Updated December Syllabus

HORROR LITERATURE G BLOCK DECEMBER 2013

Tues, Dec. 10                         scene ii

Wed., Dec. 11                         scenes iii & iv

                                                “Frankenstein” second drafts

Thurs., Dec. 12                      review Act I in groups

Fri., Dec. 13                           Act I quiz

Tues., Dec. 17                        Act II, scene i

Wed., Dec. 18                         Act II, scene ii to players’ recital of Pyrrhus story)

                                                Discuss Agamemnon story

Thurs., Dec. 19                      Act II, scene ii to end

Fri., Dec. 20                           Act II quiz & Party

Wed., Dec. 17                         Prep for writing test

Thurs., Dec. 18                      Writing test

Nov. Syllabus

G BLOCK NOVEMBER SYLLABUS 2013

Tues. Nov. 12 Go over Vocab 2 words

Discuss 16 – 20

Hand out possible paper questions

Wed., Nov. 13 Finish and discuss Frankenstein

Thurs., Nov. 14 “Frankenstein” movie.

Good essay questions due

Fri., Nov. 15 Finish “Frankenstein” movie

Vocab Quiz 2

Outline of Frankenstein essay due, typed (follow template)

Tues., Nov. 19 Rewrite of Gothic Essay Due (see assignment)

Vocab Quiz 2

Frankie Quest

Wed., Nov. 20 Draft of essay due to peers

Thurs., Nov. 21 Essay due to me

“Night of the Living Dead”

Fri., Nov. 22 Review and discussion

Tues., Nov. 26 “Night” review

Shakespeare factoids

Vocab 3 quiz

Wed., Nov. 27 Act I, scenes I & ii

Thurs., Nov. 28 Thanksgiving!

Fri., Nov.  29 No school

Tues., Dec. 2 Scene iii

Wed., Dec. 3 Scenes iv and v

Thurs., Dec. 4 Practice and act scenes

Fri., Dec. 5 Act I review

Tues., Dec. 9 Act I test

Gothic Powerpoint

Here's the link. 

http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/RSpriggs/files/gothic_literature%20power%20point1.p
pt 

Updated October Syllabus

HORROR LITERATURE (Section 2) OCTOBER 2013

 

Tues., Oct. 8               “The Pit and the Pendulum”

                                    Final college essay 1 due

Wed., Oct. 9               “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Thurs., Oct. 10           “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

                       

Fri., Oct. 11                “The Monkey’s Paw”

                                    Final college essay 2 due

Tues., Oct. 15            Go over writing skills

Wed., Oct. 16            "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne

Thurs., Oct. 17         No class - Ms. D has a field trip

Fri., Oct. 18              "Rappaccini's Daughter," Hawthorne

Tues., Oct. 22            In-Class Essay on Gothic Horror stories   

                                    Hand out Shelley Factoids       

Wed., Oct. 23             Discuss essay

Factoid presentation
INTRO TO ROMANTICISM

                                    Hand out Vocab List 1. Go over usage.

Thurs., Oct. 24          Frankenstein chapters 1-4

Reading quiz on chapters 1 – 4

                                   

Fri., Oct. 25                Frankenstein 5 – 7

                                    Review punctuation in groups

Tues., Oct. 29            Outside Reading Presentations

Wed., Oct. 30             Vocab Quiz.

                                    Outside Reading Presentations

                                     Hand out Vocab List 2

Thurs., Oct. 31            Discuss 8 – 13

                                    

Fri. Nov. 1                   No class


Tues., Nov. 5             Discuss 14 - 17        

                                    Hand out essay assignment

Wed., Nov. 6              17 – 19

Thurs., Nov. 7            Frankenstein, 20 - 21

                                     Outlines due - Q, thesis, RQ, 4 topic sentences

Fri., Nov. 8                 Discuss end of novel.
                                     One-on-one for outlines

                                  

Sept. - Oct. Syllabus

HORROR LITERATURE G BLOCK OCTOBER 2013

 

           

Tues., Sept. 24          Hand in and discuss college essays

HUBRIS IN HORROR LITERATURE

The story of Babel
            Beowulf – Grendel

                                    Diction and passive voice

Wed., Sept. 25           Punctuation review

Beowulf – Grendel’s Mom and the Dragon

Thurs., Sept. 26        MONSTER PRESENTATIONS

College essay idea 2 written down and submitted

Fri., Sept. 27              MONSTER PRESENTATIONS

Tues., Oct. 1              College Essay 2 due

ROMANTICISM AND THE GOTHIC – Powerpoint

                                     “The Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allen Poe

                                   

Wed., Oct. 2               “A Tell-Tale Heart”

WRITING UNIT II: The analytical essay

The difference between observation and idea

Thurs., Oct. 3                        “The Pit and the Pendulum”

                                    Developing the Thesis

Fri., Oct. 4                 “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Tues., Oct. 8              “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

                                    Body Paragraphs, Transitional Topic Sentences

Wed., Oct. 9               Intro and concluding paragraphs

“The Monkey’s Paw”

Thurs., Oct. 10          Setting up quotations

                                    Hand out Frankenstein

Factoids: Who was Mary Shelley?

Tues., Oct. 15                        Factoid presentation

                                    Frank, chapters 1 – 4

                                   

Wed., Oct. 16             Hand out Frank Vocab List 1. Go over usage.

                                    Frankenstein 5 - 7

                                   

Thurs., Oct. 17          Frank 8 – 13

                                   

Fri., Oct. 18                14 – 16

                       

Tues., Oct. 22                        Frank Vocab quiz 1

                                    Hand out Frank Vocab list 2

17 – 19

Wed., Oct. 23             Frankenstein, 20 – 21

                                    Outside reading presentations

Thurs., Oct. 31          Finish outside reading presentations

Discuss end of novel

“Frankenstein” movie             

                                    Hand out Frankenstein essay assignment

Mon., Nov. 4             End of Term I

Tues., Nov. 5             Outline for Frankenstein  essay due

                                    Frankenstein movie review due

 

Wed., Nov. 6              Vocab quiz 2

One-on-one for Frank essays

                                   

100 Best Horror Books Link

http://home.comcast.net/~netaylor1/jonesnewman.html

Monsters!

MONSTERS!

Choose a monster that has been around for awhile. Then, become as expert as you can on the history of this monster as he/she appears, possibly in slightly altered guise, in mythology, literature, film, and other entertainment media.

Create a 3-minute powerpoint (or similar) presentation in which you educate us on this monster. Some questions you should address in your presentation:

·               who is this monster?

·               What does he/she look like?

·               What is this monster notorious for?

·               Where does this monster first appear?

·               Where else does it appear?

·               Is this monster “alive” today?

·               What are this monster’s monstrous traits?

·               Who generally battles this monster?

·               Does the monster have a weakness? What is it?

·               What does this monster represent in terms of the anxieties of each milieu in which it appears? (ancient greek civilization, Victorian era Europe, 21^st century America, etc.

·               Does what the monster represents change or evolve? From what to what?

·               Is there a side to the monster that is pleasurable or alluring?

·               Might the monster elicit our envy for some reason?

Why is this monster scary? Is there something primitive and unchanging—something “unive

Links to sample college essays:

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-in/essays/sample-college-application-essay-1

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-in/essays/sample-college-application-essay-2

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124155340652688619.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124155327269488613.html