Mrs. Barber
Mrs. Tucker
Mrs. Villegas
Ms. Walsh
Ms. Windham
Monday Tuesday Block Day Friday
8/25First day procedures, course review, letters to parents. / 8/26
Brain dump: literary terms and devices, Disney examples, review Freytag’s pyramid.
HW: Print short story “The Sea Devil” / 8/27/28
Read “The Sea Devil,” introduce CUS annotations and levels of questions. / 8/29
Continue writing levels of questions, write a thesis statement using 2Q2T over theme.
9/1
Labor Day Holiday / 9/2
Grammar warm-up: sentence structures
Quiz over “The Sea Devil” / 9/3/4
Pre-reading discussion: Time magazine article
Begin reading “Most Dangerous Game” / 9/5
Finish reading “MDG”
Introduce Claim-Evidence-Commentary (CEC) short-answer
Assign Greek character and research assignment: Fakebook Profile
9/8
Library Orientation
Research
Open House / 9/9
Continue research in the library
HW: Fakebook Profile / 9/10/11
Quiz over “MDG”
Greek Fakebook profile due in class. / 9/12
Revisit CEC for short-answer response, introduce embedded quotations and parenthetical citations.
HW: Bring Group 4 vocabulary words
9/15
Review Group 4 words and definitions.
Introduce Greek vocabulary.
Read “Theseus and the Minotaur” and discuss common components of the “epic hero” and myths.
Assign Student Portfolio assignment. / 9/16
Grammar warm-up: appositive phrases and epithets
Read “Arachne” and complete vocabulary storyboard. / 9/17/18
TW: Expository essay
Video clips: Role of gods and Trojan War
Begin reading Odyssey: A Goddess Intervenes and Calypso and answer study guide questions.
HW: Student Portfolio assignment / 9/19
Finish reading Calypso and answer study guide questions.
Poetry: “The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles”
9/22
Read New Coasts and Poseidon’s Son. Identify epithets, conflicts, and foreshadowing.
Video clip: Polyphemus / 9/23
Grammar warm-up: Comma rules and punctuation.
Sentence combining activity – write using a variety of sentence structures. / 9/24/25
TW: Discuss the women in The Odyssey, the role they play, and how they represent the women of Ancient Greece.
Read Circe and Land of the Dead and watch clip. / 9/26
Video clips: Scylla and Charybdis
Read The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis
Discuss characteristics of a leader and identify in Odysseus.
HW: Bring Group 20 vocabulary words
9/29
Odyssey Part I Quiz
Begin reading The Odyssey: Father and Son / 9/30
Review Group 20 words and definitions.
Read the narrative essay “Shame” in Models For Writers. Write a short-answer response using CEC with embedded quotations. / 10/1/2
Grammar warm-up: Participial phrases
Odyssey Circle Map assignment and small-group discussions. / 10/3
Read Beggar at the Manor and Test of the Bow
Discuss situational archetype and list relevant examples.
Prediction: What does this mean for the suitors?
10/6
Read Death in the Great Hall with video clip.
Discuss plot and author’s purpose.
Answer study guide questions. / 10/7
Finish Odyssey: The Trunk of the Olive Tree.
Complete all study guide questions. / 10/8/9
TW: Concept of a hero.
HW: Finish Odyssey circle diagram / 10/10
Odyssey Part 2 Test
HW: Bring Group 29 vocabulary words
10/13
Holiday / 10/14
Review Group 29 vocabulary words.
TX Assessment- reading comprehension, short answers, revising/editing / 10/15/16
Finish TX Assessment; Read Sorry, Right Number by Stephen King p. 156 using dramatic conventions. / 10/17
Introduce SOAPSTONE
Read “Cat Bill Veto” and analyze using SOAPSTONE.
10/20
Anticipation Guide for Romeo and Juliet.
Discuss feuding families (Hatfields and McCoys) and teenage suicide trends/prevention. / 10/21
Grammar warm-up: Identifying appositive, participial, prepositional phrases p. R60-61.
Introduction to Shakespeare power point-note taking / 10/22/23
Introduction to Elizabethan Age and Globe Theater power points- note taking
Video clip: Plague / 10/24
End of 9 weeks
Define drama terms.
Read Romeo and Juliet Prologue.
Video clip: Shakespeare in Love
Essential Questions:
1. How does a writer compose an engaging story?
2. How do authors develop complex yet believable characters in works of fiction?
3. How does mythic, classical and traditional literature influence 20th and 21st century literature?
4. How do I relate an author’s use of figurative language to its historical and cultural setting?
5. How do literary elements affect the meaning of a text?
6. How do writers convey internal and external conflict in a narrative?
7. How do writers from different genres use literary elements to create an engaging story?
8. How do I find appropriate textual evidence?
9. How is a work of fiction shaped by an author’s point of view?