|
Week/Date
|
Literature
|
Literature
Assignments Due
|
Writing
Assignments Due
|
Grammar
Topics
|
|
Week 1 (8/22)
|
Introduction to Animal
Farm
|
|
|
“Why Grammar?”
|
|
Week 2 (8/29)
|
Read Introduction & Handouts
|
Before Reading
Exercise: “What makes a good leader?”
|
Descriptive Essay Rough
Draft
|
Intro to Parts of Speech,
part 1
|
|
Week 3 (9/5)
|
Read Chapters I & II
|
3 Reader Responses
3 Vocabulary words.
|
|
Intro to Parts of Speech,
part 2
|
|
Week 4 (9/12)
|
Read Chapters III & IV
|
Take Home Quiz #1
3 Vocabulary words.
|
Descriptive Essay
Final Draft
|
Intro to Parts of Speech,
part 3
Parts of Speech Pre-Test
|
|
Week 5 (9/19)
|
Read Chapters V & VI
|
3 Reader Responses
3 Vocabulary words.
|
Personal Essay Rough Draft
|
Interjections Presentation
|
|
Week 6 (9/26)
|
Read Chapters VII & VIII
|
3 Reader Responses
3 Vocabulary words.
|
|
Verbs Presentation
|
|
Week 7 (10/3)
|
Read Chapters IX & X
|
Take Home Quiz #2
3 Vocabulary words
|
Personal Essay
Final Draft
|
Adjectives Presentation
|
|
Week 8 (10/10)
|
Character Presentations
|
Final for Animal Farm
|
Biography Essay Pre-Write
|
Nouns Presentation
|
|
FALL BREAK
|
||||
|
Week 9 (10/24)
|
Introduction to A Christmas Carol
|
|
Biography Essay
Rough Draft
|
Conjunctions Presentation
|
|
Week 10 (10/31)
|
Read Stave One
|
3 questions from the Study
Guide. 4 Vocabulary words.
|
|
Adverbs Presentation
|
|
Week 11 (11/7)
|
Read Stave Two
|
3 questions from the Study
Guide. 4 Vocabulary words.
|
Biography Essay Final Draft
|
Pronouns Presentation
|
|
Week 12 (11/14)
|
Read Stave Three
|
3 questions from the Study
Guide. 4 Vocabulary words.
|
History Pre-Write
|
Prepositions Presentation
|
|
Week 13 (11/21)
|
Read Stave Four
|
2 questions from the Study
Guide. 4 Vocabulary words.
|
History Rough Draft
|
Review
Parts of Speech Post Test
|
|
THANKSGIVING
BREAK
|
||||
|
Week 14 (12/5)
|
Read Stave Five
|
Vocabulary Quiz
4 Vocabulary words.
|
|
Word of the Day Test
|
|
Week 15 (12/12)
|
|
Final Exam
|
History Final Draft
|
|
Showing posts with label syllabus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label syllabus. Show all posts
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Writing 1 Fall Syllabus
Friday, January 19, 2018
Writing 1 Spring 2018 Syllabus
|
Week/
Date
|
Literature
|
Assign. Due
|
Writing
|
Grammar Topic
|
|
Week 1
(1/18)
|
Introduction to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde
|
|
|
Introduce: Subject-Verb Identification
|
|
Week 2
(1/25)
|
Jekyll/Hyde: Ch. 1 – 2
(pg.1 – 11)
|
Answer 2 questions for Ch.
1 and 2 for Ch. 2.
|
Narrative Essay Pre-Write
|
Review: Subject-Verb Identification
|
|
Week 3
(2/1)
|
Jekyll/Hyde: Ch. 3 – 4
(pg. 12 – 17)
|
Be prepared to discuss the
study questions for
|
Narrative Essay Rough Draft
|
Introduce: Identifying Prepositional Phrases
|
|
Week 4
(2/8)
|
Jekyll/Hyde: Ch. 5 – 6
(pg. 18 – 24)
|
Answer 2 questions for Ch.
5 and 2 for Ch. 6.
|
|
Review: Identifying Prepositional Phrases
|
|
Week 5
(2/15)
|
Jekyll/Hyde: Ch. 7 – 8
(pg. 25 – 35)
|
Be prepared to discuss the
study questions for
|
Narrative Essay Final Draft
|
Introduce: N-LV-N and N-LV-Adj Sentences
|
|
Week 6
(3/1)
|
Jekyll/Hyde: Ch. 9 – 10
(pg. 36 – 54)
|
Answer 2 questions for Ch.
