English 10 Syllabus

English 10C

Jane Belton

Syllabus, February – March 2011

Wednesday 2/16

Discussion: WJ#13 due. Continue discussion of the novel.

Assignment: Prepare to submit WJ 11, 12, and 13 in your WJ portfolio on Friday.

Thursday 2/17 – No Class

Friday 2/18

Discussion: WJ Portfolio due (#s 11-13). Introduce final project

Assignment: 1) Review the text. 2) Decide what your main point (thesis) is about Gatsby and write it down for class on Wednesday. 3) Begin to gather evidence (use sticky notes or a different colored pen to mark key passages in your book).

Monday 2/21 – Tuesday 2/22 – No School

Wednesday 2/23

Discussion: Thesis statement due. Writing Workshop 1 — Thesis statements and introductions; outline writing: define three main sub-points.

Assignment: 1) Type your introduction and print it out for class. 2) Gather textual evidence for each sub-point.  3) In your notebook, write your three main sub-points and the textual evidence for each point you plan to make, with page numbers for quotes in parentheses.

Thursday 2/24 – No Class

Friday 2/25

Discussion: Writing Workshop #2 — Introduction and rough outline due. Hand in intro for teacher feedback. Share and workshop intros.

Assignment: Write the first body paragraph of your speech.

Monday 2/28

Discussion: First body paragraph due. Writing Workshop # 3 — Body paragraphs: structure, incorporation and analysis of evidence, tone and voice.

Assignment:  Write body paragraphs 2 and 3.

Tuesday 3/1

Discussion:  First draft of speech due (without a conclusion).  Writing Workshop # 4 — body paragraphs (peer work) and conclusions.

Assignment:  Finish your speech. A full first draft of your speech is due tomorrow. Please print it out before class.

Wednesday 3/2

Discussion: FIRST DRAFT DUE. In class conferences.

Assignment: Continue to work on your draft.

Thursday 3/3 – No Class

Friday 3/4

Discussion: In class conferences.

Assignment:  Complete final project portfolio.

In the left hand pocket of your final project folder, please include the following:

1.     Outline

2.     First draft of intro with teacher comments

3.     First full draft

In the right hand pocket of your final project folder, please include the following:

1.     Final draft with title page and numbered pages

2.     Process piece

FINAL DRAFT OF GREAT GATSBY FUNERAL SPEECH DUE AT OUR SCHEDULED EXAM TIME (SPECIFIC DATE TBA)

No Place Like Home Syllabus 2/8-2/15

Syllabus: February 2011

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Tuesday 2/8

CLASS:            Individual conferencing/working with laptops.

HOMEWORK:             Continue work on your essay. Bring in a draft to show me on Wednesday.

Wednesday 2/9

CLASS:                        Individual conferencing/working with laptops.

HOMEWORK:            Read and annotate Book 13 (213 – end) and New York Times article “Back From War, But Not Really Home”. Continue to work on essay.

Thursday 2/10

CLASS:             Discuss The Odyssey, Book 13

HOMEWORK:             Read and annotate The Odyssey Book 16 (pp. 338-353)

Friday 2/11: Unit 5 – Home at Last

CLASS:                         Discuss Book 16.

HOMEWORK:             Complete essay and process piece for Tuesday 2/15. Turn in Response 4 on Tuesday with your essay. Read and annotate “The Last Tour”

Monday 2/14 – No Class

Tuesday 2/15

CLASS:            Essays due. Discuss “The Last Tour” and final project

HOMEWORK:            Read and annotate The Odyssey Book 17 (lines 194 – end)

English 10 Syllabus Feb 7-15, 2011

English 10C

Jane Belton

Syllabus, February 7 – 15 2011

Monday 2/7

In Class:  Discuss Chapter 4 and 5, The Great Gatsby. WJ#11 due.

Assignment: Review and reannotate Chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby.

Tuesday 2/8

In Class: Continue discussion of Chapter 5. Constructing, inventing, and choreographing one’s identity and how one is perceived. Revisit “Artist and his Museum”; Gatsby’s identity and its construction; Gatsby a creator/director/actor of the story.  Discuss modern day Gatsby figures. In-class writing: What are some examples of modern day Gatsbys in our world? How do these figures carefully “choreograph” their self image? How else do they resemble Gatsby? View and discuss MTV cribs.

