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Sept 7 - Organizational procedures. Introduction to British Literature.

Sept 8 - Assign: Read pp.1-9 The Anglo-Saxon Period. Take notes. Answer questions 1-10 p.9. Online Grammar Lessons 1 - 2.

Sept 9 - Correct Questions. Quiz on reading. Sutherland lecture "Anlgo-Saxon Roots-Pessimism and Comradeship" with handout (Parts I-III). Answer Questions at the end of lecture notes. Discussion of Anglo-Saxon Period.  Online Grammar Lessons 3-4

Sept 10 - . Assign: Beowulf pp. 11-19. Answer questions 1-3 p. 30.  Online Grammar Lessons 5-6

Sept 13 - Correct Questions 1-3 p. 30. Discuss Reading. Assign: Beowulf pp. 19-26. Answer questions 4-6 p.30. Online Grammar Lessons 7-8

Sept 14 - Correct questions 4-6 p.30. Discuss Reading. Assign: Beowulf pp. 27-29. Answer questions 7-8 p.30. Answer Reading Check Questions 1-10 p. 29.   Online Grammar Lessons 9-10

Sept 15 - Correct questions 7-8 p.30. Grammar Quiz Lessons 1-10. Discuss Reading. Quiz: Beowulf 1-10 p.29. Assign: pp. 32-34 Bede's Caedmon of Whitby. Answer Reading Check questions 1-5 p.34.  Online Grammar Lessons 11-12

Sept 16 - Correct questions 1-5 p.34. Discuss Reading. Assign: pp. 35-38 The Seafarer. Answer questions 1-5 p.38.  Online Grammar Lessons 13 - 14

Sept 17 - Correct questions 1-5 p.38. Discuss Reading. Online Grammar Lessons 15 - 16. Read: The Man in the Water by Roger Rosenblatz. Answer discussion questions 1-7.

Sept 20 - Correct The Man in the Water discussion questions. Online Grammar 17-18. Assign: pp. 43-54 The Medieval Period. Take notes.

Sept 21 - Assign: pp. 43-54 The Medieval Period. Take notes. Answer questions 1-10 p.54. Online Grammar Lessons 19 & 20

Sept 22- Grammar Quiz Lessons 11-20. Correct questions 1-10 p.54. Discuss Reading.

Sept 23 - Sutherland lecture "Chaucer-Social Diversity" with handout. Assign: pp. 55-65 Chaucer bio and Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (up to Merchant). Log a summary of each character. Online Grammar Lessons 21-22.

Sept 24 - Assign: pp. 65-70 Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Merchant-Wife of Bath). Log a summary of each character.  Collect notes- Medieval Period.  Online Grammar Lessons 25 - 26 

Sept 27 - Sutherland lecture "Chaucer-A Man of Unusual Cultivation" with handout. Assign: pp. 70-79 Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Parson-Host). Log a summary of each character.  Online Grammar Lessons 27 - 28 

Sept 28 -Discuss Prologue.     Online Grammar Lessons 29 - 30 

Sept 29 - Finish Prologue.  Online Grammar quiz Lessons 21-30. Online Grammar Lessons 31 - 32 .

Sept 30 - Quiz on Prologue. Assign pp.81-87 The Pardoner's Tale. Answer questions 1-5 Analyzing and Interpreting the poem p.87.    Online Grammar Lessons 33-34

Oct 1 - Correct questions 1-5 Analyzing and Interpreting the poem p.87. Answer Reading Check Questions 1-5. Discuss Reading. Assign pp.89-96 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Answer questions 1-3 Analyzing and Interpreting the poem p. 96.    Online Grammar Lessons 35-36 

Oct 4 - Quiz on reading. Correct questions 1-3 Analyzing and Interpreting the poem p. 96. Discuss Reading. Assign pp. 97-103 Sir Thomas Malory bio and from Morte d'Arthur . Answer questions 1-3 Analyzing and Interpreting the selection p.103.   Online Grammar Lessons 37-38 

Oct 5 - Discuss Morte d'Arthur. Correct Questions.    Online Grammar Lessons 39-40   

Oct 6 - Grammar Quiz Lessons 31-40. Online Grammar Lessons 41 - 42. Watch Sutherland lecture "Low Comedy and Religion" with handout. Answer Quest 1-2.

Oct 7 - Read Everyman with assigned parts in class. Answer questions 1-5 Reading Check p.121. Online Grammar Lessons 43-44

Oct 8 - Finish reading Everyman. Answer questions 1-4 Analyzing and Interpreting the Play p.121. Online Grammar Lessons 45-46

Oct 11 - Correct Question 1-5 and questions 1-4 Analyzing and Interpreting the Play p.121.  Assign: Read Renaissance section pp 127-148. Take Notes. Online Grammar Lessons 47-48

Oct 12 - Introduce Paragraph on Anglo Saxon/Medieval lit. Assign: Read Renaissance section pp 127-148. Take Notes. Online Grammar Lessons 49-50.

