ENGLISH IV Honors Syllabus
FIRST NINE WEEKS, Spring 2017
Stephanie Heintz Wood
Jan 24—Rules, expectations, Summer Reading Review, interview cards
for Wed., senior project
25—Summer Reading Test and Lord of the Flies essay assignment
26—interviewing “your neighbor,” Modern period and LOTF
27—LOTF discussion and passages
30— Share introductions, Baseline assessment,
Social contract this week!
31— introduction to the Anglo-Saxon period
Part One, Beowulf, ESSAY DUE!
Feb 1—Boasting exercise, Finish Beowulf, Part One and questions
2— Beowulf, Part Two, shield information and assignment
3— Beowulf, finish Part Two and essay workshop/MLA
6—Middle Ages notes, castle photos
7—Ballads and prologue intro to The Canterbury Tales
8—Groups describe pilgrims
9—Go over Canterbury character chart, assign “A Knight’s Tale”
10—Essay rewrites DUE! “Pardoner’s Tale,” “Wife of Bath’s Tale”
13—Quiz on “Pardoner” and “Wife”, Read “The Miller’s Tale”
14—Letter writing with “Wife” and connect to senior project,
Test review
15—EARLY RELEASE DAY, intro to research paper
16—TEST on Anglo-Saxons and Middle Ages
17—Research intro/review, can begin
20—Library, bib card 1 and 2 with notes
21—Bib card 3 with notes
22—Bib card 4 with notes
23—Bib card 5 with notes
24—Works Cited page, final day to research
27—ALL note cards and bib cards due for check, conferencing
and outlining
28—EARLY RELEASE—Works Cited due, Outlining
Mar 1—Outline due!
Mar 2—Drafting, and conferencing
3—Draft due with updated WORKS CITED AND INTERNAL DOC.
6—Return drafts, begin Renaissance unit notes
7—“To the Virgins,” and “To His Coy Mistress,” pastorals, Carpe Diem
8—How to read a sonnet, TPCASTT
9— Share carpe diems, Shakespeare’s sonnets in groups
10—Finish and present sonnets
13—FINAL RESEARCH PAPER AND PACKET DUE!! Ben Jonson and
Renaissance project intro.
14—“Prodigal Son” and John Donne
15—EARLY RELEASE DAY—Renaissance project model
16—Renaissance Project Workday
17—“Fall of Satan” in Paradise Lost
20—TPCASTT “Death Be Not Proud,” Shakespeare video
21—Review all works, Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
22—The Tragedy of Macbeth begins—Act I, sc. 1-3
23—Macbeth Act I, continued, read Act II
24—Literary terms quiz, View I, II
27—Read Act III, Comma unit begins
28—Commas, IV
29—Cover your “but” commas
30—Act V, view
31—Essay workday—END OF NINE WEEKS ONE
COMING UP!!
RENAISSANCE UNIT TEST MONDAY APRIL 3
RENAISSANCE PROJECTS/PRESENTATIONS BEGIN APRIL 4