Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
British Literture: Grade 11 Honors English
Instructor: Andrew L. Crick
5 September/Wednesday
•Handout Beowulf and England in Literature. Opening Remarks.
6 September/Thursday
•Student ID Pictures.
7 September/Friday
•Beowulf: Section 1. Do one quote and explication. Discuss.
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10 September/Monday
•Beowulf: Section 2. Do one quote and explication. Discuss.
11 September/Tuesday
•AP Practice Exam.
12 September/Wednesday
•AP Practice Exam.
13 September/Thursday
•Correct AP Exam. Explain AP grading criteria. Give last year's AP scores.
14 September/Friday
•Beowulf: Section 3. Do one quote and explication. Discuss.
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17 September/Monday
•Beowulf: Finish Discussion.
•Handout Course Syllabus.
18 September/Tuesday
•Holiday--No School
19 September/Wednesday
•Handout Beowulf packets.
•History Lecture on Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain.
20 September/Thursday
•History Lecture on the Norman Conquest--1066 and All That.
21 September/Friday
•England in Literature: Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Background Notes.
(Pages: 4, 8, 11, 13, 16, 19, 28, 30, 32, 36-38, 40-41, 55, 57-61)
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24 September/Monday
•Beowulf Paper. Handout Topics.
•Essay guidelines handouts--discuss expectations and format.
25 September/Tuesday
•England in Literature: Excerpt from The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
by Venerable Bede (51-53).
•England in Literature: "Dark Age Glosses on the Venerable Bede" by Louis MacNeice (54).
26 September/Wednesday
•Beowulf: Passage ID and Analysis Test.
27 September/Thursday
28 September/Friday
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1 October/Monday
•Beowulf Paper: Introduction due. Peer edit.
2 October/Tuesday
3 October/Wednesday
•Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Two quotes and explications due typed. Discuss.
4 October/Thursday
•Quiz: Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain.
5 October/Friday
•Beowulf Paper: 1st and 2nd Supporting Evidence paragraph due. Peer edit.
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8 October/Monday
•Holiday--No School
9 October/Tuesday
•Gawain: discuss.
10 October/Wednesday
•Beowulf Paper: 3 Supporting Evidence paragraphs due. Peer edit.
11 October/Thursday
•Gawain: discuss.
12 October/Friday
•Beowulf Paper: Counterargument paragraph due. Peer edit.
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15 October/Monday
•Gawain: finish discussion. Everyman: One quote and explication due typed. Discuss.
16 October/Tuesday
•Beowulf Paper: Conclusion due. Peer edit.
17 October/Wednesday
•Everyman: finish discussion.
18 October/Thursday
•Correct Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain quiz.
19 October/Friday
•Beowulf Paper: Final copy due.
•PSAT Intensive review.
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22 October/Monday
•Finish Gawain lecture.
23 October/Tuesday
•The Canterbury Tales: Read "The General Prologue."
•The Canterbury Tales. Lecture on opening 18 lines. Background.
•Handout Gawain Team Paper Topics.
24 October/Wednesday
•Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Handout Team Essay Topics.
Work to fashion argument and gather evidence in class.
24 October/Thursday
•The Canterbury Tales: Discuss "The General Prologue."
26 October/Friday
•The Canterbury Tales: Discuss "The General Prologue."
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29 October/Monday
•The Canterbury Tales: Discuss "The General Prologue."
30 October/Tuesday
•The Canterbury Tales: Read "The Knight's Tale." Do two quotes and explications. Discuss.
31 October/Wednesday
•The Canterbury Tales: Discuss "The Knight's Tale."
1 November/Thursday
•Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Final Team Essay due typed.
2 November/Friday
•The Canterbury Tales: Read "The Miller's Tale." Do one quote and explication.
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5 November/Monday
•The Canterbury Tales: Read "The Miller's Tale." Do one quote and explication.
6 November/Tuesday
7 November/Wednesday
•The Canterbury Tales: Read "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale."
Do two quotes and explications.
8 November/Thursday
•Literary Terms Quiz--Long Form.
9 November/Friday
•Term 1 Ends
•The Canterbury Tales: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale." Discuss.
