For the first marking period syllabus, click on the link below:
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October 12 - October 16
Mon., Tues.: Work on college essay openings
HW: Take notes on essay direction, details, sequence
Wed., Thurs.: "The Declaration of Independence"
HW: Continue essay work
Friday: College Essay work (200 words due)
HW: College Essay r.d. due Wednesday
October 5 - October 9
Here's a quick summary since most of what we've done has been along a single line of thought:
My objective has been to work from your experiences witih writing the "Well, Is It?" essay
and move into composing the college essay. My emphasis moving away from the first essay
was to arrive upon some recognition of the importance of planning in the process of putting
together an essay. Then, as we moved forward, I've been pushing the idea of planning as we
prepare to write the college essay. By Friday I want us to be ready to look at our sensory
details and turn them into words and phrases -- which might cause us to see the necessity of
including other information or ideas than we first had figured. Also by Friday, I want to be
able to look at this list of details and name the dominant impression that we want to serve as
the force behind our writing.
September 29 - October 2
Tuesday: Address the difficulty of opening an essay
HW: "Well, Is It?" essay due on Monday, October 5
Wednesday: Small group work: working through difficulties with opening and essay organiz.
HW: see above
Thursday: Individual work on essays/teacher feedback
HW: see above
Friday: Touchstones -- continuation of opening discussion: the observer
September 21 - 25
Monday: Clarify the prideful nature of human beings as presented in Sections IV and V
HW: Read Section VI
Tuesday: Go over the concept of "bliss" as defined by Pope in Section VI
HW: Read Section VII
Wednesday: Study Pope's "Great Chain of Being" (Section VII)
HW: Read Sections VIII and IX
Thursday: Re-read Sections VIII and IX, consider again Pope's condemnation of pride
HW: Write a few sentences about reason -- what it is, what it means to possess it
Finish the poem, Section X
Friday: Studay Section X and conclude poem
HW: Begin composing response essay to the poem
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September 14 - 18
Monday: Finish reading the opening to An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
HW: Re-read Section I
Think about the concept of a "station": What is a station? What is your station?
Tuesday: Section I of Epistle I, An Essay on Man
Consider the concept of occupying a "station"
Section II
HW: Read Sections III and IV
Wednesday: Touchstones
Focus: What does this reading suggest about human beings?
Thusday: Sections III and IV from An Essay on Man
Focus: What is Pope advocating should be our approach to life as we live it and
as we see it? Why?
HW: Read Section V, excerpt from Book of Job
Friday: Section V: Book of Job reference
HW: Paragraph Response to a quotation (due Monday)