English 1302 Syllabus Spring 2017
Calendar Spring 2017
Panther Pages
Sample Precis
Precis #1 Due March 5: Wealth and Privilege
Precis #2 Due March 12: Crime
Precis #3 Due April 9: Youth
Precis #4 Due April 23: Women's Issues
Topics for APA Format Paper
Assignment: Imagine you are a psychologist researching a particular disorder. I recommend you use a film, TV program or documentary as inspiration. You will find six to eight sources for your proposal, eventually using four or more in the paper. The paper will explore the history of the disorder, the causes, the effects on the patient, and your recommended form of treatment and reasoning why that treatment would benefit the patient.
A List of Psychological Disorders
American Psychological Association
List of Topics from Buzzle
List from Stanford University
NY Times List of Topics
PBS Frontline Website of Documentary Programs
Assignment: Imagine you are a psychologist researching a particular disorder. I recommend you use a film, TV program or documentary as inspiration. You will find six to eight sources for your proposal, eventually using four or more in the paper. The paper will explore the history of the disorder, the causes, the effects on the patient, and your recommended form of treatment and reasoning why that treatment would benefit the patient.
A List of Psychological Disorders
American Psychological Association
List of Topics from Buzzle
List from Stanford University
NY Times List of Topics
PBS Frontline Website of Documentary Programs
APA Format Research Paper
Little Seagull Chapter on APA Format
Ch. 37 from The Bedford Guide for College Writers
On-line Access to Little Seagull
Powerpoint for APA Format to Accompany The Bedford Guide Chapter
Worksheet to test understanding of APA Format
VIDEO ON FORMATTING
Video on Formatting in Googledocs
Formatting References Page with Database Sources
PROPOSAL HANDOUT includes Title Page, Essay or Proposal, and References Page
Due Dates:
References Page due on Wednesday, Jan. 11
Proposal with references page is due Monday, Jan. 16
Rough Draft Jan. 20 (Friday)
Final Draft Jan. 23 (Monday)
Fences by August Wilson
Article by Metzger
Topics for Fences Paper
Timed Writing on Monday, Feb. 6
Annotated Bibliography of six sources due on Friday, Feb. 10
Rough draft due on Friday, Feb. 17
Peer Editing due on Tuesday night, Feb. 21
Final Draft of research paper in MLA format on Fences is due on Friday night, Feb. 24.
Handout over Research Paper
Link to Databases at Ridge Point HS.
Select ALL GALE DATABASES.
Use only GALE LITERARY RESOURCE. (Deselect all the other databases.)
Sample Annotated Bibliography
Model Paper 1
Model Paper 2
How to cite the play:
Wilson, August. Fences. Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense. Ed. Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson.
Boston: Wadsworth, 2009. 1594-1651. Print.
Parenthetical Citation:
Gabriel calls at the end, "Troy, you ready? You ready, Troy" (1651).
Sample paragraph with Sources
Article by Metzger
Topics for Fences Paper
Timed Writing on Monday, Feb. 6
Annotated Bibliography of six sources due on Friday, Feb. 10
Rough draft due on Friday, Feb. 17
Peer Editing due on Tuesday night, Feb. 21
Final Draft of research paper in MLA format on Fences is due on Friday night, Feb. 24.
Handout over Research Paper
Link to Databases at Ridge Point HS.
Select ALL GALE DATABASES.
Use only GALE LITERARY RESOURCE. (Deselect all the other databases.)
Sample Annotated Bibliography
Model Paper 1
Model Paper 2
How to cite the play:
Wilson, August. Fences. Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense. Ed. Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson.
Boston: Wadsworth, 2009. 1594-1651. Print.
Parenthetical Citation:
Gabriel calls at the end, "Troy, you ready? You ready, Troy" (1651).
Sample paragraph with Sources
Topics for Short Story Paper
Final Draft of Short Story Paper is due Sunday, April 26, at midnight.
Works Cited
Final Draft of Short Story Paper is due Sunday, April 26, at midnight.
Works Cited
Short Story Unit Collection of Stories
Collection of Short Short Stories
February 21 "Everyday Use"
Quiz over "Everyday Use" on Feb. 22
Feb. 22-23 Read Collection of Short Short Stories
Feb. 24 Quiz over Short Short Stories
February 27 "Miss Brill"
February 28 "Paul's Case"
March 2 "Hills Like White Elephants"
March 3 "The Lottery"
March 6 "A&P"
March 7 "Where are you going? Where have you been?"
Short Story Topics for 2017
Collection of Short Short Stories
February 21 "Everyday Use"
Quiz over "Everyday Use" on Feb. 22
Feb. 22-23 Read Collection of Short Short Stories
Feb. 24 Quiz over Short Short Stories
February 27 "Miss Brill"
February 28 "Paul's Case"
March 2 "Hills Like White Elephants"
March 3 "The Lottery"
March 6 "A&P"
March 7 "Where are you going? Where have you been?"
Short Story Topics for 2017
Topics for the Poetry Paper
Poetry Paper is due WEDNESDAY, MAY 3.
Poetry Video Project is due April 29.
Poetry Paper is due WEDNESDAY, MAY 3.
Poetry Video Project is due April 29.
