English III Honors
First Trimester
Professor: Jaimie Crawford
Extra Help: Wednesday and Thursday morning in English Office in LH OR by appointment.
8/27: Welcome back; introductions
8/28: Discuss syllabus/ Begin Shadow Test
8/29: Shadow Test (grammar)
8/30: Grammar Diagnostic Test (simulation of SAT II Writing) HW: pp2-17
9/2: Labor Day School Holiday
9/3: Begin Beowulf in class HW: pp18-38
9/4: Beowulf in class; discussion of the tragic hero HW: pp39-49
9/5: Assignment #1 due (see Out-of-Class Assignments); Beowulf in class HW: p.41-64
9/6: PSAT/SAT prep
9/9: Picture Day
9/10: Discuss Library Report/Web Site Project (Choose one summer reading book on which to complete a library report or website; you will be tested on the second book);
STUDENT WEBSITES Greg/Chris Josh/Christine
9/11: Beowulf in class
9/12: Beowulf in class
9/13: Vocab Quiz Unit 1; PSAT/SAT prep
9/16: Yom Kippur School Holiday
9/17: Discuss website assignment/PSAT answers and discussion
9/18: College Counseling Day; Parents’ BTS Night
9/19: Seafarer in class
9/20: Vocab Quiz Unit 2; PSAT/SAT prep HW: Complete Canterbury Prologue pp.100-125
9/23: Assignment #2 dueCanterbury Tales/ Pardoner’s Tale HW: finish tale and read Wife of Bath’s Tale
9/24: Canterbury Tales in class
9/25: Canterbury Tales in class
9/26: Group work day for websites and library reports
9/27: Vocab Quiz; PSAT/SAT prep
9/30: Assignment #3 due; Go over PSAT
10/1-2: Morte D'Artur in class
10/3: Multiple Choice Test on Beowulf/Canterbury Tales/Morte D'Artur
10/4: Vocab Quiz; PSAT/SAT prep
10/7: Go over PSAT
10/8: BRING LAPTOPS TO CLASS--In class practice essay
10/9: Library Report/Website Presentation (Hand in website address OR written library report).
10/10: Essay test on summer reading
10/11: Teacher Inservice
10/14: COLUMBUS DAY
10/15: PSAT
10/16-25: Begin Renaissance Poetry (Bring text every day)
10/24: College Fair
10/31: Halloween Vocab Quiz
11/:4 Poetry/song Projects
11/7: Renaisance Poetry Test
11/8: Vocab Quiz
11/11: Check Vocab Journals in class-50 points
11/11-15: Begin Macbeth; HW Macbeth reading to be assigned
11/15: Vocab Quiz
11/18: Exam Review. EXAM will cover: 1. All vocab (Units 1-8)
2. Sentence Structure
3. All literature covered
4. Reading Comprehension
11/19-22: FIRST TRIMESTER EXAM