Go to www.cisco.edu to see the complete syllabus.

Here is the reading schedule:

Week #

#1
• Introduction
• Pretest
• Punctuation rules and assignment
• Word choices and sound devices—Keeping a list
• Essay assignment (Want/Should)
• A word about research papers
• Reading assignments: “Us and Them” (716); “Our Mother’s Face” (724); and “Mick Jagger Wants Me” (741)
• “The Courthouse Ring” by Malcolm Gladwell (handout)

#2
• Essay due; discussion
• Punctuation quiz
• Purpose, audience, and organization
• Collaboration; revising
• MLA and other styles
• Look at memoir writing; beginning, ending, and dialogue
• Reading assignments: “A Giant Step” (730) and “None of This Is Fair” (735)

#3
• CJC Library orientation
• Capitalization rules
• Discuss memoirs (reading assignments)
• Generate ideas
• Begin 1st essay: Memoir (writing lab)


#4
• 1st Essay due (memoir)
• Capitalization/punctuation quiz
• Pronoun usage
• Guiding the reader and defining
• Reading assignments: “Parallel Worlds” (519), “Pulpit Talk” (538), and “Changing the Face of Poverty” (542)





#5
• Discuss analyzing texts (reading assignments)
• Writing ideas
• Causes and effects
• Classifying and dividing
• Documentation: two parts
• Pronoun quiz and feedback
• Reading assignments: “Lurid Numbers” (525) and “Seeing as Believing” (531)
• Assignment: Bring notes for in-class essay next week.

#6
• Discuss reading assignments
• 2nd Essay (in-class, textual analysis)
• Reading assignments: “Just Be Nice” (583), “Class in America – 2003” (589), “On Being Black and Middle Class” (611), and “The Triumph of Hope over Self-Interest” (625)


#7
• Discuss reading assignments
• Parallelism
• Padded sentences
• “Glossary of Usage”
• Arguing a position
• Argument essay due next week


#8
• 3rd Essay due (argument)
• Comparing and contrasting
• Describing
• Explaining processes
• Making an evaluation
• 5 Groups report on reading selections (641-661)
• Collaborative evaluation essay due next week.
• Reading assignment: “A Rose for Emily” (700)








#9
• 4th Essay due (collaborative, evaluation)
• Possible punctuation, capitalization, and pronoun test.
• MLA style research papers
• Discuss “A Rose for Emily”
• Close reading: Thinking and writing about literature
• Textual evidence


#10
• Research paper Q & A
• Close reading exercises/prep for essay.
• 5th Essay (in-class, literary analyses)
• Research preview due next week.

#11
• Research paper introduction, outline, working conclusion, and Works Cited page due.


#12

• Testing


#13
• Research papers due (Tuesday)
• Multi-media preparation for oral presentation


#14
• Thanksgiving Holiday


# 15
• Oral presentations
• Exam review

# 16
• Final Exam (Check exam time.)

Go to www.cisco.edu to see the complete syllabus.

Reading Schedule:

Class Schedule
Week of

Aug. 24
• Course introduction
• Beowulf.

Aug. 31
• Selections from The Canterbury Tales

Sept. 7
• King Lear

Sept. 14
• King Lear continued

Sept. 21
• Hamlet

Sept. 28
• Hamlet continued
• Essay
• EXAM
•
Oct. 5
• Utopia

Oct. 12
• Renaissance to Romantic to Victorian poetry

Oct. 19
• Frankenstein review
• The Heart of Darkness

Oct. 26
• The Heart of Darkness continued
• Essay
•
Nov. 2
• EXAM
• Rhetoric—Churchill selections
Nov. 9
• Brave New World
• Essay

Nov. 16
• EXAM
• Work on multi-media presentations


Nov. 23
• Thanksgiving Holiday


Nov. 30
• Multi-media presentations


Dec. 7
• FINAL EXAM




With the exception of Beowulf, the reading assignments are listed when they are due. Please read the assignments before the due date.

Class Rules:
1. Adult behavior is expected of all students at all times.
2. When the teacher is speaking, don’t talk.
3. Use common-sense politeness.
4. Bring the assigned materials to class. Having to leave class to get your books or other materials will result in a tardy.
5. 1 Tardy- Warning, 2nd Tardy- Warning, 3rd Tardy- 2 days d-hall or swat, 4th Tardy- 1 day of Sat. school, 5th & 6th Tardy- 2 days ISS,
7th Tardy- 3 days of AEP

Deadlines:
1. Vocabulary tests are generally on the first 5 Fridays of each grading period.
2. The research paper is due in early November on a date set by the instructor, and a multimedia project is due in mid-May. No late papers or projects will be accepted without prior arrangements with the instructor.

Grade Percentages:
Daily Work/Participation 25%
Essays/Projects 25%
Tests 25%
Six Weeks’ Test 25%

AR will be extra credit only 70-79= 1 extra pt.
80-85= 2 extra pts.
85-100= 3 extra pts.
Points will be added to final six weeks average with 3 total points being the most a student can earn. The novel must be instructor approved or it will not count towards an AR credit.

Additional Course Requirements:
In order to graduate, all English IV students must have a passing grade on the English IV research paper and the multimedia project.

Senior men must possess a well-fitting white shirt and a tie.

Senior women must possess a skirt or dress.

All seniors must possess a pair of dress shoes (tennis shoes and flip flops are not considered dress shoes).

Materials Required Daily:
Black or blue pen and pencil Loose-leaf notebook paper
Composition book Textbooks and novels
Flash drive


First Six Weeks
1. Anglo/Saxon Values- Superhuman Character Beowulf
2. Accentuating Positive Traits Prewriting/Drafting Personal Narrative
3. Medieval England Everyday Heroes- Canterbury Tales
4. Accentuating Positive Traits: Revising and Editing Personal Narrative, Visual and Written Depiction of Character

Second Six Weeks
1. Responding to Macbeth
2. Inquiry Writing- Macbeth

Third Six Weeks
1. Time- Where I’ve Been and What I Read
2. Making the Most of Time and Analyzing the Results

Fourth Six Weeks
1. Victorian Age
2. Focus on Language Purpose and Writing Style

Fifth Six Weeks
1. Representing Rhetoric
2. Issues from Yesterday and Today
3. Guiding the Future

Sixth Six Weeks
1. Media Perspectives
2. Planning My Multimedia Project
3. My School Experience and Multimedia

Textbooks
Writer’s Choice Grammar and Composition
Grammar and Composition Handbook
The Reader’s Choice British Literature
Novels assigned by the instructor