An interlude
Featured Genre: The Essay
Week 1—19/Jan (B/Thurs/Wed: 1 short 1 long)
1
Fantasy Football Matchup—Review of works / Culture and Identity write
2
Work on Essays
Week 2—26/Jan
1
Paper Due / Proof paper using Style Sheet / Note errors on explication
*New Essay:
“This I Believe”
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4538138
or
“What Will Barack Obama’s Presidency Mean to My Education”
http://www.hepg.org/news/27
2
Discuss “The Essay” as given in your anthology (30-36) / Comma Review
(www.chompchomp.com)
3
Vocab #3 (20 words) + Commas / Langston Hughes, “Salvation” (281)
Week 3—2/Feb
1
Read in class: Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (490)
2
Discuss the rhetorical strategies used in the “Letter” / Work on essays
3
Virginia Woolf, “What If Shakespeare Had Had a Sister?” (685)
Week 4—9/Feb
1
Bernard Cooper, “A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood”
(284)
2
Essay Due / Read in class:George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant” (694)
3
Maya Angelou, “Graduation in Stamps” (700)
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Mid-Winter Break
Culture and Identity
Week 5—23/Feb
1
Work on “This I Believe” essay
2
Introduction to the short story and to Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies; Essay due
3
“A Temporary Matter”
Week 6—2/Mar
1
Vocabulary Test: Unit 4; Begin “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” in class
2
“When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine”; In-class Essay
3
“Interpreter of Maladies”
Week 7—9/Mar
1
“Mrs. Sen’s”
2
Review Pronoun Case and Agreement
3
Analytical Paper Due: Interpreter of Maladies; Read aloud “The Treatment of
Bibi Haldar”
Week 8—16/Mar
1
Vocabulary Unit 5 (1-10) + Pronoun Case and Agreement
2
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
3
Poetry Day: Read selections from the anthology in class
----------------------------Semester mid-point--------------------------------------------------------------Week 9—23/Mar
1
Vocabulary 5 (10-20) + Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers; Read in class, Baldwin,
“Sonny’s Blues” (534)
2
Quotation Test: “Sonny’s Blues”(534); Discuss story
3
Walker, “Everyday Use” (559)