February+Brit+Lit

- Begin presenting Anglo-Saxon/Beowulf pp - Students will take notes on information presented
 * Wednesday, February 1**

HW: Post to Role of Reading/Writing Blog

- Finish p.p. - Distribute textbooks - Introduce opening of Beowulf
 * Thursday, February 2**

HW: Read pg. 33-44 in the textbook (through the "Battle with Grendel")

- Reading quiz - Begin completing detailed worksheet on the first section of Beowulf
 * Friday, February 3**



HW: Read through pg. 51 and complete remainder of worksheet

- Introduce Unit 1 vocabulary - Finish discussing blog questions - Continue discussing worksheet
 * Monday, February 6**

HW: Complete Unit 1 vocabulary exercises for Friday; quiz on Fri.

- Create a comic strip that captures the events/details of "Grendel's Mother" and "The Battle with Grendel's Mother" in six slides. Each slide should include a visual representation and a caption (complete sentences, please). Assignments will be evaluated upon their accuracy to the text and the effort put forth by the student.
 * Tuesday, February 7**

HW: For Wed: Finish reading Beowulf (through page 60). Be ready for a quiz tomorrow.

- Discuss events of "Battle with Grendel's Mother" - Quiz on section III of Beowulf - Explore values of Anglo-Saxon culture by identifying quotes that support certain heroic traits
 * Wednesday, February 8**

- Go over responses to A.S. Values worksheet - Identify quotes/passages that exemplify pagan and Christian influences
 * Thursday, February 9**

HW: Complete Unit 1 vocabulary exercises; study for quiz tomorrow

- Complete Unit 1 vocabulary quiz - Identify pagan/Christian elements within Beowulf
 * Friday, February 10**

- Understand/create kennings - Evaluate the death penalty and support your position - Begin reading "A Hanging"
 * Monday, February 13**

HW: Read "A Hanging" by George Orwell (pg. 1169-1173) and complete worksheet

- Discuss "A Hanging" in class with worksheet - Define "comma splice" and fix errors on run-on worksheet
 * Tuesday, February 14**

- Complete Beowulf Quiz - Finish run-on worksheet
 * Wednesday, February 15**

- Discuss grammar worksheet - Introduce Satire - Look at and analyze examples of satire
 * Thursday, February 16**

- Review concepts of satire - Create your own piece of satire
 * Tuesday, February 21**

HW: Finish piece of satire for tomorrow

- Introduce Geoffrey Chaucer via power point - Introduce Medieval Times and understand time period in which The Canterbury Tales was written - Begin reading Prologue
 * Wednesday, February 22**

HW: For tomorrow, read the sections on the knight, squire, friar, pardoner, and Wife of Bath; collect three details from each section

- Analyze characters from prologue and determine what characteristics are ironic--consider what Chaucer might be saying with these character sketches
 * Thursday, February 23**

- Present characters to the class in groups - Begin reading "Pardoner's Tale" in class - Create five questions for the reading: two "right there" questions, one inference question, one "author and me" question, and one "bigger picture" question. Include your answers to these questions.
 * Friday, February 24**

- Introduce Unit 2 vocabulary
 * Monday, February 27**

HW: Complete Unit 2 exercises and study for quiz on Friday Read "Wife of Bath's Tale" for tomorrow - Complete "Wife of Bath" Quiz - Begin completing worksheet on the old woman's speech
 * Tuesday, February 28**

- Discuss significance of speech; interpret specific lines - Free write on the the power dynamics between sexes
 * Wednesday, February 29**


 * MARCH!**