English Department Syllabus
Early College Experience (Freshman Comp. II)
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Date
Topic
Course Intro. / Overview / Discuss Final Exam
Unit 1: Rhetorical Framework and Analysis
Mon- Jan 4
Class Intro / Lecture: Rhetorical Framework (ppt)
Wed- Jan 6
Rhetorical Analysis
Fri- Jan 8
Rhetorical Analysis
Mon- Jan 11
Rhetorical Analysis
Wed- Jan 13
Rhetorical Analysis
Fri- Jan 15
Rhetorical Analysis: Writing practice
Mon- Jan 18
Wed- Jan 20
Workshop over Paper 1
Unit 2: Short Fiction
Fri- Jan 22
Review Website for Unit 2
Mon- Jan 25
Fiction: Hemingway
Wed- Jan 27
Secondary Source Articles Discussion
Fri- Jan 29
Continue Dicsussion of Articles
Mon- Feb 16
Drafting Evaluative Synthesis Essay
Wed- Feb 3 Continue Drafting Introductions and Conclusions
Fri- Feb 5
Workshop over Paper 2
Mon- Feb 8
Fiction: Alice Walker
Wed- Feb 10
Articles over "Everyday Use
Fri- Feb 12
Finish articles / draft synthesis
Mon- Feb 15
Fiction: Flannery O'Connor
Wed- Feb 17
finish O'Connor's Story
Fri- Feb 19
Articles over "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Mon- Feb 22
Fiction: Tim O'Brien / Pictures of Vietnam
Wed- Feb 24
Finish Discussion: "The Things They Carried" and Photos
Fri- Feb 26
Fiction: Eurdora Welty
Mon- Feb 29
Discuss Secondary Sources over "A Worn Path"
Wed- Mar 2
Paper 3 Review Drafting
Fri- Mar 4
Introduce the Research Project/Paper
Mon- Mar 7
Workshop over Paper 3
Unit 3: Poetry
Wed- Mar 9
William Stafford, Wilford Owen / Discuss Poems
Fri- Mar 11
Judith Kitchen Explication
Mon- Mar 14
Wilford Owen
Wed- Mar 16
Continue Griffith explication and Owen Poem
Fri- Mar 18
Yousef Komunyakaa
Mar 21-25
Mon- Mar 28
Practice Explication over Poetry
Wed- Mar 30
Practice Writing an Explication
Fri- Apr 1
Theodore Roethke
Apr 4-8
**********Juniors: Morrie Project / Questions*********
Mon- Apr 11
Paper 4 Reserch: Explanatory Synthesis
Wed- Apr 13
Workshop over Paper 4
Fri- Apr 15
Practice Writing an Explication
Mon- Apr 18
Practice Writing an Explication
Wed- Apr 20
In Class practice Writing an Explication (Paper 5)
Fri- Apr 22
Explication discussion
Mon- Apr 25
In-Class EXAM (Explication)
Wed- Apr 27
The Great Gatsby
Fri- Apr 29
The Great Gatsby
Unit 5: The Great Gatsby
Mon- May 2
The Great Gatsby
Wed- May 4
The Great Gatsby
Fri- May 6
The Great Gatsby
Mon- May 9
The Great Gatsby
Wed- May 11 FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE (The Great Gatsby)
Fri- May 13
Morrie Project
Unit 6: The Morrie Project
Mon- May 16
Morrie Project
May 18-20
Morrie Project and Film
Reading Assignment
Register for Class/Syllabus
Assigned Work / Morrie Readings
Review Website/Morrie Project
Read "Rose's Thorns"
Read Ken Burns' "Our Best Selves" (Handout on website)
Read Maya Angelou's "Graduation" (Website)
Read Lanston Hughes' "Salvation" (Website)
Read M.L.K.'s "Letter from a Birminghan Jail" (p. 1281)
"Rose's Thorns"
Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Quiz 3 / Begin Morrie Readings- M1
Quiz 5 / M3
No School: MLK Day
Rough Draft 1 Due / M4
Paper Description and Links under Unit 2
"Hills Like White Elephants" (Handout on website) and "Soldier's Home" (p. 881-87)
Sources: O'Brien; Renner; Wyche
Paper 1 Due / M5
Quiz 6 / M6
Find articles on EBSCO / M7
M8
Website help for Writing / M9
M10
"Everyday Use" (p. 329-335)
Sources: Tuten and Farell
O'Connor's "A Good Man in Hard to Find" (p. 1173)
Sources: Matthew, Brady, and Bethea
O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" (p. 1516)
Sources: Kaplin and Horner
Welty's "A Worn Path" (p. 1337)
Secondary Sources
Paper 3 Description Sheet
"Traveling Through The Dark" (p. 1033)
Explication / Poetry Terms/ Kitchen Article
Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" (p. 1514)
"Facing It" (website)
Rough Draft 2 Due / M11
Paper 2 Due / Quiz 7 / M12
Find articles on EBSCO / M13
M14
Quiz 8 / M15
M16
Find articles on EBSCO / M17
Quiz 9 / M18
Find articles on EBSCO / M19
Quiz 10 / M20
Find articles on EBSCO / M21
Unit 2 on Website / M22
M23
Rough Draft 3 Due / M24
PAPER 3 DUE / M 25
Questions at the End of Kitchen's article / M26
Griffith Explication / M27
Practice Explication Writing
Marvin Explication
SPRING BREAK
Poem selections (Packet and Textbook)
"My Papa's Waltz" (p. 264)
McKenna Explication
Textbook selctions / Poem packet
Rough Draft 4 Due
Paper 4 Due (Explanatory Synthesis)
A-Block
Instructor: Chris Sutterfield, M.F.A., M.A.T., M.A.T.S.
Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers, 6th edition; The Great Gatsby; Tuesdays with Morrie
NOTE: See Class Website for Handouts and Links
M# = Morrie Readings
Quiz 4 / M2
Paper 5 (Explication Due)
Ch. 1-2
Ch. 3
Reading Quiz 11
Ch. 4-5
Ch. 6
Ch. 7
Quiz 13
Quiz 14
Ch. 8-9
Quiz 16
Quiz 12
Quiz 15
Morrie Project Due
Articles (EBSCO)
O'Brien; Renner; Wyche
N. Tuten; S. Farell
Matthew, Brady, Bethea
S. Kaplin; C. Horner
see website for list
Poem Packet from Website
George Griffith Explication
Thomas Marvin Explication
John McKenna Explication