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September 2011
Monday
English 2 Honors—Mrs. Harris
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
(29)
Allusions Test
HW: Introduce yourself
journal
(30)
Introduce Bradbury’s
Fahrenheit 451
Read article about
censorship
(31)
Class: Short Story “Harrison
Bergeron”
1 – ASSEMBLY: Stadium
Overview of style analysis
2–
DIDLS—diction in Hughes’s
“Cross” and Graves’s “The
Naked and the Nude”
5
6–
Quiz: Part 1, F451
Discuss Part 1, F451
7
DIDLS—Review diction for
“The Naked and the Nude,”
Imagery in Beck’s “Loser”
8 – PLC Schedule
DIDLS— Cure’s “Lullaby,”
Big Country’s “Somebody
Else,” Hughes’s “Dream
Deferred,” and Hughes’s
“Preference”
9–
Review tone words
DIDLS—Ben Folds Five’s
“Brick”
12 –
Quiz: Part 2, F451
DIDLS—Ben Folds Five’s
“Brick,” TP-CASTT & sample
essay for Offspring’s “The
Kids Aren’t Alright”
13
Discuss Part 2, F451
14
DIDLS chart for Dove’s
“Flash Cards” DUE
Work on Dove’s “Flash
Cards”Style Analysis Essay
15 Work on Dove’s “Flash
Cards”Style Analysis Essay
16 –
Dove’s “Flash Cards” Style
Analysis Essay Final Draft
DUE
Diction in Shakespeare’s
“When my love swears…”
19 –
Quiz: Part 3, F451
Discuss Part 3, F451
20
Discuss and revise “Flash
Cards” essay
21 Back to School Night
22 – Homecoming Walk, Lunch
Work on F451 Style
analysis essay
Work on F451 Style
analysis essay
27 – Student Senate, 3rd
28
29 – ASSEMBLY: Stadium
23
F451 Style Analysis Essay
Final Draft DUE
DIDLS—Death Cab for
Cutie’s “What Sarah Said,”
Editors’s “Smokers Outside
the Hospital Doors”
30 – Homecoming Game
(Dance Sat., 8-11, Quad)
Chopin’s “Story of an Hour”
(foreshadowing, irony,
characterization, style)
Valenzuela’s “The Censors”
(plot, point of view,
characterization, irony,
theme)
“The Censors” in-class
essay rough draft
NO SCHOOL
Writing theme statements
Draft theme statements for
F451
26
All F451 Notes and DIDLS
classwork DUE
Literary Terms: Plot, Point
of View, Character, Irony,
Theme
“The Censors” in-class
essay final draft DUE
October 2011
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3
4
5
6 – PLC
7
Preview the Oedipus myth
& read Oedipus
Discuss and revise “The
Censors” essay
Read Oedipus in class;
focus on irony
Discuss Greek Theatre
& Greek Tragedy
Read Oedipus in class
10
11
12
13 –
14—PSAT, Sat. (Oct. 15)
Read Oedipus in class
Benchmark Writing Exam
(short story analysis)
Benchmark Writing Exam
(short story analysis)
PSAT practice
PSAT practice
17
Literary Criticism:
Introduction to Freud
(Oedipus Complex; levels
of consciousness; psychosexual stages of
development)
24
18
19
Mrs. Harris Out (grading
writing benchmark)
20 – PLC
21
Read Antigone in class
Test on literary terms
Read Antigone in class
Discuss Kohlberg’s levels of
moral development
25 – Student Senate, 3rd
26
27 –
28
Read Antigone in class
Read Antigone in class
Review for Greek Drama
Test
Greek Drama Test—Part 1
Multiple Choice/Short
Answer
31
Autobiographical Narrative
Samples
(1) –
Autobiographical Narrative
Brainstorming &
Prewriting
(2) –
Autobiographical Narrative
Rough Draft DUE
Revising Leads
(3) –
Finish Autobiographical
Narrative
Greek Drama Test—Part 2
Essay—Tragic Hero &
Theme
All Greek Drama
Classwork/Notes DUE
(4)
End of 1st Quarter
Read Antigone in class
Autobiographical
Narrative Final Draft DUE