Date Assigned/Due Dates:

 

10-18     Quizlet Exam Online - 20 Words from Red Folder; EC: Study and take the exam from someone else's words! 

NOTES:  View the following youtube videos and take notes in your journals.  (due 10-20-17)

Achilles Heel; Iliad Crash Course

 

10-19     Introduction to Greek Drama - discussion of the Youtube videos assigned as homework yesterday.

Read two handouts and complete note sheet (due 10-20-17). 

 

 

10-20     View PPT Presentation - online, take notes in journal, and research main characters in The Iliad (due 10-20-17).  

 

 

Week 9

10-23     Gab and Go Quotation - Analyze the 8 quotations on the back wall in your journals.  Discussion of the 6 major characters in The Iliad.  Mini-Quiz Bowl tournament over material covered.

 

10-24     Complete Mini-Quiz Bowl Tournament over British Romantic and Cavalier Poetry.  HW:  Study the questions at join.quizizz.com , game code 221945.  Due 10-31-17

 

10-25     Read the Intro to Homer on pp. 76-77 of our Houghton Mifflin textbook (use the online version please).  HW: Create a character classification chart in your journals.  Categories should be Character, Greek Trojan or God, and Actions/Characteristics.  Begin adding characters to the chart as you read Book 18, pp. 78-81 for discussion on Monday.  Due 10-30-17.

 

10-26     Early dismissal for PTC.  HW:  Finish reading for yesterday, and complete homework assignments.

 

Week 1, Quarter 2

10-30     The Black Cat - Teach This Poem Assignment  HW:  Albert.io Poetry MC Practice - Birches  (due 11-3-17)

10-31     Intro to Poe video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQOhM6c0-Lo Read The Black Cat - Edgar Allen Poe (short story)  and annotate as we read.  HW:  Watch the following YouTube videos and be prepared to discuss when you come to class tomorrow:   https://www.youtube.com/watchv=9vv8S2K06H8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKN_I6ouswg 
11-1     Read, Discuss, Take Notes - In Class - Poe's story "The Black Cat"

11-2     View and Discuss - Video clips (above) and student created projects of "The Black Cat"     

11-3     Essay Writing: -  Students will compare and contrast the poem to the story of The Black Cat.

 

 

Week 2, Quarter 2

11-6      Finish reading and annotating Oedipus the King together in class.  Essay Conferences.

11-7     Complete a short intro activity to Oedipus Rex.  Visit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX2uxQ0RTgA for a short animated summary of the play.  Read the Short Version together in class - take parts.

Annotate as we read for:  new vocab, metaphors, and symbolism. 

11-8     Continue reading Oedipus in class.  Take notes, list new vocab, find literary elements as we read.

11-9     Myths - Systems of Symbolic Allusion in Poetry - Chapter 22 for our AP text.  Read pages 1007-1011 in class.  Not new vocabulary and definitions in your journals.

11-10    NO CLASS - Veteran's Day Assembly