12th Grade English Literature and Composition

Shannon Luster

1st Semester Syllabus

*There will be multiple choice practices to begin every class period.

WEEK / CONTENT/ASSIGNMENTS
Week One / Course description, syllabus, diagnostic exam, summer reading analysis questions, literary terms
Week Two / College writing style: MLA review, complexity, style, organization; How To Read Literature Like a Professor: the hero’s journey and other common elements; Kite Runner review and assessment
Week Three / A study in tone: prose passages; test question practice; annotation; Hearing the voices in prose: “Hills Like White Elephants” pg. 278; “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” pg. 269
Week Four / Prose study continued; test question practice; annotation; Stream of Consciousness: “The Story of an Hour” pg. 524; “A Rose of Emily” pg. 526
PROSE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK
Week Five / Poetry analysis: Literary terms, structure, connection to prose, annotation; Poetry packet #1
PROSE ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK!
Week Six / Poetry analysis continued: test question practice; annotation; Poetry packet #2: 16th century poets and the Metaphysical poets
POETRY ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK
Week Seven / Drama analysis: The Shakespearean Tragedy; Aristotle hero; tragic hero; iambic pentameter in drama; reading Shakespeare; motifs; symbols; themes; Acts 1-3 Macbeth
POETRY ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK!
Week Eight / Macbeth/Lady Macbeth character analysis; Macbeth- Tragic Hero Debate; Macbeth assessment
TIMED WRITING ASSIGNMENT IN CLASS
Week Nine / Tackling Question # 3!!; cooperative learning exercise; analysis of past questions; groups fit past long works into sample questions by writing outline of argument for each question.
Week Ten / Short story analysis: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” pg. 420; “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” pg. 469; a study in archetypes; the comparison/contrast essay: organization, word choice, transitions
COMPARISON/CONTRAST ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK
Week Eleven / Poetry Analysis: Poetry Packet #3; comparison/contrast of poetry: tone, diction, structure, imagery, central meaning
PROSE COMPARISON/CONTRAST DUE
POETRY COMPARISON/CONTRAST ASSIGNMENT: ESSAY DUE FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK
Week Twelve / Novel Study: The Metamorphosis; symbolism, archetypes, character analysis; multiple critical perspectives study: cooperative learning exercise: psychoanalytic approach, Marxist approach, feminine approach
POETRY COMPARISON/CONTRAST ESSAY DUE FRIDAY!
PROJECT PRESENTATION ASSIGNMENT FOR THE METAMORPHOSIS
Week Thirteen / The Metamorphosis: presentations given
IN-CLASS TIMED WRITING PASSAGE PRACTICE
Week Fourteen / Test Prep: Multiple Choice timed practices; Essay timed practices; peer review of writing; presentation of one chosen essay for a grade
IN-CLASS TIMED WRITING PASSAGE PRACTICE
Week Fifteen / Novel Study: The Great Gatsby; social implications, historical background and setting; tone ; narrator; character analysis; symbolism; theme
Week Sixteen / The Great Gatsby assessment; Short Story Analysis: “The Rocking Horse Winner” pg. 295; “Barn Burning” supplement
Week Seventeen / Semester exam review
Week Eighteen / Semester exams