Friday, January 22, 2016

Writing 2 -- Spring Syllabus, 2016

Week/Date
Literature
Assign. Due
Writing Due
Grammar Topic
Week 1 (1/21)
Introduction to Sherlock Holmes


Modifiers
Week 2 (1/28)
Holmes“A Scandal in Bohemia” & “The Red-Headed League”
Answer 4 Questions for “The Red-Headed League”
Mystery Story Pre-Write
Prepositional Phrases
Adj/Adv Phrases
Week 3 (2/4)
Holmes: “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” & “The Engineer’s Thumb”
Answer 4 questions for one of the two stories
Mystery Story Rough Draft
Participles/Gerunds
Week 4 (2/11)
Holmes“The Final Problem” & “The Adventure of the Empty House"
Holmes Final Exam

Appositives & Infinitives
Week 5 (2/18)
Short Stories: Pushkin (p. 162); Tolstoy (p. 169); Chekhov (p. 26)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Mystery Story Final Draft
Clauses: Adjective, Adverb, Noun
February 25 – No CHAT
Week 6 (3/3)
Short Stories: Dickens (p. 45); Wilde (p. 189); Kipling (p.101); Munro (p. 140)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Cause/Effect OR Problem/ Solution
Pre-Write
Identifying Subject & Predicate
Week 7 (3/10)
Short Stories: Hawthorne (p. 73); Bierce (p. 10); Poe (p. 156)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Cause/Effect OR Problem/ Solution
Rough Draft
Compound Sentence & Complements
Week 8 (3/17)
Short Stories: Harte (p. 64); Twain (p. 175)
Jewett (p. 87); Crane (p. 34)
2 Short Story Worksheets

Direct & Indirect Objects
Week 9 (3/24)
Short Stories: Chopin (p. 30); London (p. 122); Mansfield (p. 130); Gilman (p. 50)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Cause/Effect OR Problem/ Solution
Final Draft
Linking Verb Complements
March 30 – No CHAT
Week 10 (4/7)
Short Stories: Pirandello (p. 149); de Maupassant (p. 134);
2 Short Story Worksheets
Evaluation Pre-Write
Simple & Compound Sentences
Indep/Subord Clauses
Week 11 (4/14)
Short Stories: Larsen (p. 110); Anderson (p. 1); Hardy (p. 56)
2 Short Story Worksheets
 Evaluation Rough Draft
Indep/Subord Clauses
Week 12 (4/21)
Poetry: Holmes (p. 21); Emerson (p. 4, 5); Longfellow (p. 6 – 10); Whitman (p. 22 – 26); Dickinson (p. 29 – 32)
2 Poetry Worksheets.

Sentence Structures
Week 13 (4/28)
Poetry: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)
2 Poetry Worksheets
Evaluation Final Draft
Review
Week 14 (5/5)
Poetry Presentation

Re-Write
Grammar Test
Week 15 (5/12)
Poetry Presentation

Final Exam



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