Finals Week Schedule

Semester One Finals Schedule

Block, 12.11 & 12 - Storm's a Comin' (the Hamlet one)

• 3PO
• GUM: None. Rather, hold up your journal so I can do a spot check and we can begin Hamlet. 
• Cont. Hamlet and finish with DVD (Mel Gibson version) beginning at 1:25:00ish or so.
• Final (10% of your semester grade): 
• scantron
• many questions will be from Unit 4: Renaissance and Hamlet (and, of course, Leithart). 
• some will cover Units 2, 3, Sight Words and GUM.
• The essay will be on Hamlet and will count toward your quarter 2 grade. 
• ATTENTION: PLEASE BRING YOUR HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL TO YOUR FINAL, SINCE I'M GOING TO LET YOU USE IT AND THE TEXT TO WRITE YOUR ESSAY

• Final Study Guide
• Unit 2: Anglo-Saxons 
• Unit 3: Middle-Ages
• Unit 4: Renaissance
• Hamlet
• Leithart (study your journals) - those who did a very thorough job on them will be blessed. If you did a cursory job, well, the blessing won't be quite so bounteous ; )
• Sight Words (all)
• In my zeal to finish finals, I made it already, printed it, and forgot to add GUM, so there are NO grammar questions on this semester's final exam ; )
• GUM:
• Clauses - subordinate (or dependent) and independent
• Sentences - simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex
• Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
• Fragments
• Parallel Structure

Wednesday, 12.9 - Yah.

• 3PO
• Turn in your sonnets
• Turnitin ID: 8860899 
• Password: Beowulf
• Hamlet

HW:

1. (block) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5) - see U4: Ren above for link to journal questions (or check Focus)
2. Studying for your final (10% of your semester grade): 
1. scantron
2. many questions will be from Unit 4: Renaissance
3. some will cover Units 2 (Anglo-Saxons), 3 (Middle Ages), Sight Words (all) and GUM.
4. The essay will be on Hamlet and will count toward your quarter 2 grade. 

Tuesday, 12.9 - Crunch Time

• 3PO
• Announcements: 
1. Today is a regular advisory day
2. Please use the U4: Ren (Renaissance) tab above for materials (I finally fixed it).
3. Final (10% of your semester grade): 
1. scantron
2. many questions will be from Unit 4: Renaissance
3. some will cover Units 2, 3, and GUM.
4. The essay will be on Hamlet and will count toward your quarter 2 grade. 
• GUM: 
• EITHER work on your CWP Q2 while I check your journals for Act 3
• OR take this short survey (do this sometime before Friday)
• CWP Q2 Requirements:
1. Artistic copy (original or scanned version of original)
2. Hard copy with attached rubric and name (so I can grade it)
3. Copy submitted to turnitin.com (by the end of the week at the latest)
• Hamlet
• 1 - (3.1.1)
• 2 - (2.2.381)
• 3 - (2.2.240)
• 4 - (2.2.475)
• 5 - (2.2.611)
• 7 - (2.2.445)

HW:

1. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 
1. Artistic copy (original or scanned version of original)
2. Hard copy with attached rubric and name (so I can grade it)
3. Copy submitted to turnitin.com (by the end of the week at the latest)
2. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5) Leithart
1. Here is a link to all of the journals

Monday, 12.8 - More Ham Please

Yo gurl! Got me a headache. Got any Advil?

• 3PO
• GUM: 
• EITHER work on your CWP Q2 while I check your journals for Act 2
• OR take this short survey (do this sometime before Friday)
• Hamlet
• 1 - (2.2.332)
• 2 - (2.2.43)
• 3 - (2.2.84)
• 4 - (2.2.238)
• 5 - (2.2.332)
• 7 - (2.2.224)

HW: 

1. (Tues. 12.9) J - Hamlet (Act 3) Leithart
1. Here is a link to them all
2. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 - Senior Sonnet. Don't forget that there is a fine art component to this (it's art "artistically" presented)
3. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5) Leithart

