English IV AP
Lesson Plans
*Please note that as with any lesson plans, I will do my best to make sure that we stay on target, however, things will come up that I have no ability to effect. These plans are just to help you guys that will be out quite a bit during the year.
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Week 3 (September 5 – 9, 2011)
Monday 9.5.11
*Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday 9.6.11
*Edgar Allan Poe Analysis due
*discuss and model TPCASTT with “The Whipping”
*hand out poetry responses and discuss
Wednesday 9.7.11
*computer lab
Thursday, 9.8.11
*background discussion of Medieval Ballads
*read “Lord Randall,” “The Unquiet Grave,” “Barbara Allan,” “Get Up and Bar the Door”
*TPCASTT for homework / 2 typed responses concerning Medieval Ballads (due Monday)
Friday, 9.9.11
*College Admissions Essay due
*TPCASTT due
*background of John Donne
*read “No Man is an Island,” “Holy Sonnet 10,” “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
*TPCASTT for homework / 2 typed responses concerning Donne (due Monday)
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Week 4 (September 12 – 16, 2011)
Monday, 9.12.11
*first four poetry responses due (Medieval / Donne)
*Donne TPCASTT due
*discuss Robert Herrick
*read “Divination,” “Upon Love,” “To the Virgins”
*TPCASTT for homework / 2 poetry responses of Herrick’s due Friday
Tuesday, 9.13.11
*discuss Emily Dickinson’s biography
Wednesday, 9.14.11
*read #480, 88, 324, 712, 341, 1462, 478, 340, “Emily Dickinson’s To Do List”
*TPCASTT for homework / 2 poetry responses of Dickinson’s due Friday
Thursday, 9.15.11
*discuss Robert Frost’s biography
*read “The Road Not Taken,” “Flower Gathering,” “Fire and Ice”
Friday, 9.16.11
*turn in 4 poetry responses for the week (Herrick / Dickinson)
*read “The Impulse,” “Into My Own,” “Revelation,” “Acquainted with the Night”
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Week 5 (September 19 – 23, 2011)
Monday 9.19.11
*continue Robert Frost
*read “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Out, Out-“
*TPCASTT for homework / 2 Frost poetry responses due next Monday
*read Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”
Tuesday, 9.20.11
*discuss Elizabeth Bishop
*read “One Art,” “First Death in Nova Scotia”
*TPCASTT for homework / 2 poetry responses from Bishop and / or Roethke due next Monday
Wednesday, 9.21.11
*discuss Robert Burns
*read “Red, Red Rose,” “To a Mouse,” “Auld Lang Syne,” “A Man’s a Man for a’ That,” “Mother”
*TPCASTT for homework / 2 poetry responses from Burns due next Monday
Thursday, 9.22.11
*Drill and Kill #1
*begin background discussion of Geoffrey Chaucer and Medieval Times
Friday, 9.23.11
*Drill and Kill #2
*Introduction to “The Canterbury Tales”
*start reading the Prologue p. 102 – 123
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Week 6 (September 26 – 30, 2011)
Monday, 9.26.11
*continue reading Prologue and finish
*introduce the Pardoner and his role
*begin reading
Tuesday, 9.27.11
*continue reading The Pardoner’s Tale p. 126 -131
*discuss
Wednesday, 9.28.11
*read The Miller’s Tale in class together
Thursday, 9.29.11
*complete reading The Miller’s Tale
*essay to assign and wrap up for homework
Friday, 9.30.11
*introduction to “Beowulf” p. 22
*begin reading p. 24 – 52