3/29 

Good Friday-Spring Break 

4/8 

Presentations Due 

Presentations 

4/9 

Presentations 

4/10 

Presentations 

4/11 

Wordy Sentences 

Finish presentations 

4/12 

Assign Packets  

“Intro to Poetry”: lyric, narrative, folk ballad, epic, etc. 

“Get up and Bar the Door”; “This is Just to Say” 

4/15 

Intro to Poetry, cont. 

Assign Anthology 

4/16 

 Sonnets: Sonnets; “Sonnet 30” (960); “Sonnet 130” review 

4/17 

“The Raven” (940);  

4/18 

"Uphill” (926) 

“The Listeners” (120); 

4/19 

Faculty Mtg. 

 “The Seven Ages of Man” (944); “Ecclesiastes 3:1-8” (928); “A Man in His Life” by Yehuda Amichai 

4/22 

The Bells” (930) 

4/23 

Mentor/Mentee 

Ballad: “Casey at the Bat” (42) 

4/24 

“Jabberwocky” (400) 

4/25 

“Dream Deferred” (904) 

“Dreams” (905); “Summer” (927); 

4/26 

Modern and Found Poetry: 

Your Original Poetry 

Assign Poetry Paper 

4/29 

Original Poetry cont. 

4/30 

Chosen Poem 

Annotate and discuss poem 

5/1 

Anthologies Due 

Share/Review 

Dead Poet’s Society  

5/2 

Dead Poet’s Society

5/3 

Dead Poet’s Society 

5/6 

Work on prewriting

See sample explication 

5/7 

Poetry Terms Due 

Poetry Test

 Grammar ch 16  

5/8 

Prewriting Due: Poetry 

Grammar ch 16 

Outlining paper 

5/9 

Draft Due: Poetry 

Workshop 

5/10 

Final Draft Due: Poetry 

Grammar ch. 17 

Introduction to nonfiction 

5/13 

“A Lincoln’s Preface” (152) 

5/14 

Awards Assembly 

Assign Bio Project  

5/15 

“Celebration of Grandfathers” (662) 

5/16 

Interview Questions Due  

“I Have a Dream” (164) 

Reading Questions 

5/17 

Reading Questions cont. 

5/20

Interview answers due

“Georgia O’Keefe” (685) 

5/21

“Single Room, Earth View” (634)  

5/22 

Draft Due: Nonfiction

Workshop

5/23 

Final Draft Due: Nonfiction

Grammar ch. 18

5/24 

Circus Day  

5/27 

Memorial Day 

5/28 

Non-fiction Quiz

Grammar ch.-19 

5/29 

Grammar Quest  

Review Packet 

5/30 

Review 

5/31 

Review 

6/6 

English Exam