English 11 Composition
Syllabus 2013
Tues./Wed.
1-8/9
WELCOME TO ENGLISH 11!!!!!!
Information HANDOUT/vocabulary (word parts)
Vocabulary: Numbers List One--copy
Article of the Week “Kids Who Skip School…”--practice
Annotation—learn to annotate
Articles of week—handed out beginning of week—due at end
of week
Memoir: a record of events written by a person having
intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation. 2.
Usually, memoirs. a. an account of one's personal life and experiences;
autobiography. b. the published record of the proceedings of a group or
organization, as of a learned society. 3. a biography or biographical
sketch.
Synonyms
2a. journal, recollections, reminiscences.
Read Part I in class “A Woman on the Street”
Assignments (posted on web)
Part II—DUE Wed./Thurs., January 23/24
Part III—DUE January 29/30, 2013
Parts IV & V—Due February 6/7, 2013
Thurs./Fri.
1-10/11
Vocabulary Word Parts (numbers) Review
Memoir (handout) “Candy”
Writing prompt
Practice Article of the Week—write response
Homework: read The Glass Castle
Vocabulary Quiz: Numbers List One
Monday/Tues.
1-14/15
Due: QUIZ—Vocabulary Word Parts—Numbers
“Us and Them” David Sedaris
Read with pencil in hand –ANNOTATE/Common Ground
Vocabulary List 2 Numbers (notes)
Homework: read The Glass Castle
AoW—due by end of day on Friday, January 18
close reading (annotations)
AND one-page reflection
Wed./Thursday
1-16/17
Due:
MEMOIR—CANDY
Descriptive Writing—Show Don’t Tell
Food as a prompt
Finish quotes and italics—NOTES
Pp 312-320
Homework: AoW
Friday/Tuesday
1-18/22
Due: Article of the Week (annotated/response)
finish with Memoir Contemporary Examples
“The Chase” (Annie Dillard)
Bossypants Excerpt
Show Don’t Tell Practice
Let People Talk Exercise (review dialogue in excerpts)
Review—quotation marks/italics
Homework: The Glass Castle PART II
Vocabulary Quiz: Numbers: List II
Wed./Thurs.
1-23/24
Due: The Glass Castle Part II
Vocabulary Quiz: Numbers II
The Glass Castle—review Part II
Memoir Example All Over but the Shoutin’ excerpt
AoW—due next Thursday/Friday
Homework: continue reading The Glass Castle
Friday/Mon.
1-25/28
Due:
Review—colons/semicolons (notes)
All Over but the Shoutin’—
Review Tips for Writing a Personal Narrative
Select topic for Memoir –brainstorm
Vocabulary: Directions I
Homework: The Glass Castle Part III
English 11
Tuesday/Wed.
1-29-30
Due: Article of the Week
Practice Vocabulary: Directions I
Memoir—review tips
Quotes/Italics (review)
Putting all the elements together
“The Thrill of Victory…The Agony of Parents
Point of Contact/Analysis
Have a topic for your memoir next class
Finish notes on colons
Homework: The Glass Castle
Thursday/Fri.
1-31/2-1
Due: Part III The Glass Castle
Review Part III/Discuss
Selecting a topic for a memoir—review
Invention/Point of Contact/Analysis/Public Resonance
What do I see now that I didn’t see then? (analysis)
Homework: Vocabulary Quiz Directions
Finish The Glass Castle—Wednesday/Thursday
Monday/Tuesday Vocabulary Quiz: Directions I
February 4/5
Writing dialogue Elements of American Literature
Richard Wright (1062) read excerpt
Practice writing thesis—focused, intense, insightful
First draft of Memoir—Friday/Monday
Homework: finish The Glass Castle
English11 Composition
Wed./Thursday
2-6/7
Due: The Glass Castle
Review Part IV
Directions: List 2
Memoir—Writer’s Voice
Choosing Details/Using Sentence Length
Review Syntax (Handbook)
Review Annotating/Introduce Summarizing—notes
Practice—newspaper article
“How to Write an F Paper: Fresh Advice…” READ
Homework: Memoir—first draft
Friday/Monday
2-8/11
Due: Memoir (first draft)
Peer (or self) Review Truisms—guided ????
Review First Drafts—turn in
Style Notes (SMARTBOARD)
Active Voice/Passive Voice—REVIEW
Tuesday/Wed.