9 and 2 for Ch. 10.
|
Theme & Character
Pre-Write
|
Review: N-LV-N and N-LV-Adj Sentences
|
|
Week 7
(3/8)
|
Short Stories: Gift of the Magi (p. 1); After Twenty Years (p. 21)
|
2 Short Story Chart
Worksheets
|
Theme & Character Rough
Draft
|
Introduce: Direct Objects & Indirect Objects
|
|
Week 8
(3/15)
|
Makes the Whole World Kin
(p. 85); A The Furnished Room (p. 23)
|
2 Short Story Chart
Worksheets
|
|
Review: Direct Objects & Indirect Objects
|
|
Week 9
(3/22)
|
Short Stories: Retrieved
Reformation (p. 49); The Pimenta Pancakes (p. 29)
|
2 Short Story Chart
Worksheets
|
Theme & Character Final Draft
|
Introduce: Compound Sentences
|
|
Week 10
(4/5)
|
Short Stories: The
Ransom of Red Chief (p. 71); Poems of Robert Service (handout)
|
2 Short Story Chart
Worksheets
|
News Story Pre-Write
|
Review: Compound Sentences
|
|
Week 11
(4/12)
|
Poetry: Hughes (p. 51); Williams (p. 48); Frost (p. 44)
|
2 Poetry Analysis worksheets
|
News Story Rough Draft
|
Introduce: Complex Sentences
|
|
Week 12 (4/19)
|
Poetry: Wordsworth
(p. 12); Browning (p. 19); Bronte (p. 24); Hopkins (p. 31)
|
2 Poetry Analysis worksheets
|
|
Review: Complex Sentences
|
|
Week 13 (4/26)
|
Poetry: TBD
|
2 Poetry Analysis worksheets
|
News Story Final Draft
|
Grammar Test
|
|
Week 14 (5/3)
|
Poetry: T.S.
Eliot (Handout)
Poetry Presentations
|
|
Re-Write
Spring Writing Test
|
|
|
Week 15 (5/10)
|
Poetry Presentations
|
|
|
|
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Writing 1 Syllabus -- Fall, 2017
Writing 1 Fall Syllabus
Week
|
Literature
|
Literature Assignments Due
|
Writing Assignments Due
|
Grammar
|
Week 1 (8/24)
|
Introduction to Animal
Farm
|
|||
Week 2 (8/31)
|
Read Introduction & Handouts
|
Before Reading
Exercise: “What makes a good leader?”
|
Descriptive Essay Rough
Draft
|
Intro to Parts of Speech,
part 1
|
Week 3 (9/7)
|
Read Chapters I & II
|
3 Reader Responses
3 Vocabulary words.
|
Intro to Parts of Speech,
part 2
|
|
Week 4 (9/14)
|
Read Chapters III & IV
|
Take Home Quiz #1
3 Vocabulary words.
|
Descriptive Essay
Final Draft
|
Intro to Parts of Speech,
part 3
Parts of Speech Pre-Test
|
Week 5 (9/21)
|
Read Chapters V & VI
|
3 Reader Responses
3 Vocabulary words.
|
Personal Essay Rough Draft
|
Conjunctions Presentation
|
Week 6 (9/28)
|
Read Chapters VII & VIII
|
3 Reader Responses
3 Vocabulary words.
|
Nouns Presentation
|
|
Week 7 (10/5)
|
Read Chapters IX & X
|
Take Home Quiz #2
3 Vocabulary words
|
Personal Essay
Final Draft
|
Pronouns Presentation
|
Week 8 (10/12)
|
Character Presentations
|
Final for Animal Farm
|
Example/Illustration Essay
Pre-Write
|
Adjectives Presentation
|
FALL BREAK
|
||||
Week 9 (10/26)
|
Introduction to A Christmas Carol
|
Example/Illustration Essay
Rough Draft
|
Adverbs Presentation
|
|
Week 10 (11/2)
|
Read Stave One
|
3 questions from the Study
Guide. 4 Vocabulary words.
|
Verbs Presentation
|
|
Week 11 (11/9)
|
Read Stave Two
|
3 questions from the Study
Guide. 4 Vocabulary words.
|
Example/Illustration Essay Final Draft
|
Prepositions Presentation
|
Week 12 (11/16)
|
Read Stave Three
|
3 questions from the Study Guide. 4 Vocabulary words.
|
History/Biography Pre-Write
|
Interjections Presentation
|
THANKSGIVING
BREAK
|
||||
Week 13 (11/30)
|
Read Stave Four
|
2 questions from the Study
Guide. 4 Vocabulary words.
|
History/Biography Rough
Draft
|
Review
Parts of Speech Post Test
|
Week 14 (12/7)
|
Read Stave Five
|
Vocabulary Quiz
4 Vocabulary words.
|
Word of the Day Test
|
|
Week 15 (12/14)
|
Final Exam
|
History/Biography
Final Draft
|
||
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)