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12 November/Monday
•The Canterbury Tales: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale." Discuss.
•Handout A Man for All Seasons.
13 November/Tuesday
•The Canterbury Tales: Start paper: Women.
•The Canterbury Tales: Read "The Pardoner's Tale." Do one quote and explication.
14 November/Wednesday
•The Canterbury Tales: "The Pardoner's Tale." Discuss.
15 November/Thursday
•The Canterbury Tales: Read "The Nun's Priest's Tale." Do one quote and explication.
16 November/Friday
•The Canterbury Tales: Read "The Nun's Priest's Tale." Discuss.
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19 November/Monday
•A Man for All Seasons--Discussion. Two quotes and explications.
20 November/Tuesday
•A Man for All Seasons--Discussion.
21 November/Wednesday
•Fall Assembly
22 November/Thursday
•No School
23 November/Friday
•No School
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26 November/Monday
•A Man for All Seasons--Discussion.
27 November/Tuesday
•The Canterbury Tales Paper: Introduction due. Peer edit.
28 November/Wednesday
•Handout Chaucer Packet: Background and Essays. Read.
29 November/Thursday
•The Canterbury Tales: Lecture: "Being in Time: Language, Artifice and the Pain
of Exile in Chaucer's The Miller's Tale"
•The Canterbury Tales: Discuss Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in reference to love
in "The Knight's Tale."
30 November /Friday
•The Canterbury Tales Paper: 3 Supporting Evidence paragraphs due. Peer edit.
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3 December/Monday
•The Canterbury Tales Paper: Counterargument paragraph and Conclusion due. Peer edit.
4 December/Tuesday
•The Canterbury Tales: Review Quiz. 36 questions.
5 December/Wednesday
•The Canterbury Tales: Final paper due typed.
•England in Literature: Read excerpts on (Pages 66, 70, 74, 76, 80, 82, 91, 104, 116, 121-127.)
•Collect Canterbury Tales.
6 December/Thursday
•England in Literature: (Read 130-137): Sonnets: Sidney, Spenser.
•HW Due: 133/3; 135/1/4/5; 137/2
7 December/Friday
•Introduction to and Lecture on the Sonnet (Italian/Petrarchan vs. English/Shakespearen;
Spenserian Stanza in The Faerie Queen and the Alexandrine--132/133; 140).
•England in Literature: (Read 138-149).
•HW Due: 142/2a/3a; 146/1c/2a/2c; 149/2a/2b/2c; Interpret Sonnet 116 on page 149.
•Explicate Sonnets 71 and 116 and 144.
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10 December/Monday
•England in Literature: (Read 218-232). Bacon, Nashe, King James Bible, Elizabethan background.
•HW Due: 220/1d/2a.
11 December/Tuesday
•Sonnets
12 December/Wednesday
•Sonnets-Group Explications.
13 December/Thursday
•Collect England in Literature Homework.
•Lecture on Francis Bacon and Inductive Reasoning.
14 December/Friday
•A Man for All Seasons: Team Essay and Editorial Handouts on Civil Liberties
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17 December/Monday
•A Man for All Seasons: Team Essay--Work in Class.
18 December/Tuesday
•A Man for All Seasons: Team Essay--Work in Class.
19 December/Wednesday
•A Man for All Seasons: Team Essay--Work in Class.
•Sonnet Due. Write your own sonnet. Then explain whether it is Italian or Shakespearean in form
and why. Then offer a one-paragraph explication of your own sonnet. Must be typed.
20 December/Thursday
•A Man for All Seasons: Team Essay--Final paper due.
•Handout Macbeth.
21 December/Friday
•Macbeth: Discussion.
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31 December/Monday
•No School--Holiday
1 January/Tuesday
•No School--Holiday
2 January/Wednesday
•Macbeth: Discussion.
3 January/Thursday
•Macbeth: Discussion.
4 January/Friday
•Macbeth: Discussion.
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7 January/Monday
•Macbeth: Discussion.
•Macbeth: HW Due: One quote and explication for each of the five acts.
8 January/Tuesday
•Macbeth: Discussion.
9 January/Wednesday
•Macbeth: Discussion.
