Weeks 23 & 24

Week 23

For Tuesday 2/9: Read through The Town-Ho’s Story (p. 214) and finish vocab #2.

Monday 2/1 - Melville papers due; 20-minute passage response in composition book

Tuesday 2/2 - CPS quiz M-D chs. 1-35 (pp 1-136); discsuss vocab #1

Wednesday 2/3 - Xingu (Literary Meet)

Thursday 2/4 – 20-minute timed writing in compositioon book

Friday 2/5 - discuss vocab #1, MC Practice

Week 24

Monday 2/8 - 20-minute timed writing; work on vocab.

Tuesday 2/9 - Vocab #2 due; M-D reading day/vocab #3

Wednesday 2/10 - CPS quiz (The Mast-Head-The Jeroboam, pp 131-250)

Thursday 2/11 - Xingu (through page 14...try to memorize lines)

By the time we get back from break, you need to have read through "Schools and Schoolmasters," pp. 307. We will have a CPS quiz on the chapters btn. pp 254 and 307 first thing Tuesday 2/16!

Weeks 21 & 22

Tuesday 1/19 - Begin Moby-Dick and Vocab #1 (due 1/26)
HW: Melville paper

W-F 1/20-1/22 - Read/work on vocab
First Drafts to partners Friday 1/22
HW: edit/critique draft/read M-D

Monday 1/ 25 - Workshop drafts/read
HW: finish vocab #1

Tuesday 1/26 - 20-minute passage response in composition book
HW: polish second draft of Melville paper

Wednesday 1/27 - Workshop drafts/read
HW: begin reading/vocab #2 (pp 60-214)

Thursday 1/28 - Read/work on vocab
HW: make paper perfect!

Friday 1/29 - 20-minute passage response
HW: read

Melville Paper

Your first out-of-class paper of the semester will be over Melville’s short fiction. The topic is up to you…you can do a comparison/contrast of the two stories in terms of theme, narrative voice, prose style, etc., a Freudian analysis of I and My Chimney (Sophie’s World has a good basic discussion of Freud, but you might want to dig a bit deeper), a “historiography” of Bartleby interpretations, or an analysis of one or both stories based on a chapter(s) from HTRLAP. Use MLA format for parenthetical citation and lists of works cited.

I will only collect/grade the final draft of these papers, which are due Friday January 29.

Partners –

MC/NR
LH/JE
CC/CW
EI/GS
PF/EW
AW/Mr. Dalton

You are advised to follow the time-line below:

Tuesday 1/19 – e-mail précis of your paper to me and your partner

Friday 1/22 – First Draft to partner

Wednesday 1/27 – Second Draft to partner

Week 19: Moby-Dick Warm-Up I

Tuesday 1/6 - Finish discussing Semester Exams
HW: "Review" novel for essay tomorrow

Wednesday 1/7 - AP #3 Essay (9 pts.)
HW: Begin I and My Chimney

Thursday 1/7 - Read/work on Moby-Dick Warm-up #1
HW: Finish above

Friday 1/8 - I and My Chimney CPS quiz (10 pts.)
Moby-Dick Warm-up #1 due
Discuss Essays
HW: Read Bartleby the Scrivener

Week 17 and Semester Exam

Reading - Chapter 6 pp 274-285; The Rocking-Horse Winner, Young Goodman Brown, and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.

Tuesday - Discuss Roccking-Horse
Wednesday - Discuss Goodman Brown
Thursday - Discuss Enormous Wings
Friday - Read and discuss A & P

The Semester Exam will be on Tuesday 12/15 at 12:30. It will take the entire two hours and will consist of two prompt essays and @ 35 MC questions. I would spend some time reviewing your rubrics/essay samples and any practice MC questions I have given you this semester before the Exam.

Itinerary: Short Fiction Chapter 5 and Pan

Tuesday 11/17 - Finish sample MCs, read Ch. 5 pp. 227-233 and The Lottery.
HW: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, bring text and comp. books to class!

Wednesday 11/18 - Discuss The Lottery, comp. book work on Jilting
HW: Hills Like White Elephants

Thursday 11/19 - Comp. book work on White Elephants, then discussion
HW: Xingu papers!

Friday - Papers due. Composion book assessment/collection.
HW: Read and mark-up, Pan. I will collect annotated copies on Monday 12/30 and we will have a CPS quiz over the book. If you have any questions during the break, e-mail them to me by Saturday morning 11/28. I will check e-mail at noon and respond to all question at that time.

Short Fiction Itinerary #2

Week 12 -

Chapter 3 "Characterization"

Stories: Night Roamers, Sin, Everyday Use, Miss Brill

Story Quiz Thursday 11/5

Essay: The Ladies of Xingu: A Study in Characterization. Due (typed, double-spaced, no more than 1,500 words) Friday 11/20

Week 13 -

Chapter 4 "Theme"

Stories: A Fragment of Life, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Worn Path

CPS Story Quiz Friday 11/13