Friday, January 19, 2018

Writing 2 Spring Syllabus, 2018

Week/
Date
Literature
Assign. Due
Writing Due
Grammar Topic
Week 1
(1/18)
Introduction to Sherlock Holmes


Intro Parallel Structures
Week 2
(1/25)
Holmes“A Scandal in Bohemia” & “The Red-Headed League”
Answer 4 Questions for “The Red-Headed League”
Mystery Story Pre-Write
Review Parallel Structures
Week 3
(2/1)
Holmes: “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” & “The Engineer’s Thumb”
Answer 4 questions for one of the two stories
Mystery Story Rough Draft
Intro:  Sentence Parts, Simple Sentences
Week 4
(2/8)
Holmes“The Final Problem” & “The Adventure of the Empty House"
Holmes Final Exam

Review:  Sentence Parts, Simple Sentences
Week 5
(2/15)
Short Stories: Pushkin (p. 162); Tolstoy (p. 169); Chekhov (p. 26)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Mystery Story Final Draft
Intro:  Compound & Complex Sentences
Week 6
(3/1)
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
Review:  Compound & Complex Sentences
Week 7
(3/8)
Short Stories: Hawthorne (p. 73); Bierce (p. 10); Poe (p. 156)
2 Short Story Worksheets
Cause/Effect OR Problem/ Solution
Rough Draft
Intro:  Fragments, Run-on, Comma Splice Sentences
Week 8
(3/15)
Short Stories: Harte (p. 64); Twain (p. 175)
Jewett (p. 87); Crane (p. 34)
2 Short Story Worksheets

Review:  Fragments, Run-on, Comma Splice Sentences
Week 9
(3/22)
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
Intro:  There is/There are sentences
Week 10
(4/5)
Short Stories: Pirandello (p. 149); de Maupassant (p. 134);
2 Short Story Worksheets
Evaluation Pre-Write
Review:  There is/There are sentences
Week 11
(4/12)
Short Stories: Larsen (p. 110); Anderson (p. 1); Hardy (p. 56)
2 Short Story Worksheets
 Evaluation Rough Draft
Intro:  Combining Sentences
Week 12
(4/19)
Poetry: Holmes (p. 21); Emerson (p. 4, 5); Longfellow (p. 6 – 10); Whitman (p. 22 – 26); Dickinson (p. 29 – 32)
2 Poetry Worksheets.

Review:  Combining Sentences
Week 13
(4/26)
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
(5/3)
Poetry Presentation

Re-Write
Grammar Test
Week 15
(5/10)
Poetry Presentation

Final Exam



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