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"What is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?
A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and
after,gave us not that capability and godlike reasono fust in us unused."
-- Hamlet

Date In-class What's Due Homework
August 17 Orientation    
August 18 Introduction one typed page: "about me," signed forms
August 19 Defining good writing "About me"
Signed forms

Pratt, Tales of Canterbury Intro
August 20 Intro to Chaucer (notes) QUESTIONS: PLEASE NOTE: I WILL LIST THE QUESTIONS IN THE WHAT'S DUE AS A Q.. THEY MUST BE TYPED OR THEY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. General Prologue pp.3-10
Augsust 21 Prologue Q General prologue pp. 10 - 18
       
August 24 Prologue/ Vocabulary Q General prologue pp. 18-26
August 25 Prologue Q Study
August 26 Prologue test   American parade
August 27 Topoi/Classification   Classification essay
August 28 Vocabulary quiz/fact contest optional bizarre medieval fact essay
       
August 31 Intro/Conclusions   essay
September 1 Chaucer's Form/ Canterbury Rap Classification essay due Miller's Tale pp. 88-106
September 2 Fabliaux/vocabulary Q Pardoner's Tale pp. 241-258
September 3 Exemplum Q Wyf's Prologue pp. 259-270
September 4 Groups: Wyf's Prologue
vocabulary quiz
Q Wyf's Prologue pp. 270-281
       
September 7 Holiday    
September 8 Group's Prologue Q Wyf's tale pp. 281-292
September 9 Wife's Prologue Q www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/
special/authors/ovid/
oviddips.html
http://members.tripod.com/aaron_neilson
/romance.html
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Courtly/Courtly.html
September 10 Ex-day: Romance & The Code of Chivalry Q Courtly Love essay
September 11 Ex-day Fairy tales   Courtly Love essay
       
September 14 Ovid/Romance vocabulary   Nun's Priest's Tale pp. 214-231
September 15 Mock Heroic epic   Nun's Priest Tale pp. 214-231
September 16 Nun's Priest's Tale Q Courtly Love essay
September 17 Review
vocabulary quiz
  study
September 18 Flex day   study
       
September 21 Chaucer exam   Taming: pp. 7-17
September 22 Usage and formatting Q Taming pp. 17-27
September 23 Writinng from visual sources Q

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/
humanities/film.shtml
http://uwp.duke.edu/wstudio/
d ocuments/film.pdf

Taming pp. 31-49
September 24 EOG:
Lab: Interogating visual images
Q Taming pp. 49-69
September 25 Flex   Courtly Love essay
       
September 28 Planning Day    
September 29 Induction/Vocabulary Courtly Love essay due Taming 73-87
September 30 Taming: Act One Q Taming 87-105
October 1 Taming: Act One Q Taming pp. 109-135
October 2 Taming: Act II
Vocabulary Quiz
  Taming pp. 139-163
       
October 5 Act II
Vocabulary
Q Taming pp. 163-185
October 6 Act III   Taming pp. 185-205
October 7 Act IV Q Taming pp. 205-221
October 8 Lab: In-class essay   take home test
October 9 Act V
Vocabulary Quiz
   
       
October 12 Wrap-up Take Home Test  
October 13 Lab: Test   optional: ff essay
October 14 College Prep day    
Oct. 15-18 Fall Break    
       
October 19 Taming scenes   A & P
October 20 Rehearsal   The Sniper
October 21 Performances first period ff essay due Hunter In The Snow
October 22 Coming of Age stories/quiz sixth period ff essay due  
October 23 Community workday   Wordsworth: "We Are Seven," "The World Is Too Much With Us," "London 1802," "Lines"
       
October 26 Romantic poetry   Coleridge: "Frost At Midnight," "Kubla Khan," Shelley "Ozmandias," "Ode To The West Wind," "Lines: 'When the Lamp is Shattered"
October 27 RP 2nd period ff essay due Keats: "Ode To A Nighingale," "Ode To A Grecian Urn," " Bright Star," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
October 28 RP   Byron: "Darkness," "The Destruction of Sennacherib," "So Wel'll Go No More A Roving"
October 29 Ex day 5 period ff essay due Romantic poety, essay
October 30 ex day   Romantic poetry: essay
       
November 2 Romantic poets   Romantic poetry essay
November 3 Jane Eyre   essay
November 4 Jane Eyre   essay
November 5 Jane Eyre Poem analysis due Jane Eyre http://www.literature.org/authors/bronte-charlotte/jane-eyre/
November 6 EOG Jane Eyre   Jane Eyre questions
       
November 9 Intro to Post-Colonial studies
grammar diagnostic
  Gilbert and Gubar handout
November 10     Gilbert and Gubar questions
November 11 Holiday   Gilbert and Gubar questions
November 12   Jane Eyre and GG questions due wss: pp. 9- 18
November 13 WSS: in-class reading day 18 - 37   wss pp. 38-51
       
November 16 Part One: Antoinette as victim   wss pp. 51-64
November 17 Part One, con't.  

wss pp. 64-76

Nov. 18 Enter Mr. Rochester Vocabulary quiz wss pp. 76-90 The Victorian Web assignment
November 19 The Victorian Web, strands   wss: pp. 90-112
November 20 The Victorian Web, strands Strand due ( in-class) Emory pp. 161-167
       
