Class Assignments 2nd Quarter
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October 21- Assigned two stories by Raymond Carver to read in-class, "Popular Mechanics" Popular Mechanics
and "A Small, Good Thing." A Small Good Thing
October 22- Discussion of the Carver stories with a quiz on the stories.
October 23- Read Tillie Olsen's story "I Stand Here Ironing." Quiz on the story. Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing I
Stand Here Ironing
October 24- Discussion of the Tillie Olsen story "I Stand Here Ironing."
October 25- Grammar Test II. Begin reading O'Connor story. Flannery O Connor
October 28- Continue reading Flannery O'Connor short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." A Good Man Is Hard
To Find
October 29- Finish reading O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." Quiz on the story.
October 30- Discuss "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
October 31- Read O'Connor's "Good Country People." Good Country People
November 1- Discussion of the short story "Good Country People." Quiz on the story.
November 4 Begin a cause and effect essay. Students will write the essay in-class using the same format as they
have used in the previous essays.
November 5- Continue to work on cause and effect essay.
November 6- Continue to work on cause and effect essay.
November 7- Cause and effect essay is due. Students will turn in a title page, outline, and five paragraph MLA style
essay. The essay will use the short stories "I Stand Here Ironing" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
November 8- Work on Research Essays
November 11- Veteran’s Day Holiday
November 12- Essay One-On-One. Meet with students individually to discuss their comparison and contrast
essays. Students will then have an opportunity to make corrections to their essays.
November 13- Read and discuss a letter written by the explorer Christopher Columbus. The Letter of Columbus to
Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery.docx
November 14- Read and discuss Of Plymouth Plantation “Book II Chapter XI” by William Bradford. Quiz on the
work. Of Plymouth Plantation Part I Mayflower Compact, Starving Time, Indian Relations.docx Of Plymouth
Plantation The First Thanksgiving.docx
November 15- Finish Bradford discussion. Research essays are due.
November 18- Read and discuss “The Trial of Martha Carrier” by Cotton Mather. Quiz on the work. The Trial of
Martha Carrier.docx
November 19- Finish Mather discussion.
November 20- Go over research papers. Read “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.docx
November 26- Finish reading and begin discussion of Edwards’s work.
November 21- Finish “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Begin reading “The Way to Wealth” by Benjamin
Franklin.
November 22- Finish reading and begin discussion of “The Way to Wealth.” Quiz on the work. Benjamin Franklin
The Way to Wealth.docx
November 25- Finish the discussion of “The Way to Wealth.”
November 26- Begin persuasive essay on non-fiction works.
November 27- Continue persuasive essay.
November 28 & 29- Thanksgiving Holiday.
December 2 – Continue persuasive essay on the non-fiction works
December 3 - Continue persuasive essay.
December 4- Persuasive essay is due. Students will turn in a title page, outline and a five paragraph MLA style
essay using the stories in the unit.
December – Prepare for final essay.
December 6- Prepare for final essay.
December 9- Begin final essay. Students will choose from two stories from a list of those covered during the
semester to write their final English 101 essay. Essay one-on-one.
December 10- Continue final essay.
December 11- Continue final essay.
December 12- Final essay is due. Students will turn in a title page, outline, and five paragraph MLA style essay.
December 13- Begin reviewing for multiple choice test.
December 16- Essay One-on-One.
December 17-20- Semester exams for the first semester.