Block, 12.4 & 5 - Remember me

Horatio, Hamlet, and the Ghost (Artist: Henry Fuseli 1798)

• 3PO
• Unit 4 Quiz
• Hamlet - Where we last left off
• 1 - (1.5.88)
• 2 - (1.4.1)
• 3 - (1.4.1)
• 4 - (1.4.1)
• 5 - (1.4.63)
• 7 - (1.4.1)

HW:

Upcoming Assignments:

1. (Mon. 12.8) J - Hamlet (Act 2)
2. (Tues. 12.9) J - Hamlet (Act 3)
3. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 - Senior Sonnet
4. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5)

Wednesday, 12.3 - Dang, daddy! You scary!

"Dang, daddy, you scary!"

• 3PO
• GUM: Study your Shakespearean Sight Words (left column) for a few minutes before we rock Hamlet, er, before Hamlet rawks us.

• Continue with Hamlet
• P1 (1.3.33) - 28.38
• P2 (1.2.223) - 25.29
• P3 (1.3.1) - 27.14
• P4 (1..3.1) - 27.14
• P5 (1.2.223) - 25.29
• P7 (1.3.1) - 27.14

HW:

1. (Block) Quiz
1. Parallelism
2. Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
3. Hamlet and Leithart

Upcoming Assignments:

1. (Mon. 12.8) J - Hamlet (Act 2)
2. (Tues. 12.9) J - Hamlet (Act 3)
3. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 - Senior Sonnet
4. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5)

Tuesday, 12.2 - Let's finally meet Hamlet . . . the living one ; )

• 3PO
• GUM: Study your Shakespearean Sight Words (left column) or peruse your poem for recitation.
• Finish recitations
• Continue with Hamlet
• P1 (1.2.69) - 16:52
• P2 (1.2.26) - 14:56
• P3 (1.2.26) - 14:56
• P4 (1.2.26) - 14:56
• P5 (1.2.42) - 15:43
• P7 (1.2.26) - 14:56

HW:

1. (Wed) J - Hamlet (Act 1) handwritten in your journal
2. (Block) Quiz
1. Parallelism
2. Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
3. Hamlet and Leithart

Upcoming Assignments:

1. (Mon. 12.8) J - Hamlet (Act 2)
2. (Tues. 12.10) J - Hamlet (Act 3)
3. (Wed. 12.10) CWP Q2 - Senior Sonnet
4. (Block 12.11/12) J - Hamlet (Acts 4-5)

Monday, 12.1 - Omelet (1.2)

• 3PO
• GUM: 
• review for your poetry recitation
• study your Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
• Hamlet cont.
• Journal

HW: 

1. (Wed) Hamlet Journal . . . handwritten in your journal (see below)
2. (Block) Quiz
1. Parallelism
2. Shakespearean Sight Words (left column)
3. Hamlet and Leithart

J - Hamlet, Act 1

Read Leithart (pgs. 120-129) and answer the following questions (Remember that Leithart is the PDF posted on GC that you used to do the first Hamlet journal):

1. What dramatic and thematic purposes does young Fortinbras, the young prince of Norway, serve? 
2. Contrast the late King Hamlet (the ghost) with Claudius (his brother and present King of Denmark).
3. What is significant (and ironic) about fathers, particularly about most of the fathers in this drama?
4. Cite two textual examples of how Shakespeare develops the theme that sometimes appearances mask reality.
5. What is the purpose of Shakespeare's "ghosts"?
6. Discuss the important question concerning the "nature" of the ghost (where it comes from) and how we know. 
7. How was King Hamlet killed? What imagery does the ghost use to describe his death, and why is this (biblically) significant?  

Block, 11.20 - I will enter his courts . . . wearing black

• 3PO
• GUM: Exercise 4 

Hamlet, anyone? Anyone, Hamlet? Hamlet. Hamlet. Omelet.