2-12/13
Due: Vocabulary Quiz—Directions
Article of the Week—due next week
Summarizing—Practice
Review—PHRASES
Proofreading Practice
Begin: Explaining Opposing Positions
Thursday/Tues.
2-14/18
Due: FINAL REVISION of MEMOIR/turnitin.com
New vocabulary list—time
Put folders together (three drafts/critique/rubric/grade sheet)
Reflection
The Glass Castle—return books
Final review of memoir
Multiple views—Women in Combat
Summarizing—writing summaries
Homework: AoW
English 11 Composition
Wed./Thursday
2-20/21
Due: AoW—annotation/reflection
Review Vocabulary
Persuasive Writing—colonial pieces Elements of Lit.
Patrick Henry—Speech to Virginia Convention (80)
Memorization Assignment
Writing Summaries
Homework: Vocabulary Quiz
New AoW—due next Thursday/Friday
Annotate/write a summary of the argument
Vocabulary Quiz : TIME (4M—Thursday)
Friday/Monday
2-21/24
Review persuasive techniques
Logic Terms—begin
Thomas Paine—from The Crisis (87)
Women in Combat—two sides (extra article)
Article search—video games/women in combat
Editorial—Elements of Literature
Persuasive Techniques (logical/emotional)
Either-or fallacy/rhetorical ??/periodic sentence/
Repetition/allusion
Work on topic flood—annotating
Vocabulary: Time II
Homework: one article about women in combat (chosen
side)—print/annotate/response OR video game
Addiction
English 11 Composition
Wed./Thursday
2-27/28
Due: article on EITHER women in combat OR video game addiction
NOTES—commas
4G—summary writing—women in combat (AoW)—work in pairs
One summary
Reading Log—begin with newspaper article—one each day
Representative of different sections
4G—TIME words—review
5M—review Thomas Paine material
Explain concept of a topic flood
If time, begin discussion of Editorial
Homework: Annotation Assignment
Friday/Monday
3-1/4
DUE: Annotation Assignment
newspaper article log—read one article
topic flood—write summary for either video/women in combat article
plus the work cited entry
review how to find reliable search engines
editorial—review—literature text
read example
using topic flood on topics (video games/women in combat)
editorial—begin planning
Homework: vocabulary quiz TIME—next class
Next week—vocabulary review test
Wed./Thursday
3-6/7
Due: Vocabulary Quiz
newspaper article log—one article
Editorial-organization chart
Review logic fallacies—NOTES
Counterclaims—review
Complete organization chart
Write introduction to editorial in class
Background paragraph—next class (first two paragraphs)
Begin reviewing for vocabulary test
Friday/Monday
Due:
Reading Log
Counter-argument—finish
Review Vocabulary List I Relationship
Fallacies—continue
Editorial Practice
Homework: AoW—due next Tuesday/Wednesday
Annotated/reflection
English 11
Monday/Tuesday
March 11/12
Read Article Summaries
Begin working on editorial—
Continue with logic fallacies-NOTES
Read sample editorial for newspaper log
REVIEW
Homework: Vocabulary TEST
Wed./Thursday
March 13/14
Vocabulary Review TEST
Word Part TEST
Continue working on editorial
Examples of editorial—newspaper log
Friday/Monday
March 15/18
Due:
logic fallacy notes
Reading Log
Compile list of editorial topics
Homework: AoW—annotated/response
Topic for editorial
Tuesday/Wed.
March 19/20
Due: AoW
research—editorial topic—must have two articles support/
One article against
Review writing summaries—summarizing versus plagiarizing
** Review Quiz
Watch Pathfinders video—finding reliable sources
4th—Toledo Public Library Resource
Homework: Vocabulary Quiz—Relationship List I
Thursday/Friday
March 21/22
Due: Vocabulary TEST : Relationship List I
Mark Twain “The Lowest Animal”—human in nonfiction
Elements of Literature page 534
Op-ed Article—“A Time of Gifts” (540)
Editorial Outline—
Vocabulary Relationship: List II
Homework: one summary/editorial outline
English 11
Monday—Snow Day
/Tuesday/Wed.
