Contact Information:
Mandi Farmer
High School Room 23
Phone: 254-559-2231
Conference: 9:00-9:50
E-Mail: amanda.farmer@breckenridgeisd.org
Cisco College
English 2322 Syllabus
(Honors English 4)
Spring 2015
Course Description: The Cisco College Catalog contains this description of English 2322:
A survey of the development of British literature from the AngloSaxon period to the Eighteenth Century. Students will study
works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts. Texts will be
selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1301, ENGL 1302
Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
1. Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic
perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.
2. Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious
contexts of different literary periods.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical
periods or in different regions.
4. Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
5. Write research-based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct prose, using various
critical approaches to literature.
Course Structure and Credits: This course will meet in high school room 23 Monday through Friday.
**You will receive three hours of transferable college credit upon successful completion of the course.
Transferability:
This course is a requirement of the core curriculum for the Associate of Arts degree.
Required Texts:
Greenblatt, Stephen and M.H. Abrams. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th ed.: The Major Authors.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006.
Learning Objectives and Methods of Assessment:
Each Six Weeks:
 50% - Literature Responses/Daily Assignments
 25% - Quizzes over class reading and other objectives
 25%- Projects
Each six weeks average will count as 28.5% of your final grade for the course.
Your FINAL ESSAY will count as 14.5% of your final grade for the course.
Grading Policy:
You will receive a rubric detailing specific writing expectations. You should use this rubric as a guide. Make sure
that you always keep all steps of your writing process, as you will be graded as on your process as a writer and
your knowledge of the writing process, as well as your final product.
Feedback will always be provided during the writing process as well as before the submission date of the next
major assignment so that students can use feedback to grow and progress.
All grade disputes will require official documentation, so it will be imperative to keep all graded work.
Make-Up Work
In the case of an absence for extracurricular activities, you are responsible for notifying me prior to the absence
and collecting any information and materials regarding work you will miss. In-class essays and quizzes must be
made up in my classroom, not outside of class. You are responsible for setting up a time to complete any missed
timed writing assignments or quizzes outside of class. Any quizzes or timed-writings must be made up within one
week’s time to receive credit.
All major writing assignments are due by midnight on the due date. The grade of any essays turned in after
midnight on the due date of an assignment will be deducted one full letter grade every day until they are turned in.
Late essays must be turned in within one week’s time to receive credit.
*Since assignment sheets for all major essays will be given to students listing dates and requirements, students will
be expected to turn these assignments in on time, regardless of absences. If special circumstances arise, please
contact me ahead of time to arrange an extension. Extensions will only be granted before an assignment is due. Do
not assume you will be granted an extension unless you have spoken with me directly.
Absences:
Excessive absences will be reflected in individual grades received. More than three absences during the semester is
considered excessive and may affect a student’s final grade. Three tardies may constitute an absence. Please be
aware that classroom attendance is vital to success in completion of this course.
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism, simply put, is taking someone else’s ideas and presenting them as your own. In the academic world, this
is theft and will result in a failing grade for the assignment and possible suspension from the course or expulsion
from the college. Avoiding plagiarism involves using quotation marks and proper documentation when writing
information word for word from a source as well as using proper documentation when paraphrasing. Copying and
pasting information from a source to your essay is NOT ALLOWED. Allowing a parent, another teacher, a classmate,
or anyone other than yourself to write any portion of your paper or rewrite that portion during revision is also
considered plagiarism. That does not mean that you cannot get help with editing and proofreading from those
around you. Remember, the idea is that you only get credit for work that YOU do.
*You will be completing 5-6 writing tasks this semester.
Student Conduct and College Policies:
Students are expected to take responsibility in helping to maintain a classroom environment that is conducive to
learning. In order to assure that all students have the opportunity to gain from the time spent in class, students are
prohibited from making offensive remarks, reading material not related to class, working on work for courses
other than English, sleeping, or engaging in any other form of distraction. Inappropriate behavior in the classroom
shall result in disciplinary action in accordance with BHS Handbook policy.
Student Technology Use in Classroom
Use of communication devices, which include but are not limited to cell phones, palm devices, and laptops, is
prohibited unless specific instructor permission is granted. Breckenridge High School technology rules apply. Use
of any communication device or data storage device during a test, unless the instructor has granted permission,
may result in a charge of academic dishonesty.
Participation/Professionalism
Whatever field you choose to study in college, a major goal is to become a professional. This professionalism begins
in the classroom and will be judged by the quantity of your participation, your respect toward others in the class
including your instructor, the diligence with which you work during class and during peer reviews, your subjection
to school rules, and your attendance and punctuality to class.
Course Content
College-level courses may include controversial or sensitive material. Students are expected to have the readiness
for college-level rigor and content.
Academic Integrity
It is the intent of Cisco College to foster a spirit of complete honesty and a high standard of integrity. The attempt of
students to present as their own any work they have not honestly performed is regarded by faculty and
administration as a serious offence and renders the offenders liable to serious consequences and possibly
suspension.
Students with Special Needs
Students who qualify for specific accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) should notify
their instructors the first week of class.
**Please note: Any exceptions to these guidelines are at the discretion of the instructor. The schedule and
procedures in the syllabus are subject to change if deemed appropriate.
Course Calendar- Spring 2015
Week One
The Romantic Period (1785-1832)
William Blake
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Experience
Week Two
**TEST- Romantics, Blake, Barbauld, Wollstonecraft
Anna Letitia Barbauld
The Rights of Woman
Washing Play
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Week Three
William Wordsworth
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Strange fits of passion I have known
She dwelt among untrodden ways
I travelled among unknown men
Week Four
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dejection: An Ode
Biographia Literaria
Lyrical Ballads
To William Wordsworth
Week Five
**TEST- Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mutability
Ozymandias
From A Defence of Poetry
John Keats
Sleep and Poetry
Sonnet to Sleep
Ode to Melancholy
Lamia
When I Have Fears that May Cease to Be
Week Six
The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalot
from In Memoriam
The Lotos Eaters
Week Seven **TEST- Victorians, Tennyson, Brownings
Robert Browning
Porphyria’s Lover
My Last Duchess
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cry of the Children
Aurora Leigh
Week Eight-Nine
**Test- Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Week Ten
Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist
The Importance of Being Earnest
Week Eleven-Twelve **TEST- Conrad
The Twentieth Century and After
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
CHOOSE TOPIC FOR ESSAY
Week Thirteen
W.H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen
Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Seamus Heaney
Various Poems
Week Fourteen
**TEST- Poetry/Women
Virginia Woolf
The Mark on the Wall
Professions for a Woman
Margaret Atwood
Death by Landscape
Week Fifteen-Sixteen **TEST- T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land
The Hollow Men
Tradition and the Individual Talent
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
WK15- ROUGH DRAFT
WK16- FINAL DRAFT