Syllabus | Assignments Revised: Dec. 13, 2005
[First Quarter Assignments]
Week of October 17 to 21 (Beginning of Second Quarter)
Mon	Journal #27 ("New Quarter's Resolutions" cont. or your weekend). Video: The Story of English: "A Muse of Fire," part 1 (Take notes on the video to put into your notebook in the "Notes" section.). Hmwk: continue working on sonnet.
Tues	Journal #28 (When is a good time to start acting like the person you want to become? --to start using written language in a way that elicits the credibility you desire and/or deserve?). On board: sonnet notes to be filed in English notebook (from pp. 208 & 9 in text). Spelling words. Work period for sonnets (due Thurs). Hmwk: continue working on sonnet.
Wed	Journal #29 (I'm really tired of . . . . I'm really mad about . . . . I'm really excited about . . . . I'm really satisfied with . . . .). Shakespearean Sonnet video and accompanying sonnet handout. (Make notes on sonnet handout.) Hmwk: complete sonnet (word process and decorate/illustrate).
Thurs	Due: word-processed, illustrated/decorated sonnets. Intro to John Donne (C. Webb). Read poetry by Donne and two Shakespeare sonnets (116 & 130). Hwmk: submit your sonnet to Turnitin.com before midnight tonight. No hmwk over weekend.
Week of October 24 to 28
Mon	Journal #30 (What would you like to accomplish by the time you are in your mid twenties? How does it make you feel when people seem to expect that you should have accomplished already more than you have?) Intro John Milton (H. Rasmussen). Read Milton poems, "How Soon Hath Time" and "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent," p. 426. Hmwk: paraphrase Milton sonnets in modern English. Write prose paraphrase on notebook paper. Paraphrase ideas--rather than individual words. Due Wednesday at the beginning of class.
Tues	Journal #31 (Imagine your life if you were blind.) Issues surrounding translation of the Bible into vernacular language. KJV Bible selections in text. Compare Gen. 1-3 to Tyndale's translation. [Click here to read more about William Tyndale and his translation of the Bible in the Library of Congress Information Bulletin online.] Compare KJV of Psalm 23 to Good News Bible version. Hmwk: complete paraphrases of Milton sonnets. Due Wednesday at the beginning of class.
Wed	Due: Milton sonnet paraphrases. Intro to John Bunyan (S. Lutes). Journal #32 (Explore: "I control how successful I will be.") Read Bunyan selection in text, pp. 441-445. Hmwk: Explore the development of the English language by reading versions of the Lord's Prayer. Look for changes in syntax (word order), inflection (word endings), and spelling as you read and listen.
Thurs	Journal #33 (Explore: "I spend most of my time doing important things.") Pilgrim's Progress assignment (due Tues-beginning of class): All students do p. 446, #1-5. Choose one: #6-14, p. 446 "Analysis," p. 447 "Money and Morality," p. 447 "Preserving the Peace," p. 447 No hmwk.
Week of October 31 to November 4
Mon	Reading quiz over development of English language readings. Journal #34 (Explore: "Whether I'm happy or not depends mostly on me.") Work period for Pilgrim's Progress assignment. Due Tues at the beginning of class. Hmwk: complete Pilgrim's Progress assignments.
Tues	Due: Pilgrim's Progress assignment. Journal #35 (Explore: "I know under what conditions, in what circumstances, in what styles, and by what methods I learn best." & "I make conscious/intentional choices to take advantage of this knowledge about myself.") Test review. Material on test: "The English Renaissance," pp. 199-206 Sir Edmund Spencer, p. 218 Sir Philip Sidney, p. 232 "The Sonnet," pp. 208-209 Sonnets: p. 211, p. 221 (top), p. 234 "A Muse of Fire" video (notes) Shakespearean Sonnet video (handout) John Donne, p. 378-384 Shakespeare Sonnets #116 & 130, pp. 251-252 John Milton and sonnets, p. 424 & 426 KJV Bible and Tyndale translation, pp. 366-371 & handout John Bunyan & selection from Pilgrim's Progress, pp. 440-445 Old English, Middle English, Modern English (changes over time) [Lord's Prayer reading] Hmwk: study for test.
Wed	Parent-Student-Teacher Conferences: No class.
Thurs	Test: "The English Renaissance" section. No hmwk.
Week of November 7 to 11
Mon	(PUC College Days) No class.
Tues	No class meeting: Academy Day schedule adjustment
Wed	Journal #36 (Explore: "I have a network of people in my life that I can count on for help.") Read intro, "The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century," pp. 456-466. Gulliver's Travels. Hmwk: browse on the Internet to find out more about Gulliver's Travels as political/social satire. Bring evidence of your research in handwritten notes. Include your sources. Due Fri.
Thurs	Intro to Jonathan Swift (B. Toledo). Gulliver's Travels, cont. Hmwk: browse on the Internet to find out more about Gulliver's Travels as political/social satire. Bring evidence of your research in handwritten notes. Include your sources. Due Fri.
