English II: Fall
Term Syllabus
Week 1: September
8-13th (Special Schedule)
Introductions (To Me…To You…To Good Reading and Good
Writing)
- · What is good writing? What is good reading? (Using blogs)
- · The power of Letters (Graded)
- · Vladmir Nabokov, Good Readers and Good Writers
- · Letters of Note
Week 2: September
15-19th (Red Week)
Narration: How do we tell stories?
- · Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
- · Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog
- · Essay: Moment
Week 3: September 22nd-27th
(Black Week)
Description
- · E.B. White, Once More to the Lake
- · Joan Didion, Goodbye to All That
- · Essay: Description/ Character
Week 4: September 29th-October
3rd (Red Week)
Process Analysis
- · David Foster Wallace, Ticket to the Fair
- · Annie Dillard, Total Eclipse
- · Essay: Travel Writing
Week 5: October 6th-
October 11th (Black Week)
Definition
- · Edward Hoagland, The Courage of Turtles
- · Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth
- · Essay: Definition
Week 6: October 13th-
October 17th (Special Schedule)
Comparison and Contrast
- · Richard Rodriguez, Excerpt from Hunger for Memory
- · David Sedaris, Excerpt from Me Talk Pretty One Day
- · Essay: Chapel Talk
Week 7: October 22nd-24th
(Special Schedule)
Cause and Effect
- - Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party
- - William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
- - In- Class Essay
Week 8: October 27th-
November 1st (Black Week)
Satire
- - Begin Oscar Wilde’s, The Importance of Being Ernest
- - Essay Revisions
Week 9: November 3rd-
November 7th (Red Week)
Satire
- - Oscar Wilde’s, The Importance of Being Ernest
- - Outline for Argument Essay
Week 10: November 9th-
November 15th (Black Week)
Satire
- · Oscar Wilde’s, The Importance of Being Ernest
- · 1st Draft of Argument Essay
Week 11: November
17-21st (Red Week)
- · Final Project: Argument Essay and Debate
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