English 10 - Spring Semester Outline
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Spring Semester 2008: Our perceptions
OPENING DAYS: looking to the past (1 week)
- opening days—review Antigone essay, portfolio, vocabulary
- take-home practice SAT essay assigned on "Memories": focus on transitions, examples
UNIT ONE: found in translation (6 weeks)
- background on Anglo-Saxon hero and literature
- review diction/detail; begin syntax
- read Beowulf; notetaking in texts for grade
- socratic seminar on Beowulf
- Beowulf style analysis essay
- Chinese shih poetry
- Japanese tanka/haiku poetry
- group poems—shih, tanka and haiku
- Rubaiyat excerpts
- translation work: samples of different translations (Antigone, The Stranger)
- style analysis—syntax work
- Koran--importance of original language
- partner presentation: oral analysis of different translations of poem
- document sources
- practice MLA, databases
- vocabulary 13-15; prefixes
- practice diagraming sentences; review phrases, absolute phrase
UNIT TWO: research—concept essay (2-3 weeks)
- samples of concept essays—read and analyze
- research at home
- library trip (2 class periods)
- formal outline, final essay
- rewrite opening and first body paragraph for conventions
- vocabulary 16-19 and prefixes
- diagram clauses
MIDTERM and PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT
UNIT THREE: To dream a dream (8 weeks)
- discuss and look at famous quotes: what is a dream?
- read Perceval, background on chivalric romance (video)
- sonnet form for Romance languages
- write sonnet in groups
- video on Shakespeare's life
- read Midsummer, background on Shakespeare
- in-text notes
- style analysis—syntax, poetic conventions
- acting companies and performance
- timed writing on Midsummer—style analysis paragraph (one at home for practice, one in-class for grade)
- background project presentation on Coehlo (short!)
- read The Alchemist
- Socratic seminar on The Alchemist
- vocabulary 22-end; Latin phrases
- timed essay on The Alchemist
- individual project on "perceptions"
Final exam: individual project on "Perceptions"