Fri	Class meeting due to Academy Day schedule adjustment. Due: handwritten research notes on Gulliver's Travels as political/social satire. Gulliver's Travels, cont. Modern political satire. No hmwk.
Week of November 14 to 18
Mon	Journal #37 (Explore: "I am in control of the grades I earn at school.") Intro to Samuel Pepys (S. Grove). NB: info about diary, p. 537. Read aloud "The London Fire," pp. 540 to 543. Hmwk: Write a diary entry of your own in the style of Samuel Pepys about a significant public event or happening that you have personally observed. Due Wed.
Tues	Journal #38 (Explore: "When I think about an upcoming challenge--like a test, I usually see myself doing well.") "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," p. 564-568. Do qstns #1-4, 6 & 8, p. 569. [Link to "Elegy" qstns] Hmwk: complete "Elegy" qstns. and complete diary entry in style of Samuel Pepys.
Wed	Journal #39 (Explore: "I usually keep promises that I make to myself and to others.") Samuel Johnson. Johnson's "Letter to Lord Chesterfield." Black Adder skit on Samuel Johnson. Hwmk: complete "Elegy" assignment and diary entry.
Thurs	Due: Pepys-style diary entry & "Elegy" qstns. Journal #40 (Explore: "I make choices that help me reach what I really want in life.") Samuel Johnson. Selection from "The Preface" of Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (paragraphs #92-94). No hmwk.
Week of November 21 to 25: Thanksgiving Vacation
Week of November 28 to December 2
Mon	Journal #41 (Explore: "When I'm very angry, sad, or afraid, I know how to manage my emotions so that I don't do anything I'll regret later." Include examples.) Intro to the Romantic Period. Read pp. 615 to 624. Intro to Mary Wollstonecraft (S. Bowers). Read the Introduction to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, pp. 643-645. Hmwk: Complete reading, and paraphrase a paragraph in 21st century American English. Due Tues.
Tues	Due: "Vindication" paragraph paraphrase. Journal #42 (Reflect on a special childhood place, or Where do you go when you need quiet thinking time?) William Wordsworth (D. Cooper). Read "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," pp. 655-659. [Tintern Abbey links: Tintern Abbey in landscape photo and Tintern Abbey closeup and interior views] Hwmk: Read "The Victorian Age" in the Norton Anthology of English Lit site.
Wed	Reading quiz. Journal #43 (Visions of grandeur, how the mighty are fallen, pride goeth before a fall, What will be your legacy?). Percy Bysshe Shelley (Y. Notestine). Read "Ozymandias," p. 732. (Intro. p. 731). Read "Irony," p. 733. Do p. 733, #1-5, "Irony" #1) Hmwk: Continue reading "The Victorian Age" in the Norton Anthology of English Lit site. Follow links to "Industrialism," "The Woman Question," and "Victorian Imperialism."
Thurs	Journal #44 (rain, holiday). Open notes reading questions. Due by end of class period. No hmwk.
Week of December 5 to 9
Mon	Elizabeth Barrett Browning (H. Sacro). Read "Sonnet 43," p. 796. Read Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel." [View Rossetti's painting of "The Blessed Damozel." (Click thumbnail to see larger image.)] Journal #45 [Try an unusual perspective (a la "The Blessed Damozel"): write about yourself from the perspective of someone or something else.] No hmwk.
Tues	Christina Rossetti (T. Cooke). Read "A Birthday," p. 818. Read Robert Southey's poem, "The Cataract of Lodore" (I read from a book illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein, but this link goes to a page that includes a photograph of the real Lodore Falls.). Classroom Christmas ornaments. No hmwk.
Wed	Journal #46 (Christmas wishes: for your friends, your sibling/s, your parents, and yourself). Lewis Carroll (R. Cheng). Read Carrol poem: "Jabberwocky" (p. 822) and parody, p. 824. Distribute parodies of "Jabberwocky" handout. Hmwk: write a "Jabberwocky" parody on a subject of your choice. Follow Carrol's format and style. Submit to Turnitin.com by Monday night at midnight. (Late submissions will NOT be accepted.)
Thurs	Journal #47 (Christmas at Prep, your Christmas dreams). Rudyard Kipling (K. Shima). Read Just So Stories. "The Elephant's Child" No hwmk. (Complete "Jabberwocky" parody and submit to Turnitin.com by midnight, Monday, Dec. 12.)
Week of December 12 to 16
Mon	Due by midnight tonight: "Jabberwocky" parody to Turnitin.com. Dylan Thomas (A. Reynolds). Read "A Child's Christmas in Wales," "Fern Hill," and "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" with audio CD. [MP3 files of "A Child's Christmas in Wales"] Hmwk: "Jabberwocky" parody due by midnight to Turnitin.com. No late submissions accepted.
Tues	Review for test. Hmwk: study for test.
Wed	(10:45 to 12:15) English 12 Test
Fri	(10:30) SA Christmas Party