Honors Literature and Composition 3
2021-2022 Course Overview
This syllabus is subject to revision
2021-2022 Course Overview
This syllabus is subject to revision
Literature
"Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," by Washington Irving*
Black Ships Before Troy, by Rosemary Sutcliff,
supplemented by selections from Homer's Iliad
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, by Howard Pyle
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
*Provided by instructor
Partial List of Skills Taught
Building on skills taught in L&C2:
Literature:
Composition:
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.
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"Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," by Washington Irving*
Black Ships Before Troy, by Rosemary Sutcliff,
supplemented by selections from Homer's Iliad
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, by Howard Pyle
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
*Provided by instructor
Partial List of Skills Taught
Building on skills taught in L&C2:
Literature:
- acquire familiarity with Arthurian legends and legend as genre
- expand familiarity with Homeric literature and devices
- identify themes in literature
- recognize recurrent themes in literature
- compare and contrast thematic content between novels (syntopical reading)
- understand the importance of point-of-view
- intelligently define a classic
- continually be required to identify authorial intention and textual integrity (internal consistency)
- utilize understanding of genre to identify author intention
- identify what a given author defines as good, true, and beautiful in a given work
- demonstrate ability to interact with thematic ideas orally and in writing
Composition:
- reinforce L&C 2 skills in basic formal essay construction
- continue practicing MLA format
- new skills in researching, organizing, and writing expository essays
- practice using sentence variety for interest, style, and emphasis
- practice modeling well-written pieces and generating original compositions
- improve skills in paraphrasing, summarizing, and outlining
- more advanced instruction in: writing introductions and conclusions and the skillful integration of quoted material.
- nouns: concrete/abstract, collective, and direct address
- pronouns: relative, indefinite, reflexive, intensive, person
- verbs: principle parts, regular/irregular, active and passive voice, progressive tense, mood
- conjunctions: correlative and conjunctive adverbs
- subject complements: predicate nominative and predicate adjective
- object complement
- adverbial and adjectival phrases
- punctuation as a function of grammar
- dependent clauses: adjective, adverb
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.
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