ENGL 1020 Mrs. LaMoreaux

ACE English 2 Spring 2009

Dates of the Week
Due Date / Reading
Due / In Class / Writing:
Wk. 1
2/3 A / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Course Introduction:
Realism, anti-hero, comprehending implications, character development, setting, plot, mood, theme,
deliberate ambiguity
2/5 C / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
HRW p. 275-278
Madden p. 55-66 / Packets: Guided Discussion
Madden: Reading and Analyzing Fiction
2/6 D /

Toolbox Pro in Library

Test: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Cuckoo Study Guides
Reading Log Entries 1 & 2 (Sum&Response)
2/9 A / Ch. 1 (3-15)
HRW p. 275 / Ch. 1 (3-15)
Close Reading
Brainstorm Interpretive Essay
p. 275 (HRW: purple)
2/11 C / Madden Ch. 1 (16-20) / Format and Voice
Birmingham (16-20)
2/12 D / Madden Ch. 2 (21-28) / Ch. 1:
Meinke: Advice to my Son (9)
Zimmer: Zimmer in Grade School (11)
Smith: Not Waving but Drowning (12)
Hayden: Those Winter Sundays (13)
Piercy: Barbie Doll (14)
Ch. 2 Lit.: Voice
Cullen: Incident (23)
Cisneros: Eleven (26)
2/13 A / Madden Ch. 2 (28-38) / Assign Essay #2 / Reading Log Entries 3 & 4 (Sum&Response)
2/24 C / Madden Ch. 3 / Peer Editing
The Story of an Hour / Draft Essay #2
Expository Writing
2/25 D / Madden p. 71-75 / Poetry: Language and Style: Denotation & connotation, voice, tone, irony (71-73)
Crane:War is Kind (73)
Imagery:
Chassin: The Word Plum (74) / Essay #2 is Due
Expository Writing
Dates of the Week
Due Date / Reading
Due / In Class / Writing:
2/26 A / Madden Ch. 3 (76-79) / Assign poetry project
Poetry:
Symbol (78)“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
Sound and Structure: Rhyme, alliteration, assonance
Finding the Beat: limerick, meter (79-81) / Reading Log Entries 5 & 6 (Sum/ Q & A)
3/2 C / Madden Ch.3 (79-89)
Madden p. 81
“Sonnet No. 29” / Formal Verse: Sonnet & Ode
“Sonnet No. 29” (81)
3/3 D / Madden Ch. 4 (146-171) / Writing About Poetry
“The Pigeon Woman” by May Swenson (86)
Blank verse, Free or Open Form Verse“When I Heard the Learned Astronomer” by Walt Whitman (83)
Interpretation & explication
Types of poetry: lyric & narrative
3/4 A / Madden Ch. 5 (172-186)\ Madden (74-79) / Assign Poetry Project
and Essay #4:
A critical essay which requires research
Browning : Meeting at Night (74)
Parting at Morning (75) Ch. 5: Secondary sources in writing about literature
(Library)
3/6 C / Neruda readings / Lecture by Adam Kress: Pablo Neruda / Reading Log Entries 7 & 8 (Sum&Response)
3/9 D / Madden: Ch. 4
Argumentation:
Writing a Critical Essay
(146-163)
Madden (79-85) / In-class Writing
3/10 A / Madden (163-171) / In-class Writing / Essay # 3
Dates of the Week
Due Date / Reading
Due / In Class / Writing:
3/12 C / Library ResearchCopy poems!

3/ 13 D

/ Introduce The Color Purple & study guide due April 21
Finalize poetry projects / Reading Log Entries 9 & 10 (Sum&Response)

3/16 A

/ Poetry projects: presentations

3/18 C

/ Poetry projects: presentations

3/19 D

/ Poetry projects: presentations / Essay #2 Due

3/20 A

/ Poetry projects: presentations / Reading Log Entries 11 & 12 (I,S,P)

3/25 C

/ Poetry projects: presentations

3/26 D

/ Purple Book:
pp.282-288
Renaissance Theatre / Introduce era, Shakespeare’s heroes and Macbeth

3/27 A

/ Macbeth: Act I, Sc.1-3
p. 301-309 /

Reading & discussion

/ Reading Log Entries 13 & 14 (I,S,P)

3/31 C

/ Macbeth: Act I, Sc.4-7
p.309-317 / Act One Quiz

4/1 D

/ Macbeth: Act II, Sc.1-4
p.319-331
Connections p.330
Critical Comment p. 332 / Reading & discussion
Reading & discussion
Act Two Quiz

4/2 A

/ Macbeth: Act III
p. 334-350 / Reading & discussion
Act III quiz / Reading Log Entries 15 & 16 (I,S,P)

4/6 C

/ Macbeth: Act IV
p. 352-367
Critical Comments
p. 367 & 368 / Reading & discussion

4/7 D

/ Macbeth: Act V
p. 370-382
p.383-385
Critical Comments
Connections p. 386-7 / Reading & discussion
Act V quiz

4/8

/

Macbeth

/ Macbeth film (inc. lunch) / Reading Log Entries 17 & 18 (Theme)
Reading Log Check
30 wk.
Spring Break April 10-19

4/20 C

/ Madden: 451-454
Women and Men
Madden (514-515) / Thematic Unit: Women and Men
Atwood:
You Fit Into Me
Siren Song (514-515) /

4/21 D

/ The Color Purple / The Color Purple / Essay #4 Draft is due
Color Purple packet

4/22 A

/ The Color Purple

4/24 C

/ The Color Purple Test / Reading Log Entries 19 & 20 (Theme)
Essay #4 is due

4/27 D

/ Language Arts Olympiad

4/28 A

/ Madden 200-203
467-473 / Faulkner: A Rose for Emily (467-473)

4/30 C

/ Madden (474-485 / Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper(474-485)

5/1 D

/ Madden (486-489) / Hemingway: Hills Like Elephants(486-489) / Reading Log Entries 21 & 22 (Theme)

5/04 A

/ HRW p. 828 / My Last Duchess (828)
Dramatic monologue

5/06 C

/ Madden p. 508-511 / The Passionate Shepherd
The Nymph’s Reply
To His Coy Mistress
(508-511)

5/07 D

/ Madden p. 554 / If Shakespeare Had a Sister( 554)

5/08 A

/ Unit summary: Theme mapping / Reading Log Entries 23 & 24 (Choice)

5/12 C

/ Madden p. 200-203
p. 299-317 / Friends and Family Unit:
Intro. The Glass Menagerie

5/13 D

/ Madden p. 317-332 / The Glass Menagerie

5/14 A

/ Madden p. 332-347 / The Glass Menagerie / Reading Log Entries 25 & 26 (Choice)

5/18 C

/ Death of a Salesman / Act One

5/19 D

/ Death of a Salesman / ActTwo

5/20 A

/ Death of a Salesman / Requiem / Reading Log Entries 27 & 28 (Choice)

5/22 C

/ Finish Death of a Salesman

5/26 D

/

Death of a Salesman Film

5/27 A

/ /

Assign Capstone Essay

Cont. film

5/29 C

/

Film & discussion

/ Reading Log Entries 29& 30 (Choice)
Final Reading Log Check

6/1 D

/

Death of a Salesman test

/
Dates of the Week
Due Date / Reading
Due / In Class / Writing:

6/2 A

/ Capstone conferences & work day

6/4 C

/ Capstone conferences & work day

6/5 D

/ Darien Lake

6/8 A

/ Capstone drafts due for peer review / Capstone drafts

6/10 C

/ Caspstone Essay is due / Caspstone Essay is due