• Attached are the agendas thus far for this semester in ENC 1102.

• Daily Objective: To understand the rules for success in
ENC 1102:Writing about Literature
• Daily Assignments:
• Go over syllabus and guidebook and questions on Journal assignment (due January 21 at 11:59 pm)
• Pass out books (if they are here)
• Take quiz on
Old School
• Assign rough draft of essay on
Old School on p. 44; we will work on this next class period
• Read Chpt. 41 “Writing about Literature” (p. 1887-1907) and complete “Writing about
Literature” Handout on p. 49 of Guidebook
• Read Chpt. 42 “Writing about a Story” (p. 1908-1932) and complete Cornell Notes
Outline on “Writing about a Story”
• Read from Samuel Johnson’s
Dictionary and come up with your own satirical definitions in a group; you will share your “best” definitions with the class

• Daily Objective: To understand how to write a comparison/contrast literary analysis
• Daily Assignments:
• Show me Chpt. 41 and 42 Homework if not turned in last class period
• Briefly discuss “ambiguity” in relation to Paul Thomas Anderson film/
Tobias Wollf’s novel
• #Hashtag responses to questions on
Old School as an introduction to the novel (put 1-10 on your paper; you will need to # a response to whatever question I ask on the next few slides)
• Assign
Old School group activity on p. 43; we will work on this in-class this week and next; it is due to www.turnitin.com
by January 30
• Go over how to find a literary criticism using Panther Central
• Work on rough draft to
Old School comparison/contrast essay; it is due
January 23 at 11:59 pm; keep in mind you will need to rely on your peers’ feedback for comments or see me during study hall to receive copious comments.

From the article “Inherent Vice and the Modern
Audience’s Ambiguity Problem” by Kevin Lincoln
• Increasingly, we’ve become a culture that insists on resolution and explanation from our stories. We need to know who did it as immediately as possible. We need to know how True Detective ends, even before we’re halfway through the…season. We need to know if the science is right in Interstellar , and why the characters in Game of Thrones , a show set in a world that contains dragons , are so mean to each other.
Ambiguity has become like the Postal Service: We tolerate it only when absolutely necessary. Less and less are we content to be told a story; more and more we want to tell that story ourselves, showing that we get it, we got it, we figured it out.

• If I asked, what is Purcell’s opinion of Big
Jeff?
• #backoffbro
• #heardofpersonalspace?
• #letmebemeandyoubeyou

• What would your hashtag description be for the narrator?

• What is your opinion of the fact that you never knew the narrator’s name?

• Describe Bill and the unnamed narrator’s friendship.

• Describe the way the students felt about Dean
Makepeace.

• Describe your opinion of Ayn Rand after reading “Ubermensch.”

• Pretend you are, for a moment, the unnamed narrator. Justify in your #hashtag your reason you felt it was appropriate to turn in Susan
Friedman’s story as your own.

• Think about the fact that due to the fact the unnamed narrator plagiarized a story for a voluntary contest that he was kicked out of school, lost his summer scholarship to
Oxford, and lost his four year scholarship to
Columbia University. Write a # on your opinion of this.

• Write a # comparing what Makepeace did
(that led him to leave the school for a year) and what the unnamed narrator did.

• Write the title to a story that sums up your life thus far.

• Re-read the last paragraph of the novel.
Come up with a # description of what happened OR your opinion of what happened.

