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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