Professor Yolanda J. Franklin
ENC 1102/Dual Enrollment English
“THE” Manatee High School
Office Phone: 941-714-7300 ext. 2156/ Course Website: www.franklinscourse.pbworks.com
Email: frankliny@manateeschools.net or frankly@scf.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Prerequisite:
Completion of 1101 with a grade “C” or better. This course meets Area I requirements of the
A.A./A.S. general education requirements. This course encompasses grammar and diction review, literary elements and
literary analysis, as well as work with both primary and secondary sources using the MLA format of research.
Texts and Materials:
The Norton Introduction to Literature, Ninth Edition, Booth, Hunter, and Mays [We will complete the book.] Textbook
online websites: wwwnorton.com/litweb and wwwnorton.com/nrl. (No period after www!)
Little, Brown Handbook for grammar
Up Jump da Boogie, John Murillo (contemporary poetry)
History of Hurricanes, Teresea Cader(contemporary poetry)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz
Independent Readings and Reading Circle Books
Weekly Vocabulary Cartoons and Freerice.com
Attendance: Attendance is mandatory, due to the workshop nature of the course. Parents will be contributors in assisting
fighting off Senioritis!!! I will polish rules as needed!
ENC 1102 Reading Schedule (SEMESTER 1)
Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Oh, My!
WEEK 1:
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Introduction to the course and textbooks
SAT/SAT prep and sign-up
College Application Q&A
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F
WEEK 2:
“Sonny’s Blues,” by James Baldwin
Poetry: “We Real Cool”
“The Corner,” John Murillo
“Suicide: an Addict’s Hymnal,” Yolanda Franklin
WEEK3:
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“Hills Like White Elephants,” Hemmingway
“Recitatif,” Toni Morrison –in-class reading
Creative Essay due
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Professor Yolanda J. Franklin
ENC 1102/Dual Enrollment English
“THE” Manatee High School
Office Phone: 941-714-7300 ext. 2156/ Course Website: www.franklinscourse.pbworks.com
Email: frankliny@manateeschools.net or frankly@scf.edu
WEEK 4:
WEEK 5:
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Focus: Introduction to Literary Analysis
“Recitatif,” Toni Morrison & Discussion Questions see PDF on website
Close Read a critical essay on Morrison’s “Recitatif”
MLA formatting for Literary Analyses
JSTOR Online Library/SCF Virtual Library Tour
Alice Walker’s definition of Womanism-excerpt from In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens’
The importance of the title of a literary work.
Focus: Character read pgs.140-5
Focus: Setting, read pgs. 196-7
Timed Writing SGQ Jigsaw Answers on “Recitatif”
Continue Literary Analysis
Readings: “A Pair of Tickets,” Amy Tan
Readings: “The Lady with the Dog,” Anton Checkhov
25 Author Facts each on Morrison and Tan Due
APQ Timed writing question on setting
WEEK 6:
Focus: Character & Setting Continued
Herman Melville’s, “Bartleby the Scrivner”
In-class timed writing Essay APQ#2: Character
WEEK 7:
Focus: Symbol
Readings: Hawthorne, Kafka, and Danticat
Learn Gaggle to submit Symbol project in PPT
Literary Analysis Jigsaw (see handout)
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Focus: Theme
Readings: Pgs. 264-65
Jhumpa Lahiri, “Interpreter of Maladies” or
Bharati Mukherjef, “The Management of Grief”
Pick one of the Essays and complete a group Literary Analysis.
Glencoe Online Essay Grader: www.glencoewriting.com
WEEK 8:
Focus: The Whole Text
Readings: pg. 299
Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Sharer” or
Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”
Pick one of the Essays and complete a group Literary Analysis.
WEEK 9:
Author Focus:
Flannery O’Connor-Chapter 8
In-class reading: “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
An essay from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker’s on Flannery O’Connor
Excluding “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” choose one of the Essays and complete a group Literary
Analysis.
M
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F
End of Quarter 1
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Professor Yolanda J. Franklin
ENC 1102/Dual Enrollment English
“THE” Manatee High School
Office Phone: 941-714-7300 ext. 2156/ Course Website: www.franklinscourse.pbworks.com
Email: frankliny@manateeschools.net or frankly@scf.edu
WEEK 10:
WEEKS 11 -12:
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Focus: Initiation Stories-Chapter 9
Pick one of the Essays and complete a group Literary Analysis and one study guide question.
