Unit 3
Destiny: the Individual Shaped by Heredity and Environment
Essential Questions:
- Is a person's identity limited by birth and experiences of the past?
- Does the world around a person determine identity?
- How does the past determine an individual’s future?
- What force has a greater effect on the creation of identity: nature or nurture?
- How do authors convey the impact of external conflict on internal conflict?
Resources:
- Wuthering Heights (character chart, online text)
- Song of Solomon (characters, motifs)
Week of 11 October
- independent work on assessment for The Taming of the Shrew (instructions)
- tone vocabulary group 8
- 10/13-14/10 fall break bonus assignment DUE (instructions & rubric, AP Exam open prompts, sample analysis with commentary)
- introduction to Wuthering Heights (character chart, reading & diction log assignment)
- workshop on AP prompt deciphering: from statement to question
Week of 18 October
- workshop on AP prompt deciphering: from statement to question
- 10/19-20/10 essays for Unit 1 DUE: two in-class, one take-home (instructions & prompts)
- independent reading of Wuthering Heights (reading & diction log assignment)
- tone vocabulary group 9
- media center independent work on assessment for The Taming of the Shrew (instructions)
- 10/21-22/10 assessment for The Taming of the Shrew DUE (instructions)
Week of 25 October
- 10/25-26/10 RCPS mock writing test (25-minute SAT prompt)
- 10/25-26/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 1-10 reading & diction log DUE (reading & diction log assignment)
- 10/27-28/10 Wuthering Heightschapters 1-10 passage analysis in-class timed response
- AP Exam multiple-choice poetry practice ("Sound and Sense")
- sonnet lesson (poetry types to KNOW, sonnet, sonnet PPT)
- independent reading of Wuthering Heights (reading & diction log assignment)
- ballad lesson (poetry types to KNOW, ballad, ballad PPT, Gilligan's Island theme song (MP3), Steps for Detecting a Poem's Meaning, "When I Was One-and-Twenty," "Incident," "Richard Cory")
Week of 1 November
- ballad lesson (poetry types to KNOW, ballad, ballad PPT, Gilligan's Island theme song (MP3), Steps for Detecting a Poem's Meaning, "When I Was One-and-Twenty," "Incident," "Richard Cory")
- tone vocabulary group 10
- 11/3-4/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 11-20 reading & diction log DUE (reading & diction log assignment)
- 11/3-4/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 11-20 passage analysis in-class timed response
- vocabulary 1-10 review game: Taboo (instructions)
- reading of Wuthering Heights and work on reading & diction log (reading & diction log assignment)
Week of 8 November
- reading of Wuthering Heights and work on reading & diction log (reading & diction log assignment)
- 11/9-10/10 vocabulary 1-10 QUIZ (tone vocabulary)
- 11/11-12/10 poetry response 4 DUE (2010B AP Exam Poetry Prompt: "To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty," instructions)
Week of 15 November
- reading of Wuthering Heights and work on reading & diction log (reading & diction log assignment)
- 11/17-18/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 21-34 reading & diction log DUE (reading & diction log assignment)
- 11/17-18/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 21-34 passage analysis in-class timed response
- analysis of college application personal narrative samples (instructions)
- pre-writing of college application narrative (Common Application topics, long list of topics)
- introduction to Song of Solomon (characters, motifs, quotations for discussion and analysis assignment instructions)
Week of 29 November
- 11/29-30/10 Song of Solomon chapters 1-6 DUE (quotations for discussion)
- tone vocabulary group 11
- independent work on college application narrative (Common Application topics, long list of topics)
- 12/01-02/10 college application narrative writers' workshop (Common Application topics, long list of topics)
- 12/03 & 06/10 Song of Solomon chapters 7-11 DUE (quotations for discussion)
- 12/03 & 06/10 college application narrative peer review
Week of 6 December
- tone vocabulary group 12
- 12/07-08/10 college application personal narrative DUE (Common Application topics, long list of topics)
- independent work on pre-final exam College Board standards self-assessment (instructions)
- independent work on Song of Solomon analysis assignment DUE (analysis assignment instructions; Washington Post headlines examples)
- 12/9-10/10 Song of Solomon chapters 12-15 DUE (quotations for discussion)
Week of 13 December
- 12/13-14/10 Song of Solomon analysis assignment DUE (analysis assignment instructions; Washington Post headlines examples)
- 12/13-14/10 pre-final exam College Board standards self-assessment DUE (instructions)
- 12/15/10 4th period FINAL EXAM (review sheet)
- 12/16/10 5th period FINAL EXAM (review sheet)