• "Hamlet . . . stands alone supreme in varied excellence. Ambition, murder, resistless fate, filial love, the love of woman, revenge, the power of conscience, paternal solicitude, infinite jest: what a volume is this!" - Henry Coppee (President of Lehigh University - 1873)
• Shakespearean Sight Words (GC)
• Let the great depression begin! (In other words, let's begin Hamlet)

HW: 

1. Study Sight Words
2. Poetry Recitation (Monday we return from break)

Wednesday, 11.19 - Il Sonetto!

• 3PO

• GUM: Exercise 3: Maintaining Parallel Structure (do the daily ten)

• Sonnets 
• Shakespeare - see "The Sonnet" on GC (or in Notability if you already saved it)
• Sonnets (Renault)
• CWP Q2: Senior Sonnet (GC)
• Assignment
• Sonnet Grid

• Intro Hamlet: Get out a scratch piece of paper ; )

 HW: Journal: Leithart 1 

Tuesday, 11.18 - Shakespeare

• 3PO
• GUM: Spend some time updating your Nails (on the left) and Lit Terms (on the left also). 
• Finish Sonnet notes
• Shakespeare Journals (Leithart)

Journal - Leithart 1 (Intro: Tragedy and Hamlet)

Read Leithart (document posted on GC under Hamlet Docs) pages 111-120 and answer the following questions:

Introduction: Tragedy (111-113) 

1. According to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, what makes a drama a tragedy? 
2. What kind of protagonist is generally required for a successful tragedy and why? 
3. List several of the ways that Shakespearean tragedy differs from Sophoclean (or Greek) tragedy.
4. Given that the shape of Hamlet is a "Fall story," what types of characters, events, and ideas ought we to be looking for as we read?

Introduction: Hamlet (115-120)

5. Why is Hamlet such a popular drama?
6. What are two of the minor textual problems in Hamlet? What is one major problem?
7. Give two examples of the way Hamlet shows signs of compositional unity.
8. Cite two reasons why Leithart considers Hamlet a drama that condemns the revenge ethic.
9. Rather than viewing Hamlet as having "contradictions" and "loose ends," Leithart suggests that Shakespeare was making what profound observation?
10. How is Hamlet healthy reading for those who live in an age "dominated by scientific idolatry"? 

Monday, 11.17 - Shakespeare through "The Sonnet"

• 3PO
• GUM: Exercise 2: Parallel Structure. Please make any corrections to totally jacked-up sentences by writing out the correct version in your journal. Do ten.
• When you finish, please work on your poetry memorization.
• Reno to check HW while you're working on GUM.
• Today we will spend some time looking at a very popular poetic form, the form you have all been demanding that I teach. I have heard your pleas and pleases, and after today I want to hear your "thank yous." Thus I give you a premature "you're welcome" to this blundering in the index to the book and volume of . . . the sonnet.  

• Dig this sonnet flave for a bit: go to GC (Google Classroom)  and open the document entitled "The Sonnet" and read through the first two pages together. Now let's be sure you copy down and define the literary terms on the blog that you will need to know to study the sonnet. Define the terms below and discuss Shakespearean sonnet form using Sonnet 18 on the document you've opened.  
• Sonnet (what is its etymology?)
• Petrarchan (Italian)
• Shakespearean (English)
• quatrain
• octave
• couplet
• volta (the "turn")
• iambic pentameter 
• Here are poetic feet you ought to know 

HW: 

English 4 Course Outline

Quarter 1

• Reading
• Summer: C. S. Lewis' The Great Divorce
• Notes
• Anglo-Saxon Times
• The Middle Ages
• Beowulf, Caedmon's Hymn, "The Seafarer", "The Dream of the Rood”
• Major Writing
• In-Class Essay on The Great Divorce
• Narrative (College Essay)

Quarter 2

• Reading
• Notes
• The Middle Ages
• The Renaissance
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
• The Pardoner's Tale
• Shakespeare: The Tempest
• Renaissance Poets

• Major Writing
• Expository (Literary Analysis)
• Final Exam Essay

Quarter 3

• Reading

• Perrine's Poetry and Some Short Stories
• AP Poetry Passage Response Examples
• Major Readings: Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities

