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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.