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Honors English 11: Term 3 Archive of Weekly Syllabi
Below is a list of assignments and assessments completed thus far in the current marking period.
If you missed a class or an assignment, this archive, along with your X2 online grade report, will give you the opportunity to discover what you missed. It will also provide with the resources to complete all the work that can possibly be completed outside of class.
Weekly Syllabus
This syllabus is from the week of...
Spring Semester Starts
Introduction to multi-genre writing in the "real" world.
Begin by exploring a "text" connection: view Road Runner episode
Read "Coyote vs. Acme" by Ian Frazier (p. 1148 - 1152 in lit. book) and complete an open reader's response to hold your thinking.
Complete work not completed in class.
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
American Literature Sampler
Check and prep. spring semester portfolios (digital and 3-ring)
Read and discuss "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (p. 96 in lit. book).
Review authors and literary works in this time period. Choose one literary work/author and respond to one of these works with an open reader's response.
Introduction to the literary side of Ben Franklin (p. 140 in lit. book). Read and discuss selections excerpts from “Poor Richard’s Almanac” (p. 148 in lit. book).
Review authors and literary works in this time period. Choose one literary work/author and respond to one of these works with an open reader's response.
Read and discuss Poe's poem "The Raven" (p. 330 in lit. book). See a clip of The Simpson's version of "The Raven" here:
Review authors and literary works in this time period. Choose one literary work/author and respond to one of these works with an open reader's response.
Read and discuss Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” (p. 642 in lit. book).
Review authors and literary works in this time period. Choose one literary work/author and respond to one of these works with an open reader's response.
Complete work not completed in class.
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Tracking Thoreau
What kind of detail should be in your nature journal entry? Click here and see an example of an "A" nature journal entry.
Click here and see the scoring rubric for nature journal entries.
Introduction to Naturalism and author Jack London.
Read and discuss London's short story "To Build a Fire" (p. 620 in lit. book).
Review authors and literary works in this time period. Choose one literary work/author and respond to one of these works with an open reader's response.
Complete work not completed in class.
American Literature Sampler
Introduction to Modernism and author Ernest Hemingway.
Learn more about Hemingway by exploring this link.
Read and discuss Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" (handout).
Review authors and literary works in this time period. Choose one literary work/author and respond to one of these works with an open reader's response.
Review authors and literary works in this time period. Choose one literary work/author and respond to one of these works with an open reader's response.
Complete work not completed in class.
American Literature Sampler
Review your American Literature Sampler and choose one author/literary work/period as your focus.
Research to identify four literary works which offer text connections ("text to text" or "text to world") to your focus. This will provide the background knowledge necessary for the creation of a fully realized multi-genre paper.
With peer comments and rubric score as a guide, begin work on final draft.
Prepare to continue work on your multi-genre paper at home - via flash drive or Google-Docs. Tomorrow you will have one last day to work on this in class. Your final draft is due to your digital portfolio at www.turnitin.com before 11:59pm Tuesday, 2/14/12.
Continue work on multi-genre paper final draft. Final draft must be digital. Submit final draft (as a PDF) to your digital portfolio at www.turnitin.com before 11:59pm Tuesday, 2/14/12.
Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre Papers
Continue work on the final draft of multi-genre paper.
Finish work on multi-genre paper final draft. Final draft must be digital. Submit final draft (as a PDF) to your digital portfolio at www.turnitin.com before 11:59pm tonight!
