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Course Name: Senior Honors English
Faculty Name: Mrs. King, Ms. Greenberg, Mrs. Jaffe
Assignments Due: Grade 12 Honors Assignment Sheet for Jaffe: 11/13-12/1 11/10: Hand in papers. Begin Metaphysical Poets. “To His Coy Mistress” in class. For 11/13: Read “The Sun Rising” and answer the study questions. Also, read “The Good Morrow” and “Song.” For 11/14: Read “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and answer questions. Do “The Flea” in class. For 11/15: Read the three sonnets “Death”; “At the round earth”; “If poisonous minerals” and answer study questions. For 11/16: Read Herbert’s “Redemption”; “Easter Wings”; “The Collar.” For 11/17: NO SCHOOL. For Mon., 11/20: Write exegesis (750-1000 words). You may choose any one of these three poems: “The Canonization”; “The Anniversarie”; “A Valedcition: Of Weeping.” Read in class: “Love” For Tuesday: Introduce Jane Eyre. Paper due. THANKSGIVING For 11/27, Monday: Read JE chapters 1-4. Quiz in class. For 11/28: chapters 5-7 For 11/29: chapters 8-10 For 11/30: 11-12 For 12/1: quest on chapters 1-12, pp.1-100 Grade 12 English Assignments September October November 2006 Greenberg DUE DATES IN BOLD
T Sept 26: College essay due. In class, Act I, scene 2.
W Sept 27: Act I, scenes 2 & 3
Th Sept 28: Act I, scenes 4 & 5
F Sept 29: Act I assessment
M Oct 2: No school; no homework. Encouraged, but not required: film. See below. Pick a paper topic to trace as we read.
T Oct 3: In class, start Act II
W Oct 4: Act II
Th Oct 5: Act II
F Oct 6: Act II assessment.
M Oct 9: Long weekend. No school Monday, but there IS homework: See Hamlet film – now required if you didn’t get to it earlier. We recommend either Mel Gibson version (more accessible) or Kenneth Branagh (more true to the play itself, but longer). Both are long. Read Act III, scene 1-2
T Oct 10: Act III., scene 3-4
W Oct 11: Finish Act III
Th Oct 12: Finish discussion on Act III and begin work on scene performances in class.
F Oct 13: Work on scene performances in class and over the weekend..
M Oct 16: Scene performances begin today. Hand in your written analysis of the scene – counts as Act III assessment.
T Oct 17: Act IV, scenes 1, 2, & 3.
W Oct 18: Act IV, scenes 4 & 5
Th Oct 19: Act IV, scenes 6 & 7
F Oct 20: Act V, scene 1.
M Oct 23: Finish Act V.
T Oct 24: Finish discussion of the play
W Oct 25: Act IV and V Test
Th Oct 26: Outline paper, write first paragraph with thesis
F Oct 27: First two pages of paper due
M Oct 30: Bring completed rough draft to class – 2 copies.
T – F Nov 3: Paper consultations
M Nov 6: Paper due
Jaffe’s Grade 12 English Assignments September October November 2006
DUE DATES IN BOLD
Mon Sept 25: Modest Proposals in class
T Sept 26: College essay due. Work on essays in class. Begin discussion of play.*
W Sept 27: Know story of Hamlet for detailed quiz
Th Sept 28: Act I, scene 1
F Sept 29: scenes 1 and 2
M Oct 2: No school; no homework. We will finish Act I in class. You are encouraged, but not required, to see Hamlet on film. See below. Pick a paper topic to trace as we read.
T Oct 3: 3 and 4 in class
W Oct 4: scene 5
Th Oct 5: Act I assessment
F Oct 6: Act II, scene 1
M Oct 9: Long weekend. No school Monday.. See Hamlet film – now required if you didn’t get to it last week. We recommend either Mel Gibson version (more accessible) or Kenneth Branagh (more true to the play itself, but longer). Both are long.
T Oct 10: scene 2
W Oct 11: Act II assessment
Th Oct 12: scene 1
F Oct 13: scene 2
M Oct 16: scenes 3 and 4
T Oct 17: Act III assessment
W Oct 18: Act IV, scenes 1-4
Th Oct 19: scenes 5
F Oct 20: scenes 6 and 7 Assign scenes for performance.*
M Oct 23: Act IV assessment
T Oct 24: Act V, scene 1
W Oct 25: scene 2
Th Oct 26: work on scenes in class.
F Oct 27: Act V assessment
M Oct 30: Performances
T Oct 31: Performance
Wed – Fri Paper consultations
November 6: Hand in paper.
Hamlet is a kind of play popular in the Elizabethan Age called a revenge tragedy. The story is not original with Shakespeare. He borrowed it from a Danish historian called Saxo Grammaticus.
*You may choose from any of the scenes listed below. Each person should have a part; those with the smallest parts should be responsible for props and costumes. You are expected to familiarize yourself with the lines so that you can act the scene without your face in the book. The most important preparation for your role will be ensuring that you understand the lines. The boldfaced scenes are the ones that both classes must do.
