Week of May 21, 2012
Vocabulary quiz on lessons 27-28 Wednesday
Brave New World
test Wednesday, May 30

Monday, 5/21
     Brave New World discussion of chapter 17
     To the lighthouse...

Tuesday, 5/22
     Brave New World chap. 18
     The voice of one crying in the wilderness...
Wednesday, 5/23
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 27-28
     Shortened session
Thursday, 5/24
     Holiday
Friday, 5/25
     Holiday

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today."
~
Henry Ford, quoted in the Chicago Tribune, 1916

Week of May 14, 2012
Vocabulary lessons 27-28 Thursday

Monday, 5/14
     Brave New World discussion of chapter 14-15
     HW:  Read chapters 16-17 (p. 217-240) for Wednesday

Tuesday, 5/15
     More on Brave New World chap. 14-15
     HW:  Read chapters 16-17 (p. 217-240) for Wednesday
Wednesday, 5/16
     Discussion of Brave New World chap. 14-15
     HW: Vocabulary lessons 27-28 due Thursday

     HW:  Complete the novel for Friday
Thursday, 5/17
     Vocabulary essons 27-28
    
Brave New World continued

F
riday, 5/18
     Discussion of Brave New World

 

Week of May 7, 2012
Vocabulary quiz on lessons 25-26 Thursday

Monday, 5/7
     Brave New World discussion of chapter 9-11
     HW:  Read chapters 12-13 (p. 172-197) for Wednesday

Tuesday, 5/8
     More on Brave New World chap. 9-11
     HW:  Read chapters 12-13 (p. 172-197)
Wednesday, 5/9
     Discussion of Brave New World chap. 12-13
     HW: Vocabulary quiz on lessons 25-26 Thursday
          Read chapters 14-15 (p. 198-216) for Friday

Thursday, 5/10
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 25-26
     Brave New World continued
     HW: Complete chapters 14-15 (p. 198-216)

F
riday, 5/11
     Discussion of Brave New World chap. 14-15

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Week of April 30, 2012
Quiz on Brave New World Tuesday
Vocabulary lessons 25-26 due Thursday

Monday, 4/30
     Brave New World discussion of chapter 6
     Quiz Tuesday on chap. 1-6
     HW: Read chapters 7-8 (p. 107-139) for Wednesday

Tuesday, 5/1
     Quiz on Brave New World chap. 1-6
     HW: Complete chapters 7-8 (p. 107-139)
Wednesday, 5/2
     Discussion of Brave New World chap. 7-8
     HW: Vocabulary lessons 25-26 due Thursday
     Read chapters 9-11 (p. 140-171) for Friday

Thursday, 5/3
     Vocabulary lessons 25-26
     Brave New World continued
     HW: Complete chapters 9-11 (p. 140-171)

F
riday, 5/4
     Reviewing
core concepts and on to chap. 9

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Week of April 23, 2012
Vocabulary quiz on lessons 23-24 Thursday
Quiz on Brave New World chap. 1-6 Tuesday (5/1)

Monday, 4/23
     Discussion of chap. 1-2 continued and chap. 3
     HW: Read BNW chap. 4-5 (p. 57-86) for Wednesday
Tuesday, 4/24
     Discussion of Brave New World chap. 3
Wednesday, 4/25
     Discussion of Brave New World chap. 4-5
     HW: Study for Thursday's vocabulary quiz
              Read chap. 6 (p. 87-106) for Friday
Thursday, 4/26
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 23-24
     Brave New World continued

F
riday, 4/27
     Discussion of Brave New World chap. 6
     Quiz chap. 1-6 on Tuesday

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Week of April 16, 2012
Vocabulary 23-24 due Thursday

Monday, 4/16
     Research post mortem
          Scholarly sources
          Substantiating a thesis
     HW: Read BNW chap. 2 (p. 19-29) for Wednesday
Tuesday, 4/17
     Discussion of Brave New World chap. 1
Wednesday, 4/18
     Discussion of Brave New World chap. 2
     HW: Vocabulary lessons 23-24 due Thursday,
          Read Brave New World chap. 3 (p. 30-56) for Monday
Thursday, 4/19
     Vocabulary lessons 23-24
     Brave New World continued

F
riday, 4/20
     Celebrating the Bard's birthday
          To the auditorium. Go!

 

Week of April 2, 2012
No vocabulary this week

Monday, 4/2
     Hamlet - The concluding scene via Ethan Hawke
Tuesday, 4/3
     Introduction to utopias, dystopias and Aldous Huxley
          Technology as a nefarious means of control
     HW: complete Brave New World chap. 1 handout
Wednesday, 4/4
     Shortened session
     Brave New World: Close reading - discussion of chap. 1
          To be continued...

