Saturday, January 17, 2015

Writing 2 Class Spring Syllabus 2015


Week/
Date
Literature
Assign. Due
Writing Due
Grammar Due
Week 1 (1/15)
Introduction to Sherlock Holmes



Week 2 (1/22)
Holmes:  “A Scandal in Bohemia” & “The Red-Headed League”
Answer 4 Questions for “The Red-Headed League”
Mystery Story Pre-Write
Comma:  Sentences
Worksheet
Week 3 (1/29)
Holmes: “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” & “The Engineer’s Thumb”
Answer 4 questions for one of the two stories
Mystery Story Rough Draft
Comma:  Intro Elements
Week 4 (2/5)
Holmes:  “The Final Problem” & “The Adventure of the Empty House"
Holmes Final Exam

Comma:  Restrictive Clauses
Week 5 (2/12)
Pushkin (p. 162); Tolstoy (p. 169); Chekhov (p. 26)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Mystery Story Final Draft
Comma:  Appositives & Parenthetical phrases
Week 6 (2/19)
Dickens (p. 45); Wilde (p. 189); Kipling (p.101); Munro (p. 140)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Cause/Effect OR Problem/ Solution
Pre-Write
Comma:  Series
Feb. 26 – No CHAT
Week 7 (3/5)
Hawthorne (p. 73); Bierce (p. 10); Poe (p. 156)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Cause/Effect OR Problem/ Solution
Rough Draft
Comma:  Interrupters
Week 8 (3/12)
Harte (p. 64); Twain (p. 175)
Jewett (p. 87); Crane (p. 34)
2 Short Story Worksheets

Comma: Dates & Addresses
Week 9 (3/19)
Chopin (p. 30); London (p. 122); Mansfield (p. 130); Gilman (p. 50)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Cause/Effect OR Problem/ Solution
Final Draft
End Marks & Abbreviations
Week 10 (3/26)
Pirandello (p. 149); de Maupassant (p. 134); Henry  (extra handout)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Evaluation Pre-Write
Colon & Semicolon
April 2 – No CHAT
Week 11 (4/9)
Larsen (p. 110); Anderson (p. 1); Hardy (p. 56)
2 Short Story Worksheets
 Evaluation Rough Draft
Italics & Quotations Marks
Week 12 (4/16)
Bradstreet (p. 1); Wheatley (p. 1); Holmes (p. 21); Emerson (p. 4, 5); Longfellow (p. 6 – 10); Whitman (p. 22 – 26); Dickinson (p. 29 – 32)
Poetry worksheet for 3 of the poems.

Hyphens, Parentheses & Dash
Week 13 (4/23)
Wilcox (p. 33); Thayer (p. 34); Dunbar (p. 41 – 43) Frost (p. 44 – 50); Sandburg (p.53 – 54); Williams (p. 60 – 61); Hughes  (p. 75 – 78)
Poetry worksheet for 3 of the poems/

Presentation of poetry recitations.
Evaluation Final Draft
Punctuation Review
Week 14 (4/30)
Poetry Presentation
Poetry worksheet for 3 of the poems.
Presentation of poetry recitations.
Re-Write
Grammar Test
Week 15 (5/7)
Poetry Presentation, Final Exam


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