English IV-Brock 2023-2024 Assignments

Class- Discuss Burns and Blake
Hw- study for vocab. test, complete study guide for test on Tuesday

Class- Discuss Gray
Hw- read Burns ("To a Mouse" and "To a Louse") and Blake ("The Lamb" and "The Tiger") and take notes

Class- Discuss Pope and begin Johnson
Hw- read Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and take notes

Class- quiz, discuss Addison and Swift
Hw- read Pope's Rape of the Lock and take notes

Class- vocab. test, finish Dryden and begin Addison
Hw- Read Swift's Gulliver's Travels and take notes, be prepared for a quiz

Class- Discuss Dryden
Hw- study for vocab. test, read and take notes on Addison's "Thoughts in Westminster Abbey"

Class- Discuss Pepys
Hw- read and take notes on Defoe and "A Journal of the Plague Year"

Class- Discuss Dryden
Hw- read and take notes on Pepys and his "Diary"

Class- open-note test on  The Restoration and 18th century
Hw- read and take notes on Dryden's "Essay..."

Class- test
Hw- complete 18th century and the Restoration notes

Class- test
Hw- complete notes for Restoration and 18th century open-note test

Class- review for test
Hw- study for 17th century test

Class- discuss Bunyan and The Pilgrim's Progress, review for 17th century test
Hw-  study for the test

Class- Discuss Pilgrim's Progress
Hw- study for vocab. 5 test, complete study guide for 17th century test on Tuesday

Class- complete lecture on Paradise Lost
Hw- read and answer questions on excerpt from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

Class- Discuss Milton, begin Paradise Lost lecture
Hw- finish reading Paradise Lost and answer questions

Class- Discuss the Cavalier poets
Hw- read biographical information and take notes on John Milton, begin reading Paradise Lost excerpt

Class- Vocabulary 4 test, discuss Donne's "Holy Sonnet 10" and "Meditation 17"
Hw- read Jonson's "On My First Son" and "To the Memory . . .", Herrick's "To the Virgins . . . ", Suckling's "Song", and Lovelace's "To Lucasta . . . " and answer questions at the end of the poems

Wednesday- Take notes on the 17th century history in class
Hw- complete notes for an open-note test on Thursday
Thursday- Open-note test on the 17th century history section
Hw- read John Donne's "Woman's Constancy" (posted on Google Classroom), "Holy Sonnet 10" (lit book), and "Meditation 17" (lit book)
Friday- discuss history section and begin John Donne
Hw- study for vocab. test

Class- Discuss Act 2
Hw- read Act 3 for a reading check quiz on Monday

Class- reading check quiz on Act 2, watch film
Hw- answer questions on Act 2

Class- Discuss Act 1 of Hamlet
Hw- Read Act 2 for a quiz

Class- Introduce Hamlet
Hw- Answer question on Act 1 of Hamlet

Class- test on Macbeth
Hw- read Act 1 of Hamlet

Class- Recite lines in class, review for test
Hw- study for test (Monday)

Class- Discuss Act 5, review
Hw- memorize lines on pg. 320, study for test

Class- reading check quiz on Act 5, review for test 
Hw- memorize lines on pg. 320, study for unit test

Class- Discuss Act 4
Hw- read Act 5 of Macbeth

Class- reading check quiz on Act 4 of Macbeth
Hw- memorize lines on pg. 320

Class- discuss Act 3
Hw- read Act 4 for a reading check quiz on Monday

Class- Act 3 reading check quiz, watch videos on Act 3
Hw- begin reading Act 4

Class- discuss Act 2
Hw- read Act 3 for a reading check quiz on Thursday

Class- reading check quiz on Act 2, watch videos on Act 2
Hw- begin reading Act 3

Class- discuss Act 1 of Macbeth
Hw- read Act 2 for a reading check quiz on Tuesday

Class- answer questions on sonnets
Hw- study for test on sonnets (test is Monday)

Class- Discuss sonnets, read and discuss Spencer and Shakespeare
Hw- none

Class- Begin sonnets (Sidney)
Hw- read "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and "The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd"

Class- test on The Canterbury Tales
Hw- Read Sidney's sonnets

Class- open-book test on the English Renaissance
Hw- study for test on The Canterbury Tales

Class- recite lines, review for test
Hw- study for TCT and "The Pardoner's Tale" test (Monday)

Class- Recite first 18 lines of TCT
Hw- study for test

Class- review for test
Hw- memorize lines for recitation

Class- discuss "The Pardoner's Tale"
Hw- complete study guide, memorize the first 18 lines of TCT

Class- discuss TCT
Hw- Read "The Pardoner's Tale" and answer the questions at the end of the story.

