12th Grade English Literature and Composition
12th Grade English Literature and Composition
Shannon Luster
1st Semester Syllabus
*There will be multiple choice practices to begin every class period.
|WEEK |CONTENT/ASSIGNMENTS |
|Week One |Course description, syllabus, diagnostic exam, summer reading analysis questions, literary terms |
|Week Two |College writing style: MLA review, complexity, style, organization; How To Read Literature Like a |
| |Professor: the hero’s journey and other common elements; Kite Runner review and assessment |
|Week Three |A study in tone: prose passages; test question practice; annotation; Hearing the voices in prose: |
| |“Hills Like White Elephants” pg. 278; “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” pg. 269 |
|Week Four |Prose study continued; test question practice; annotation; Stream of Consciousness: “The Story of |
| |an Hour” pg. 524; “A Rose of Emily” pg. 526 |
| |PROSE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK |
|Week Five |Poetry analysis: Literary terms, structure, connection to prose, annotation; Poetry packet #1 |
| |PROSE ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK! |
|Week Six |Poetry analysis continued: test question practice; annotation; Poetry packet #2: 16th century |
| |poets and the Metaphysical poets |
| |POETRY ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK |
|Week Seven |Drama analysis: The Shakespearean Tragedy; Aristotle hero; tragic hero; iambic pentameter in drama;|
| |reading Shakespeare; motifs; symbols; themes; Acts 1-3 Macbeth |
| |POETRY ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK! |
|Week Eight |Macbeth/Lady Macbeth character analysis; Macbeth- Tragic Hero Debate; Macbeth assessment |
| |TIMED WRITING ASSIGNMENT IN CLASS |
|Week Nine |Tackling Question # 3!!; cooperative learning exercise; analysis of past questions; groups fit past |
| |long works into sample questions by writing outline of argument for each question. |
|Week Ten |Short story analysis: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” pg. 420; “Where Are You Going, Where Have You |
| |Been?” pg. 469; a study in archetypes; the comparison/contrast essay: organization, word choice, |
| |transitions |
| |COMPARISON/CONTRAST ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK |
|Week Eleven |Poetry Analysis: Poetry Packet #3; comparison/contrast of poetry: tone, diction, structure, |
| |imagery, central meaning |
| |PROSE COMPARISON/CONTRAST DUE |
| |POETRY COMPARISON/CONTRAST ASSIGNMENT: ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK |
|Week Twelve |Novel Study: The Metamorphosis; symbolism, archetypes, character analysis; multiple critical |
| |perspectives study: cooperative learning exercise: psychoanalytic approach, Marxist approach, |
| |feminine approach |
| |POETRY COMPARISON/CONTRAST ESSAY DUE FRIDAY! |
| |PROJECT PRESENTATION ASSIGNMENT FOR THE METAMORPHOSIS |
|Week Thirteen |The Metamorphosis: presentations given |
| |IN-CLASS TIMED WRITING PASSAGE PRACTICE |
|Week Fourteen |Test Prep: Multiple Choice timed practices; Essay timed practices; peer review of writing; |
| |presentation of one chosen essay for a grade |
| |IN-CLASS TIMED WRITING PASSAGE PRACTICE |
|Week Fifteen |Novel Study: The Great Gatsby; social implications, historical background and setting; tone ; |
| |narrator; character analysis; symbolism; theme |
|Week Sixteen |The Great Gatsby assessment; Short Story Analysis: “The Rocking Horse Winner” pg. 295; “Barn |
| |Burning” supplement |
|Week Seventeen |Semester exam review |
|Week Eighteen |Semester exams |
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