Eng.+12+Jan.+2015

January 2015
 * Jan. 5

Read and annotate p. 237-246, 248-249 from [|Pearson Textbook]

Complete [|Sonnet notes] || Jan. 6

[|Iambic Pentameter]

** Modern Sonnets: ** Read [|Millay Sonnet] and [|respond] to the poem

Continue modern sonnets. Choose one of the following to read and do a similar response:  •[|Robert Frost, //The Oven Bird//] [|•Robert Hayden, //Those Winter Sundays//]  •[|Claude McKay, //If We must Die//]  •[|Edna St. Vincent Millay, //I Shall Forget You//]  •[|Howard Nemerov, //A Primer for the Daily Round//]

Read P. 252 from Pearson Realize (Notes on a Sonnet) || Jan. 7

[|Iambic Pentameter Made Easy :)]

Reading selections from Pearson Realize:

Spenser's and Sidney's Sonnets p. 253-260

P. 264-270 Marlow's and Raleigh's Sonnets

Complete rhyme scheme and meter. Write response as you've done with earlier sonnets. || Jan. 8

[|More Iambic Pentameter]

P. 272-279 Shakespeare's Sonnets (29, 106, 116, 130)

[|List of sonnets] || Jan. 9

Group work with sonnets ||
 * Jan. 12-- Multiple Monday

[|Iambic pentameter help]

Metrical Feet--[|Iamb]

[|Lines using iambic pentameter]

[|"Stopping by The Woods on a Snowy Evening"]

[|Looking at scansion in "The Road Not Taken"]

Sonnet Writing || Jan. 13-- Too Nerdy Tuesday

Sonnet writing || Jan. 14-- Dynamic Duo Wednesday

Sonnet Writing || Jan. 15-- Throwback Thursday

[|The Art of Iambic Pentameter]

[|Chin Trick to Help]

Sonnet Writing || Jan. 16-- School Spirit Friday

Sonnets are due

Discuss [|portfolio]

Review [|Lit. terms] ||
 * Jan. 19


 * Exam Week**

Begin [|portfolio]

Review [|lit. terms] || Jan. 20

Work on [|portfolio] || Jan. 21

Work on [|portfolio] || Jan. 22

[|Portfolio] is due at the end of the hour

Review [|terms] || Jan. 23

Early Release

Lit. Term portion of exam ||
 * Jan. 26

[|Eng. 12 Procedures]

Begin [|Quote Paraphrase #3] || Jan. 27

Finish quote/paraphrase--due Thursday || Jan. 28

Notes on Shakespeare and Hamlet

[|Words Shakespeare Coined]

[|Web Quest] || Jan. 29

Quote/Paraphrase paper is due at the beginning of class

[|Words Shakespeare Coined]

[|Web Quest]

[|Movies based on Hamlet]

[|Motto of The Globe]

[|Will]

Share info. from web quest

If time allows, begin play: Log on to [|Collections] textbook

Use school email as login and owls##### (#=id) || Jan. 30

Read Act I, scene i || media type="custom" key="27121596"