10 January/Thursday
•Macbeth: Discussion.
11 January/Friday
•Macbeth: Discussion.
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14 January/Monday
•15 lines from Macbeth for recitation.
15 January/Tuesday
•15 lines from Macbeth for recitation.
16 January/Wednesday
•Macbeth: Passage ID Test.
17 January/Thursday
•England in Literature: (Read 153). The Globe Theater.
•England in Literature: (Read 236-241) The Metaphysical Poets: Donne.
•HW Due: 239/1b/2a/2c/5a/5b; 241/3b/5a/5b [Type the HW!]
18 January/Friday
•England in Literature: (Read 242-244): The Metaphysical Poets: Marvell and Herbert.
•HW Due: 243/1a/2; 244//1/2b; Also: Why are these poets called "Metaphysical?"
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21 January/Monday
•No School--Holiday
22 January/Tuesday
•England in Literature: (Read 245-247): The Cavalier Poets.
•HW Due: 247/1a/1b/2/3/4a/4b/5b; Also: Why are these poets called "Cavalier?"
•England in Literature: (Read 248-255). Milton.
•HW Due: 255/2/4/5
23 January/Wednesday
•England in Literature: (Read 256-268): Dryden and Pepys.
•HW Due: 257/1a/1b/1c/2a/2b/2c/2d; 268/1/2a/2b/2c; Also: What is an ode?
•England in Literature: (Read 269-275): The 17th Century.
24 January/Thursday
•Literary Terms Quiz--Long Form.
25 January/Friday
•Term 2 Ends
•England in Literature: (Read 278-282): Swift: A Modest Proposal.
•HW Due: 282/1a/1b/2/3a/5a/5b; Also: What is satire? Was Swift a misanthrope?
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28 January/Monday
•England in Literature: (Read 283-286): Defoe: Journal of the Plague Year.
•HW Due: 286/2/3/4
•HW Due: Type 1 paragraph comparative anaylsis of Pepys's Diary and Defoe's Journal.
29 January/Tuesday
•England in Literature: (Read 287-290): Addison and Steele: Tatler and Spectator.
•HW Due: 290/1a/1c/3a
•HW Due: Type 1 paragraph anaylsis of Addison and Steele's The Spectator: "Dissection of a Beau's Head."
Explain the satire of the piece.
•Handout Gulliver's Travels.
30 January/Wednesday
•England in Literature: (Read 291-298): Pope: Rape of the Lock.
•HW Due: 296/2/4/5; 298/3; Also: Define mock-epic. Define epigram.
31 January/Thursday
•England in Literature: (Read 298-303): Johnson: Dictionary.
•HW Due: 302/1b/1e/1g/1h
1 February/Friday
•England in Literature: (Read 304-313): Boswell: Johnson's Biography.
•HW Due: 313/1b/1c/2c/3 (briefly)
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4 February/Monday
•Macbeth Trial: Maclab Opening Statements.
5 February/Tuesday
•Macbeth Trial: Maclab Opening Statements due (3 copies).
6 February/Wednesday
•Macbeth Trial: Maclab Rebuttal and Closing Remarks.
7 February/Thursday
•Macbeth Trial: Maclab Rebuttal and Closing Remarks due (3 copies).
8 February/Friday
•Macbeth Trial: The Witches.
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11 February/Monday
•Macbeth Trial: Lady Macbeth
12 February/Tuesday
•Macbeth Trial: Macbeth.
13 February/Wednesday
•Macbeth: Teammate appraisals for Macbeth Trial.
14 February/Thursday
•Macbeth: Multiple-choice test.
15 February/Friday
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25 February/Monday
•Gulliver's Travels: Part I--One typed quote and explication due. Discuss.
26 February/Tuesday
•Gulliver's Travels: Part II--One typed quote and explication due. Discuss.
27 February/Wednesday
•Gulliver's Travels: Part III--One typed quote and explication due. Discuss.
28 February /Thursday
•Gulliver's Travels: Part III--One typed quote and explication due. Discuss.
1 March/Friday
•Gulliver's Travels: Part IV--One typed quote and explication due. Discuss.
