Don Quixote Research Paper/Assignments Calendar
Monday
Nov 12
Tuesday
Nov 13
Wednesday
Nov 14
Thursday
Nov 15
Friday
Nov 16
Finish
collaborative
essay
Translation
assignment
Discuss Sonnet
AP Timed Write:
English/Spanish
Sonnet
Quiz:
Yale Course
Don Quixote
Lesson #2
Computer Lab:
Explain unit
Edmodo: Sonnet
Structure explain
Spanish
sonnet
Nov 26
Nov 27
Nov 28 (WEB)
Nov 29
Nov 30
Poem (Spanish)/
Computer Lab:
Teaching
Annotated
Bibliography
Socratic Seminar
Ch 2-3 Don
Quixote
English/Spanish
Check Printed Copies of
Annotated Bib in
Research Folders/Teach
Introductory Paragraph
Quiz:
Don Quixote
Chapter 1-10
Dec 3
Dec 4
Dec 5 (WEB)
Student Group
#1
Show 3 to 5
minute video of
Chapter 8 Don
Quixote
Teaches 20
minute lesson
from Chapter 8
Dec 6
Poem (Spanish)/
Computer Lab:
Teaching
Socratic Seminar
Ch 15 Don
Quixote
English/Spanish
Student Group
#2
Show 3 to 5
minute video of
Chapter 18 Don
Quixote
Teaches 20
minute lesson
from Chapter 18
Dec 13
Quiz:
Don Quixote
Chapter 11-20
Annotation,
Thesis, Outline
Check 10
Xeroxed/printed copies
of ten passages from
Don Quixote that are
annotated/thesis/outline
Student Group
#3
Show 3 to 5
minute video of
Chapter 22 Don
Quixote
Quiz:
Don Quixote
Chapter 21-26
Check other two printed
sources w/ annotations
Dec 10
Dec 11
Dec 12 (WEB)
Poem (Spanish)/
Computer Lab:
Teaching
Computer Lab:
Work on first
drafts
Bring Printed First Draft
to class (no excuses) to
edit
Work on drafts
Teaches 20
minute lesson
from Chapter 22
Yale Course
Lesson # 3
Dec 7
Yale Course
Lesson # 4
Dec 14
Yale Course
Lesson # 5
Dec 17 (WEB)
Dec 18
Dec 19
Dec 20
Dec 21
Research paper
due with all work
in Research
Folder
Final Exams
Periods 3,4,5
Final Exams
Periods 1 & 2
Final Exams
Period 6 & 7
Happy Holidays
Jan 8
Jan 9
Jan 10
Jan 11
AP Timed Write
based on Don
Quixote Passage
Quiz:
Don Quixote
Chapter 27-35
Welcome Back
(I’m in Salamanca,
Spain)
Yale Course
Lesson # 6
Research Assignments
1. Go through several years of AP English Literature Essay #3 essay prompts. Find 5 possible
prompts that you can do. No one in class will do the same prompt for their research paper. Have
each prompt on an individual sheet and staple these together in a research folder that has
pockets. Due Friday November 16th.
2. You will create an annotated bibliography where one of your sources is Don Quixote (citing
which translation you are using) and no more than two other sources. Due Wednesday
November 28th.
3. You will write a first draft of an introduction paragraph. Due Monday December 3rd.
4. You will print from one line or copy ten passages from Don Quixote that will possibly be used in
your research paper. You will annotate these. You will bring in your two sources, if you are using
these with annotations. Due Wednesday December 5th.
5. You will submit the detailed outline on Friday December 7th.
6. You will bring printed type first drafts to class for an in-class peer edit. No excuses. Due
Wednesday December 12.
7. Works Cited page is check on Friday December 14th
8. Final Draft Essays/folders due on Monday December 17th. You must submit the paper to
Blackboard by Monday December 17th