thug Notes and Analysis
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh8akuq-MDI (2:30 – 4:26)
4. Lit Book:
· “The Spoils” (60-61)
· “The Farewell” (61-62)
5. Wrap-up: Answer question 4 in SAF on page 62. / Next week:
9/08: Vocabulary Quiz #1
9/11: Old English Unit Test
1. Sutton Hoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0pD1wW_Bo