Class- discuss TCT
Hw- read TCT (Summoner, Pardoner, Host)

Class- discuss TCT
Hw- read TCT (Miller, Manciple, Reeve)

Class- discuss TCT
Hw- read TCT pilgrims (Skipper, Doctor, Wife of Bath)

No class due to homecoming festivities
Hw- read and take notes on TCT (Merchant, Oxford Cleric, Sergeant at Law, and Franklin)

Class- discuss the Prioress, Monk, Friar
Hw- read the Oxford Cleric, Merchant, Franklin

Class- discuss the Knight, Squire, Yeoman
Hw- read and take notes on the Prioress, Monk and Friar

Class- begin The Canterbury Tales
Hw- read and take notes on the Knight, Squire, Yeoman (pgs. 115-118)

Class- vocab. 2 test, writing assignment
Hw- read Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales introductory pages

Class- open-note test on The Middle Ages history
Hw- study for vocab. 2 test

Class-Beowulf test
Hw- complete notes on The Middle Ages history section

Class- writing assignment and review for Beowulf test
Hw- study for Beowulf test

Class- Test on Anglo-Saxon period
Hw- study for Beowulf test

Class- review for Anglo-Saxon period test
Hw- study for test

Class- discuss Beowulf
Hw- study for vocab. 2 test, read Seamus Heaney's Beowulf,

Class- discuss Beowulf
Hw- read Seamus Heaney's Beowulf

Class- discuss Beowulf
Hw- read Seamus Heaney's Beowulf

Class- Vocab. 1 test, discuss "The Poet Cademon"
Hw- read Beowulf excerpt in the lit. book

Class- discuss "The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer"
Hw- study for vocab. test

Classwork- Discuss "The Seafarer"
Hw- study for vocab. 1 test, read and answer questions on "The Wanderer"

Classwork- open-note test on Anglo-Saxon period
Hw- read and answer questions on "The Seafarer"

Classwork- take notes on Anglo-Saxon history
Hw- complete notes for an open-note test

Classwork- test on grammar unit
Hw- begin notes on Anglo-Saxon history

Grammar Unit- punctuation
HW- study for test on grammar unit (Tuesday). Open-note history test on the Anglo-Saxon unit will be Wednesday.

Grammar Unit- punctuation

Grammar Unit- sentence structure

Grammar Unit- irregular verbs

Grammar Unit- irregular verbs

Grammar Unit- Pronouns

Grammar Unit- irregular verbs

Grammar Unit- irregular verbs

Grammar Unit- subject/verb agreement

Grammar Unit- subject/verb agreement

Class- Final typed paper due at the beginning of class. (Papers turned in after the beginning of class will receive a failing grade.) 
            Begin grammar unit- grammar pretest
Hw- none

Class- check typed rough draft at the beginning of class, discuss editing process and quote integration
Hw- typed 2nd rough draft due at the beginning of class on Thursday

Class- check 2nd rough draft, discuss final revisions
Hw- final typed paper due at the beginning of class on Friday (Papers received after the beginning of class will receive a failing grade.)

Class- check outline and thesis, discuss rough draft (introduction, body, conclusion)
Hw- typed rough draft due at the beginning of class on Wednesday

Class- check brainstorming and topic, discuss outline and thesis
Hw- outline and thesis due at the beginning of class on Tuesday

Class- summer reading test
Hw- brainstorming and topic for essay due on Monday at the beginning of class

Class- Class introduction, discussion of syllabus
Hw- study for test on summer reading