• Writing

• Analysis Essay
• The Poetry Passage Analysis Prompt
• Senior Project
• 
  

• Grammatical Conventions for Poetry Quotation and Analysis

Quarter 4

• Reading

• Perrine's Poetry and Short Stories
• Major Readings: The Importance of Being Earnest, Heart of Darkness, and Lewis or Chesterton (time permitting a third text)  

• Writing

• AP Analysis: All Types
• Grammatical Conventions for AP Test Analysis Writing
• AP Exam
• Semester II Final ICE

Block, 11.13 - Re-naissance (Re-birth)

• 3PO
• GUM: Read these rules on parallelism and then do at least the first ten of the Exercise 1 with a buddy. Please work through the why for each answer.

HW: Begin background on "The Renaissance." Take notes on each bolded section:

• One main sentence
• Two sub points for each section
• Finish for HW

Wednesday, 11.12 - Domesday Exam

• Review for a few moments
• Practice poem
• Domesday Exam, in which your Medieval worth is judged (this is merely a joke; please don't take it too much to heart if you don't do super well).

HW: Relax, especially if you studied for the exam. If you didn't, spend some time stressing that you didn't steward your time ; )

Tuesday, 11.11 - People Get Ready For Your Exam (and Veteran's Day)

• 3PO: 
• Veteran's Day Vid
• Today, spend a few minutes doing a few from each of these exercises just to prepare for tomorrow's exam; do more tonight for review just to make sure:
• Exercise 3 - Finding Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
• Exercise 4 - Fixing Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
• Exercise 7 - Fixing Fragments
• Check Unit 3 - any questions? (review for 10 minutes)
• Collective Essay Steps
• Brainstorm 1: Brainstorm and "textstorm" as many ironies in the story proper (not the prologues) as you can find. Be sure you have recorded the following elements also:
• speaker 
• line number(s) 
• Topic Sentence 1 (provisional): Next, you were supposed to choose several of the best ironies in the story and write one sentence that sums up how the ironies help show the moral of each tale.
• Brainstorm 2: Now, conduct a new brain-textstorm session in which you consider how the character of each storyteller further adds to the irony of each tale. Look at how both direct and indirect characterization adds to the ironic layers (see both general prologue in which Chaucer's narrator describes the character and also the prologue to each tale in which the character introduces the tale). For those doing "The Pardoner's Tale," don't forget the text that concludes the tale, the "outroduction." 
• Topic Sentence 2 (provisional): Again, write another provisional topic sentence that sums up what you might want to most fully communicate with the ironies of this paragraph.
• Final Paragraph: Consider what Chaucer might specifically be satirizing about Medieval life through his character and respective tale.  

HW: Study for Unit 3 Exam

Monday, 11.10 - Sallying Forth

• 3PO
• GUM: Exercise 6 - Fixing Fragments
• Collective Essay - today we begin working on an essay together, boys to do one and girls to do another. Please go to GC (Google Classroom) and see the first installment that awaits you. I will be adding additional requirements as we sally forth to wage war on the essay!
• Collective Essay Steps
• Brainstorm 1: Brainstorm and "textstorm" as many ironies in the story proper (not the prologues) as you can find. Be sure you have recorded the following elements also:
• speaker 
• line number(s) 
• Topic Sentence 1 (provisional): Next, you were supposed to choose several of the best ironies in the story and write one sentence that sums up how the ironies help show the moral of each tale.
• Brainstorm 2: Now, conduct a new brain-textstorm session in which you consider how the character of each storyteller further adds to the irony of each tale. Look at how both direct and indirect characterization adds to the ironic layers (see both general prologue in which Chaucer's narrator describes the character and also the prologue to each tale in which the character introduces the tale). For those doing "The Pardoner's Tale," don't forget the text that concludes the tale, the "outroduction." 
• Topic Sentence 2 (provisional): Again, write another provisional topic sentence that sums up what you might want to most fully communicate with the ironies of this paragraph.
• Final Paragraph: Consider what Chaucer might specifically be satirizing about Medieval life through his character and respective tale.  