Thursday, 4/5
     Holiday - enjoy your vacation!

F
riday, 4/6
     Holiday

Week of March 26, 2012
No vocabulary this week

Monday, 3/26
     Hamlet Act V sc ii - continued from Friday
          There's a divinity that shapes our ends
          Rough-hew them how we will—
     Enter Osric, further evidence of the state of the court...
          the readiness is all...
     Act V conclusion
          The rest is silence

Tuesday, 3/27
     Zeffirelli's resolution
     Review Act V
Wednesday, 3/28
     Putting it all together
     Mapping the play via Freytag    
Thursday, 3/29
     Final overview of the play

F
riday, 3/30
     Hamlet test

 

Week of March 19, 2012
Vocabulary quiz on lessons 21-22 Thursday

Monday, 3/19
     Hamlet Act IV sc v - continued from Friday
          O, this is the poison of deep grief...
     Enter Laertes as foil to Hamlet
          What is the cause, Laertes,
          That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?

     HW: one paragraph with a strong topic sentence:
          explain Ophelia's "situation"
Tuesday, 3/20
     Act IV conclusion
          There is a willow grows aslant a brook
    
     Zeffirelli's version
Wednesday, 3/21
     Shortened session
     Hamlet Act IV review
Thursday, 3/22
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 21-22
     Hamlet Act V: Enter two clowns

F
riday, 3/23
     Hamlet Act V sc i:
          Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
          Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
          O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
          Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!

 

                      Week of March 12, 2012
             Vocabulary lessons 21-22 due on Thursday

Monday, 3/12

     Hamlet Act III: Soft! now to my mother...
          Now might I do it pat, now he is praying

Tuesday, 3/13
     Act III: And on to the climax: the closet scene
          Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.
          A second interpretation with David Tennant

     Hamlet Act III study guide
Wednesday, 3/14
     Hamlet Act III study guide
     Hamlet Act IV:
          Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend
          Which is the mightier

Thursday, 3/15
     Vocabulary lessons 21-22 due
     Hamlet Act IV: continued

F
riday, 3/16
     Hamlet Act IV sc iv:
          How all occasions do inform against me

 

       Week of March 5, 2012
         No vocabulary this week


Monday, 3/5

  
  Quiz on Hamlet Acts 1-2
Tuesday, 3/6
     HSPA day one
Wednesday, 3/7
     HSPA day two
Thursday, 3/8
     HSPA day three

F
riday, 3/9
     Hamlet Act III:
           the play's the thing

 

                      Week of February 27, 2012
             Change of plan - no vocabulary this week or next
              
Quiz on Hamlet Acts 1-2 on Monday


Monday, 2/27

     ... go not to Wittenberg. Why Wittenberg?
     Hamlet Act II: more duplicity at court

Tuesday, 2/28
     Hamlet Act II: Ophelia disturbed by Hamlet's antic disposition
Wednesday, 2/29
     Hamlet Act II: continued
Thursday, 3/1
     Hamlet Act II: "What a piece of work is a man!"
     Hamlet Act II: the players

     Solilquy 3: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am
F
riday, 3/2
     Review of Act 2
     Quiz Monday

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                  Week of February 20, 2012
                Research paper due Wednesday
       Vocabulary quiz on lessons 19-20 Friday (delayed)


Monday, 2/20
     Presidents' Day holiday
Tuesday, 2/21
     O that this too too solid flesh would melt... (soliloquy 1)
     News for the prince (I've seen a ghost...)
Wednesday, 2/22
     ... go not to Wittenberg. Why Wittenberg?
     (I iii) Lord Chamberlain and family

Thursday, 2/23
     (I iv) Reunion of father and son
          ... the inciting incident
               O cused spite / that ever I was born to set it right
Friday, 2/24
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 19-20
     Act I study guide

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                  Week of February 13, 2012
                Research paper due February 22
         Vocabulary lessons 19-20 due Thursday


Monday, 2/13
     More on finding appropriate secondary sources
     Medieval morality play: Everyman
Tuesday, 2/14
     Medieval drama / Elizabethan drama
Wednesday, 2/15
     The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
     Act I sc. 1:
          Talk of war
          The ghost of the former king

Thursday, 2/16
     Vocabulary lessons 19-20 due
     Hamlet Act I sc. ii:
          Claudius and Gertrude in mourning and marriage
          O that this too too solid flesh would melt...
          News for the prince
Friday, 2/17
     Holiday, school closed

 

                  Week of February 6, 2012
                       Vocabulary quiz Friday

Monday, 2/6
     Achilles and Hector via Hollywood
     Research paper assignment

