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Syllabus English IV AP 2007
The syllabus, designed with the senior in mind, is not only a transition for “next year,” but also takes into consideration that time for a senior is most precious. Watch due dates, as the course has been assigned. If you feel that there will be conflicts with this schedule, then plan to do the assignment earlier than assigned. Short daily quizzes (SQ) may be expected with any and all assignments including journal entries. ALWAYS have your journals with you!!
As a pro-active course, it is difficult to pass when passively undertaken. Please keep this schedule, and note due dates as the term has been assigned. You are responsible for having the assignment done on the date listed.
All out-of-class papers are considered formal and must be typed. These papers are assigned two major grades: one for content and one for grammar. Content evaluates whether or not the correct format has been used and support given. The grammar is based on the schedule below. Use a standard format: double-space, 12-pt. font that is easy to read, and one-inch margins. If the paper is not submitted as stated above, the assignment will be returned and considered late. Papers should be on white paper with black ink. Proof read papers to correct spelling and grammar errors.
Errors will be graded accordingly:
10 points off for fragments, rambling or run-on sentences
5 points off for spelling errors, which include typing errors
5 points off for first person (I, we, me, us) and second person (you, your)
5 points off for numerals 1, 22, etc. should be spelled out (one, twenty-two)
5 points off for contractions (won’t, can’t) that are considered informal
1 point for all other errors
Extra Credit:
College essays may be turned in the first three six weeks for an extra major grade. Please turn in the prompt with the essay. If you want them edited, it is best to give some extra time before the essay is due.
2007-2008 Syllabus English IV
Focus on Archetypes—Legends—Heroes
Welcome Home the Hero: In the beginning—Celts then Anglo-Saxons and then the Normans
Sept. 4 Rules, Major Works, Papers, Heroes, Books
Focus on Archetypes—Legends—Heroes
Sept. 6 Welcome Home the Hero: In the beginning—the Celts and Anglo-Saxons
In-class oral presentation Bring your own hero, following the guidelines of the handout. Be prepared to present to the class, telling who and why this fictional character fits today’s needs for a hero. Audio/visuals are really good for the grade.
Begin Medieval Journal – should include all notes as well as reactions to the literature read.
Journals are due every day as a daily grade. Be prepared!
The essay question and the epic – due Sept. 20
Epic: An epic is a long narrative poem about aristocratic persons involved in a series of actions, usually significant in the development of a nation and always germane to the subject; a central hero unifies the action. Epics are usually classified as folk epics or literary epics. Beowulf, a folk epic, rises from the people and was passed by word of mouth from generation to generation, ultimately being written down. Unlike literary epics, folk epics are not the work of one author.
An epic must have:
• Superhuman hero, who is a leader or king, his career sums up the ideals or customs of his age. [Super = greater than the average human]
• The supernatural [Super = greater than found in the natural world; fantasy; magic]
• History and customs of a people
Controlling thesis: Because of its use of the hero, the supernatural and customs, the famous English folk epic Beowulf continues to be of literary consequence even today. (Cites are a must)
Sept. 10 Background on the Anglo-Saxon Period and Beowulf p. 1 – 29 APs
Sept. 12 Read Beowulf p. 29 – 61 APs
Sept. 14 Friday Night Lights Prologue In-class timed writing Q3 1997 Weddings, parties
Sept. 18 Read Beowulf p. 61 – 84 APs
Read Gilgamesh p. 62 – 64 (Literature Book = Lit.)
Begin The Hollow Hill, Mary Stewart
Sept. 20 Epic essay question due today
Peer Editing--Good idea to bring paper on a 3” disk or memory stick to make any corrections needed
Begin The Hollow Hill, Chapters 1-
Sept. 24 Read The Hollow Hill, Chapters
Excalibur Video
Sept. 26 The Hollow Hill, Chapters
Excalibur Video
Sept. 28 The Hollow Hill, Chapters Test?
