Syllabus for Senior Literature: Comp. II
Concordia High School
Spring Semester 2008
COURSE: CM103
INSTRUTOR: Lora Watson
DATE: Spring 2008
COURSE DESCRIPTION: English Composition II (Senior Literature) is designed to expose
students to a rich selection of literature and then encourage them to respond using the spoken and
written word. This course will emphasize expository writing and will stress grammar, syntax,
and mechanics to enhance writing style.
TEXTS: Barnet, Sylvan, et al. Literature for Composition. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 2005.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
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Reading Quizzes
4 essays (500-1000 words)
Poetry presentation
Hamlet Reading
Research Paper (5-7 pages)
Mid-term Exam
Final Exam
Daily Assignments/Projects
Total
GRADING SCALE: 90-100
80-89
70-79
60-69
200 points (at least)
400 points (100 each)
50 points
50 points
200 points
100 points
100 points
200 points
1300 points
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B
C
D
Note: Learning to write effectively and well is an on-going process; I therefore expect
later work to be more polished, and I will grade accordingly.
Late work will be accepted only when there is a compelling cause, and the grade for that
assignment may be lowered.
PAPER FORMAT: Unless I give you alternate instructions, all papers will be typed on standard
white 8 ½” x 11” paper. Use black ink only. Double space and allow a 1” margin all around.
Accommodations are provided for students with verified disabilities. For more information contact the
Disability Student Services at Cloud County Community College.
READING LIST: This is not all the reading we are going to do. This is just a list of the literature
for which you will be held accountable on the final exam. I also reserve the right to add as the
schedule allows.
Short Stories:
“The Storm” (text)
“Powder” (text)
“A & P” (text)
“The Yellow Wallpaper” (text)
“Cat in the Rain” (text)
“The Rocking Horse Winner” (hand out)
“Everyday Use” (text)
“El Tonto del Barrio” (text)
“The Son from America” (text)
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (text)
“Araby” (text)
Excerpt from Hard Times (hand out)
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Essays:
“Black Men in Public Space” (text)
“Hookups Starve the Soul” (text)
“A Hanging” (text)
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“Salvation” (text)
“Graduation” (text)
“I "Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened”
(text)
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Drama:
Hamlet (text)
Trifles (text)
Poetry (from the text unless *marked):
“My Last Duchess”
“To the Virgins to Make Much of Time”
“When I Was One-and Twenty”
“To His Coy Mistress”
“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”
“Richard Cory”
“Sonnet 29”
“Ozymandias”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
“Three Thousand Dollar Death Song”
*“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (hand out)
“Those Winter Sundays”
“Theme for English B”
“Come Live with Me and Be My Love”
“Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink”
“The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd”
“My Papa’s Waltz”
“Sonnet 130”
“Traveling Through the Dark”
“Because I could not stop for Death”
“Harlem”
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Books:
The Canterbury Tales (hand out)
(3-4 tales)
Brave New World (entire book--hand out)
Beowulf (excerpts--hand out)