Spring 2018 English 2326 Instructor Information Deidra Dallas deidra.dallas@ballingerisd.net 325.365.3547 ext. 5015 Course Description, Outcomes, and Objectives ENG 2326 is a study of diverse works by American writers. Emphasis on reading, comprehending, appreciating, and thinking critically about the selected works within the context of American culture and literary history. At the end of this course you should: understand the role of American literature as an expression of national values and an interpretation of the American experience; understand the interaction among American history, culture, and literature; understand the scope and variety of American literature, including its various forms; understand and be able to explain the function of American literature as a definer of national identity and an index of American values; be able to define the terms neo-classicism, romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and post-modernism and other terms related to genre study and literary analysis; understand and apply basic methods of literary analysis. In an effort to help you achieve the learning outcomes above, I have prepared lessons, readings, and class assignments, listed in the pages below, that will help you Develop a basic sense of the scope and variety of literary forms and of the changing interests and assumptions of authors across time Gain factual knowledge about academic writing (the terminology of academic writing) Learn to analyze and critically evaluate ideas, arguments, and points of view. Required Materials All reading will be supplied to you on Blackboard or via textbooks owned by BHS. Spiral Notebook Folder with pockets and brads Pens/pencils : The Life and Times of the Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire English 2326 - Syllabus Spring 2018 1
Spring 2018 English 2326 Grading Quizzes 10% Oz Project 20% Midterm 1 10% Author Paper 20% Midterm 2 10% Final Exam 20% Midterm 3 10% TOTAL 100% ASU Core Curriculum Objectives: English 2326 Students in sophomore literature will practice the following core curriculum learning objectives in critical thinking, communication, social responsibility, and personal responsibility. Students will then demonstrate their capabilities in these objectives through reading quizzes, written analyses, or examinations. Critical thinking will be demonstrated in reading quizzes, written analyses, or examinations Students will gather, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information relevant to a question or issue by mastering a series of assigned literary works in terms of generic conventions and content. Communication will be demonstrated in reading quizzes, written analyses, or examinations. Students will develop, interpret, and express ideas through effective written communication. Social responsibility will be demonstrated in written reflection on public reading or lecture. Students will demonstrate ability to engage with locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally known literary artists and the texts they create, and to reflect upon the shared traditions of literary expression, the debates that help shape literature, and the conflicts, cultural differences, and shared experiences. Personal responsibility will be demonstrated in reading quizzes, written analyses, or examinations. Students will demonstrate the ability to evaluate choices, actions and consequences by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating ethical decision-making in literary examples. English 2326 - Syllabus Spring 2018 2
Spring 2018 English 2326 Policies and Procedures As this is a college level course you are expected to keep up with all course work and stay on top of your schedule. No late work will be accepted. Therefore, it is your responsibility to turn in any and all work before you expect to be gone. The only exception will be in the case of medical emergency, and a doctor s note must be provided. This means, football, basketball, baseball, and softball games, band competitions, UIL activities, theatre productions, track meets, FFA events, and all other extracurricular activities do not excuse you from homework or due dates. You have a schedule -- make note of assignment due dates on your personal schedule. Electronic malfunction will not be an excuse for late work. DO NOT wait until the last possible second to submit an assignment. If you have an issue, make sure to contact me ASAP so that we can discuss your options. Make sure that it gets turned in somehow, some way. Quizzes There will be periodic quizzes throughout the semester over reading assignments. Some reading assignments will NOT be covered by ME. You are still responsible for knowing the information and will be tested on it. In some cases, you will be given collective class time to work together on these assignments. We will have frequent Socratic Circle discussions and your participation in these discussions will be documented and used as a part of your grade. If you have failed to complete your reading, you will not be able to participate, and therefore you will not receive a positive grade. Grammar Assignments Each week we will discuss a different grammatical concept. These will be graded and included in the quizzes category of your grade. Oz Project We will read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, watch the film The Wizard of Oz, and read : The Life and Times of the Witch of the West. After completing these assignments, you will write an analytical essay comparing and contrasting the characters, symbols, themes, etc. from all three works. Author Paper All of you will be assigned a different author from American Literature. You will be responsible for researching this person s background and writing and teaching the class about them when we reach that point in the syllabus. You will also turn in an analytical essay discussing what you have learned. English 2326 - Syllabus Spring 2018 3