• Daily Objective/s:To work cooperatively and independently in analyzing a work of literature
• Daily Assignments:
• Discuss results on quiz, which disappointed me to my very core
• Assign and work on group activity on Old School, which is due by the end of the class period
• Complete peer editing on
Old School essay; briefly conference with teacher over results. (As you look over my comments, you will note that I wrote either MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED—which means that, essentially, because you did not read the book your essay is not very good— or MINOR IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED—which means you have minor formatting issues/analysis issues to fix for the final draft. If you would like more specific information than that please feel free to stop by my study hall, after-school, or before school)
• Test on Old School will be Feb. 5(A)/Feb. 6(B) and worth 150 points

• Daily Objective/s:
• Daily Assignments:
• Work on final draft of
Old School essay; due Jan.
29 at 11:59 pm

Daily Assignments:
• Finish going over Focuses in group; then turn them in
• Still in your group--Come up with 10 events in the book (out of order) that occurred; come up with descriptions of each chapter (out of order)
• Complete Reader’s Guide Discussion Questions on p.42 in group (each group is assigned one or two); you will share your group’s responses and we will discuss them thereafter
• Watch video called “Catching Kayla” and do comparison/contrast activity in which you talk about Kayla and yourself
• If time, begin covering satire since our next essay will be a satirical essay based on “A Modest Proposal”

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Daily Objective: To understand the elements of a strong short story.
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Daily Assignments:
• Assign books
•
2A, 3A- Finish comparison/contrast activity on Kayla and YOU; 1B- Finish video starting at 10:02 and write comparison/contrast
• Go over study guide for next period’s Old School Test; be aware that a make-up version of the test will contain additional questions, including an essay (and this is my policy on make-up tests with
2 nd semester seniors)
•
Complete activity in group in which you note 15 characters and their significance; you will have 15 minutes for this
• Watch short satirical videos from Stephen Colbert and The Onion to introduce satire
• Read “A Modest Proposal” and discuss
• Assign “A Modest Proposal” Satirical essay (p. 46)—Due February 10

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Daily Objective: To be successful taking a college-level test on a novel
• Daily Assignments:
• 2A- Turn in “A Modest Proposal” questions if you did not last class period
• Test on Old School (worth 150 points)
• 1B- Due to my absence last class, I am also assigning books and assigning “A
Modest Proposal” essay today
• Next class period we will work on writing our own “Modest Proposal”

• Daily Objective: To understand how to write a satirical essay.
• Daily Assignments:
• Complete test on Old School
• Warning: Next class period we will complete both Valentine’s Day and Anti-
Valentine’s Day Activities. Please bring as positive an attitude as you can in concern to this holiday.
• Remember: Your Modest Proposal is due to turnitin.com by 11:59 pm on
February 10.

• Daily Objective: To understand the horror and beauty of this holiday.
• Daily Assignments:
• Complete Valentine’s Day and Anti-Valentine’s
Day Activities

• Daily Objective: To understand how to analyze and discuss a short story at the collegiate level.
• Daily Assignments:
• 1B- Pass out books and College Goal Sunday Postcard
• Remember your Modest Proposal is due Tuesday at 11:59 pm
• Read “A Clean Well, Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, do questions, discuss, and make a list of three examples of dialogue from the old waiter (and analysis of this dialogue) plus two examples of dialogue from the young waiter (and analysis of this dialogue)
• Read “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” , do questions, discuss, make a list of at least five magic realism elements, and create our own fable in a group

• Daily Objective: To understand how to analyze and discuss a short story at the collegiate level.
• Daily Assignments:
• Create an illustrated fable on own or with a partner or in group (15 minutes)
• Make a list of 5 magic realism elements from “A Very Old Man with
Enormous Wings”; discuss story
• Read “A Rose for Emily” and do questions, discuss, make a list of events of this story in chronological order, and come up with your own story with a creepy ending
• If time, begin reading “The Yellow Wallpaper”

• Daily Objective: To understand how to analyze and discuss a short story at the collegiate level.
• Daily Assignments:
• Go over titles for RLARS book—you should have it by the beginning of
March to complete your first Reading Log by March 6; go over short story essay assignment—rough draft is due March 6 too.
• Read “The Yellow Wallpaper”, write 5 quotes showing the main character’s “change” over the course of the story, discuss, do questions, and create your own wallpaper to hang up in the classroom.
• Warning: On March 4/5, we will take a test on our Short Story Unit; your study guide is already on my website. This test will be worth 150 points.

