March 2nd, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Chapter 10 Great Expectations.
2) Identify and analyze important quotations in the chapter
3) Introduce the literature circle
March 1st, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Revise Chapter and prepare for chapter 9
2) Discuss and analyze chapter 9
3) Fill in the template of character sketch.
28th, January, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Read chapters 7 & 8 Great Expectations
2) Analyze character traits and important details
3) Paraphrase chapter 8
21st January, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Read Chapters 6 & 7 Great Expectations
2) Identify and analyze main ideas and supporting details
3) Students paraphrase chapter 6 and summarize chapter 7
19th, January, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Identify and analyze main ideas and supporting details in chapters 4 & 5 “Great Expectations”
2) Summarize the chapters
Homework: Read chapter 6
13th of January, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Read chapter TWO Great Expectations
2) Determine plot elements, including complications, climax, internal and external conflicts, and narrator’s role.
Homework:
Read chapter 3 and summarize chapter 2.
12th January, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Chapter Two Great Expectations “read”.
2) Explore the Key ideas of the chapter.
3) Take notes by charting main ideas and details.
4) Make connections to current events and personal values.
Homework:
Read and analyze chapters 3&4.
11th January, 2015
Learning Objectives:
1) Introduce the FIVE winning ingredients for any successful novel.
2) Read Chapter One Great Expectations in Class.
3) Analyze the introductory paragraph, exposition, setting.
Homework:
Prepare chapter 2, and summarize chapter one Great Expectations.
28th December 2014
Material Covered: Semester One:
Reading Selections:
1) Beowulf vs Grendel
2) Beowulf vs Grendel’s mother
3) Beowulf vs the Dragon
4) First eight chapters “Great Expectations”
SKILLS & WRITING
Literary Analysis/ Evaluate/ Analyze/ Summarize/ Paraphrase/ Infer/ Compare/ Draw Conclusion
November the 10th, 2014
Learning objectives:
1) Classify characters
2) Determine writer’s purpose, motives, credibility, and tone.
3) Create imagery through the use of adjectives and verbs
November the 9th, 2014
Learning Objectives:
1)Develop strategies for reading an epic
2) Identify Kennings
3) Identify and analyze the characteristics of an epic hero
4) Identify and analyze the conventions of an epic poem
Welcome to 12th grade English Literature Class!
Sept.15th, 2014
Learning objectives:
1) understand the interrelation of major literary movements with historical events and movements.
2) identify critical lenses for focusing on literature.
3) identify strategies for reading poetic forms
Homework:
1) Read and summarize the epic traditions of the Anglo-Saxon Literature
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