Saturday, January 19, 2013

Spring Semester Syllabus



Writing 2 Spring Semester Syllabus
Week/Date
Literature
Assign. Due
Writing
Grammar
Week 1 (1/17)
Holmes:  “A Scandal in Bohemia” & “The Red-Headed League”


Mastering the Comma &
Worksheet
Week 2 (1/23)
Holmes: “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” & “The Engineer’s Thumb”
Short Writing Assignment
Problem/ Solution Pre-Write & College Essay
Mastering the Comma &
Worksheet
Week 3 (1/30)
Holmes:  “The Final Problem” & “The Adventure of the Empty House"

Problem/ Solution Rough Draft
Mastering the Comma &
Worksheet
Week 4 (2/6)
Pushkin (p. 162); Tosltoy (p. 169); Chekhov (p. 26)
Short Story Worksheet for each story

Mastering the Comma &
Worksheet
Week 5 (2/13)
Dickens (p. 45); Wilde (p. 189); Kipling (p.101); Munro (p. 140)
Short Story Worksheet for each story
Problem Solution Final Draft
Mastering the Comma &
Worksheet
Week 6 (2/20)
Hawthorne (p. 73); Bierce (p. 10); Poe (p. 156)
Short Story Worksheet for each story
Cause/Effect
Pre-Write & College Essay
Mastering the Comma &
Worksheet
No CHAT (2/28)
Week 7 (3/6)
Harte (p. 64); Twain (p. 175)
Jewett (p. 87); Crane (p. 34)
Short Story Worksheet for each story
Cause/Effect
Rough Draft
The Period & Worksheet
Week 8 (3/13)
Chopin (p. 30); London (p. 122); Mansfield (p. 130); Gilman (p. 50)
Short Story Worksheet for each story

The Period & Worksheet
Week 9 (3/20)
Pirandello (p. 149); de Maupassant (p. 134); Henry  (extra handout)
Short Story Worksheet for each story
Cause/Effect
Final Draft
The Period & Worksheet
No CHAT (3/28)
Week 10 (4/3)
Larsen (p. 110); Anderson (p. 1); Hardy (p. 56)
Short Story Worksheet for each story
Evaluation
Pre-Write & College Essay
The Semicolon & Worksheet
Week 11 (4/10)
Bradstreet (p. 1); Wheatley (p. 1); Holmes (p. 21); Emerson (p. 4, 5); Longfellow (p. 6 – 10)
Poetry worksheet for 3 of the poets.
Evaluation
Rough Draft
The Colon & Worksheet
Week 12 (4/17)
Whitman (p. 22 – 26); Dickinson (p. 29 – 32); Wilcox (p. 33); Thayer (p. 34;
Dunbar (p. 41 – 43)
Poetry worksheet for 3 of the poets.
Presentation of poetry recitations.

Quotation Marks & Worksheet
Week 13 (4/24)
Frost (p. 44 – 50); Sandburg (p.53 – 54); Williams (p. 60 – 61); Teasdale (p. 62); Hughes  (p. 75 – 78)
Poetry worksheet for 3 of the poets.
Presentation of poetry recitations.
Evaluation
Final Draft
Misc. Punctuation  & Worksheet
Week 14 (5/1)
Poetry Presentation
Re-Write

Week 15 (5/8)
Final Exam



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