HW: Study for your Unit 3 Exam (Middle Ages), which I will give on Wednesday (scantron). Please see Unit 3 tab to prepare for your exam. For GUM, you will be responsible for both Run-Ons (fused sentences and comma splices) and Fragments.

Block, 11.6 & 7 - Pay-Per-View! The Pardoner vs The Wife of Bath!

• 3PO
• GUM: Working with a partner, quietly do Exercise 5 - Fixing Fragments (I know we skipped Exercise 4 (rules for review); if you have the guts, give it a try, or you may work on your poem) while I spot check Journal: "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
• Discuss the journal
• Here are a few extra questions to discuss with your GUM buddy (have something to contribute to class discussion):
1. Is it appropriate for Christians to read something that portrays or alludes to morally reprehensible acts? (Is there a difference between portrayal and allusion?)
2. If no, why not? If yes, should we?
3. Was it a mistake that I had you read "The Wife of Bath's Tale"?
• (If time) Collective Essay: The Canterbury Tales
• Go to Google Classroom and select the appropriate assignment

Wednesday, 11.5 - What Women Want

• 3PO
• GUM: Exercise 3 - Fragments
• Who you gonna marry, gentlemen?
• Journal: "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
• Please finish your journal by tomorrow. You have the entire class period to complete it.

HW: Journal: "The Wife of Bath's Tale"

Tuesday, 11.4 - Really, Actually Begin "The Wife of Bath's Tale"

• 3PO
• GUM: Do Exercise 2 - Finding Fragments
• As always, do the first 10. Then do as many as you missed (for instance, if you missed three, then do three more; if you miss one of those three, do one more).
• Keep track of your original score in your journal (?/10)
• Extended Chapel Today: seniors, you may choose one of the two options below

• Story Time with Schwager (HS Gym Lobby)
• Religion Ain't My Thang - Reflections on Prayer (Wrestling Room)
• "The Pardoner's Tale" - finish discussing journal questions
• "The Wife of Bath's Tale" - New groups to read story and do journal questions

HW: Journal: The Wife of Bath's Tale (due block)

Monday, 11.3 - The Wife of Bath's Tale

• 3PO
• GUM: Do Exercise 1 on Fragments.
• Discuss Journal: "The Pardoner's Tale"
• Begin/continue reading "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and doing the journal questions at the bottom of the page. 

HW: 

• Take a look at your answer to journal questions 8 and the first question of 11 on irony and moral. With a neighbor, discuss and together write one general statement that you believe might sum up what the Pardoner is doing through the different examples of irony through his tale. Pretend you are writing a topic sentence for a body paragraph of an essay. Begin like this: Throughout his tale, Chaucer's Pardoner uses irony to show _____________________________________. 

Block, 10.30 & 31 - WOB

• 3PO

• GUM: Review for your quiz

• Unit 3 Quiz
• When you finish, twiddle your thumbs or write a sonnet ; ) 

• "The Pardoner's Tale" - in your groups formed yesterday, finish reading the tale and answering the questions in your paper journal. 
• When your group is finished, then begin reading and answering the questions to "The Wife of Bath's Tale."
• We will discuss "The Pardoner's Tale" questions when everyone is finished.

• "The Wife of Bath's Tale" - in your same group, read and answer the questions at the bottom of the story. Enjoy!

Wednesday, 10.29 - The Pardoner's Tale

• 3PO

• GUM: with a buddy next to you, do the first ten sentences in Exercise 5, Fixing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.

• Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale"
• In groups of four, read the selection; then do Journal: The Pardoner's Tale, which you can find on The Canterbury Tales page at the bottom of your reading selection.

HW: Prepare for your quiz on block day. 