Tuesday, 2/7
     Research paper requirements:
          3 selections to support thesis
          2 outside sources to support thesis

Wednesday, 2/8
     Steps to writing an effective paper
Thursday, 2/9
     Meet in the info center:
          Finding appropriate outside sources (2)
Friday, 2/10
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 17-18
     Medieval / Elizabethan drama

 

                  Week of January 30, 2012
                       Vocabulary due Thursday

Monday, 1/30
     Read Gilgamesh
     HW: complete the study guide

Tuesday, 1/31
     Discussion of Gilgamesh and archetypes
          Archetypal characters and situations
     HW: read Sunjata p. 575 text
Wednesday, 2/1
     Sunjata
      HW: vocabulary exercises for lessons 17-18
Thursday, 1/2
     Vocabulary due
     HW: read The Iliad,  p. 594-606
Friday, 2/3
     Discussion of the reading
          Brave Achilles as the (flawed) archetypal hero

 

       Week of January 23, 2012
      
        1st exam: 8:30-10:30 am

        2nd exam: 11:15-1:15 pm

       
              

        Monday, 1/23
             School holiday
        Tuesday, 1/24
             Exams: Periods 8 and 5
        Wednesday, 1/25
             Exams: Periods 3 and 4
        Thursday, 1/26
             Exams: Periods 2 and 7
       
Friday, 1/27
             Exams: Periods 1 and 6

 

             Week of January 16, 2012
                  No vocabulary this week

Monday, 1/16
     Martin Luther King holiday

Tuesday, 1/17
     Oedipus test
Wednesday, 1/18
     Other takes on fate and free will
     HW: read "Death of Tsotsi"
          and complete the questions
Thursday, 1/19
     Discussion on "Death of Tsotsi"
     Post mortem on the Oedipus test
     Preview of the midterm

Friday, 1/20
     Midterm review

 

                  Week of January 9, 2012
       
              

Monday, 1/9
     Oedipus: part II
          HW: Two page summary

Tuesday, 1/10
     Oedipus: part II
          HW: Two page summary

Wednesday, 1/11
     Continue with Oedipus
Thursday, 1/12
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 15-16
Friday, 1/13
     Oedipus

 

             Week of January 2, 2012
       
              

Monday, 1/2
     Holiday. Happy New Year.

Tuesday, 1/3
     Completion of Part I of Oedipus (text to p. 649)
Wednesday, 1/4
     Oedipus quiz on Part I
          ~ Textbook p. 620-649
          ~ Characters, plot, setting
          ~ Literary techniques
          ~ Issues discussed in class

Thursday, 1/5
     Vocabulary lessons 15-16 due 
Friday, 1/6
     Oedipus: the theater of Sophocles, insights into
          the oracle, the role of the chorus

 

                          Week of December 19, 2011
                       Vocabulary quiz on lessons 13-14 Wednesday
                Reading of Oedipus Rex in class and at home

Monday, 12/19
     Class reading of Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
     HW: Complete the study guide
Tuesday, 12/20
     Discussion of Tolstoy short story
     Fate and free will; Pakhom's fatal flaw - greed

Wednesday, 12/21

     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 13-14
     Discussion and reading of Oedipus in class
     HW: 2 pages of text; summarize the action in a typed paragraph

Thursday, 12/22
     Reading of Oedipus in class
Friday, 12/23
     Oedipus in performance (sort of...)


                          Week of December 12, 2011
                       Vocabulary lessons 13-14 due Thursday
                Reading of Oedipus Rex in class and at home

Monday, 12/12
     Post mortem on the Night test
     The elements of Greek drama
Tuesday, 12/13
     Reading of Oedipus in class
     HW: 2 pages of text; summarize the action in a typed paragraph
Wednesday, 12/14

     Discussion and reading of Oedipus in class
     Vocabulary lessons 13-14 due Thursday

Thursday, 12/15
     Vocabulary lessons 13-14
     Reading of Oedipus in class
     HW: 2 pages of text; summarize the action in a typed paragraph

Friday, 12/16
     Reading of Oedipus in class



           Week of December 5, 2011
       Vocabulary quiz on lessons 11-12 Thursday

Monday, 12/5
     "My Parents Bedroom" study guide
     HW: complete the study guide

Tuesday, 12/6
     "My Parents Bedroom" discussion and context
     Never again: what can be done?
     HW: Read text p. 616 - 619 on Greek drama
Wednesday, 12/7
     Introduction to Greek tragedy

Thursday, 12/8
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 11-12
     Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
      

Friday, 12/9
     Oedipus Rex

 

