English 11 Assignments
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Current Assignment—Week of 5/18
- Watch this lecture on Flannery O’Connor by Jessica Hooten Wilson (who is slated to speak at this year’s Mars Hill Forum!)
Reading
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Writing
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Marking/Outlining
- We’re done!
| Q1 | Reading |
|---|---|
| 9/2 | William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation, excerpts here |
| 9/9 | Anne Bradstreet: selected poems |
| 9/16 | Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” |
| 9/23 | Edgar Allan Poe: “Tell-tale Heart,” (Dover) “The Raven” (Mentor) |
| 9/30 | The Scarlet Letter (“The Custom-House” through Ch. 4) |
| 10/7 | The Scarlet Letter (Chs. 5-14) |
| 10/14 | Fall Break |
| 10/21 | The Scarlet Letter (Chs. 15-end) |
| 10/28 | Revisit Moby-Dick (chs. 36, 41-42, 60, 86) |
| Q2 | |
| 11/4 | Exam 1; Herman Melville: “Bartleby the Scrivener” (Dover) |
| 11/11 | |
| 11/18 | “Divinity School Address”, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 11/25 | Walt Whitman: “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (Mentor), “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” |
| 12/2 | Stephen Crane: “The Open Boat” |
| 12/9 | Emily Dickinson: Read all her poems in the Mentor anthology |
| 12/16 | Henry James: “The Real Thing” (Dover) |
| 1/6 | Review |
| 1/13 | Exam 2; Wallace Stevens: “Sunday Morning” (Mentor); Rhetoric, I.1-3 |
| Q3 | |
| 1/20 | Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Mending Wall,” “After Apple Picking” (Mentor); Rhetoric I.4-6; Adler 1-2 |
| 1/27 | My Antonia, “The Shimerdas”; Rhetoric I.7-8; Adler 3-4 |
| 2/3 | My Antonia, “The Hired Girls” and “Lena Lingard”; Rhetoric I.9-10; Adler 5-7 |
| 2/10 | My Antonia, “The Pioneer Woman’s Story” and “Cuzak’s Boys”; Rhetoric I.11-13; Adler 8-9 |
| 2/17 | Rhetoric I.14-15; Adler 10-11 |
| 2/24 | Review/catch-up |
| 3/2 | T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Hollow Men“ |
| 3/9 | Exam 3 (in class); Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1st third); Rhetoric II.1-3 |
| 3/16 | Spring Break |
| Q4 | |
| 3/23 | Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (2nd third); Rhetoric II.4-6 |
| 3/30 | Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (3rd third); Rhetoric II.7-12 |
| 4/6 | W.H. Auden: “Museé Des Beaux Arts,” “The Unknown Citizen,” “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (Mentor); Rhetoric II.13-18 |
| 4/13 | William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying 1st half; Rhetoric II.19-25 |
| 4/20 | William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying 2nd half; Poetics 1-14 |
| 4/27 | Flannery O’Connor: “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” “Everything That Rises Must Converge”; Poetics 15-end |
| 5/4 | Flannery O’Connor: “Parker’s Back,” “Revelation” |
| 5/11 | Review |
| 5/18 | Exam 4 |