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4 March/Monday
•Gulliver's Travels: Part IV--One typed quote and explication due. Discuss.
5 March/Tuesday
•Gulliver's Travels: Begin paper.
6 March/Wednesday
•Gulliver's Travels: Passage Analysis Test.
7 March/Thursday
•Gulliver's Travels: Paper: Introduction and 1st Supporting Evidence paragraph due typed. Peer edit.
8 March/Friday
•Gulliver's Travels: Paper: 2nd and 3rd Supporting Evidence paragraph due typed. Peer edit.
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11 March/Monday
•Begin Romantic Poetry.
•England in Literature: (Read 314-316): Thomas Gray: 316//1a/2a/2b/2c/3/4/6/7a.
12 March/Tuesday
•England in Literature: (Read 317-320): Robert Burns: 320//2a/3a/5a/5b.
•SAT Review Lecture.
13 March/Wednesday
•Gulliver's Travels: Paper: Counterargument and Conclusion paragraph due typed. Final Peer edit.
14 March/Thursday
•England in Literature: (Read 321-339): William Blake: 329//1a/1b/1c/1d/2a/2c/3a/3b.
•SAT 30 minute Practice Test.
15 March/Friday
•No school
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18 March/Monday
•Gulliver's Travels: Paper: Final paper due.
•Handout Enlightenment vs. Romantic Era lecture notes. Discuss.
19 March/Tuesday
•England in Literature: (Read 342-351): William Wordsworth: 343//CWB-2/WTMWU-1/2/London-1/
NFN-1/2/3. 349//Discussion-1/2/3/4/Writing-1. 351//1.
20 March/Wednesday
•England in Literature: (Read 351-354): Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 354//KK-2/FM-4.
21 March/Thursday
•England in Literature: (Read 355-362): George Gordon, the Lord Byron: 357//Darkness-1.
362//Discussion-1/2/3/5. In-class essay: 362//2 or 3.
22 March/Friday
•England in Literature: (Read 363-366): Percy Bysshe Shelley: 366//England-1/
Ozymandias-1/2/Men of England-1/2/Mutability (no number)/West Wind-1.
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25 March/Monday
•England in Literature: (Read 367-378): John Keats: 369//Chapman's Homer (no number)/
Autumn/1/2/3. 370//1/3. 371//1/2. 373//2/4. 378//1/2/5/7.
•Team Quiz: "The World is Too Much With Us."
26 March/Tuesday
•England in Literature: (Read 379-385): Charles Lamb: 381//1/2.
•Collect Homework.
•Handout Pride and Prejudice; Handout Frankenstein.
27 March/Wednesday
•Team Quiz explication of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" and Keats's "To Autumn."
•Finish Team Quiz explication of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" and Keats's "To Autumn."
28 March/Thursday
•Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
•Pope's "Essay on Man"
29 March/Friday
•No School
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1 April/Monday
2 April/Tuesday
3 April/Wednesday
4 April/Thursday
5 April/Friday
•End of Term 3.
•Pride and Prejudice: Discussion. 2 typed quotes and explications due from the novel.
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8 April/Monday
•England in Literature: (Read 388-392): Alfred, Lord Tennyson: 392//2b/3a/5a/5c/5d/6.
9 April/Tuesday
•England in Literature: (Read 393-395): Robert Browning: 395//1a/1b/1c/1d/2a/2b/2c/2d/2e
/3a/3b/3c/5a.
10 April/Wednesday
•England in Literature: (Read 396-398): Matthew Arnold: 398//1a/1b/1c/3/4a/4c/4d/4e/5b.
In class essay on "Dover Beach." (398//4d).
11 April/Thursday
•England in Literature: (Read 398-403): Elizabeth Barett Browning, Emily Bronte, Arthur Hugh Clough,
Christina Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edward Fitgerald: 401//Browning-1a/1b/Bronte-1/
Clough-1/Rossetti-1/2c/Swinburne-1b; 403//1/2/3/4.
12 April/Friday
•England in Literature: (Read 404-406): Thomas Hardy: 406//1c/2a/3a/3b/3c/4/5a/5c/5d/6/7a/7b/7c/7d.