1. Comma splices and fused sentences
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and its literary terms
• feudalism
• chivalry
• courtly love
• medieval romance 
• symbol
• juxtaposition (and mirror passage)

 

Tuesday, 10.28 - Finish Ye General Prologue

Seniors in HS Gym

• 3PO

• Extended Chapel
• Seniors are in the HS Gym for "Musical Worship Experiences"

• GUM: Comma splices and fused sentences: Exercise 4 
• As usual, in your journal please keep track of your score out of ten (?/10). If you are getting anything below 8/10, please do additional sentences for each exercise, get an explanation, and come in for help (if you're extremely lost). Humble thyself in the sight of your teacher, and he will lift you up.

• Chaucer: finish Prologue

HW: Quiz on blawke daye

Monday, 10.27 - Characterizing Chaucer's Characters' Characterization

• 3PO

• GUM: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences: Exercise 3
• Do the first 10 and keep track of your scores in your journal.

• Chaucer: take notes on each character, asking, "What is Chaucer conveying about the tendencies of each medieval class through his characterization of each particular character?"
• Unit 3 tab 
• The Canterbury Tales
• Prologue

HW: Be preparing for a quiz on block day

1. Comma splices and fused sentences
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and its literary terms
• feudalism
• chivalry
• courtly love
• medieval romance 
• symbol
• juxtaposition (and mirror passage)

Block, 10.23 & 24 - Severed Heads? Such a Boar!

Sean Connery as the Green K-nig-git . . . post-game show

• 3PO

• GUM: More comma splices and fused sentences: Exercise 2. Keep track of your scores in your journal to track your ability and progress.  Be honest!

 

• "The Boar's Head Carol" (In Honor of King Arthur's Court and a tradition that goes back to Anglo-Saxon times: celebrate Christmas with the "rarest dish in all the land"!)

• The boar's head in hand bear I, 
• Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary. And I pray you, my masters, be merry Quot estis in convivio (Translation: As many as are in the feast)
  
  CHORUS Caput apri defero (Translation: The boar's head I offer) Reddens laudes Domino (Translation: Giving praises to the Lord)
  
  The boar's head, as I understand,
  Is the rarest dish in all this land,
  Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland
  Let us servire cantico. (Translation: Let us serve with a song)
   
  Our steward hath provided this
  In honor of the King of Bliss;
  Which on this day to be served is In Reginesi atrio. (Translation: In the hall of Queen’s [College, Oxford])

• The Gawain Game! Let's see which teams win the extra points and which ones lose their heads! 

• Let's begin Chaucer! (go to the bottom of Unit 3 tab)

Wednesday, 10.22 - Reflecting on Gawain

• 3PO

• GUM: Do these exercises: Comma splices and fused sentences (two types of run-ons)

• In your SGGK groups, please begin to answer the following questions one one piece of paper (Your answers will be due at the end of the period):
• What is the overall "moral" of this tale? Cite two pieces of textual evidence to support your viewpoint. (Consider the three elements vying for Gawain's loyalty: the code of chivalry, courtly love, and God's Word)
• Many stories can be seen through the following biblical lenses:  
• Creation (It's all good!)
• Fall (It's not all good)
• Redemption (God's intervening grace)
• Restoration (It's all good again or better now!).        Do you see SGGK following these biblical contours, these narrative shapes? If so, where would each one be in the narrative? Be prepared to defend your reasoning.

HW: Do the journal on GC (Google Classroom) entitled "Sir Gawain - Personal Reflection"

Tuesday, 10.21 - The Final Showdown

• 3PO

• Extended chapel schedule 

• Take this survey

• GUM: Midevil romances' often concern the supernatural—magic, spells, enchantments, fairy trickery—and
  also cortly love and the proprieties of aristocratic courtship, especially the consequences of arranged marriage and adultery.

• Finish SGGK in groups of four and, if you have time, begin to answer the following question in your journal:
1. What is the overall "moral" of this tale? Cite two pieces of textual evidence to support your viewpoint. (Consider the three elements vying for Gawain's loyalty: the code of chivalry, courtly love, and God's Word)

HW: Finish read SGGK so that you can contribute to your group's discussion tomorrow