• Daily Objective: To understand how to analyze and discuss a short story at the collegiate level.
• Daily Assignments:
• First ten minutes--Finish quotes from “The Yellow Wallpaper” and turn it in
• Next fifteen minutes--Get a piece of ANY colored paper and create your own wallpaper symbolizing what the main character saw in your artistic opinion; hang it up on my wall
• Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and read critics’ analyses of it; write three quotes from story and two from critics, plus a paragraph as to how you would analyze it.

• Daily Objective: To understand how to analyze and discuss a short story at the collegiate level.
• Daily Assignments:
• Return papers; pass out and return scholarship forms if you got one
• Finish going over “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and turn in quotes/analysis of quotes
• Read “The Rich Brother” and discuss
• Go over review for Short Story/Restoration Test, which will be on
Wednesday(A)/Thursday (B)
• Next class period—Bring your Read like a Rock Star book! You will have time in-class to read and work on the rough draft of your short story analysis essay.

• Daily Objective:
• Daily Assignments:
• 3A and 1B- Go over “The Rich Brother”
• Please only get laptop to work on essay if you have turned in assignments on “A Good Man…” and “The Rich Brother”; once you turn them in you get a laptop
• Go over #hashtag review of each of the short stories we read
• Work on rough draft of short story analysis essay, which is due
Monday at 11:59 pm
• Also work on reading RLARS book or studying for next period’s test

• Daily Objectives:
• Daily Assignments:
• Test on Short Stories
• If finished early, RLARS

• Daily Objective: To analyze a short story in writing.
• Daily Assignment:
• Work on rough draft of short story analysis essay
• RLARS if a laptop is unavailable or study for test

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Daily Objectives: To be successful in analyzing a short story and a poem at a collegiate level
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Daily Assignments:
• Go over expectations for Poetry Unit
• Peer Editing of Short Story Analysis Essay/Conference on Short Story Analysis Essay; if you do not have access to a laptop, then read your British book until you do; once you have finished peer editing, then pass the laptop and read your British book; remember peer editing is due March 11 at 11:59 pm
• Shockingly, I have extended the due date of your final draft to March 24; when we return from Spring Break you will have a day in class to complete your final draft and conference with me on your paper
• Read “Those Winter Sundays” p. 677—Write a poem about a childhood memory involving a relative
• Read “Ask Me” p. 685
• Read “Doo Wop” p. 825—Write a serious or comic poem which contains no more than two words per line
• If time left, read your British reading book

• Daily Objectives: To be successful in analyzing a poem at a collegiate level
• Daily Assignments:
• Read “White Lies” p. 693
• Read “Dulce et Decorum Est” p. 709
• Read “Dog Haiku” p. 696 and write a series of haikus
• Read “Silence” p. 718 and write a poem told largely in quotations
• Read “Grass” p. 723
• Read “Jabberwocky” and write a poem filled with nonsense words
• If time left, read your British literature book

• Daily Objectives: To be successful in analyzing a poem at a collegiate level
• Daily Assignments:
• Warning: YOUR NOTEBOOK IS DUE NEXT CLASS PERIOD!
REMEMBER TO FILL OUT YOUR CHECKLIST ON YOUR
JOURNAL! And YOUR FAVORITE JOURNAL IS DUE TO THE
DISCUSSION BOARD OF TURNITIN ON FRIDAY AT 11:59 PM
• Read “Richard Cory” p. 795, “Ballad of Birmingham” p. 800, and
“next to of course america I” p. 744; write a poem with no capitalization or punctuation on a social injustice or historical issue
• Work on your final draft of your short story analysis essay in Rm.
213; it is due March 24 at 11:59 pm

• Daily Objectives: To be successful in analyzing a poem at a collegiate level
• Daily Assignments:
• As you work today, I will call you up to check your notebook