Course Information:
Unit 1: Travels and Journeys
Unit 2: Justice and Equality
Unit 3: Decisions and Consequences
Unit 4: Dreams and Reality
Essential Questions:
- What is reality, and how is it constructed?
- What tools can the individual use to judge the difference, or draw a line between, illusion and reality?
- To what extent does a culture or society shape an individual’s understanding or concept of dreams and reality?
- What are the potential conflicts when one person’s reality is another person’s illusion?
- How does a person’s concept of reality shape his or her identity?
Literary Texts:
Week of 11 Apirl
- introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream (plot map)
- reading and discussion of A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1, Scene 2 (text)
- 04/12/11 Frankenstein bonus assignment DUE (instructions)
- 04/14/11 revision of military service persuasive essay
- 04/14/11 independent reading conflict assignment DUE (instructions)
- 04/14/11 AMND journal 1 & 2 DUE (instructions); AMND group task 1 DUE (instructions)
- 04/14/11 AMND Applied Practice passage 1 multiple-choice questions
Week of 18 April
- 04/18/11 AMND group task 2 DUE (instructions)
- silent conversation part 1 (instructions)
- Elizabethan language lesson: familiar pronouns and verb inflections (PowerPoint notes)
- meter in Shakespere (PowerPoint notes)
- 04/20/11 AMND journal 3 DUE at beginning of class (instructions)
- 04/20/11 AMND 1.1.132-260 DUE at beginning of class
- 04/20/11 AMND 2.1.1-61; AMND journal 4 DUE (instructions); AMND group tasks 3 & 4 DUE (instructions)
- Vocabulary Lessons 13 & 14 review activity BONUS DUE before QUIZ (instructions)
- 04/22/11 AMND 2.1.62-195 DUE at beginning of class
- 04/22/11 Vocabulary Lessons 13 & 14 QUIZ
- 04/22/11 AMND Applied Practice passage 2 multiple-choice questions
- 04/22/11 AMND 2.1.62-195; group task 5 DUE (instructions)
Week of 25 April
- 04/26/11 AMND 2.1.196-277 DUE at beginning of class
- subtext lesson & activity (instructions)
- Shakespeare's unusual language (PowerPoint lesson)
- 04/26/11 AMND group task 6 DUE (instructions)
- 04/28/11 AMND Applied Practice passages 1 & 2 multiple-choice revision
- 04/28/11 AMND group task 7 DUE (instructions)
Week of 2 May
- 05/02/11 AMND journal 5 DUE (instructions)
- AMND 2.2.310-440 DUE at beginning of class
- silent conversation part 2 (instructions)
- EOCT review and practice questions (conventions, nonfiction)
- 05/04/11 independent reading style assignment DUE (instructions)
- EOCT review and practice questions (conventions, poetry, prose, nonfiction)
Week of 9 May
- 05/11/11 EOCT review BONUS packet DUE at beginning of class
- 05/11/11 English 9 End-of-Course Test Part A
- 05/11/11 AMND group task 8 DUE (instructions)
- 05/11/11 AMND journal 6 DUE (instructions)
- 05/12/11 English 9 End-of-Course Test Part B
Week of 16 May
- viewing and discussion of A Midsummer Night's Dream Acts 3-5
- 05/17/11 independent reading theme assignment DUE (instructions)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream recitation practice (passage)
- 05/20/11 A Midsummer Night's Dream multiple-choice questions DUE at end of class (five questions per act, 25 total)
- 05/20/11 A Midsummer Night's Dream recitation DUE (passage)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream vocabulary (instructions)
- distribution of Gifted English 10 summer reading assignment (instructions)
Week of 23 May
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