English 4
Week 1 (8/22-24) | Week 2 (8/27 -8/31) | Week 3 (9/3 -9/7) | Week 4 (9/10-14) | Week 5 (9/17-21) | Week 6 (9/24-28) | Week 7 (10/1- 5) | Week 8 (10/10-13) | Week 9 End 1st (10/15-19) |
Week 10 (10/22 -26) | Week 11 (10/29-11/2) | Week 12 (11/5 -9) | Week 13 (11/12 -16) | Week 14 (11/19-23) | Week 15 (11/26-11/30) | Week 16 (12/3- 12/7) | Week 17 (12/10-14) | Week 18-End 2nd (12/17-21) |
Week 19 (1/2-5) | Week 20 (1/7 -11) | Week 21 (1/14 -18) | Week 22 (1/21 -25) | Week 23 (1/28-2/1) | Week 24 (2/4-8) | Week 25 (2/11 -15) | Week 26 (2/18-22) | Week 27 (2/25-3/1) |
Week 28 (3/4-8) -End 3rd | Week 29 (3/11-15) | Week 30 (3/18-22) | Week 31 (3/25-3/29) | Week 32 (4/1-5) | Week 33 (4/8-12) | Week 34 (4/15 -19) | Week 35 (4/22-4/26) | Week 36 (4/30-5/3) |
Week 37 Last Week (5/6-10) | Standards | Syllabus |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
8-22 | Overview of Expectations | ||
8-23 | Explain the genres of writing. Writing Samples. Brainstorming strategies. | ||
8-24 | Brainstorm one page of favorite summer activity. Start writing rough draft. | Rough Draft will be due on Monday. | |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
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Awareness of overused words | Colored Pens |
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Business Letter Format and Letter of Intent |
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Write rough draft letter of intent |
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Rough draft due on the 30th |
8-30 | Correct rough draft letter of intent | Colored Pens | Final draft due on Sept 4th |
8-31 | No School |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
9-3 | No School | ||
9-4 | Correction of Letters of Intent by Groups | Make Need Corrections on Letter of Intent | |
9-5 | Hand in Letters of Intent. Introduction to Research and Writing | Rookies Guide to Research. | |
9-6 | List of Possible Search Terms for Research Writing | ||
9-7 | Differences in MLA and APA research format. |
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DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
9-10 | Steps in Developing a Research Paper | Page 3 in Text | |
9-11 | Select a Topic; Create a Guiding Statement; Utilize Search Techniques will be discussed in detail. | ||
9-12 | Evaluate Sources; Databases will be discussed in detail. | ||
9-13 | Practice research on the topic "West Nile Disease" answering the question, "How Does One Prevent West Nile?" | Find three articles on Preventing West Nile | |
9-14 | Evaluate the articles for suitability and reliability of information. |
Week 5-Back to Top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
9-17 | Research for Senior Paper | ||
9-18 | Research for Senior Paper | ||
9-19 | Research for Senior Paper | ||
9-20 | Research for Senior Paper | ||
9-21 | Round Robin Writing |
Week 6-Back to Top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
9-24 | Teacher Inservice-No School | ||
9-25 | Students gone to Career Day | ||
9-26 | Research for Senior Paper | ||
9-27 | Round Robin Writing | ||
9-28 | Homecoming |
Week 7-Back to Top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
10-1 | Senior Paper Research | ||
10-2 | Senior Paper Research | ||
10-3 | Organizing Notes; Developing a Thesis Statement | ||
10-4 | Paraphrasing Research | ||
10-5 | Signal Phrase for Citations |
Week 8-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
10-8 | Developing a Thesis Statement | ||
10-9 | Paraphrasing Research | ||
10-10 | Signal Phrase for Citations | ||
10-11 | Formatting the Research Paper | ||
10-12 | Free write-creative |
Week 9-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
10-15 | Gathering Data | ||
10-16 | Paraphrasing Research | Thesis Statement Due | |
10-17 | Signal Phrases | ||
10-18 | Formatting a Paper | ||
10-19 | Starting the Rough Draft |
End of Quarter 1
Week 10-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
10-22 | |||
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10-24 | |||
10-25 | |||
10-26 | No School |
Week 11-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
10-29 | |||