Poetry Unit Collection of Poems
March 24 "Ethics" and "Introduction to Poetry"
March 27 "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" and "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"
March 28 "The Man with the Night Sweats" and "Mid-Term Break"
March 29 "The Author to Her Book" and "The Telephone"
QUIZ ON MARCH 29 AFTER "The Telephone"
March 30 "Mind" and "I taste a liquor never brewed"
March 31 "Mirrors" and "Metaphors"
QUIZ ON MARCH 31 AFTER "Metaphors"
April 3 "Harlem" and "The Road Not Taken"
April 4 "To His Coy Mistress" and "To The Virgins"
April 5 "To An Athlete Dying Young" and "We Real Cool" and "Fire and Ice"
April 6 "Up Hill" and "Because I could not stop for Death"
April 7 Quiz over "Metaphors" through "Because I could not stop for Death"
April 10-11 "Batter my heart, three-person God," "My mistress' eyes," "On the Sonnet" and "Sonnet" by Billy Collins
April 12 Timed Writing
April 13 Meet with Poetry Group
April 17 "Yet Do I Marvel" and "Siren Song"
April 18 "Musee de Beaux Arts"
April 19-20 "Barbie Doll" and "A Supermarket in California"
Writing Assignment due on "Barbie Doll" Due on April 23
April 21 "In Just" and "Spring and All"
Group Project Assignment
Group Project Rubric
Group Video is due April 23
Individual Poetry Analysis is due May 3, Wednesday at Turnitin.com
SAMPLE POETRY PAPER
March 24 "Ethics" and "Introduction to Poetry"
March 27 "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" and "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"
March 28 "The Man with the Night Sweats" and "Mid-Term Break"
March 29 "The Author to Her Book" and "The Telephone"
QUIZ ON MARCH 29 AFTER "The Telephone"
March 30 "Mind" and "I taste a liquor never brewed"
March 31 "Mirrors" and "Metaphors"
QUIZ ON MARCH 31 AFTER "Metaphors"
April 3 "Harlem" and "The Road Not Taken"
April 4 "To His Coy Mistress" and "To The Virgins"
April 5 "To An Athlete Dying Young" and "We Real Cool" and "Fire and Ice"
April 6 "Up Hill" and "Because I could not stop for Death"
April 7 Quiz over "Metaphors" through "Because I could not stop for Death"
April 10-11 "Batter my heart, three-person God," "My mistress' eyes," "On the Sonnet" and "Sonnet" by Billy Collins
April 12 Timed Writing
April 13 Meet with Poetry Group
April 17 "Yet Do I Marvel" and "Siren Song"
April 18 "Musee de Beaux Arts"
April 19-20 "Barbie Doll" and "A Supermarket in California"
Writing Assignment due on "Barbie Doll" Due on April 23
April 21 "In Just" and "Spring and All"
Group Project Assignment
Group Project Rubric
Group Video is due April 23
Individual Poetry Analysis is due May 3, Wednesday at Turnitin.com
SAMPLE POETRY PAPER
Final Exam Readings
"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand" by Edmund Spenser
"I know a woman" by Theodore Roethke
"Weighing the Dog" by Billy Collins
Final Exam Dates: May 8, 9, 10.
HCC grades due on May 12.
Things to consider for the final:
What literary elements does each author/poet employ?
What is the tone of the work?
What is the theme of the work? What is the author saying about humanity?
How do the literary elements contribute to the theme?
Last Assignment: Five Poems in three days
Write 5 poems in class. Type up three and turn into turnitin.com by Thursday, May 18.
Poem #1 Write a poem about the topic of fame and celebrity
You may rhyme or use free verse. The poem must be at least 10 lines long. Use concrete imagery, specific details, and have an argument.
"Famous"
"Dear Miss Cyrus"
"Dear Mark Wahlberg"
Poem #2 Extended Metaphor or Conceit
Remember “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath or “Mind” by Richard Wilbur
Videos: “When the Cancer Comes”
"The Gutting"
Poem #3 Partner/Group Poem
Choose a partner or group and create a work. Work on Timing/Juxtaposition/Parallelism.
"I wrote her name upon the strand" by Edmund Spenser
Video of "I wrote her name upon the strand"
Button Poetry--“The Friend Zone,” “The Origin Story”
Poem #4 Write a ballad.
A ballad is a poem that tells a story, usually an exciting story about lost love or death.
A ballad is writing in four-line stanzas. Lines 1 and 3 have four beats per line and lines 2 and 4 have three beats per line and rhyme.
www.thoughtco.com/literary-ballad-poems-2725560
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/ballad-poetic-form
Warren Zevon's "Exciteable Boy"
Ballad in A by Cathy Park Hong
A Kansan plays cards, calls Marshall
a crawdad, that barb lands that rascal a slap;
that Kansan jackass scats,
camps back at caballada ranch.
Hangs kack, ax, and camp hat.
Kansan’s nag mad and rants can’t bask,
can’t bacchanal and garland a lass,
can’t at last brag can crack Law’s balls,
Kansan’s cantata rang at that ramada ranch,
Mañana, Kansan snarls, I’ll have an armada
and thwart Law’s brawn,
slam Law a damn mass war path.
Marshall’s a marksman, maps Kansan’s track,
calm as a shaman, sharp as a hawk,
Says: That dastard Kansan’s had
and gnaws lamb fatback.
At dawn, Marshall stalks that ranch,
packs a gat and blasts Kansan’s ass
and Kansan gasps, blasts back.
A flag flaps at half-mast.
Poem #5 Write a modern sonnet
Florida Doll Sonnet by Denise Duhamel, 1961
by I love Fresh Market but always feel underdressed
squeezing overpriced limes. Louis Vuitton,
Gucci, Fiorucci, and all the ancient East Coast girls
with their scarecrow limbs and Joker grins.
Their silver fox husbands, rosy from tanning beds,
steady their ladies who shuffle along in Miu Miu’s
(not muumuus) and make me hide behind towers
of handmade soaps and white pistachios. Who
knew I’d still feel like the high school fat girl
some thirty-odd years later? My Birkenstocks
and my propensity for fig newtons? Still, whenever
I’m face to face with a face that is no more real
than a doll’s, I try to love my crinkles, my saggy
chin skin. My body organic, with no preservatives.