Oct 13 - Read Renaissance section pp 127-148. Take notes Online Grammar Quiz Test 41-50. Online Grammar Lessons 51-52.

Oct 14 - Read Renaissance section pp 127-148. Take notes .   Work on Intro Paragraph-Due Oct 18. Online Grammar Lessons 53-54

Oct 15 - Test on Renaissance. Collect notes. Correct. Work on Paragraph.  Online Grammar Lessons 55-56

Oct 18 - Read "The Sonnet" p152-153. and Sonnet Worksheets. Read Sir Philip Sidney pp 158-159 in class. Assign: Sonnet 31 & 39 questions p 160. Turn in Intro Paragraph Anglo Saxon/Medieval Lit. for peer review. Online Grammar Lessons 57-58. 

Oct 19 - Correct Questions p.160. Assign: Marlowe and Raleigh pp. 161-162. Questions p 163. Online Grammar Lessons 59-60. Paper- Intro Paragraph Due

Oct 20 - .Correct questions p. 163.  Online Grammar Test 51-60.Work on Sonnet Worksheets.

Oct 21-22 - MEA Break

Oct 25 - Assign Shakespeare pp 164-168. Sonnets 29, 30, 73,  116 and 130.  Assign Body of Anglo Saxon/Medieval Lit.paper.   October 29 for peer review. Online Grammar 61-62.

Oct 26 - Discuss Sonnets' questions p.169. Correct and turn in  Sonnet worksheets.  Do creative writing exercise p. 169 (Sonnet Writing). Your Sonnet is due November 5. Online Grammar 63-64.

Oct 27 - Sutherland lecture " Shakespeare the Man - Road to the Globe" with handout. Answer question 1 & 2.  Read Shakespeare's Theater pp. 174-177. Work on Body of paragraph or Sonnet . Online Grammar 65-66.

Oct 28 - Turn in lecture questions. Workday for body of Anglo Saxon/Medieval paper and Sonnet.  Online Grammar 67-68.

Oct 29 -   Peer review Body of Paper (Anglo Saxon/Medieval Lit). Sutherland lecture "Shakespeare - The Mature Years" with handout. Questions 1-2 p 50. Online Grammar 69-70.

Nov 1  -  Quiz on Shakespeare's theater. Body of Paper (Anglo Saxon/Medieval Lit) due.  Grammar Quiz 61-70. Online Grammar 71-72.

Nov 2 -    Concluding paragraph (Anglo Saxon/Medieval Lit) work day and peer review. Online Grammar 73-74.

 Nov 3 - Concluding Paragraph (Anglo Saxon/Medieval Lit) due. Begin Oral Reading of Macbeth in class through Act 1 Scene 4. Concluding Paragraph (Anglo Saxon/Medieval Lit) due. Hand out Macbeth Study Guide. Online Grammar 75-76.

Nov 4 -. Finish reading Act I.. Online Grammar 77-78. Hand back concluding paragraph

Nov 5 - Online Grammar 79-80.  Watch Macbeth Act One and follow along with book. Correct Study Guide Questions for Act I. Test Act I.

Nov.9 - Testing no class

Nov 10 -   Online Grammar Quiz 71-80 Read original text Act II. Online Grammar 81-82.

Nov 11 - Finish reading Act II. Answer Reading Check Questions 1-10 p. 208. Online Grammar 83-84.

Nov 12 - Watch Macbeth Act II and follow along in the Book..  Online Grammar 85-86.

Nov 15 - Watch Macbeth Act II and follow along in the Book.. Correct Question 1-10 p208. Discuss Study Guide Questions Act II. Test Act II. Read Act III. Online Grammar 87-88.

Nov 16 - Online Grammar 89-90. Finish reading Act III. Answer Reading Check Questions 1-10 p.223.

Nov 17 - Online Grammar Test 81-90. Watch MacBeth Act III and following along with Book.  .Online Grammar 91-92.
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Nov 18 -  Watch MacBeth Act III and following along with Book. Correct Questions 1-10 p223.Discuss Study Guide Questions Act III. .  Online Grammar 93-94.

Nov 19 - Test Act III. Read Act IV.  Online Grammar 95-96.

Nov  22- . Finish reading Act IV. Discuss Study Guide Questions. Answer Reading Check Questions 1-5 p. 238. Watch MacBeth Act IV and following along with Book.  Online Grammar 97-98.

Nov 23 -  Finish watching Act IV. Correct Questions 1-5 p. 238. Test Act IV. Online Grammar 99-100.

Nov 24-28 - Thanksgiving break.

Nov 29 -  Read Act V. Reading Check Questions p 249 1-10.

