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Mr. Smith reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice. |
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Second Semester |
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Week 1 || 01.07 |
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Teachers' In-Service Day |
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Tuesday: |
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Teachers' In-Service Day |
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Wednesday: |
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Basic Introduction: Syllabus Semester 2
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Google Classroom |
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Review Meter and Poetic Devices |
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Follow @PrufrocksBlues in Twitter |
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Thursday: |
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Approaches to Poetry |
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demo: Conventional - Experiemental |
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Poetry Before Chaucer: Lyrical Ballads |
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demo: Ballads–An Overview |
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In-Class Exercise Day 1 |
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Modern Ballad Example |
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In-Class Exercise Day 2 |
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Week 2 || 01.14 |
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Monday: |
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Group Discussion |
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In-Class Exercise |
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Tueday: |
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Poetry Before Chaucer |
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demo: Arthurian Romance or Hagiography |
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Hagiography example: Translation of Veneral Bede |
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Early Arthurian example: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae, see page 113 |
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Wednesday: |
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Poetry After Chaucer |
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Literary Modes |
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demo: Visual Examples Literary Modes |
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Thursday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canturbury Tales |
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demo: Chaucer's Influences |
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• Francesco Petrarch, Il Canzoniere |
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• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy |
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• Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron |
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General Prologue, ll. 1-43 /447-478 / 717-860 |
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Friday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canturbury Tales, "General Prologue" |
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In-Class Exercise |
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Week 3 || 01.21 |
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school holiday/no classes |
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Tuesday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Wife Of Bath"—overview |
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demo: Representation of the Medieval Female |
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Prologue to the Tale of the Wife of Bath |
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• Example: Biblical Allusions and Chaucer |
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• Example 2: Biblical Discussion and Chaucer |
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• Chaucer and Double Entendres: Naughty Language |
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Wednesday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Wife Of Bath" |
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The Tale of the Wife of Bath |
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Thursday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Wife Of Bath" |
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The Tale of the Wife of Bath |
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Friday: |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Wife Of Bath" |
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The Tale of the Wife of Bath |
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Week 4 || 01.28 |
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Monday: |
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Early Italian Renaissance, 14th Century |
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• demo: Sonnet Overview |
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Francesco Petrarch, Italian Sonnets |
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• Petrarchan form, elements, & themes |
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• three Petrarchan examples |
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Tuesday: |
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In-class Exercise— part 1: Close Reading of Petrarchan sonnet |
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History of the Sonnet: Beginnings of English Renaissance |
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• demo: Sir Thomas Wyatt |
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• demo: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
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Thursday: |
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Review of Three Basic Sonnet Formulas |
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In-class Exercise— part 2: Comparisons of Petrarch, Wyatt, & Howard: imitatio |
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Friday: |
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History of Sonnet: Spenserian Form |
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• demo: Sir Philip Sidney |
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• demo: Sir Edmund Spenser |
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In-Class Exercise— part 3: Comparisons of Sidney & Spenser: Critical Lens |
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Week 5 || 02.04 |
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In-Class Exercise: Close reading of Sonnet Critical Lens |
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History of Sonnet: Shakespearean Form |
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• demo: William Shakespeare |
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# 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day? |
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# 126 O Thou, My Lovely Boy |
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# 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun |
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Wednesday: |
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In-Class Exercise: Shakespearean Form |
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History of Sonnet: Masculine & Feminine Desire |
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• demo: Comaprisons of Mary Wroth MS presentations |
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In-Class Exercise— part 4: Shakepeare & Wroth, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Gender |
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Friday: |
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In-Class Exercise— part 4: Shakepeare & Wroth, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz: Gender |
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Week 6 || 02.11 |
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Modern Sonnet Forms |
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Critical Lens: Defending Craft of Sonnet / 1000 words |
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Tuesday: |
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Critical Lens: Defending Craft of Sonnet / 1000 words |
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Wednesday: |
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Critical Lens: Defending Craft of Sonnet / 1000 words |
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Thursday: |
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Critical Lens: Defending Craft of Sonnet / 1000 words |
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Week 7 || 02.18 |
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school holiday/no classes |
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Tuesday: |
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Critical Lens: Defending Craft of Sonnet / 1000 words |
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Wednesday: |
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Critical Lens: Defending Craft of Sonnet / 1000 words |
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Thursday: |
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Critical Lens: Defending Craft of Sonnet / 1000 words |
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Friday: |
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Critical Lens: Defending Craft of Sonnet / 1000 words |
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Week 8 || 02.25 |
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Monday: |
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Literary Modernism Intentions |
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• demo: chart |
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• demo: Modernism Movement in Literature |
