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Quarter 1
Reading Focus: Literary  
The Epic and The Hero's Journey
The Canterbury Tales
Writing Focus: Informative/Explanatory
Literary Analysis
Compare-Contrast Essay
Revising and Editing: Adding Detail, Comma Splices, Sentence Variety, Inverted Word Order
Skills Focus: Cornell note taking method, Levels of Thinking and Questioning, Analyzing Art as Literature
​Vocabulary Focus: Using Word Origins, Analyzing Word Parts, Denotation and Connotation
Unifying Concept: Heroes
Enduring Understandings: Literature Provides rich and timeless insights into universal themes, dilemmas, and social realities of the world such as the concept of the hero. Imaginative stories, poems, and play reveal the reflective and apparent thoughts and actions of human beings, Life, therefore, shapes literature and literature shapes life. 
​Essential Questions: Why does every culture create and celebrate heroes through literature? What are the characteristics of a hero? Are these characteristics universal or culturally specific? Why do humans seem to “need” heroes?

August - All of the work for August can be found in the Academic Literacy section of the Classroom Information page.
Interactive Student Notebook (ISN) setup
Cornell Notes
The Abstraction Ladder
Language Registers  ISN pages 32-37
  • "The Styles of the Five Clocks" excerpt
  • Presentation for notes
  • "What is Register?" handouts
Define in Context Thinking Map
September 
August 31-September 4
District Pretest
Vocabulary (Due 9/10) ISN pages 38-55
  1. epic
  2. scop/bard
  3. furrow (multiple meaning)
  4. affliction
  5. gorge (multiple meaning)
  6. cower
  7. infamous
  8. fetter
  9. lament
  10. relish (multiple meaning) 

September 
August 31-September 4
District Pretest
Vocabulary (Due 9/10) ISN pages 38-55
  1. epic
  2. scop/bard
  3. furrow (multiple meaning)
  4. affliction
  5. gorge (multiple meaning)
  6. cower
  7. infamous
  8. fetter
  9. lament
  10. relish (multiple meaning) 

If you are unsure of the page numbers for your notebooks, I have listed the page numbers for the assignments.

​Vocabulary pages 38-55
Reading a Painting ISN pages 56-57
Costa's levels of thinking and questioning pages ISN pages 58-61 (period 5 pages 58-63)

Hero Discussion Questions page 62 (Fifth Period ISN pg 65)
Book Card information for Iliad on page 63 page 67 for fifth period.
Page 64 LSA for Iliad.
Write one level one, one level two, and one level three for each book from The Iliad on page 65 period 3 page 69 period 5
Figurative Language Similes and Metaphors page 66- 69 period 3 page 70-73 period 5
History of the English Language LSA on page 70 page 71-72 period 3 page 75 period 5

October 6th
Database Scavenger Hunt
1. Taut
2. Patriarchal
3. Reparation
4. Pilgrimage
5. Pinion
6. Scruple
7. Moor (multiple meaning word)
8. Sentinel
9. Hoary
10. Pyre

October 20th
Unfurth's Challenge and questions are here.
  1. Skulk
  2. Scabbard
  3. Runic
  4. Boon
  5. Pilfer
  6. Dirge
  7. Marauding
  8. Rue
  9. Fealty
  10. Peerless
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