Writing 2 Spring Semester Initial Syllabus

Writing 2 Syllabus

Semester 2

Tammy Prichard (tamprichard@gmail.com)

Resources:

·         Short, Short Stories  (Paul Negri, ed.)   Dover Publications

·         101 Great American Poems  (Literacy Project, ed.)  Dover Publications

·         The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)  Dover Publications

·         various worksheets and handouts

Objectives:

Literature

            Short stories, as a genre, contain many of the literary devices of novels but in concentrated form.  As we read American, European, and mystery short stories, we’ll discuss character development, plot, themes, and figurative language.  We will also compare various authors and stories.  Reading various well-known selections of American poetry,  we’ll analyze (“take apart and put back together”) poems for their meaning and artistry.

Writing

            The students will write 4 papers for this class.   We will continue our work of supporting a thesis with accurate and well-organized details.  The three essays assigned will challenge the students to use critical thinking skills.  Each of these papers will be longer and will follow a 3-step process (pre-writing to rough draft to final copy).  The final writing assignment gives the students an opportunity to re-write any paper written this year for Writing 2.

Grammar

            We will continue to deal with grammar issues and difficulties as they arise in the context of written assignments. 

Initial Draft – Subject to change

Week	Literature	Writing
1	Holmes:  “A Scandal in Bohemia” & “The Red-Headed League”
2	Holmes: “The Five Orange Pips” & “The Blue Carbuncle”	Problem/Solution OR Cause/Effect Pre-Write
3	Holmes:  “The Noble Bachelor” & “The Copper Beeches"	Problem/Solution OR Cause/Effect Rough Draft
4	Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov
5	Dickens, Wilde, Kipling, Munro	Problem/Solution OR Cause/Effect Final Copy
6	Hawthorne, Poe, Bierce	Evaluation Essay Pre-Write
7	Harte, Twain, Jewett, Crane	Evaluation Essay Rough Draft
8	Chopin, London, Mansfield, Gilman
9	Pirandello, de Maupassant, O. Henry	Evaluation Essay Final Copy
10	Larsen, Anderson, Hardy	Argument Essay Pre-Write
11		Argument Essay Rough Draft
12	Bradstreet, Wheatley, Emerson, Longfellow
13	Whitman, Dickinson, Thayer, Robinson, Dunbar	Argument Essay Final Copy
14	Frost, Sandburg, Williams, Hughes	Re-Write #1
15	Final Exam	Re-Write #2