Oct. 2 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Parts I and II
Oct. 4 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Parts III and IV
In-Class Writing
Senior Scrapbook due
Oct. 8 “Gareth and Lynette” handout from Le Morte d’Arthur
Oct.10 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Video
Oct.12 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Video
Medieval Journal due
College essay due
End of 1st 6 Weeks
Focus on Satire
Oct. 16 Begin Satire Journal
Chaucer’s Prologue and Pilgrims
Oct. 18 “The Miller’s Tale” In-Class Writing
Oct. 22 Restoration and 18th Century background
Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” with Applied Practice®
Oct. 24 Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” with Applied Practice®
Oct. 26 Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
Oct. 30 Begin Candide, Voltaire Chapters1 -
Nov. 1 Candide, Voltaire Chapters
Nov. 5 Candide, Voltaire Chapters
Nov. 7 Candide, Voltaire Chapters
Nov. 9 Candide, Voltaire Chapters
Senior Scrapbook due
Nov. 13 Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde
Nov. 15 Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde
Nov. 19 In-class Timed Writing 2006 Q3 Places
Satire Journal due
College Essay due
End of 2nd 6 weeks
Focus on Tone
Nov. 26 Begin Tone Journal
Hamlet, Shakespeare
Nov. 28 Hamlet, Shakespeare
Nov. 30 Hamlet, Shakespeare
Dec. 4 Wuthering Heights, Brontё
Dec. 6 Wuthering Heights, Brontё
Dec. 10 Wuthering Heights, Brontё
Dec. 12 Wuthering Heights, Brontё
Dec. 14 Wuthering Heights, Brontё
Dec. 18 In-Class Writing
Jan. 3 Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya
Jan. 7 Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya
Jan. 9 Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya
Jan. 11 Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya
Critical Analysis due
Scrapbook due
Jan. 15 Review
Jan. 17 Exams
End of 3rd 6 weeks
Focus on Poetry
Jan. 23 Historic background
Pre-Romantics Gray, Burns, Blake
Jan. 25 In-Class writing—“The Chimney Sweeper,” Blake
Jan. 29 Romantic Poets—Wordsworth
CR “There Was a Boy”
In-Class writing—The Prelude
Jan. 31 Coleridge, Byron and Shelley
Feb. 4 Keats poetry
Feb. 6 Victorian Poetry—Tennyson, Brownings, Rossetis, others
Feb. 8 More Victorian poetry—Dickinson, “The Last Night She Lived”
Feb. 12 20th Century poetry—Reed, Thomas, Yeats
Feb. 14 In-Class writing—“The Convergence of the Twain,” Hardy
Focus on the Controlled Metaphor
Feb. 18 The Sea Wolf, London
Feb. 20 The Sea Wolf, London
Feb. 22 The Sea Wolf, London
Feb. 26 The Sea Wolf, London
Feb. 28 The Sea Wolf, London
End of 4th Six Weeks
March 3 Heart of Darkness, Conrad Part I APs
March 5 Heart of Darkness, Conrad Part II APs
In-Class Writing
March 7 Heart of Darkness, Conrad Part III APs
March 11 Heart of Darkness and “The Hollow Men”—Graded Discussion
March 13 Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service” and “Ode to a Contemporary Bunkshooter,”
Sanburg
March 24 As I Lay Dying, Faulkner APs
March 26 As I Lay Dying, Faulkner APs
March 28 As I Lay Dying, Faulkner APs
April 1 As I Lay Dying, Faulkner APs
April 3 As I Lay Dying, Faulkner APs
April 7 Pygmalion, Shaw
April 9 Pygmalion, Shaw
April 11 Bless Me Ultima APs
April 15 Bless Me Ultima APs
April 17 Bless Me Ultima APs
End of 5th Six-Weeks
April 21 Bless Me Ultima APs
April 23 Bless Me Ultima APs
April 25 Bless Me Ultima APs
April 29 TAKS/ Comparison paper
May 1 TAKS/ Prose paper
May 5 Bless Me, APs due
May 7 AP Test Prep
May 8 AP Lit and Comp test
May 9 Bless Me, APs and discussion
May 13 Bless Me Ultima APs
May 15 Bless Me Ultima APs
May 19 Bless Me Ultima APs
May 21 Bless Me Ultima APs
May 23 Bless Me Ultima Major Test
May 28 Senior Scrapbook due
May 30
June—Semester Exams
June 6--Graduation
The English Didactic Journal
Journals are designed to aid the student in a pro-active manner. It is best to keep journals in a three ring binder, or if this is not possible, in a paper pocket folder with the notebook paper secured in the brads. Journals are due every day, and you may be asked to read to the class or react to one of your entries as a daily grade. The Applied Practice exercises go into the journal. Highlight passages that are of interest and react to them as a part of the journal. The AP practices will help to guide you in your reading as to what to look for as well as how to take best answer reading assignments. As the unit/novel is completed, the overall journal will be used as a major grade and should be utilized in writing papers as well as studying for exams.
As you read, react in writing. All in-class notes, terms and definitions should be kept in the journal as well. Be prepared! Like any other assignment, this will count as not having your work and be counted as a zero in the grade book. If done well, it will enhance your grade and make your life easier.
On the journal’s first page, create a cover page.
Your Name
English (level and period)
Pine Tree High School
The title of the novel/work
As you begin an entry, put your heading on the top of the page. Title the entry in a way that you can easily use it.
Your Name
The date
Chapters 1 – 4 (General Assignment)
Your entry may take more than one page. It is not necessary to head each page until the next day’s entry, which should begin on a separate page.
Draw a line down the middle of each sheet of paper. In the left label the column giving any information or quotations that you find important or interesting. In the right hand column, identify any literary devices found in the quote and your reactions to the information noted. It is important to cite the source with the page number (54). The reaction column may be used to give a personal response to how or why the author develops character, setting, theme, plot development or any other point you would like to make regarding the quotation. The entries should cover the reading assigned and should be original to you. It is not necessary to write out the entire quote, but it is important that you give enough that you can find and discuss the point being made.
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