November 23 Strands/ part three   Drake pp. 193-195
November 24 Part Three/POL   POL Memorize your poem!
Thanksgiving Break      
       
November 30 Group essay   Lewkowicz "The Experience of Womanhood"
http://www.victorianweb.org/neovictorian/rhys/lewkowicz14.html
December 1 Group essay   Erwin pp. 207-213
December 2 Group essay POL poem and grading sheet due Group essay
December 3 Exday: POL practice and contest/group essay   Group essay
December 4 Exday: POL practice and contest/group essay   Group essay
       
December 7 Poetry rehearsal   group essay
December 8 Presentation   short story
December 9 Presentation group essay due short story
December 10 Peer reivew short story peer review review
December 11 review 20 vocabulary words due review
       
December 14 1/2 day, review    
December 15 exams, 1, 6    
December 16 exams, 2, 5    
       
Semester break!      
     
January 5 Intro to the Hamlet based semester   QIR: (quick internet research) answers to class questions
January 6 Facts and timeline QIR (hard copy to class) short story revisions
January 7 Tragedy   short story revisions
January 8 Revenge tragedy Short story (turned in to both turnitin and the RFAS contest http://www.raleighfinearts.orgr  
       
January 11 Amleth   Revenge essay
January 12 Belleforest   Revenge essay
January 13 Belleforest   Revenge essay
January 14 Intro to Titus Revenge essay due  
January 15 ID flex    
       
January 18 Holiday, no school    
January 19 Titus   Titus responses
January 20 Titus Titus responses Titus responses
January 21 Titus-wrap-up Titus responses  
January 22     Titus responses
       
January 25 Quest: Sources and Origins   Rosenbaum
January 26
Roseunbaum
  Rosenbaum questions
January 27 Ii Rosenbaum questions French response
January 28 Ii   French response
January 29 How to explicate French response  
       
February 1 I ii   explications
February 2 I ii   explication
February 3 Explications   explication (bring hard copy Monday)
February 4 Ex-day
Dating service
   
February 5 Ex-Day
Dating Service
   
       
February 8 peer review draft explication due revision
February 9     revision
Feburary 10   revision due vocabulary
February 11 Vocabulary quiz   study
Febrary 12 Flex (film)    
       
Febrary 15 II i    
February 16 Test   Act I test, part III
February 17 II ii part III Imagery essay
February 18 EOG, Act II ii   Imagery essay
February 19 Flex (film)    
       
February 22 To Be or Not To Be   Imagery essay
February 23 III i   Imagery essay
February 24 III ii Play-Within-the Play   Imagery essay
February 25 III ii   Vocabulary
February 26 Vocabulary quiz
Chapel Scene
   
       
March 1 Freud/Closet Scene   Imagery essay
March 2 Closet Scene Imagery essay due A.C. Bradley pp. 169-174
March 3 Bradley   Harry Levin pp. 207-216
March 4 Levin   Act IV pp. 66-72
March 5 Levin   Act IV pp. 73-82
       
March 8 Soliloquy/IV v   Study
March 9 Test, Act II and III   Rebecca West pp. 227-236
March 10 West/Ophelia   summary
March 11 IV i-iii   vocabulary
March 12 IV vi - vii
Vocabulary quiz
   
       
March 15 Vi   Kettle pp.237-245
March 16 Vii   Kettle
March 17 Kettle   Summaries
Vocabulary
March 18 Ex-day/Hypertext
Vocabulary quiz IV
  Hypertext
March 19 Ex-day/Hypertext
Vocabulary quiz IV
  Hypertext
       
March 22 Wrap-up
2 summaries due hypertext

March 23

group work   G. Wilson Knight pp. 184-191
March 24 Knight   Hypertext
March 25 Group work Individual Hypertexts due summary
March 26 Hypertext smorsgasbord    
       
Spring Break      
       
April 5 Lab: In-class essay   Hazlitt pp. 164-169
April 6 Hazlitt   Eliot pp. 180-184
April 7 Eliot   study/Vocabulary
April 8 Test Acts IV V    
April 9 Film    
       
April 12 Film   Film essay
April 13 Film   Film essay
April 14 Film   Film essay
April 15 Film   Film essay
April 16 Community workday    
       
April 19 Planning    
April 20   scene choices, 3pm
Film essay due
 
April 21 Scene Assignment   scenes
April 22 Ex day/Scenes/Film   scenes
April 23 Ex day/Scenes/Film   scenes
       
April 26 scenes   scenes
April 27 scenes   scenes
April 28 scenes   scenes
April 29 scenes   scenes
April 30 Planning    
       
May 3 Dress rehearsal   scenes
May 4 dress rehearsal   scenes
May 5 Performance   scenes
May 6 Performance   scenes
May 7 De-briefing    
       
May 10 Topics   Topic questions
May 11 Final exam assigned Questions due Final exam
May 12 Hamlet in the popular imagination   final exam
May 13 Prison Hamlet   final exam
May 14 Prison Hamlet    
       
May 17 The long paper   final exam
May 18 Arrangement
Integrating quotes
  final exam
May 19 Hamlet essays/Lab   final exam
May 20 Renaissance man   final exam
May 21 Renaissance man   final exam
       
May 24 Renaissance man   final exam
May 25 Paper shuffle
Fishbowl defined and expectations
FINAL EXAM ESSAYS DUE  
Final exams