              Week of November 28, 2011
   Bring a print-out of your poem to class every day
            Poetry Out Loud begins Wednesday
              Vocabulary lessons 11-12 Thursday

Monday, 11/28
     Poetry Out Loud preparation
Tuesday, 11/29
     Poetry Out Loud preparation
Wednesday, 11/30
     Poetry Out Loud

Thursday, 12/1
     Vocabulary lessons 11-12
     Poetry Out Loud
     HW: Read "My Parents Bedroom" for Monday

Friday, 12/2
     Night and the Holocaust:
    
      Never again? Genocide in Rwanda

 

                     Week of November 21, 2011
        Bring a print-out of your poem to class every day
          Vocabulary quiz on lessons 9-10 Wednesday
             Poetry Out Loud begins Monday, Nov. 28

Monday, 11/21
    
Second part of the test on Night
     Poetry Out Loud preparation

Tuesday, 11/22
     SAT practice essay
     HW: Vocabulary quiz on Wednesday
Wednesday, 11/23
     Shortened class
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 9-10
     Poetry Out Loud preparation
          Recitations begin on Wednesday, Nov. 30

Thursday, 11/24
     Holiday
Friday, 11/25
     Holiday

 

              Week of November 14, 2011
        Vocabulary lessons 9-10 due Thursday
                      Test on Night Friday

Monday, 11/14
     Discussion on Night
     HW: Read Night p. 81-99
Tuesday, 11/15
     Discussion on the reading
     Poetry Out Loud assignment, due Nov. 29    
     HW: finish the book

Wednesday, 11/16
     Discussion on the reading
     HW: vocabulary lessons 9-10
Thursday, 11/17
     Vocabulary
     Wrap-up and review of Night.

Friday, 11/18
     Test on Night.

 

       Week of November 7, 2011
          
 No vocabulary this week
               Quiz on Night Monday

Monday, 11/7
     Quiz Night p. 1-62
     HW: Read Night p. 63-81
          for Wednesday
Tuesday, 11/8
     Class preempted
     Info Center orientation:
          report to the library

Wednesday, 11/9
     Discussion on Night
Thursday, 11/10
     School closed
Friday, 11/11
     School closed

 

                        Week of October 31, 2011
                     Intolerance paper due November 2
                Vocabulary quiz on lessons 7-8 Thursday
                              Quiz on Night next Monday

Monday, 10/31
     Nazi propaganda: Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will
     Finding a convenient scapegoat

     Night reading: Group discussions
     HW: Read Night pages 21-45 for Wednesday
Tuesday, 11/1
     Night: Group discussions
Wednesday, 11/2
     Night: Group discussions

Thursday, 11//3
     Quiz on vocabulary lessons 7-8
     The Holocaust: Never again? Genocide in Cambodia
     HW: Read Night pages 46-62
Friday, 11/4
     Discussion on the reading
     For Monday: Quiz on Night, p. 1-62

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                        Week of October 24, 2011
                    Vocabulary lessons 7-8 Thursday
                   Intolerance paper due November 2

Monday, 10/24
     Complete the discussion of "The Bluest Eye"
     South African apartheid: "Kaffir Boy"
     HW: Complete "Kaffir Boy" study guide

Tuesday, 10/25
     Discussion of "Kaffir Boy"
     Poetic responses to racism

     HW: Read Czeslaw Milosz's "Campo dei Fiori" and
          complete the questions

Wednesday, 10/26
     Complete "Kaffir Boy"
     Discussion of "Campo dei Fiori"
     More poetic responses to the Holocaust
     HW: Vocabulary exercises due Thursday

Thursday, 10/27
     Vocabulary lessons 7-8
     Introduction to the Holocaust
     HW: Read p. 1-20 of Elie Wiesel's memoir Night for Monday
Friday, 10/28
     Why study the Holocaust? Life before...
     Propaganda and the Nazi machine:
Hitler as Germany's savior
          * Poster "art" and the spreading of anti-Semitism
          * Film: Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will

 

                      Week of October 17, 2011
                  Vocabulary quiz lessons 5-6 Thursday

Monday, 10/17
     In class reading of "The Thirteenth Night"
     Complete the story for homework

Tuesday, 10/18
     Discussion of "The Thirteenth Night"
    
Literary criticism: A Doll's House and other works

Wednesday, 10/19
     Essay assignment: due Nov 2
     Study for the vocabulary quiz on lessons 5-6
Thursday, 10/20
     Vocabulary quiz
     The thesis statement / Using a quote to begin a paper 
      Read "The Bluest Eye" (text p. 189-193)
          Complete the study guide

Friday, 10/21
     "The Bluest Eye"

