SYLLABUS: ELEVENTH ENGLISH
TEXTBOOKS: Literature:
Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes, Prentice Hall, Simon and
Schuster Education Group, 1999.
Elements of Writing, Fifth Course, Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, Harcourt
Brace & Company, 1998.
I. First nine weeks
A. Tests and discussions over summer readings
1.
Huckleberry Finn and Blue
Highways
B.
Composition: review and preparation
1. “Fragments and Run-on Sentences”
2. “Clear Reference: Pronouns and Antecedents”
3. “Placement of Modifiers: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers”
4. “The Whole Composition”
C. Composition: formal writing assignments #1, 2, and 3
(Students will
practice process writing--prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading,
editing, responding
in small groups--on all formal composition assignments.)
1. Character sketch (Paper #1)
2. Analysis (Paper
#2 and Paper #3)
D. Composition: informal in-class writings
1. Reader responses to literature
2. Dialectical journals
E. Literature
1.
The Great Gatsby by F.
Scott Fitzgerald
2. Harlem Renaissance: American short stories, poetry, nonfiction
excerpts
3. Of Mice
and Men by John Steinbeck
F. Vocabulary
1. SAT/ACT practice
(Resource: Weiner, Mitchel and Sharon Weiner
Green. Verbal Workbook for SAT I. Hauppage, New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 1997.)
2. Vocabulary lists #1-2-3
3. Total words: 75
II.
Second nine weeks
A. Composition: Review and Preparation
1. “Exercises in Writing Prose”
2. “Punctuation”
3. “Parallel Structure”
B. Composition: formal writing assignments
1. Comparison/contrast of two
Gothic short stories (Paper #4)
(i.e., William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Eudora Welty’s
“Clytie”)
2. Literary Analysis of The Scarlet Letter (Paper
#5)
C. Composition: informal in-class writing
1. Entrance and exit slips (writing-to-learn
pieces)
2. Reader responses on literature
D. Literature
1. American Gothic short stories
2.
The Scarlet Letter by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. The
Crucible by Arthur Miller
E. Vocabulary
1. SAT practice
2. Vocabulary lists #4-5-6
3. Total words: 75
III. Third
nine weeks
A. Composition: review and preparation
1. “Correct Agreement: Subject and Verb”
2. “Correct Pronoun Usage”
3. “Sentence Variety”
B. Composition: formal assignments
1. Research paper--a six-week project (Paper #6)
(Research/composition skills
emphasized: library/internet,
notetaking
MLA
Style, documentation of sources, outlining, manuscript form)
2. Essay on evaluation of research process (Paper #7)
C. Composition: informal in-class writings
1. Entrance and exit slips
2. Freewritings
D. Literature
1. As I
Lay Dying by William Faulkner
2. Critical reviews of Faulkner’s writings
E. Vocabulary
1. SAT practice
2. Vocabulary lists #7-8
3. Total words: 50
IV. Fourth
nine weeks
A. Composition: review and preparation
1.
Style: diction (handouts)
2. Style:
creative imitation (handouts)
B. Composition: formal assignments
1. Film critique (Paper #8)
2. Persuasion (Paper #9)
C. Composition: informal in-class writings
1. Original poetry (publication of class poetry
books)
2. Dialectical journals
3. Reader responses to literature
D. Literature
1. Modern American poetry (1945-present)
2. The
Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
3. Independent reading of American novel
E. Vocabulary Study
1. SAT practice
2. Vocabulary lists #9-10
3. Total words: 50