Thursday, January 19, 2017

Writing 2 Spring Syllabus (2017)

Week/Date
Literature
Assign. Due
Writing Due
Grammar Topic
Week 1
(1/19)
Introduction to Sherlock Holmes


Comma:  Compound Sentences
Week 2
(1/26)
Holmes“A Scandal in Bohemia” & “The Red-Headed League”
Answer 4 Questions for “The Red-Headed League”
Mystery Story Pre-Write
Comma:  Complex Sentences
Week 3
(2/2)
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
(2/9)
Holmes“The Final Problem” & “The Adventure of the Empty House"
Holmes Final Exam

Comma:  Restrictive Clauses
Week 5
(2/16)
Short Stories: Pushkin (p. 162); Tolstoy (p. 169); Chekhov (p. 26)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Mystery Story Final Draft
Comma:  Appositives & Parenthetical phrases
February 23 – No CHAT
Week 6
(3/2)
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
Comma:  Series
Week 7
(3/9)
Short Stories: Hawthorne (p. 73); Bierce (p. 10); Poe (p. 156)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Cause/Effect OR Problem/ Solution
Rough Draft
Comma:  Interrupters
Week 8
(3/16)
Short Stories: Harte (p. 64); Twain (p. 175)
Jewett (p. 87); Crane (p. 34)
2 Short Story Worksheets

Comma: Dates & Addresses
Week 9
(3/23)
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
End Marks & Abbreviations
Week 10
(3/30)
Short Stories: Pirandello (p. 149); de Maupassant (p. 134);
2 Short Story Worksheets
Evaluation Pre-Write
Colon & Semicolon
April 6 – No CHAT
Week 11
(4/13)
Short Stories: Larsen (p. 110); Anderson (p. 1); Hardy (p. 56)
2 Short Story Worksheets
 Evaluation Rough Draft
Italics & Quotations Marks
Week 12
(4/20)
Poetry: Holmes (p. 21); Emerson (p. 4, 5); Longfellow (p. 6 – 10); Whitman (p. 22 – 26); Dickinson (p. 29 – 32)
2 Poetry Worksheets.

Hyphens, Parentheses & Dash
Week 13
(4/27)
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
Punctuation Review
Week 14
(5/4)
Poetry Presentation

Re-Write
Grammar Test
Week 15
(5/11)
Poetry Presentation

Final Exam
Italics & Quotations Marks

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