March 26/27
Due: Summary/editorial outline
new group of word parts Relationship II
Finish (4th) Mark Twain “The Lowest Animal”—human in nonfiction
Elements of Literature page 534
Op-ed Article—“A Time of Gifts” (540)—purpose of the article
Introduction to editorial/background paragraph—write
Homework: typed introduction/background paragraphs
Thursday/Monday
March 28/April 8
Due: typed paragraphs/AoW
write editorial –support paragraphs in class
Two support paragraphs
One counterargument paragraph
Introduce The Road
Review Vocabulary
Homework: vocabulary quiz Relationship II
Editorial due Thursday/Friday (April 11/12)
Tuesday/Wednesday
April 9/10
Due: Vocabulary Quiz: Relationship List II
Vocabulary Quiz
Editorial
Review (pp 140-148—literature text)
Introduce The Road
Research: one effect of nuclear weapon
Homework: Two Summaries (revised)
Submit second summary to turnitin.com
First Draft—Editorial
Thursday/Friday
April 11/12
Due: Summaries (revised)/Editorial First Draft
Critique Editorial
Summaries—turn in (in folder)—grade sheet
Nuclear Weapon—effects (post information)
Begin The Road
Vocabulary Handout (Part I—words)
English 11 Composition
Monday/Tuesday
April 15/16
Due:
hand back editorials
Textbook—review/organize editorials
DEBATE
Annotate/YOUR VIEW
Vocabulary Review
Homework: Revise Editorial
READ The Road—pp 3-43
Vocabulary Quiz
Wed./Thursday
April 17/18
Due: Reading/Editorial Revision
Edit Editorials
Highlight evidence
The Road—review
Vocabulary Quiz
Homework: Part II The Road
Revise Editorial—final due NO later than Tuesday, April 23
Friday/Monday
April 19, 22
Due: The Road pp 43-79
Review the reading
DEBATE
Annotate/Your View
Homework: Editorial—final draft (all drafts in folder with grade
sheet)
Continue reading The Road
Tuesday/Wed.
April 23/24
Due: Final Draft of Editorial
read the short story “The Game”
End of the World Activity
Homework: The Road—Part III
Thursday/Friday
April 25/26
Due: The Road Part III
present group choices for End of the World
4G—turn in final editorial
Debate topics—pairs—one pro/one con
Discussion—The Road
Homework: begin research
English 11
Monday/Tuesday
April 29/30
Due: The Road Part III
review vocabulary
Quiz (next class)
Select topic for argumentative essay
Begin research—three/four articles (ONLY in specified
search engines) exploring your topic
review how to limit broad topics—tired topics
how to select a topic
Homework: select a topic/Vocabulary Quiz
Wednesday/Thurs.
May 1 / 2
Due: topic
Vocabulary Quiz – The Road
Research topic (using search criteria from last class)
With each source/create a work cited entry
Highlight articles—arguments/reasons/evidence
Homework: The Road—Part IV
Friday/Monday
May 3/6
Due: The Road
review novel
Begin argument organizer
They Say…I Say
Write one section of paper using They Say from one source
Highlight each time source is referenced
Response to information—I Say…
Tuesday/Wednesday
May 7/8
Second article—write what They Say—qualify your sources
body paragraphs (one and two—two sources)
Review parenthetical documentation (et al/qtd. in /etc.)
Find another article—must show both sides of issue—
Annotate/what they say/what I say/write section of paper
Finish writing should/should not sides
Homework: finish The Road
Move Vocabulary Quiz back one class period
Thursday/Friday
May 9/10
Due: The Road
review the novel
Vocabulary review
Research—begin writing introduction—thesis—Policy ?
Review Works Cited
Homework: Vocabulary Quiz Parts IV--VII
English 11 Composition
Monday/Tuesday
April 29/30
Argument organizer
Review They Say…I Say research writing
Practice with one article from editorial assignment
Research
Homework: have three sources for research
NO opinion editorials/about.com/--information MUST
Be from infotopia.com/infohio.org/sweetsearch.org
Wed./Thursday
May 1/May 2
Vocabulary Review (parts I-III)
Review writing summaries (identifying key points)
Research
Introduction to They Say…I Say…
Homework: The Road
Research
Friday/Monday
May 3/6
Due: The Road Parts IV & V ( 121-201)
Review the novel—
Argumentative Organizer—Reasons/Evidence
Homework: The Road
If needed, catch up on research—writing paper next week