Spring Syllabus -- Writing & Grammar

	Writing		Grammar
	Assignment Due this Week	Writing Discussion	Discussion & Assignment
Week 1 1/17		Levels of thinking	Mastering the comma
Week 2 1/25	Problem/Solution OR Cause/Effect Pre-Write	Word choices; transition words	Mastering the comma
Week 3 1/31	Problem/Solution OR Cause/Effect Rough Draft	Introduction/ conclusion strategies	Mastering the comma
Week 4 2/7		Paragraph organization	Mastering the comma
Week 5 2/14	Problem/Solution OR Cause/Effect Final Copy	Subjective/objective points of view; audience appeal	Building better sentences
Week 6 2/21	Evaluation Essay Pre-Write	Revision strategies, part1	Building better sentences
Week 7 3/6	Evaluation Essay Rough Draft	Revision strategies, part 2	Building better sentences
2/28
Week 8 3/13		Logical thinking, part 1	Common usage errors
Week 9 3/20	Evaluation Essay Final Copy	Logical thinking, part 2	Common usage errors
Week 10 3/27	Argument Essay Pre-Write	Developing your own style, part 1	Common usage errors
4/3
Week 11 4/10	Argument Essay Rough Draft	Developing your own style, part 1	Review
Week 12 4/17		Research & plagiarism; primary & secondary sources	Review
Week 13 4/24	Argument Essay Final Copy		Review
Week 14 5/1	Re-Write #1		Review
Week 15 5/8

Sherlock Holmes Quotes

Below are some quotes from the stories we'll be reading:

“A Scandal in Bohemia”

·         You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

·         It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

·         To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

“The Red-Headed League”

·         I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life.

·         It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

 “The Five Orange Pips”

·         A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library...

·         As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

·         It is not so impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this, I have endeavoured in my case to do.

·         A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

“The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”

·         My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

·         On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.

·         My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

·         "You are Holmes, the meddler."
My friend smiled.
"Holmes, the busybody!"
His smile broadened.
"Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!"
Holmes chuckled heartily.

·         "When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge."

·         Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

“The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”

·         "Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."

·         The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

·         "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they seem to you to be relevant or not."

·         "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there."

Spring Syllabus -- Writing & Grammar

	Writing		Grammar
	Assignment Due this Week	Writing Discussion	Discussion & Assignment
Week 1 1/17		Levels of thinking	Mastering the comma
Week 2 1/25	Problem/Solution OR Cause/Effect Pre-Write	Word choices; transition words	Mastering the comma
Week 3 1/31	Problem/Solution OR Cause/Effect Rough Draft	Introduction/ conclusion strategies	Mastering the comma
Week 4 2/7		Paragraph organization	Mastering the comma
Week 5 2/14	Problem/Solution OR Cause/Effect Final Copy	Subjective/objective points of view; audience appeal	Building better sentences
Week 6 2/21	Evaluation Essay Pre-Write	Revision strategies, part1	Building better sentences
Week 7 3/6	Evaluation Essay Rough Draft	Revision strategies, part 2	Building better sentences
2/28
Week 8 3/13		Logical thinking, part 1	Common usage errors
Week 9 3/20	Evaluation Essay Final Copy	Logical thinking, part 2	Common usage errors
Week 10 3/27	Argument Essay Pre-Write	Developing your own style, part 1	Common usage errors
4/3
Week 11 4/10	Argument Essay Rough Draft	Developing your own style, part 1	Review
Week 12 4/17		Research & plagiarism; primary & secondary sources	Review
Week 13 4/24	Argument Essay Final Copy		Review
Week 14 5/1	Re-Write #1		Review
Week 15 5/8

Spring Syllabus -- Literture

	Literature
	Reading Assignment Due this Week	Assignment Due this Week
Week 1 1/17	Introduction to Short Stories
Week 2 1/25	Holmes:  “A Scandal in Bohemia” & “The Red-Headed League”
Week 3 1/31	Holmes: “The Five Orange Pips” & “The Blue Carbuncle”
Week 4 2/7	Holmes:  “The Noble Bachelor” & “The Copper Beeches"
Week 5 2/14	Pushkin (p. 162); Tosltoy (p. 169); Chekhov (p. 26)	Short Story Worksheet for each story
Week 6 2/21	Dickens (p. 45); Wilde (p. 189); Kipling (p.101); Munro (p. 140)	Short Story Worksheet for each story
Week 7 3/6	Hawthorne (p. 73); Bierce (p. 10); Poe (p. 156)	Short Story Worksheet for each story
2/28
Week 8 3/13	Harte (p. 64); Twain (p. 175) Jewett (p. 87); Crane (p. 34)	Short Story Worksheet for each story
Week 9 3/20	Chopin (p. 30); London (p. 122); Mansfield (p. 130); Gilman (p. 50)	Short Story Worksheet for each story
Week 10 3/27	Pirandello (p. 149); de Maupassant (p. 134); Henry  (extra handout)	Short Story Worksheet for each story
4/3
Week 11 4/10	Larsen (p. 110); Anderson (p. 1); Hardy (p. 56)	Short Story Worksheet for each story
Week 12 4/17	Bradstreet (p. 1); Wheatley (p. 1); Holmes (p. 21); Emerson (p. 4, 5); Longfellow (p. 6 – 10)	Poetry worksheet for 3 of the poets.
Week 13 4/24	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.
Week 14 5/1	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.
Week 15 5/8	Final Exam