10-30 | |||
10-31 | |||
11-1 | |||
11-2 |
Week 12-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
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Week 13-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
11-12 | Facilitating Research Writing | ||
11-13 | Facilitating Research Writing, Paraphrasing, and Sourcing | ||
11-14 | Facilitating Research Writing, Paraphrasing, and Sourcing | ||
11-15 | Facilitating Research Writing, Paraphrasing, and Sourcing | ||
11-16 | Facilitating Research Writing, Paraphrasing, and Sourcing |
Week 14-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
11-19 | Thanksgiving from a Turkey's Perspective-Creative Writing | ||
11-20 | Finish Thanksgiving Paper | ||
11-21 | No School | ||
11-22 | No School | ||
11-23 | No School |
Week 15-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
11-26 | Facilitating Research Writing, Paraphrasing, and Sourcing | ||
11-27 | Facilitating Research Writing, Paraphrasing, and Sourcing | ||
11-28 | Facilitating Research Writing, Paraphrasing, and Sourcing | ||
11-29 | Facilitating Research Writing, Paraphrasing, and Sourcing | ||
11-30 | Rough Draft Due at the end of hour. |
Week 16-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
12-3 | Works Cited Due | ||
12-4 | Family Description Using Limited Words | ||
12-5 | Hand in Family Writing; Noun and Verb Matching | ||
12-6 | Hand in Noun and Verb Matching Writing by the end of the hour. | ||
12-7 | Alphabet Sentence Writing |
Week 17-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
12-10 | Noun and Verb Matching Writing | ||
12-11 | Finish Noun and Verb Matching Writing | Hand in at the end of the hour. | |
12-12 | Scholarship Essay-Why I deserve a scholarship | ||
12-13 | Finish Scholarship Essay and hand in. | ||
12-14 | Descriptive Writing Assignment |
Week 18-back to top
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
12-17 | Descriptive Writing-Directions to your home | ||
12-18 | Writing conferences on Scholarship Essays | ||
12-19 | Class of 2012-What you need to know when you leave | ||
12-20 | Final Draft of Research Paper | ||
12-21 | Final Draft of directions to your home |
End Quarter 2
End Semester I
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
01-02 | Scholarship Essay Conference and Rewrite | ||
01-03 | Scholarship Essays/Research Final | ||
01-04 | Scholarship Essays/Research Final |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
01-07 | Introduction to British Literature | Literature Book, Pages 4-9 | Select the period of time from the reading that interested you the most. |
01-08 | Comprehension Strategies for Reading British Lit; Exile Reading Introduction; Read "The Seafarer" on pages 15-19 | "The Seafarer" | |
01-09 | Fill in discussion question notes on "The Seafarer" | ||
01-10 | Finish "Seafarer" discussion; Read "The Wanderer" and fill in the discussion questions. | "The Wanderer" | |
01-11 | Discuss "The Wanderer" |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
1-14 | Complete scholarships and essays | ||
1-15 | Complete scholarships and essays | ||
1-16 | Complete scholarships and essays | ||
1-17 | Reading day | ||
1-18 | Ovid and the Far Corners of the Earth Discussion |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
1-21 | No School | ||
1-22 | Ovid and the Far Corners of the Earth discussion; Review for test. | ||
1-23 | Seniors meet with Mr. Reindl | ||
1-24 | Test over exile stories. | ||
1-25 | Introduction of epic stories; Read "Beowulf"-The Wrath of Grendel and complete study guide. |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
1-28 | Small group sharing of "Wrath" information; class discussion of "Wrath" | ||
1-29 | Read and complete study guide on "The Coming of Beowulf" Lines 105-226. | ||
1-30 | Small group discussion followed by class discussion; finish study guide on "The Coming of Beowulf". | ||
1-31 | Small group and class discussion on the second half of "The Coming of Beowulf". | ||
2-1 | No School |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
2-4 | Small group and class discussion on the second half of "The Coming of Beowulf"; Read "The Battle with Grendel". | ||
