Literature and Composition 2
Tentative 2020-2021 Course Overview
This syllabus is subject to revision
Tentative 2020-2021 Course Overview
This syllabus is subject to revision
Literature:
"The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allan Poe*
"The Gift of the Magi," by O. Henry*
"The Magic Shop," by H.G.Wells*
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
The Odyssey, by Homer (Ian Johnston translation/ abridgment)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
Other required texts:
Practice Voyage, Michael Clay Thompson
*Provided by instructor
Partial List of Skills Taught:
Building on skills taught in L&C 1, students will:
Literature:
Focus of work:
In class:
-A balance of lecture and discussion focusing on literary analysis and literary appreciation.
-Focused lessons on grammar and composition.
-Guided practice in composition.
-Review of weekly grammar homework.
Homework:
-Read assigned literature and prepare for discussion.
-Complete weekly composition assignments.
-Complete weekly grammar practice.
-Complete multiple developed compositions throughout the year.
"The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allan Poe*
"The Gift of the Magi," by O. Henry*
"The Magic Shop," by H.G.Wells*
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
The Odyssey, by Homer (Ian Johnston translation/ abridgment)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
Other required texts:
Practice Voyage, Michael Clay Thompson
*Provided by instructor
Partial List of Skills Taught:
Building on skills taught in L&C 1, students will:
Literature:
- recognize updated fables
- broaden grasp of extended metaphor and epic simile
- develop familiarity with the Homeric epic
- understand political allegory
- recognize social commentary in fiction
- broaden understanding of irony (verbal, circumstantial)
- understand mood in literature
- understand tone of literature
- recognize recurring plot lines in literature
- compare/contrast stories read
- discuss inferences and ideas drawn from elements of story in a group setting
- review L&C1 skills in narration, description, and expository writing
- improve sentence style
- learn three-level outlining
- learn and practice the basics of formal academic essay construction
- become familiar with the MLA method of direct quotation and documentation
- understand the relationship between grammar and composition
- the eight parts of speech
- verbs: action verbs, linking verbs and verb tense
- subject and predicate
- subject/verb agreement
- pronoun/antecedent agreement
- direct objects, indirect objects, and subject complements
- adjectives: degree
- misplaced modifiers
- punctuation as a function of grammar
- verbals (gerunds, infinitives, participles)
- independent clauses
- dependent clauses
- phrases (prepositional, verbal, appositive)
- sentence purpose (declarative, exclamatory, imperative, interrogative)
- sentence type (simple, complex, compound, compound-complex)
Focus of work:
In class:
-A balance of lecture and discussion focusing on literary analysis and literary appreciation.
-Focused lessons on grammar and composition.
-Guided practice in composition.
-Review of weekly grammar homework.
Homework:
-Read assigned literature and prepare for discussion.
-Complete weekly composition assignments.
-Complete weekly grammar practice.
-Complete multiple developed compositions throughout the year.