English 12 – The Importance of Being Earnest / Quarter Four Schedule
Date(s)
4/18 = A Day
What’s Due? And Other Activities
Distribute reading schedule/vocabulary
4/20 = A Day
Complete anticipation guide
Oscar Wilde biography – Complete listening guide
BOOK CHECK! – Have your copy of The Importance of Being Earnest in class
today!
Jigsaw Activity – Complete graphic organizer: Late Victorian Age, English Education,
The Aesthete’s Role
PeerMark Session – Be sure to submit a complete draft of your research paper to
www.turnitin.com no later than 7:00 AM on 4/26 or you will forfeit the opportunity to
participate in the PeerMark Session!
Read Act 1 (in class in drama format)
Annotate for vocabulary words and key facts
Act 1 Quiz (includes 6 vocabulary words from Act 1)
Close Reading/Writing Activity for Act 1
Submit research paper rubric
Read Act 2 (in class in drama format)
Annotate for vocabulary words and key facts
Act 2 Vocabulary Quiz (12 vocabulary words from Act 2) VOCAB ONLY!
Act 2 Activity – Explore the role of the country characters
Act 2 Quiz (no vocabulary words included on this quiz – See 5/6)
Read Act 3 (in class in drama format)
Annotate for vocabulary words and key facts
Act 3 Quiz (includes 5 vocabulary words from Act 3)
Create a Biopoem for character. See assignment
4/22 = A Day
4/26 = A Day
4/28 = A Day
5/2 = A Day
5/4 = A Day
5/6 = A Day
5/10 = A Day
5/12 = A Day
50-Q objective test on 4th quarter outside reading novel
Complete Part 2 of Biopoem assignment and submit to www.turnitin.com
5/18 = A Day
Precis Bonus Assignment (include 5 school appropriate idioms used today and their
meanings) must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM on Friday, May 20th to
www.turnitin.com
5/20 = A Day
Watch The Importance of Being Earnest
You MUST have your annotated copy of The Importance of Being Earnest in class
today! Annotation of key facts and vocabulary words/sentences will be checked
during class today.
Digital Portfolio Check – Be sure you have posted to your portfolio!
Watch the end of The Importance of Being Earnest (P. 1)
PERIOD 5 – SEMESTER EXAM TODAY! (seniors only)
5/24 = A Day
5/25
EXAMS IN PERIODS 2 AND 4
5/26
EXAMS IN PERIODS 1 AND 3
1 5/27
STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY – NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
5/31
EXAMS IN PERIODS 6 AND 8
6/1
GRADUATION REHEARSAL FOR SENIORS
English 12 – The Importance of Being Earnest – VOCABULARY
Working with a British text, there will be some complications with things such as spelling differences (such as
“programme”) and with words that are not used in the United States (such as “perambulator” (Act 3, p. 51) – a baby
carriage). Other vocabulary issues are mainly caused by the grandiloquence of Lady Bracknell and Rev. Chasuble.
You will be quizzed on the following 23 vocabulary words found in the three acts of The Importance of Being Earnest. As
you come to each word in the play, highlight the sentence where the word is used. We will review the meanings of these
words before we begin each act of the play. Page numbers refer to the Dover Publication Edition of The Importance of
Being Earnest.
Vocabulary Word
1. earnest
Location
Title and throughout
2. expurgations
3. semi-recumbent
4. indecorous
5. profligate
6. apoplexy
Act 1, p. 9
Act 1, p. 12
Act 1, p. 12
Act 1, p. 16
Act 1, p. 16
Definition
Characterized by showing deep sincerity or
seriousness; important; grave
The removal of offensive words or passages
Partially leaning or reclining
Violating generally accepted standards of good taste
Utterly and shamelessly immoral
stroke
Vocabulary Word
1. utilitarian
2. Quixotic
Location
Act 2, p. 21
Act 2, p. 25
Definition
Regard to usefulness rather than beauty
Chivalrous; romantic; visionary; impractical
(Origin - Don Quixote (1615) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- First Known Use: 1718)
3. misanthrope
4. neologistic
5. horticulturally
6. betoken
7. interment
8. canonical
9. effeminate
10. lorgnette
11. arduous
12. machinations
Act 2, p. 25
Act 2, p. 26
Act 2, p. 26
Act 2, p. 26
Act 2, p. 27
Act 2, p. 27
Act 2, p. 35
Act 2, p. 35
Act 2, p. 35
Act 2, p. 38
Vocabulary Word
1. effrontery
2. credulity
3. insuperable
4. ostentatiously
5. Oxonian
Location
Act 3, p. 43
Act 3, p. 44
Act 3, p. 44
Act 3, p. 48
Act 3, p. 48
Hater of mankind
A new word or interpretation
Like a garden
To give evidence of; to indicate
Burial
Conforming to the practices of the Bible
Having feminine traits
A pair of eyeglasses mounted on a handle
Requiring great exertion
Crafty schemes or plots
Definition
Shameless boldness
Willingness to believe; gullibility
Incapable of being passed over
Pretentiously; attempting to impress others
Of or pertaining to Oxford University
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