January 26 (even)



Vocabulary/Grammar: Vocabulary will be compiled and assessed through our literature readings as well as SAT prep words (100 words/semester). Specific grammar lessons will focus on usage, conventions, hyphens, coordination and subordination, correct use of modifiers, agreement, and parallel structure.DATEREADING/WRITINGLITERATUREJanuary 29Evolution/EnvironmentIntro to Synthesis Essay - DCEJan. 31February 3Hamilton “The Man Who Evolved” Simak “Desertion”Feb. 5Feb. 7Herbert “Seed Stock” Stross “The Rogue Farm”Feb. 10Feb. 12Nonfiction – Smale “Planetary Alchemy” Popova “What the Future of Robots…”Feb. 14Poetry – Brandes “Human Evolution”; Film – 2001: A Space OdysseyFeb. 19DCE Annotated Bib DUEFeb. 21Feb. 24Gender/SexualityStone “The Conquest of Gola” Russ “When It Changed”Feb. 26Pohl “Day Million” Egan “Closer”Feb. 28Gender Response LetterDelany “Aye, and Gomorrah…” Zoline “The Heat Death of the Universe”March 2ThinkPiece – “Feminity/Masculinity…”Tiptree, Jr. “And I Awoke and…” Emshwiller “Abominable”March 4DCE conferencesNonfiction – Egan “No Intelligence Required,” Egan interview; LeGuin “About Feet,” “Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts about Beauty”March 6D’Cunha “The Force Re-aligns…”March 9DCE conferencesPoetry – Rossetti “Goblin Market”March 11Film – Twilight Zone “Number Twelve Looks…”, “The Lonely”, Excerpts of HerMarch 13March 16Time Travel/Alternate HistoryHeinlein “All you Zombies” Lem “The Seventh Voyage”March 18Wilhelm “Forever Yours, Ana” Varley “Air Raid”March 23DCE Synthesis essay peer editingKessel “Invaders”March 25Nonfiction – Ings “A Brilliant Back to the…”, Wilhelm interviewMarch 27Poetry – Gluck “A Fantasy”, Service “Premonition”, Murray “Time Travel”March 30Film – Excerpts Back to the Future, About Time, Man in the High CastleApril 1FINAL SYNTHESIS ESSAY DUEApril 3April 6April 8April 10-April 17April 20Utopias/DystopiasForster “The Machine Stops” Ellison “Repent, Harlequin!..”April 22Twilight Zone – New EpisodeLafferty “Slow Tuesday Night” Ryman “Everywhere”April 24Nonfiction – Long article, Mondello article, White article, Ellison interviewApril 27Poetry – McDaniel “The Quiet World,” Brautigan “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”April 29Film – Ellison documentary, Metropolis 1927May 1LeGuin (Fantasy/Speculative Fiction) – “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas”May 4War and ConflictSturgeon “Thunder and Roses,” Merril “The Only a Mother”May 6Tenn “The Liberation of Earth,” Smith “The Game of Rat and Dragon”May 8Short Answer – “Gloom and doom”Sterling “We See Things Differently”May 11Nonfiction – Sterling “Slipstream”, LeGuin “Thinking About Cordwainer Smith”Poetry – Carroll “Jabberwocky”, Frederiksen “To No End Death”, Tennyson “Locksley Hall”May 13Act IMay 15Shakespeare MacbethMay 18Act IIMay 20May 22Act IIIMay 27May 29Act IVJune 1June 3Act VJune 4 & 5SENIORFINALS ................
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