 

                      Week of October 10, 2011
                  Vocabulary lessons 5-6 Thursday

Monday, 10/10
     School closed

Tuesday, 10/11
     Doll's House test post mortem
     Sexism and the poetic form
     Read "The Women Who Are Poets" and
          respond to the questions

Wednesday, 10/12
     Poetry and feminism
     Vocabulary lessons 5-6 due Thursday

Thursday, 10/13
     Vocabulary lessons due
     More on poetry
     Read the poem by Margaret Atwood (handout),
          answer the questions
Friday, 10/14
     More on poetry

 

                 Week of October 3, 2011
       Vocabulary quiz lessons 3-4 Thursday
              Test on A Doll's House Friday

Monday, 10/3
     Completion of A Doll's House
     Study guide Act III

Tuesday, 10/4
     Discussion and review of key concepts
Wednesday, 10/5
     A Doll's House on stage
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 3-4 Thursday

Thursday, 10/6
     Vocabulary quiz
     Final concepts: A Doll's House
Friday, 10/7
     Test on A Doll's House

 

           Week of September 26, 2011
   
       Vocabulary lessons 3-4 due Friday

Monday, 9/26
     Summer reading essay post mortem
Tuesday, 9/27
     Review of Friday's exercise
     Reading of Act II
     Complete Act II to page 148

Wednesday, 9/28
     Groups: Act II review questions
     Reading of Act III
Thursday, 9/29
     Holiday

Friday, 9/30
     Vocabulary lessons 3-4 due
     A Doll's House continued

 

           Week of September 19, 2011
       Vocabulary quiz on lessons 1-2 Thursday

Monday, 9/19
     Discussion of Woman Warrior
     Introduction to A Doll's House
     Read to page 116 for Tuesday
Tuesday, 9/20
     Class reading of Act I
     Complete Act I to page 131
Wednesday, 9/21
     Groups: Act I review questions
Thursday, 9/22
     Vocabulary quiz on lessons 1-2
     Class reading of Act II of A Doll's House
     Read Act II (to page 140)

Friday, 9/23
     Act II review (to page 140)

 

                   Week of September 12, 2011
            In class summer reading essay on Tuesday
               Vocabulary lessons 1-2 due Thursday
          Complete the student survey for Wednesday

Monday, 9/12
     Textbook distribution (Bring it home and use it!)
     Introduction to vocabulary lessons
     Read Like Water for Chocolate (p 10-15) for Wednesday
     
What is magical realism?
Tuesday, 9/13
     In-class summer reading essay
          Be prepared: bring your book!
Wednesday, 9/14
     Discussion of Like Water for Chocolate
    
Read Woman Warrior for Friday (p 1105-1110)
Thursday, 9/15
     Vocabulary lessons 1-2, exercises 1-3
     More on Like Water for Chocolate
Friday, 9/16
    
Review of Woman Warrior

 

          Week of September 5, 2011
    In class summer reading essay on Tuesday

Monday, 9/5
     Holiday
Tuesday, 9/6
     School closed due to hurricane
Wednesday, 9/7
     Welcome
Thursday, 9/8
     Course overview: scope and sequence
     Structuring an expository essay
Friday, 9/9
    
More on essay writing


          Greetings and welcome to my class.

For your summer reading assignment, you must choose one of the following novels:
  A Thousand Splendid Suns
 
A Long Way Gone
or
  Marcelo in the Real World

Be an assertive reader, tackling your novel with your skills and experience. Take note of the conventions of literary works, what Pro. Thomas Foster calls the grammar of literature. What do I mean? If you read regularly, you have probably realized that certain character types and plot sequences appear again and again in different works, regardless of the time and place in which they were written. As you read, make connections. Have you seen this before? What do you think will happen next? Also take note of the author's use of language, the poetry of the sentences. And by the way, careful readers tend to be the strongest writers.

 

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About the Course:

 

English 3 maintains a focus on world literature, including classical and modern tragedy, dystopian fiction, and works concerning intolerance. Writing assignments emphasize the ability to analyze and synthesize literature and write with clarity and depth of thought. Public speaking skills are developed through formal speeches and class discussion. The course stresses vocabulary building as well as test-taking strategies for the HSPA and the SAT.

Works read during the course of the year may include:
   * Themes in World Literature (Houghton-Miffllin)
   * Vocabulary for Achievement: Fifth Course
   * Brave New World (Huxley)
   * Night (Wiesel)
   * A Doll's House (Ibsen)
   * Hamlet (Shakespeare)
   * Oedipus (Sophocles)
   * The Good Woman of Setzuan (Brecht)
   * HSPA/SAT prep materials