Lesson Plans         May 27-30, 2008

 

* STATE STANDARDS FOR ENGLISH IV H/CP 

(Vocabulary)

* Demonstrate the ability to use context analysis to determine the meanings of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words. E4-R3.2

* Demonstrate the ability to use a general dictionary

 E2-R3.3 

 (Literature)

*Demonstrate the ability to apply personal criteria for evaluating texts in a variety of genres. E4-R2.7

*Demonstrate the ability to analyze the impact of conflict (internal and external) on plot and character in a literary work. E4-R2.8

*Demonstrate the ability to contrast the principal periods in British literature in reference to themes, styles, or trends      E4 R.2.2

*Demonstrate the ability to compare and contrast universal literary themes as they are developed in works in various genres. E4-R2.4

*Demonstrate to draw conclusions and make inferences. R1.8-R

*Demonstrate the ability to compare and contrast authors’ styles on the basis of such elements as word choice and sentence structures (syntax) E4-R2.5

Demonstrate the ability to show how the cultural, philosophical, political, religious, or ethical perspectives of a particular period influence the plots, characters, settings, and themes of literary works written during that period. E4-R2.1

*Demonstrate the ability to evaluate an author’s use of stylistic elements such as foreshadowing, flashback, soliloquy, irony, dialect, asides, tone and figurative language. E4-R2.3

 

                          

 English IV CP    

Date

Objectives

Instructional Strategies

Literacy

Student Assessment

 Assignment

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1.  Read the literature from the Renaissance on the themes of “Love, Death, and Time”

2.  Interpret literary elements with special emphasis on poetic meter, sonnets, metaphysical poetry, blank verse, imagery, and figurative language.

3.  Apply a variety of reading strategies, including determining meanings of words,  and distinguishing shades of meaning.

1.  Return  vocabulary tests and story tests

2.  Read Sir Thomas Wyatt and “Whoso List to Hunt” p. 215; discuss poetic meter

3.  Read Edmund Spenser and Sonnet 30 and 75. 

4. Read excerpt from “The Faerie Queene: England Through the Looking Glass” p. 221-222.

5.  Read about the writing of Shakespeare’s sonnets, p. 223-224 and the differences in the form of the sonnets.

6.  Hand out a list of literary  Renaissance poetry and drama terms for the exam

 

 

 

 

 

Make up all work

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1.  Read and complete study guide for Romance poetry:  sonnets 29, 73, 116, and 130

2.  Read “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” p. 247 and “Meditation 17.”  Complete study guide for these two selections.

3.  1st block –review terms and vocabulary words for exam!!!

 

 

 

 

STUDY FOR EXAMS

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1ST BLOCK  EXAMS

2ND REVIEW FOR EXAMS

 

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STUDY FOR EXAMS

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E4-R 1.3-1.6,1.8,1.9; 2.1-2.6; 2.8,2.9; 3.1-3.2, 3.4

 

 

 

 

 

Resources: Elements of Literature, 6th course.  New York:  Holt, Winston,

       2000.

Language Handbook Workbook (accompanies Elements of Literature series)

Teacher-generated vocabulary lists (words appear with frequency on PSAT and SAT)

http://www.bartleby.com/ (reference site)

Elements of Language, 6th course.  Austin:  Holt, 2001.