Fall Pacing Schedule...Subject to Change

Week 1 - Introduction to course (expectations), diagnostic essay/noun forms

Week 2 - Beowulf, Old English study, Anglo-Saxon background and vocabulary/verb forms and shift in verb tense

Week 3 - Beowulf continued, Anglo-Saxon Test/subject-verb agreement

Week 4 - Novel Reading - Native Son/subject-verb agreement

Week 5 - Novel Reading - Native Son/pronoun-antecedent agreement

Week 6 - Novel Reading - Native Son & novel test/use of voice/placement of modifiers

Week 7 - Short Stories/words that create clarity, precision, and vivid description

Week 8 - Short Stories/formal and informal language

Week 9 - Short Stories/capitalization

Week 10 - Macbeth, Acts I & II/commas

Week 11 - Macbeth, Acts III & IV/semicolons/colons

Week 12 - Macbeth, Act V, Test/punctuation continued

Week 13 - Macbeth Newspaper Project/pronouns

Week 14 - Novel - I Am Legend/pronouns

Week 15 - Novel - I Am Legend/parallelism

Week 16 - Novel - I Am Legend test/commonly confused words

Week 17 - Short Stories/verbs

Week 18 - Review & Finals