Nov 30 - Watch Act V. Correct Questions 1-10. Online Grammar Test 91-100. Online Grammar 101-102.

Dec 1 - Watch Act V. Online Grammar 103-104.

Dec 2 - Finish watching Act V. Test Act V. Review Sheets hand outs.  Online Grammar 105-106.

Dec 3 - Final on Macbeth. Correct test.

Dec 6 -  In class readings of Macbeth.  Discuss writing assignments on one question from p 250, 255, or, 257. Read Francis Bacon pp. 258-260. Assign" Analyzing and Interpreting the Essay, questions 1-2. Online Grammar 107-108.

Dec 7 - Correct Questions 1-2. Read The Jacobean Age - The Metaphysical Poets p.263. Assign John Donne 264-270. p.265 Questions 1-3, p.270 Questions 1-3. Online Grammar 109-110.

Dec 8 - Correct Questions, Discuss The Metaphysical Poets p.263,  John Donne 264-270. p.265 Questions 1-3, p.270 Questions 1-3. Online Grammar Test 101-110

Dec 9 - Discuss A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning. Read Meditation 17 in-class. Online Grammar 111-112.

Dec 10 - In-class open book quizzes on A Valediction and Meditation 17. Online Grammar 113-114.

Dec 13 - Macbeth paper due. Read p 282-286 Ben Johnson. Answer p. 286 questions 1-3 (On My First Son), questions 1-3 (Son:To Celia), questions 1-2 (To the Memory of My Beloved Shakespeare), and questions 1-2 (It Is Not Growing Like a Tree). Online Grammar 115-116

Dec 14 - Correct Questions. Puritan Age. Read 301-302 John Milton and 305 -314 From Paradise Lost. Answer p. 314 Analyzing and Interpreting the Selection Questions 1-4. Online Grammar 117-118

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Dec 15 - Quiz. Correct Questions. Read 318-322 John Bunyan, From the Pilgrim's Progress. Answer p. 322 Analyzing and Interpreting the Selection. Questions 1-4. Online Grammar 119-120

Dec 16 -Quiz. Correct Questions. Online Grammar 121-122

Dec17 - Read 327-347 Outline. Online Grammar 123-124 Online Grammar Test 111-120.

Dec 20 - Finish Outline. Online Grammar 125-126

Dec 21 - Finish Outline Online Grammar 127-128

Dec 22 -   Online Grammar 129-130

Jan 3 - Test using outline. Turn in outlines. Read 358-365 Samuel Pepys, From The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Answer p. 365 Analyzing and Interpreting the Selection. Questions 1-2.

Jan 4 - Correct Questions 1-2. Read 366-371 Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year. Answer p. 371 Analyzing and Interpreting the Selection. Questions 1-2. Online Grammar Test 121-130

Jan 5 -. Answer questions. Read pp. 372-374
Johnathan Swift, From Gullivers Travels. Answer p. 381 Analyzing and Interpreting the Selection. Questions 1-4.

Jan 6- Quiz on A Journal of the Plague Year . Read pp. 374-380 Johnathan Swift, From Gullivers Travels. Answer p. 381 Analyzing and Interpreting the Selection. Questions 1-4. Online Grammar 131-132

Jan 7 - Quiz on Gullivers Travels. Correct questions p.381. Read pp. 382-388 Johnathan Swift, A Modest Proposal. Do Worksheet. Start Journal. (1 week). You will be responsible for writing a journal for 1 week and will turn in on Jan 14. Online Grammar 133-134

Jan 10 -Correct worksheet on a Modest Proposal. Read pp. 419-424. Samuel Johnson. "Letter to Lord Chesterfield"-"Definition's from Johnson's Dictionary" - "Preface to Shakespeare" Answer p. 424 Analyzing and Interpreting the Selection. Questions 1-3. Online Grammar 135-136

Jan 11 - Correct Questions 1-3. Read "The Romantic Age 1798-1832" 455-472 Outline. Online Grammar 137-138

Jan 12 - Read "The Romantic Age 1798-1832" 455-472 Outline. Online Grammar 139-140

Jan 13 - Read "The Romantic Age 1798-1832" 455-472 Outline. Online Grammar Test 131-140

Jan 14 -Notes on the Romantic Age. Journals due.

Jan 17 -Test on The Romantic Age using notes. Collect notes. Read Flower's for Algernon. Do Study Guide.

Jan 18 -  Read Flower's for Algernon. Do Study Guide.

Jan 19 - Correct Study Guide. Watch Charlie.

Jan 20 - Watch Charlie

Jan 21 - Quiz. Watch Charlie.

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Lesson Plan - Exploring Religious Violence and Persecution in 16th Century Europe
16th century Europe was torn apart by religious violence and warfare. This lesson gives students visuals to make this violence more concrete. It asks them to write a story about what they have seen.
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