Assignment: Read and annotate The Great Gatsby, chapter 6. WJ#12 (close reading, see handout).

Wednesday 2/9

In Class: Chapter 6, The Great Gatsby. WJ#12 due. The myth of the “self-made man”

Assignment:  Read and annotate chapter 7, The Great Gatsby.

Thursday 2/10 – No Class

Friday 2/11

In Class: Chapter 7, The Great Gatsby.

Assignment: Read and annotate chapter 8, The Great Gatsby.

Monday 2/14

In Class:  Chapter 8, The Great Gatsby.

Assignment: Read and annotate chapter 9, The Great Gatsby.

Tuesday 2/15

In Class: Chapter 9, The Great Gatsby.

Assignment:  Read and annotate Dr. Zizmor article. Complete WJ#13: What makes Gatsby “great”?  Or conversely, what makes Gatsby not “great”? Incorporate and analyze textual evidence from the novel in your response to support your ideas.

No Place Like Home Syllabus REVISED

Syllabus: January – February 2011

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REVISED

Friday 1/28

CLASS:            Continue discussion of world of the dead: What major points does Shay make about Odysseus’s journey to face the dead. Why must Odysseus go there? What do his experiences there teach him or give him or force him to recognize/address? Discuss encounters with Achilles, Ajax, Sisyphus & Tantalus, and Heracles.

HOMEWORK:            Complete Response # 4 (see handout) in preparation for the essay on Book 11.

Monday 1/31 – No Class

Tuesday 2/1

CLASS:                        Discuss essay assignment. Writing Workshop 1: Review Response # 4 and use a highlighter or colored pen to highlight/underline your most interesting and original ideas. Then, do your most interesting ideas fit together in some way? What do you seem to be arguing or coming back to as a central idea in your response? Go back to the text and make further notes/annotations on the passages you want to discuss in your essay. Brainstorming/conferencing.

HOMEWORK:            1. Go back to the texts (The Odyssey and Odysseus in America ch. 9 and 17) and make further notes/annotations on the passages you want to discuss in your essay. 2. Then begin a draft of your introduction. Your intro should set up the context of your argument, should discuss the 2-3 major points you plan on making in your essay, and should end with a clear, succinct thesis statement. It may take you several drafts to craft your argument!  Your intro must mention the specific episodes from Book 11 you plan on discussing in your essay and give a preview of what you plan on arguing about those episodes.  Bring your introduction (printed out) to class on Thursday.

Wednesday 2/2

CLASS:            Get your lunch at 12:24 and bring it to the Student Center for joint class with GWOT: SCREENING & DISCUSSION OF THE MESSENGER

HOMEWORK:            Work on a draft of your intro for class on Thursday.

Thursday 2/3

CLASS:            Intros due. Writing Workshop 2: Review/workshop introductions and thesis statements; revise your introductions according to feedback.

HOMEWORK:            Revise your introductions/thesis statements according to feedback. Organize your ideas (Step 3 of essay handout) and write a draft of your first body paragraph for Friday 2/4.

Friday 2/4

CLASS:                        Writing Workshop 3: Body paragraphs: topic sentences, incorporating and analyzing evidence.

HOMEWORK:            Revise body paragraph according to today’s workshop.  Work on your next body paragraphs. Bring in a first draft of your essay to show me on Tuesday 2/8. Bring in an electronic copy as well, if you want to use a laptop during class.

English 10 Syllabus 1/31-2/4

English 10C

Jane Belton

Syllabus January 31–  February 4, 2011

Monday 1/31

In Class: Hand out map. Discuss Chapter 1, The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby, movement/restlessness vs. stillness; East Egg vs. West Egg; color; Fitzgerald’s style.

Assignment: Read and annotate chapter 2, The Great Gatsby.

Tuesday 2/1

In Class: Discuss Chapter 2, The Great Gatsby. Valley of the ashes, Dr. Eckleburg, George and Myrtle Wilson; Nick’s role in the novel.

Assignment:  Read and annotate chapter 3, The Great Gatsby.

Wednesday 2/2

In Class:  Discuss Chapter 3, The Great Gatsby. East Egg vs. West Egg; Gatsby’s party; the owl-eyed man; the mystery of Gatsby.

Assignment: Read and annotate chapter 4, The Great Gatsby.