1) IV. 5. 22-74 (Queen, Ophelia, King)
2) IV. 5.114-228 (Laertes, King. Ophelia)
3) V.1.1-55 (two clowns)
4) V.1.87-183 (Hamlet and clown)
5) V. 1.305-296 (Hamlet, Laertes, Queen)
6) V.2.263-370 (King, Hamlet, Laertes, Osric)
Grade 12 Standard and Honors Assignments: jaffe/deluca/greenberg 9/7-
Thursday, 9/7: expectations; college essays (due Friday); assignment sheets
Friday, 9/8: college essay with eight copies and code names included (use question from common application); assign 1984 and Dr. Strangelove groups*
Monday, 9/11 and Tuesday, 9/12: work in class on group presentations
Wednesday, 9/13 and Thursday, 9/14: class presentations
Friday, 9/15: read Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language”
Monday, 9/18: open-note assessment on summer book and film
Tuesday, 9/19: Read Swift’s “Modest Proposal” and answer study questions
Wed., 9/20: Read modern “modest proposal”
Thursday, 9/21: Start work on your own modest proposal in small groups and write out what you propose, why, and how (using Swift’s essay as your model); 500 words should suffice.
Friday, 9/22: Read aloud student modest proposals.
Monday, 9/25: Read a detailed plot summary of Hamlet and prepare for quiz on plot.
PRESENTATION TOPICS: You should apply your topic to both the book and the film, using quotations (at least 3) from the book and clips (at least 2) from the film. You must provide hand-outs for every member of the class. Your first step should be to break each topic down into sub-categories with assignments for each member of the group. Then you are 1) to explain how each topic is relevant to the book and the film 2) to discuss the thematic significance of the topic 3) to bring in contemporary examples.
1) language: its use, its abuse; how it reflects the values of a society etc.
2) political systems: totalitarianism, fascism, imperialism etc.
3) individual rights: privacy, relationships, family, romance etc.
4) torture: physical/psychological; fear; manipulation etc.
Grade 12 Assignment Sheet: Jaffe/King/Greenberg
for Wed., 10/19: read Act I, scene 1 and Mrs. Jaffe’s class should know plot outline of play for quiz
for Thursday: (Jaffe: quiz) scene 2
for Friday: scene 3
for Monday: scene 4 and 5 and see movie (we recommend Mel Gibson version)
for Tuesday: honors should do a paraphrase of Hamlet’s soliloquy, 1, 2, 131-161
standard should paraphrase same speech through line 148
for Wednesday: Act I Test
for Thursday: Act II, scene i and ii up until the entrance of Hamlet
for Friday, October 28th: Parents” Day: read scene ii until the entrance of the players
for Monday, the 31st: finish act 2
for Tuesday: review for Act II Test
for Wednesday: Act II Test
for Thursday: read 3,1 and paraphrase “to be or not to be” soliloquy
for Friday: read 3,2
for Monday, November 7: 3,3
for Tueday, 3,4
for Wednesday: Act III Test
for Thursday: Act IV, scenes 1-4
for Friday the 11th: finish Act IV
for Monday the 14th: Act V, scene 1
for Tuesday: finish Act V
for Wednesday: Test on Acts IV and V
Start write long paper. Conferences on Thursday and Friday.
November 22nd: PAPER IS DUE (Your paper must be handed in before you leave for Thanksgiving break, and we will exact late penalties for any paper that comes in over break or after break!)
Grade 12 Assignments: Jaffe/Greenberg/King 10/3-10/17
October 3rd: Hand in college portfolios. Begin Chaucer in class. We will be reading aloud the first 18 lines every day in Middle English, and you will be required to recite those lines for your teacher from memory by the end of the unit. This is a quiz grade.
Tuesday: no school
for Wednesday: Read the prologue, 3-41, and begin research on your assigned character. Be able to explain your character’s role in medieval society and what attitude towards the character Chaucer is conveying. All students should take notes on all the characters.
Thursday: finish character presentations
Friday the 7th : quiz on characters in Prologue. Begin the Pardoner’s Tale, p.338
for Tuesday the 11th: finish the Pardoner’s Tale and read the Miller’s Tale on p.146
for Wednesday the 12th: read the Wife of Bath’s Tale onp.182
Thursday: no school
Friday: satire/caricature due*
Monday the 17th: TEST on CT
for honors: You are to write a satire. See hand-out.
for standard: You are to find an example of a caricature, bring it in with your written analysis (300 words) of it. What is being caricatured and how?
Assignments for Grade 12 Honors and Standard: Jaffe/King/Greenberg
for Monday, 9/19: review the essays on relationships in Essays That Worked Essays and follow the advice given in the introduction to that section and then write a 500 word essay on an influential person. Bring in four copies, one for the teacher and three for your classmates.
for Tuesday: read essays about home and begin revisions on your 1st essay
for Wednesday: final draft of essay #1
for Thursday: Essay # 2 due: self-portrait
for Friday: read “offbeat essays” in essay book and revise essay #2
for Monday, 9/26: read self-description essays; continue revision
for Tuesday: final draft of essay #2
for Wednesday: Essay #3 due: What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way? OR an essay topic of your choice from an actual application
for Thursday: read self-realization essays and revise essay #3
for Friday: read essays about activities and college application process
for Monday, October 3rd: your college portfolio is due. It should contain three complete essays with one preselected for grading. The portfolio should contain all rough drafts and peer assessments.
Assignments as announced or modified in class take precedence over what is posted on the course webpage.
Looking Ahead:
Hamlet paper due Tuesday, November 20 in class.
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