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• e. e. cummings, three poems |
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• T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Tuesday: |
Modernism |
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• T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Wednesday: |
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Modernism |
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• T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Thursday: |
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Modernism |
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• T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Friday: |
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Modernism |
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• T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Week 9 || 03.04 |
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Monday: |
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In-Class Writing: Comparisons of "Prufrock" with All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Tuesday: |
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In-Class Writing: Comparisons of "Prufrock" with All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Wednesday: |
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In-Class Writing: Comparisons of "Prufrock" with All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Thursday: |
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In-Class Writing: Comparisons of "Prufrock" with All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Friday: |
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In-Class Writing: Comparisons of "Prufrock" with All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Week 10 || 03.11 |
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Spring Break |
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Week 11 || 03.18 |
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Monday: |
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Tuesday: |
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Modernism > PostModernism |
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• demo: Confessionalism |
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• Sylvia Plath, "Daddy" |
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• Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus" |
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Wednesday: |
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Plath and Confessionalism |
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Thursday: |
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Plath and Confessionalism |
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Friday: |
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Mark Edmundson's Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals |
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• "Shakespeare and the Modern Self" |
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Week 12 || 03.25 |
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Monday: |
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General Definition for the Mode of Existentialism |
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• Literary Modes redux |
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• TED-Ed Talk on Jean-Paul Sartre & Existentialism |
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• King Lear as a Tragic Hero versus King Lear as an Antihero |
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Tuesday: |
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Jean-Paul Sartre, "On Existentialism" |
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Fairy Tales as Existential Crises |
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• Country Folk-Lore, "Cap O'Rushes" |
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In-Class Writing: How is Cap O'Rushes an Existential character? / 500 words |
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Wednesday: |
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Fairy Tales as Existential Crises |
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• Country Folk-Lore, "Cap O'Rushes" |
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In-Class Writing: How is Cap O'Rushes an Existential character? / 500 words |
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Thursday: |
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Fairy Tales as Existential Crises |
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• Country Folk-Lore, "Cap O'Rushes" |
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In-Class Writing: How is Cap O'Rushes an Existential character? / 500 words |
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Friday: |
William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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• demo: General Overview |
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• demo: Shakespeare's Tragedies |
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Week 13 || 04.01 |
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Monday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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• demo: Themes in King Lear |
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Tuesday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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• demo: Aspects of Fertility in Renaissance England |
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Wednesday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Thursday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Week 14 || 04.08 |
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Monday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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• demo: Themes in King Lear, part 2 |
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Tuesday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Wednesday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Weekly Exercise: Act 1 analysis |
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Thursday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Week 15 || 04.15 |
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Monday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Tuesday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Wednesday; |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Thursday: |
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William Shakespeare, King Lear |
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Weekly Exercise: Research Paper Goals |
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Week 16 || 04.22 |
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Monday: |
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Choice Novel |
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Tuesday: |
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Choice Novel |
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Wednesday: |
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Choice Novel |
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Thursday: |
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Choice Novel |
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Friday: |
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Choice Novel |
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Week 17 || 04.29 |
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Monday: |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Wednesday: |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Thursday: |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Friday: |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Week 18 || 05.06 |
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Monday: |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Works Cited Page due |
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Tuesday: |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Wednesday: |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Thursday: |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Friday: |
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Choice Novel / Final Essay |
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Week 19 || 05.13 |
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Final Essay due |
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Final Essay |
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Wednesday: |
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Final Essay |
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Thursday: |
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Final Essay |
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Friday: |
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Final Essay |
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Week 20 || 05.20 |
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Finals Review |
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Finals Review |
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Wednesday: |
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Finals Review |
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Thursday: |
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Finals Review |
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Friday: |
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Finals Review |
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Week 21 || 05.27 |
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Tuesday: |
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Finals Week |
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Wednesday: |
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Finals Week |
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Thursday: |
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Finals Week |
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Teachers' In-Service Day |