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22 April/Monday
•England in Literature: (Read 407-411): Gerard Manley Hopkins and A. E. Housman:
408//1a/1b/1c/2a/2b/2c/2d/4a/4b/4c/5a/5b/5c; 411//1a/1c/2/4a/4b/4c/5a/5b/5c.
Possible essay questions in class: 412/2/3/7.
•Finish Pride and Prejudice discussion.
23 April/Tuesday
•Frankenstein: Discussion. 2 typed quotes and explications due from the novel.
24 April/Wednesday
•Frankenstein: Discussion.
25 April/Thursday
•Frankenstein: Discussion.
26 April/Friday
•No Class--Voice Workshop.
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29 April/Monday
•Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Discussion. 1 typed quote and explication due from the novel.
30 April/Tuesday
•Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Discussion.
1 May/Wednesday
•Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Discussion.
2 May/Thursday
•Macbeth play.
3 May/Friday
•The Remains of the Day: Discussion. 2 typed quotes and explications due from the novel.
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6 May/Monday
•The Remains of the Day: Discussion.
7 May/Tuesday
•The Remains of the Day: Discussion.
8 May/Wednesday
•England in Literature: (Read 618-624). William Butler Yeats: 624//1a/1b/3/4a/4b/5a/5b/6.
9 May/Thursday
•England in Literature: (Read 625-633). T. S. Eliot: 633//2/3a/3b/3c/4a/4b.
•Handout Crick Essay: "Constructing the Victorian Prison: Reform and Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century Britain."
10 May/Friday
•England in Literature: (Read 634-639). Word War I Poets: 635//1/2/3; 639//1a/1b/1c.
Possible in-class essay: 362//3.
•Handout Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
•Handout Lord of the Flies and 1984.
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13 May/Monday
•England in Literature: (Read 640-646). W. H. Auden: 646//1/2a/2b/3a/3b/3c.
•Discuss "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
14 May/Tuesday
•England in Literature: (Read 650-656). Dylan Thomas: 656//2/3a/3c/3d.
•Discuss "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
15 May/Wednesday
•England in Literature: (Read 657/Lewis; 659/MacNeice; 660/Spark; 661/Thomas). 661//2/5/7/8.
•Team Quiz explication of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" and Keats's "To Autumn."
16 May/Thursday
•England in Literature: (Read 666-667/Reid; 671/Bold). 671//1/2/6. Collect Homework.
•Finish Team Quiz explication of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" and Keats's "To Autumn."
17 May/Friday
•Handout Poetry Paper Assignment.
•Discuss Tennyson's "Ulysses."
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20 May/Monday
•Lord of the Flies: Discussion. 2 typed quotes and explications due from the novel.
21 May/Tuesday
•Lord of the Flies: Discussion.
22 May/Wednesday
•Lord of the Flies: Discussion.
23 May/Thursday
•Lord of the Flies: Discussion.
24 May/Friday
•Lord of the Flies: Passage ID Test.
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27 May/Monday
•No School
28 May/Tuesday
•1984: Discussion. 2 typed quotes and explications due from the novel.
29 May/Wednesday
•Lord of the Flies: Peer edit full paper.
30 May/Thursday
•1984: Discussion.
31 May/Friday
•Lord of the Flies: Final paper due.
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3 June/Monday
•1984: Discussion.
4 June/Tuesday
•Poetry Term Paper--Teacher edits introductions. Peer edit.
5 June/Wednesday
•Poetry Term Paper--Teacher edits drafts. Peer edit.
6 June/Thursday
•Poetry Term Paper--Teacher edits drafts. Peer edit.
7 June/Friday
•Poetry Term Paper due.
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10 June/Monday
•Final Exam Review
11 June/Tuesday
•Final Exam Review
12 June/Wednesday
•Final Exam Review
13 June/Thursday
•Final Exam--Objective and Short Answer
14 June/Friday
•Final Exam--Essay
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17 June/Monday
18 June/Tuesday
19 June/Wednesday
20 June/Thursday
•Last Day of School
21 June/Friday
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Microfiction
Plato's cave allegory
28 March/Thursday
•Pope's "Essay on Man"
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