English 11 Honors

English 11 Honors
Syllabus
February 5-9, 2007
Trimester II
Week 11

Monday, February 5, 2007

Film Reviews are due today. Please attach the rubric I gave you; it is attached to the “Film Review” guideline sheet.
Vocabulary 9 test will be on Thursday.
Problem Solving Presentations will be on Wednesday-Don’t tell what yours is so we can guess.
Read introduction to Washington Irving and “The Elements of Literature/Background” on pp. 152-153.
Read “Rip Van Winkle,” pp. 154-165. Answer questions 3, 4, 5, & 6 for Tuesday.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Discuss the questions from pp. 154-165 “Rip Van Winkle.”
After this, read the introduction to William Cullen Bryant p. 169.
Then read “The Before You Read” section on “Thanatopsis,” p. 170. This section will help you with the poem.
Begin reading the poem pp. 171-172. Write a short summary of what you believe the meaning is and then answer questions 2 & 5 from “Shaping Interpretation” on p. 174, and from “Reading Inverted Sentences, #1 on p. 174.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Discuss the poem “Thanatopsis.”
Problem Solving presentations.
Introduction to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Read “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls,” and “The Cross of Snow” pp. 176-178.
We will discuss this tomorrow.
Review for Vocabulary test 9.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Vocabulary 9 test.
Finish any material we did not have time to cover.
Assign Oliver Wendell Holmes p. 187 and poem “The Chambered Nautilus,” “Old Ironsides.” Write a summary over the meaning of each.

Friday, February 9, 2007
In lab for Criterion Writing Testing.
Discuss Oliver Wendell Holmes and his works.

Power Standards/Objectives:
Vocabulary
11.2.2 Analyze the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, repetition of the main ideas, organization of language, and word choice in the text.

Reading
11.3.3 Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the author’s style, and the sound of language achieve specific rhetorical (communication) or aesthetic (artistic) purposes or both.
11.3.4 Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers’ emotions.