2-5 | Small group and class discussion on "The Battle with Grendel." | ||
2-6 | No School-Music Contest | ||
2-7 | Read "The Monster's Lair" and design a poster portraying what the lair looks like. | ||
2-8 | Discussion of the "Monster's Lair"; Read "Battle with Grendel's Mother" |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
2-11 | Snow Day | ||
2-12 | Battle with Grendl's Mother-Study Guide and Discussion | ||
2-13 | Continued discussion on Grendl's mother; The Last Battle Study Guide | ||
2-14 | Discussion of the Last Battle | ||
2-15 | The Spoils Study Guide |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
2-18 | Discuss the Spoils and Farewell; revisit study guide questions; test review | ||
2-19 | Test over Beowulf | ||
2-20 | Scholarship essays | ||
2-21 | Essays for Lezlie; scholarships | ||
2-22 | Reading of Gilgamesh and Iliad |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
2-25 | Mr Reindl meets with seniors | ||
2-26 | Discussion of Gilgamesh and Iliad; read the Anglo Saxon Chronicle and the English History | ||
2-27 | Discuss the Anglo Saxon Chronicle and English History | ||
2-28 | Canterbury Tales Lines 1-80; Introduction and the Knight | ||
3-1 | Canterbury Tales and Guided Notes for lines 81-168 |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
3-4 | Discussion of Canterbury Tales Prologue and the Knight | ||
3-5 | NAEP Testing | ||
3-6 | Discussion of the Yeoman, Nun and the Monk; Study Guide for Friar, Cleric, and the Franklin. | ||
3-7 | Discussion of the Friar study guide; Study guide for the working class travelers | ||
3-8 | Writing assignment-What types of pilgrimages do people take today? What is the purpose of these pilgrimages? |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
3-11 | Discussion of the Friar and Working Class Travelers | ||
3-12 | Continued discussion of the Friar; Study Guide for the Woman | ||
3-13 | Discussion of the Woman, Parson and Plowman | ||
3-14 | Discussion of the Woman, Parson and Plowman | ||
3-15 | No School |
End 3rd Quarter
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
3-18 | Complete study guide for the Manciple and Reeve | ||
3-19 | Discussion of the Manciple and Reeve; complete the Summoner study guide | ||
3-20 | Discussion of the Summoner, Pardoner, and Host | ||
3-21 | Continued discussion of the Host; Review for test | ||
3-22 | Canterbury Tales test. |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
3-25 | Correct the Hinky Pink assignment; Overview of the change in national spirit in England; Introduction to "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" | ||
3-26 | Study Guide #1 for Sir Gawain. | ||
3-27 | Discussion of Study Guide #1; Assign study guide #2 | ||
3-28 | Discussion of study guide #2 | ||
3-29 | No School |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
4-1 | No School | ||
4-2 | Sir Gawain Study Guide #2 | ||
4-3 | Discussion of Sir Gawain study guides; Complete study guide #3 | ||
4-4 | Discussion of Sir Gawain #3 | ||
4-5 | Discussion and completions of Sir Gawain #4 |
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DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
4-8 | Finish Sir Gawain Study Guide #3 | ||
4-9 | Vocabulary and Writing Activity; Sir Gawain Study Guide #4 | ||
4-10 | Discussion of Study Guide #4 | ||
4-11 | Review for Sir Gawain Test | ||
4-12 | Test over Sir Gawain |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
4-15 | Test over Sir Gawain | ||
4-16 | Reading Day and Scholarship Work Day | ||
4-17 | Morte de Arthur Reading | ||
4-18 | Morte de Arthur Reading | ||
4-19 | Morte de Arthur Reading |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
4-22 | No School | ||
4-23 | Finish Morte de Arthur | ||
4-24 | Reading Day | ||
4-25 | Reading Day | ||
4-26 | Video-Macbeth |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
4-29 | Macbeth Video | ||
4-30 | Macbeth Video | ||
5-1 | Assign Macbeth Work Groups-Play | ||
5-2 | Senior Project Work Day | ||
5-3 | Macbeth Work Groups-Play |
DATE | LESSON | NOTES | ASSIGNMENT |
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End Quarter 4
End 2nd Semester