Schedule of Classes,
Dates and assignments are
subject to change.
DATE |
READ FOR CLASS |
TODAY’S TOPIC |
DUE |
16 Jan |
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Syllabus and Connectweb |
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18 Jan |
Thoughts on Literature |
Why Literature? |
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21 Jan |
Martin Luther King Day |
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23
Jan |
Harold Bloom, “Dumbing
Down the American Reader” |
What belongs in the canon? |
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25
Jan |
Aldo Leopold, “July” |
Essay Vocabulary |
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28 Jan |
Writing Exercises 1-5 |
Writing Exercises 1-5 |
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30 Jan |
Wendell Berry, “Why I am not going to buy a
computer” |
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1 Feb |
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4 Feb |
Cintra Wilson “Between the Rocks
and a Hard Sell” |
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6 Feb |
Writing Workshop: Rough Draft of Paper One |
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8 Feb |
“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the
World” G. Marquez |
How do groups create meaning? Short Story
Vocabulary |
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11 Feb |
“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the
World” G. Marquez |
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13 Feb |
“Civil Peace,” C. Achebe |
What does it take to recover from war? |
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15 Feb |
“Civil Peace,” C. Achebe |
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18 Feb |
Writing Exercises 6-14 |
Writing Exercises 6-14 |
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20 Feb |
“The Empty Drum” L. Tolstoy |
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22 Feb |
“The Empty Drum” L. Tolstoy |
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25 Feb |
“Super Frog Saves |
How is a hero created? |
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27 Feb |
“Super Frog Saves |
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29
Feb |
Writing Exercise 15-18 |
Writing Exercise 15-18 |
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3 Mar |
“A Good Man is Hard to Find,” F. O’Connor |
Is anyone really good? |
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5 Mar |
“A Good Man is Hard to Find,” F. O’Connor |
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7 Mar |
Research Workshop |
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10 Mar |
Writing Workshop: Rough Draft of Paper Two |
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12 Mar |
Review for Midterm |
Review of Short Answers and Essays |
Paper 2 |
14 Mar |
Midterm |
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Paper 2 |
17-22 Mar |
SPRING BREAK |
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24 Mar |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
What is your biggest temptation? |
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26 Mar |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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28 Mar |
Sonnets, Shakespeare, Milton |
Poetry vocabulary |
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31 Mar |
“My Last Duchess” Robert Browning |
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2 Apr |
“Ode To a Nightingale” Keats |
What is truth? |
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4 Apr |
“Daddy,” Sylvia Plath, “Still I Rise” Maya
Angelou, “Mending Wall” Robert Frost |
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7 Apr |
Favorite Poet Day |
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9 Apr |
Writing Exercises 19-31 |
Writing Exercises 19-31 |
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11 Apr |
Writing Workshop |
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14 Apr |
Oedipus Rex Introduction |
Play Vocabulary |
Paper 3 |
16 Apr |
Oedipus Rex |
Can a man escape his fate? |
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18 Apr |
Oedipus Rex |
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21 Apr |
Oedipus Rex |
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23 Apr |
Oedipus Rex |
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25 Apr |
Othello Introduction |
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28 Apr |
Othello |
Can motiveless evil be stopped? |
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30 Apr |
Othello |
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2 May |
Othello |
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5 May |
Othello |
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7 May |
Review for Final |
Review of Short Answers and Essays |
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14 May |
FINAL EXAM |
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Paper 4 |
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