English III Weekly Plans for 2022/2023
First Semester
First Nine Weeks
Week One: August 10, 11, and 12
-Welcome
English III Weekly Plans for 2021/2022
First Semester
First Nine Weeks
Week One - August 12, 13
- Welcome
- Survey of Interests/Ice Breakers
- Introduction to English III: Syllabus and course content
Week Two - August 16 - 20
Unit 1: Memoirs
-Characteristics of Memoirs
-Six-Word Memoir assignment
-Read and analyze selected memoirs.
-Complete "Say/Mean/Matter" assignment.
-Plan, draft, and write a memoir
Week Three - August 23 -27
-Final copy of memoir
Unit 2: Do Isolation and loneliness lead to the destruction of self?
Short Story: "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
-Pre reading vocabulary activity
-Notes
-Read and review story
-Watch video depiction of story
Week Four - August 30 - September 3
Unit 2 - Do Isolation and Loneliness Lead to the Destruction of Self?
Short Story: "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner continued
-Project
-Test
Article: "Harvest Gypsies" by John Steinbeck
-Read and analyze
-Video clip from historical period
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Week Five - September 7 -11
*Monday is a holiday
Unit 2 - Do Isolation and Loneliness Lead to the Destruction of Self? continued
Novel: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Quick Writes: Prompts thematically related to the novel
- Introduction to author John Steinbeck, historical setting, characters, and themes
Week Six - September 14 -18
Novel: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Quick Writes: Prompts thematically related to the novel
Pre reading vocabulary
Chapter 1: Read, discuss, and complete study questions
Watch film through chapter one
Week Seven - September 21 - 25
Novel: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Quick Writes: Prompts thematically related to the novel
-Chapter 2: Read, discuss, and complete study questions
-Watch film through chapter two
-KAHOOT Test Review
-Test over Chapters 1 and 2
Week Eight- September 28 - October 2
Novel: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Quick Writes: Prompts thematically related to the novel
-Chapter 3: Read, discuss, and complete study questions
-Chapter 4: Read, discuss, and complete study questions
-Watch film through chapter four
-Test
Week Nine - October 5 - 9
Novel: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Quick Writes: Prompts thematically related to the novel
-Chapter 5: Read, discuss, and complete study questions
-Chapter 6: Read, discuss, and complete study questions
Of Mice and Men Exam
*Friday is a Professional Development Day for teachers
END OF FIRST NINE WEEKS
Week One: October 12 -16
Monday - Holiday
Tuesday - Friday
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Sermon by Jonathan Edwards
- Quick Writes: Prompts thematically related to sermon
-Pre-reading vocabulary
-Notes
-Read sermon and analyze imagery, theme, and tone
Week Two: October 19 - 23
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Background Notes:
- History of the Salem Witch Trials
- Puritanism
- Arthur Miller
- Conventions of Drama
Act One:
- Read/analyze/discuss
- Complete guided reading questions
Week Three: October 26-30
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Act Two:
- Read/analyze/discuss
- Complete guided reading questions
-Test Act 2/Scene 2 (add on /back of play book)
Week Four: November 2-6
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Act Three:
- Read/analyze/discuss
- Complete guided reading questions
- Quiz
Week Five: November 9-13
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Act Four:
- Read/analyze/discuss
- Complete guided reading questions
Week Six: November 16-20
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
-Story Board Assignment
-KAHOOT Test Review
-Final Test
-Cold Read Test
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS
Week Seven: November 30-December 4
Transcendentalism
- from Nature
- from Civil Disobedience
Week Eight: December 7-11
Edgar Allan Poe
"The Masque of the Red Death"
Week Nine: December 14 -18
Semester Exams
SECOND SEMESTER
THIRD NINE WEEKS
Week 1: January 6 - 10
Monday - Professional Development
Tuesday - Professional Development
Short Story "A Rose for Miss Emily" by William Faulkner
- Quick Write: What makes your skin crawl?
- Vocabulary
Analyze:
- Point of View: Stream of Consciousness, Multiple Narrators, First- Person- Plural
- Sequence, Flashback, Foreshadowing
Week 2: January 13 - 17
Short Story "A Rose for Miss Emily" by William Faulkner
- Complete review questions
- Scene analysis project: Students will choose a character, sketch character, and use textual evidence/quotes from the story to support assertions made about the character's personality and physical traits.
Week 3: January 20 - 24
Transcendentalism
Quick Writes
Read/analyze/discuss the ideas and beliefs of the Transcendentalists as expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Excerpts from "Self - Reliance" and "Nature".
* Monday - Holiday
Week 4: January 27 - 31
Transcendentalism
Quick Writes
Read/analyze/discuss the ideas and beliefs of the Transcendentalists as expressed by Henry David Thoreau: Excerpts from "Walden" and "Civil- Disobedience".
Essay on Transcendentalism
Week 5: February 3 - 7
Finish RD of Transcendentalist Essay
Intro to Flannery O'Connor
Quick Write, Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find", Study Questions, notes, Web Quest
Week 6: February 10 - 14
Finish reading/analyzing/discussing "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Test
Literary Analysis Essay - Foreshadowing in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" - Rough draft
Friday - Holiday
Week 7: February 17 - 21
Monday - Holiday
Tuesday - Literary Analysis Essay: Foreshadowing in "A Good Man in Hard to Find" - Final Copy
Read/analyze/discuss irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, and theme, in "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor
-Quick Writes/Guided Reading Questions
Week 8: February 24 - 28
Finish reading/analyzing/discussing irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, and theme, in "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor
-Quick Writes/Guided Reading Questions
-Quiz Wednesday
Read/analyze/discuss the use of dramatic and situational irony in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “The life You Save May Be Your Own”.
-Quick Writes/Guided Reading Questions
Week 9: March 2 - 6
Film - Dead Poets Society
- Before viewing, read and analyze "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" - by Robert Herrick
- While viewing, complete guided viewing questions (make connections to transcendentalism)
- Post film, analyze "O Captain! My Captain!" - By Walt Whitman
- Quick Writes
SPRING BREAK - MARCH 9 - 13
Fourth Nine Weeks
Log in to Edgenuity and complete the following modules each week.
*Note - This is week by week. If we go back to school, we will resume regular instruction. Please email me if you have any questions. Include a phone number, so I can call you if need be.
March 23, 2020 - March 27, 2020: Hemingway's World War I and Fitzgerald and The Roaring Twenties
March 30, 2020 - April 3, 2020: World Relationships, Writing Workshop & Unit Test
April 6, 2020 - April 9, 2020: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Disobedience & Vietnam Literary Journalism
April 14 - 17: The Great Gatsby: Read background information and notes. Read chapters 1 and 2. Take quiz over chapters 1 and 2.