GUNTERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

English 101/102 Dual Enrollment 2010-2011

 

Texts:

English 101: Wyrick, Jean. Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings. 8th ed. Boston: Cengage, 2008.

                      Bragg, Rick. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. New York: Vintage, 2000.

English 102: Arp, Thomas R. and Greg Johnson. Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. Boston: Thomson Higher Education, 2009.

 

 

      *   First Nine Weeks

        **    Third Nine Weeks

Vocabulary:       Glossary writing terms

 

Language Skills:

    Review of grammar, punctuation, & mechanics

    Prewriting, drafting, revising

    Writing thesis, body, beginnings, & endings

    Sentence style & diction

    Narration description, examples, classification/division

    Writing about literature

 

Reading:

        Novels:    1984

                     Wuthering Heights

                     Silas Marner

                   

Writing Products

      Essay question answers

      Essays about literature

      Essays of narration, description, examples,                             

               classification/division

Vocabulary:   Elements of Fiction

                       Elements of poetry

 

Language Skills:

     A.  Plot, character, theme, p oint of view, symbol and

           Irony, tone.

     B.  Diction/tone, imagery, figurative language, allusion,

           Theme, tone, musical devices, rhythm and meter.

 

 

 

Reading:        Short Story selections

                       Death of Ivan Ilych

 

 

Writing Products:

 

     Contest entries

     Short story analysis papers

     Poetry analysis paper

  *       Second Nine Weeks

    **            Fourth Nine Weeks

 

Vocabulary:    Glossary terms

                         Research vocabulary

 

Language skills:

     Argumentation & persuasion

     Critical thinking & fallacies of logic

     Exposition developed by comparison/contrast, process,

          Cause/effect, definition, argumentation/persuasion

     Using MLA documentation to write a research paper

 

Reading:

      Selected essays of comparison/contrast, process,

          Cause/effect, definition, argumentation/persuasion    

          Somebody Told Me

 

Writing Products:

      Essays using argumentation

     Expository essays developed by process, comparison/contrast

          Cause/effect, definition, argumentation/persuasion

     Annotated bibliography

     Literary research paper

     Argumentative research paper

     

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary:     Elements of poetry

                         Elements of drama

 

Language skills:

   B.    Continued from 3rd 9 weeks.

 

    Realistic  drama

    Classical drama

     Tragedy and comedy

 

Reading:

     Poetry selections

     Oedipus Rex and Antigone

      Othello  and  Macbeth

     Trifles

      A Doll House

     The Sandbox

      Death of a Salesman

 

Writing Products:

     Comparison/contrast poetry paper

     Definition paper   - drama

     Theme analysis paper - drama

      Autobiography

    

 

 

 

First Semester

 

Week of

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thurs

Fri

Aug 9-13

Summer reading test

Into to course/ syllabus

Intro to course/ syllabus

Writing essay exams

Writing about lit and in-class assignments

Aug 16-20

Novel 1

 

 

 

test

Aug 23-27

Novel 2

 

 

 

test

Aug 30-Sept 3

Novel 3

 

 

 

test

Sept 6-10

Labor Day

Grammar review

 

 

 

Sept 13-17

Resumes

 

 

 

 

Sept 20-24

Thesis

 

Body

Beginnings and endings

 

Sept 29-Oct 1

Narration

In class Essay 1 

Description

In class Essay 2

Exam I

Oct 4-8

Exposition

In class Essay 3 Example essay

 

In class Essay 4 Division/ Classification essay

 

Oct 11-15

Exposition

In class Essay 5 Process essay

 

In class Essay 6 Cause and effect

 

Oct 18-22

(Fall Break)

Exposition

Read Somebody Told Me with assignment: Essay 7 due Mon

 

 

 

Oct 25-29

Exposition

In class Essay 8 Compare/contrast essay

 

In class Essay 9 Definition essay

Exam II

Nov 1-5

Argumentation

 

In class Essay 10 

 

 

Nov 8-12

Argumentation

 

Vet Day

 

 

Nov 15-19

Argumentation

 

 

 

Exam III

Nov 22-26

Argumentation

Research paper due

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Nov. 29-Dec 3

Somebody Told Me oral presentations

 

 

 

 

Dec 6-10

Paper revisions

 

 

 

 

Dec 13-17

Review

 

Final Exams

 

 

 

HOLIDAY READING ASSIGNMENT:      Chopin, Kate.   The Awakening.   (class set)  OR

                                                                        Kafka, Franz.  Metamorphosis.    (class set)

 

Note:    Changes to the course outline   OR to due dates are at the discretion of the instructor.

 

*There are no exemptions for the English 101 Final Exam.