Spring 2018 English 2326 Midterms/Final Exam You will have several midterms during the course of the semester. Your final exam for the semester and will be an in-class essay test taken during the final exam time period. The final will be the week of May 7. Plagiarism Plagiarism is defined as using ideas and information from other sources without giving appropriate credit to the original sources. Plagiarism includes taking information from people you do not know (the Internet) and from people you do know (your friends). Study groups are permissible, but only if each student turns in an original document of their own. If you are caught plagiarizing, you will receive a zero on the assignment, and you could possibly receive a failing grade in the course. Additional discipline could involve letters being placed in your permanent file and action taken by Western Texas College resulting in a possible suspension or expulsion. Also note that even accidental plagiarism is considered plagiarism, so when in doubt CITE EVERYTHING. The Internet makes it easy for you to plagiarize, but it also makes it easy for me to catch you plagiarizing. Be aware that I am well versed in the use of Google, and catching you is as easy as Googling a sentence from your paper. Everyone has a unique writing style. If something does not sound like you, I will check it. Do not test me. Academic Honesty Angelo State University students shall maintain complete honest and integrity in their academic pursuits. The University expects all students to engage in all academic pursuits in a manner that is above reproach and to maintain complete honesty and integrity in the academic experiences both in and out of the classroom. Drop date The last day to drop this or any other ASU college course is April 2, 2018. English 2326 - Syllabus Spring 2018 4
January 2018 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Begin 4th 6 Weeks Syllabus Create timeline Create timeline HW: NAL 3-23 8 9 10 11 12 Beginnings to 1700 Intro Iroquois Creation Story HW: NAL 57-72 John Smith HW: Anne Bradstreet poetry Anne Bradstreet Grammar & Composition HW: NAL 157-169, 209-220 County Stock Show 15 16 17 18 19 Parts of Speech Am. Lit 1700-1820 Intro Declaration of Independence Phyllis Wheatley "Slave Ship" Parts of Speech Quiz "Slave Ship" cont. Ballinger UIL Meet "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" HW: NAL 337-344 HW: NAL 401-411 22 23 24 25 26 Spelling & Style Midterm 1 HW: NAL 445-466 1820-1865 Introduction Washington Irving HW: 505-508, 549-566, 839-842, 910-916, 1005-1009, Whitman poem Dallas out -- TETA Transcendentalist Activities 29 30 31 Sentence Structure Nathaniel Hawthorne & Herman Melville HW: 683-692, Poe Short Story Edgar Allan Poe Chad Cargill ACT in Ballinger Edgar Allan Poe HW: 775-776, 779-790 Dallas out -- TETA Transcendentalist Activities Dallas out -- TETA Spelling & Style Quiz Transcendentalist Activities HW: NAL 603-606, 1099-1102
February 2018 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 Sojourner Truth, Harriet Sentence Structure Quiz Beecher Stowe HW: NAL 934-952, 1002-1005 5 6 7 8 9 Verbs Federick Douglass HW: 1189-1217 OAP Festival in Post Study Day Emily Dickinson District CX Debate Verbs Quiz Study Day Midterm 2 HW: NAL 1265-1281 12 13 14 15 16 Nouns 1865-1914 Intro HW: 1282-1289, 1481-1489 Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman HW: 1732, 1811-1823 Charlotte Perkins Gilman cont. Jack London Mark Twain and Bret Harte HW: NAL 1604-1605, 1609-1611, 1668-1681 End 4th 6 Weeks Nouns Quiz HW: NAL 1837-1856 OAP Festival in Post (PM) 19 20 21 22 23 Begin 5th 6 Weeks Determiners 1914-1945 Intro HW: 1898-1926 Gertrude Stein and Robert Frost HW: 1937-1942, 1961-1970 Sherwood Anderson and William Carlos Williams HW: 2003-2009, 2221-2229 Determinerss Quiz T.S. Eliot and Langston Hughes HW: "Hills Like White Elephants" 26 27 28 Abbreviations Ernest Hemingway Modernist Groups (Steinbeck or Fitzgerald) Hosting District Band Reading Day Hosting District Band Reading Day
March 2018 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 Group Discussions Abbreviations Quiz HELP WITH LAST MINUTE DISTRICT HOSTING NEEDS HW: Oz essays 5 6 7 8 9 Pronouns The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Hosting District OAP The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Hosting District OAP The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Oz Discussion Pronouns Quiz Midterm 3 HW: Begin 12 13 14 15 16 SPRING BREAK!!!! SPRING BREAK!!!! SPRING BREAK!!!! SPRING BREAK!!!! SPRING BREAK!!!! 19 20 21 22 23 Adjectives The Wizard of Oz District Academic UIL The Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz Adjectives Quiz Baum vs. MGM 26 27 28 29 30 Adverbs Adverbs Quiz
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 2 3 4 5 6 Prepositions End 5th 6 Weeks Prepositions Quiz 9 10 11 12 13 Begin 6th 6 Weeks Conjunctions & Interjections English 1 EOC English II EOC Conjunctions & Interjections Quiz Oz Paper DUE HW: NAL 2255-2271 16 17 18 19 20 Punctuation Am. Lit Since 1945 Intro **Student teaching days begin April 2018 Tennessee Williams Arthur Miller Flannery O'Connor Punctuation Quiz 23 24 25 26 27 Usage & Style Sylvia Plath N. Scott Momaday Raymond Carver Art Spiegelman Usage & Style Quiz 30
May 2018 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 Work on author paper Work on author paper State OAP Work on author paper State OAP Work on author paper 7 8 9 10 11 Finals Week Finals Week Finals Week Finals Week Finals Week Author Paper DUE 14 15 16 17 18 Prepare for high school finals Prepare for high school finals High School Final Exams High School Final Exams High School Final Exams 21 22 23 24 25 Happy Graduation!!!!! 28 29 30 31