Thursday 2/3 – No Class

Friday 2/4

In Class: Chapter 4, The Great Gatsby.

Assignment:            Read and annotate chapter 5, The Great Gatsby. Then trace the pattern of Daisy’s voice from the beginning to the end of chapter 5 in your Writer’s Journal. Please make an actual list of the quotes where her voice is described (with page numbers). Then, answer the following questions: What do you notice about the descriptions of her voice? Is there a pattern? What does the pattern reveal about her feelings regarding this reunion with Gatsby?  This is WJ#11.

No Place Like Home Syllabus January – February

Syllabus: January – February 2011

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Monday 1/24 – No Class

Tuesday 1/25

CLASS:            Discuss New York Times articles. Watch and discuss sections of Lioness

HOMEWORK:            Read and annotate Book 11 lines 1-256 and 436-731.  Carefully annotate episodes in the book that you feel are important to Odysseus’s experience there and are significant to his journey home. Make notes on and interpret key language, imagery, word choice, allusions, symbolism, metaphors in the passages. Why are these episodes necessary to his journey (physically and emotionally)?

Wednesday 1/26

CLASS: Discuss Book 11. Close reading of specific passages.

HOMEWORK:             Read and annotate Chapter 9 (pp. 76-85) and Chapter 17 pp. 168 – 174 (from “Stages of Recovery” to “which must then be restored”) in Odysseus in America. Annotate Shay’s main points carefully. In the margins, please mark and respond to the most interesting lines and ideas in Shay’s writing and make connections to The Odyssey wherever possible. Bring both this text and your Odyssey to class on Thursday.

Thursday 1/27 – Unit 4: Remembering the Dead

CLASS:            Read Yusef Komunkakaa’s “Facing It” (handout). Continue discussion of world of the dead: What major points does Shay make about Odysseus’s journey to face the dead. Why must Odysseus go there? What do his experiences there teach him or give him?

HOMEWORK:            Complete Response # 4 (see handout)

Friday 1/28

CLASS:                        Introduce essay assignment. Writing Workshop 1: Review Response # 4 and use a highlighter or colored pen to highlight/underline your most interesting and original ideas. Then, do your most interesting ideas fit together in some way? What do you seem to be arguing or coming back to in your response as a central idea?

HOMEWORK:            1. Go back to the text and make further notes/annotations on the passages you want to discuss in your essay. 2. Then begin a draft of your introduction. Your intro should set up the context of your argument, should discuss the 2-3 major points you plan on making in your essay, and should end with a clear, succinct thesis statement. It may take you several drafts to craft your argument!  Your intro must mention the specific episodes from Book 11 you plan on discussing in your essay and give a preview of what you plan on arguing about those episodes.  Bring your introduction (printed out) to class on Tuesday 2/1.

Monday 1/31 – No Class

Tuesday 2/1

CLASS:            Intros due. Writing Workshop 2: Review/workshop introductions and thesis statements.

HOMEWORK:            Revise your introductions/thesis statements according to feedback. Organize your ideas (Step 3 of essay handout) and write a draft of your first body paragraph for Thursday, 2/3.

Wednesday 2/2

CLASS:                        JOIN GWOT CLASS: SCREENING & DISCUSSION OF THE MESSENGER

HOMEWORK: Revise your introductions/thesis statements. Write a draft of your first body paragraph for Thursday, 2/3.

Thursday 2/3

CLASS:                        Essay intros due. Writing Workshop 3: Body paragraphs: topic sentences, organization, incorporating and analyzing evidence.

HOMEWORK:            Revise body paragraph according to today’s workshop.  Work on your next body paragraph. Bring in a draft to show me on Friday 2/4.

Friday 2/4

CLASS:            Individual conferencing/working with laptops.

HOMEWORK:             Continue work on your essay. Bring in a draft to show me on Tuesday 2/8.

English 10C Syllabus 1/14-1/28

English 10C

Jane Belton

Syllabus January 14 – 28, 2011

Friday 1/14

In Class: Discuss “Song of Myself”

Assignment: 1) Reprint or make a copy of Writer’s Journal #10 and highlight the writing that seems most important or interesting to you.  What details, images, or ideas stand out to you most in your imagined portrait? 2) Then find and bring in one “artifact” to class – a personal item, possession, object, photograph, etc — that you would want included in your written portrait. Note: the artifact does not have to be from Writer’s Journal 10 (although that WJ may help you generate ideas about what to bring). 3) Turn in Writer’s Journals # 8-10 on Tuesday in the folder provided.