Writer’s Notebook Entry (WNE): RAFT in-class activity
Edgar Allan Poe, one of his short stories and “The Raven, “a poem.
Focus: The Short Short Story-Chapter 10
Readings: Chopin, Marquez, Kincaid, W.C.Williams, and Leguin
Reading quizzes.
Discussion questions & Literary Analysis
Excerpt from Joan Didion’s, The Year of Magical Thinking
F
WEEK 13:
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Chapter 11
Author Focus: William Faulkner
“A Rose for Emily”
Read all Reader’s Response/Commentaries in this chapter for discussion.
Discussion and written commentary
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WEEKS 14-15:
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WEEKS 16-18:
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Reading More Fiction
Readings:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
D.H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums”
Margaret Atwood, “Scarlet Ibis”
Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Study Guide Questions for Each will be collected.
Choose one for literary analysis.
EXAM: Critical Paper on Fiction
Ordering the Critical paper, Topics, MLA format, Writing Process
Drafts, Peer Edits, Conferencing
Bring flash drive on EXAM day. Mobile Lab in classroom.
Glencoe Online Essay Grader
End of Quarter 2, Semester 1
Professor Yolanda J. Franklin
ENC 1102/Dual Enrollment English
“THE” Manatee High School
Office Phone: 941-714-7300 ext. 2156/ Course Website: www.franklinscourse.pbworks.com
Email: frankliny@manateeschools.net or frankly@scf.edu
Semester 2, Quarters 3 & 4
WEEK 1:
WEEK 2:
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Introduction to Poetry
Literary Elements (APRISM), SOAPSTone, TP-CASTT
Interviewing a Poet
Readings: Pgs. 594-5, 601-2, 609
Independent Reading Literature Circles: A Separate Peace or TBA 20 minutes max will be
devoted to reading time.
Poets to Read in this chapter: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ezra Pound, Ben Jonson, Seamus Heaney, Rita
Dove, Anne Sexton, Auden, Bradstreet, Shakespeare, Olds, Levertov, and Yeats.
TPCASTT Critical Paper Due
Pg. 616 Sample Response Paper
Research Paper on a Poet Unit Assessment
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WEEK 3:
WEEK 4:
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Focus: Tone in Poetry Chapter 12
Readings: Marge Piercy, Etheridge Knight, William Blake, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Galway
Kinnell, Li-Young Lee, Robert Hayden, Agha Shahid Ali, Pat Mora.
Introduction to Ekphrastic Poetry
Focus: Chapter 13: Speaker: Whose Voice Do We Hear?
Atwood, Gallagher, Lorde, Mora, Millay, Whitman
Contemporary Poets Introduced (fishousepoets.org and poets.org)
PPT presentation on one of Millay’s Poems
Focus on Particular Poets TBA (Plath, Sexton, Dickinson, Walcott, Jackson, Thomas Sayers Ellis, etc.)
F
WEEK 5-7:
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Chapters 15 & 16: Language & Description
Introduction to The Sound of Poetry—Especially in its creation
Introduction to Form:
 Haiku
 Review Sestina
 Sonnet
 Villanelle
 Concrete
Poetry Collection Analysis of a poetry collection (3-week focus):
 History of Hurricanes by Teresea Cader
 Up Jump da Boogie, by John Murillo
 Literary Analysis Due Week 8
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Professor Yolanda J. Franklin
ENC 1102/Dual Enrollment English
“THE” Manatee High School
Office Phone: 941-714-7300 ext. 2156/ Course Website: www.franklinscourse.pbworks.com
Email: frankliny@manateeschools.net or frankly@scf.edu
WEEK 8:
Harlem Renaissance & Reading More Poetry
Chapter 23
Adding Jean Toomer
Critical Essay
WEEK 9:
End of Unit Essay Due
Novel Unit—Independent Reading Due Nxt WEEK!!
Introduction to Hamlet
Study Guides provided
Test
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WEEK 10:
Novel Unit DUE
Introduction to the Play and the Novel
Audio and Non-print text will be studied.
Readings: A Street Car Named Desire, The Piano Lesson, A Doll’s House, Anna in the Tropics, Hamlet, Death of a
Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Antigone, and Oedipus the Kin.
Non-print text TBA
WEEK 11:
The Play Continued…
Introduction to the Novel:
Introduction to the Research paper
WEEKS 12-18:
The Play continued and Reading Their Eyes Were Watching God
Continue the Research Paper/I-Search Paper
*Syllabus is subject to change
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