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English Lit. Honors
First Quarter
Wednesday, August 20 (1/2 Day)—Introductions/ Questionnaire/ Summer reading
Thursday, August 21—Class Expectations/ Discuss essay/ Explain seminar
Friday, August 22—Room 149 In-class essay (my wife’s b-day on Sunday—remind me to color a card for her or
something while you guys work your tails off)
Monday, August 25—Anglo-Saxon/ Beowulf background
Tuesday, August 26—Summer novel seminars
Wednesday, August 27— Start Beowulf; p.27-44
Thursday, August 28— p.44-63
Friday, August 29— p.74-94
Tuesday, September 2—Test
Wednesday, September 3— Middle English Literature (14th/15th Centuries) Intro/ Arthurian Legend
Thursday, September 4— Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part 1 (p.119-131)
Friday, September 5— Part 2 (p.131-144)
Monday, September 8— Part 3 (p.145-162); Assign essay
Tuesday, September 9— Part 4 (p.162-173); Finish Gawain; Start Sir Thomas Malory; Read
Morte Darthur for Monday
Wednesday, September 10 (late start)— Department grammar test
Thursday, September 11— Chaucer/ Canterbury Tales Intro; Read “The General Prologue”/ Complete WS for
Tuesday, September 16 ; Assign group work; Read Morte Darthur for Monday
Friday, September 12— Morte Darthur discussion / Archetype and motif discussion; Essay due
Monday, September 15— Arthurian Legend Test
Tuesday, September 16— Discuss “General Prologue”/ Collect WS
Wednesday, September 17 (late start)— Project time/ Vocab # 1 and 2
Thursday, September 18— Finish discussion/ Vocab #3 Ex I and III and #4 Ex I
Friday, September 19— Renaissance (16th century)/ Shakespeare intro
Monday, September 22— Finish Shakespeare; Macbeth Intro
Tuesday, September 23— Vocab #5 Ex I, III, and IV and #6; Pass back work/ discuss essay writing
Wednesday, September 24— “Nun’s Priest”; “The Pardoner”
Thursday, September 25— “Wife of Bath”; “Miller”
Friday, September 26—“Clerk”
Monday, September 29— Canterbury Tales Test
Tuesday, September 30 (Rosh Hashana—off)—
Wednesday, October 1— Vocab Quiz / Macbeth Act I
Thursday, October 2— Macbeth Acts I and II
Friday, October 3— Macbeth Acts II and III
Monday, October 6— Macbeth Act III
Tuesday, October 7— Macbeth Act IV
Wednesday, October 8— Macbeth Act V
Thursday, October 9 (Yom Kippur—off)—
Friday, October 10— Finish Macbeth
Monday, October 13—Test
Tuesday, October 14—Macbeth in-class essay
Wednesday, October 15 (1/2 day)—Sonnet Intro
Thursday, October 16— Sonnets Day 2 (Shakespeare 18, 130 and Spenser 30, 75)
Friday, October 17— Sonnets—339-340 (Wyatt), 343-4 (Earl of Surrey), 444-6 (Sidney), 492-6
(Shakespeare)
Monday, October 20—Sonnet presentations
Tuesday, October 21—Sonnet presentations
Wednesday, October 22—Finish sonnets; Other Renaissance poetry (Marlowe, Spenser, Raleigh)
Thursday, October 23—Finish Renaissance poetry
Friday, October 26— Renaissance poetry test??
Monday, October 29— Hamlet Intro/ Discuss essay writing
Tuesday, October 30— Hamlet Act I