Monday 1/17 – No School

Tuesday 1/18

In Class: WJ 8-10 portfolio due. Introduce Song of Self Project; Writing Prompt 1: Writing from an artifact.

Assignment Complete Prompt 2: see project handout for details

Wednesday 1/19

In Class: Prompt 2 due. Share. Begin prompt 3 in class.

Assignment: Complete prompt 3. Work on assembling a draft of your “Song of Self.” A first draft is due Friday 1/21. See project handout for details.

Thursday 1/20 — No Class

Friday 1/21

In Class: Prompt 3 due; draft of “Song of Self” due. Workshopping with partners/sharing work with the full class.

Assignment: Complete Song of Self Project, due Monday 1/24. Practice reading your work aloud so you are prepared to read your poem with the class for 4-6 minutes. Please place your final draft of your Song of Self, your first draft of your Song of Self, Process Piece, and Prompts 1-3 in a folder with your name on it.

Monday 1/24

In Class: Share Song of Self

Assignment: No Homework

Tuesday 1/25

In Class: Share Song of Self

Assignment: Read and annotate “Cosmopolis 1919-1931” from New York, Ken Burns.

Wednesday 1/26

In Class: Discuss 1920s and The Jazz Age; view clip from Ken Burns’ documentary New York.

Assignment: Read and annotate Fitzgerald’s “My Lost City”.

Thursday 1/27 – No Class

Friday 1/28

In Class: Discuss “My Lost City.”  New York City and the American Dream. Begin The Great Gatsby as a class.

Assignment:  Read and annotate chapter 1, The Great Gatsby.

No Place Like Home Syllabus REVISED 1/13 – 1/21

Syllabus: January 2011

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Thursday 1/13

CLASS:                        Response # 3 due. Discuss excerpts from letters and The Warrior, A Mother’s Story…; share our poems and discuss interpretations of Telemachus and Penelope.

HOMEWORK:             Read and annotate The Odyssey, Book 5. Note: in Books 3 and 4 Telemachus visits King Nestor and King Menelaus to learn more about his father; the suitors make plans to ambush/kill Telemachus when he returns.

Friday 1/14

CLASS:                        Discuss Books 5: The first sight of the “hero,” Odysseus. Calypso; Odysseus as “he who gives and receives pain”.

HOMEWORK:             Read and annotate The Odyssey Book 7 (lines 94 – 181 & 266 – end) and Book 8 (lines 1-413 and 559-end). Note: In Book 6, Odysseus lands in Phaeacia and flirts with the king’s beautiful daughter, Nausicaa, who is washing her clothes on the shore.  Eventually, Nausicaa sends Odysseus to her father’s (Alcinous) palace in order to help him return to Ithaca. Prepare for Odyssey quiz on Thursday 1/20: identifying key terms and characters. Review notes and annotations.

Monday 1/17 – No School

Tuesday 1/18 – Unit 3: Staying in Combat Mode; The Spoils of War

CLASS:            Discuss The Odyssey, Books 7 & 8. Odysseus’s tactics, heroism, masculinity, achievement and failure.

HOMEWORK:            Read and annotate Chapter 3 of Odysseus in America: Pirate Raid: Staying in Combat Mode (pp 19-34) and Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home”. Prepare for Odyssey quiz on Thursday: identifying key terms and characters. Review notes and annotations.

Wednesday 1/19

CLASS:            Discuss “Staying in Combat Mode”, “Soldier’s Home” and connections to Odyssey.

HOMEWORK:             Read and annotate The Odyssey, Book 9 and pp. 46-50 from Odysseus in America. Prepare for Odyssey quiz on Thursday: identifying key terms and characters. Review notes and annotations.

Thursday 1/20

CLASS:            Odyssey quiz: identify key terms and characters; discuss Odysseus and the Cyclops;

HOMEWORK:            Read and annotate The Odyssey, Book 10 lines 1-60 and 146-631.

Friday 1/21: Unit 3 – Women at War

CLASS: Discuss Book 10; women and the soldier

HOMEWORK:            Read and annotate selected readings (handout)