ENGLISH 11 SYLLABUS 2009-2010

MS. GINA BAILIFF

 

The list below includes but may not be limited to the fiction and nonfiction writers and poets examined this year. Due to time constraints, it is possible that some writers may not be covered.

John and Abigail Adams

Louisa May Alcott

Julia Alvarez

Sherwood Anderson

Maya Angelou

W.H. Auden

James Baldwin

Toni Cade Bambara

Amiri Baraka

Ambrose Bierce

Elizabeth Bishop

William Bradford

Anne Bradstreet

Gwendolyn Brooks

Dee Brown

William Cullen Bryant

Willa Cather

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Kate Chopin

Christopher Columbus

James Fennimore Cooper

John de Crevecoeur

E.E. Cummings

Emily Dickinson

Frederick Douglass

John Dos Passos

Rita Dove

Jonathan Edwards

T.S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Olaudah Equiano

William Faulkner

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Anne Frank

Benjamin Franklin

Betty Friedan

Margaret Fuller

Robert Frost

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Nikki Giovanni

Woody Guthrie

Alex Haley

Joy Harjo

Robert Hayden

Dashiell Hammett

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ernest Hemingway

Patrick Henry

John Hersey

Zora Neal Hurston

Aldous Huxley

Washington Irving

Harriet Jacobs

Thomas Jefferson

Chief Joseph

Garrison Keillor

Jack Kerouac

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Lewis and Clark

Li-Young Lee

Ursula LeGuin

Jack London

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Amy Lowell

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Carson McCullers

David McCullough

Herman Melville

Edna St. Vincent Millay

N. Scott Momaday

Marianne Moore

Toni Morrison

Native American selections

Pablo Neruda

Tim O’Brien

Flannery O’Conner

Simon Ortiz

Thomas Paine

Dorothy Parker

Robert M . Persig

Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

poetry of the Harlem Renaissance

Katherine Anne Porter

Ezra Pound

Thomas Pynchon

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Rodriguez

Mary Rowlandson

Theodore Roethke

Carl Sandburg

Anne Sexton

John Smith

Wallace Stevens

Upton Sinclair

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

John Steinbeck

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Amy Tan

Henry David Thoreau

James Thurber

Jean Toomer

Alexis de Tocqueville

Mark Twain

John Updike

Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

war poetry

Robert Penn Warren

Noah Webster

Eudora Welty

Edith Wharton

Phillis Wheatley

Margaret Bourke-White

Walt Whitman

Elie Wiesel

Richard Wilbur

Tennessee Williams

William Carlos Wiilliams

Richard Wright

 

Possible Novels or Drama for Sustained Silent Reading (SSR):

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

John Knowles’ A Separate Peace

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible or Death of a Salesman

Ayn Rand’s Anthem

Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front

William Shakespeare’s King Lear

Henry David Thoreau’s Walden

Mark Twain’s The Adventure’s of Huckleberry Finn

Student choice from departmental reading list

**There will also be music and art representative of the various time periods. In addition, films and educational videos may be used if appropriate and relevant for the lesson.

TEXTS:

Elements of Literature: Essentials of American Literature, Fifth Course

(Holt, Rinehart, and Winston) and supplementary material from the publisher

Great Short Stories by American Women (Edited by Candace Ward)

The Lively Art of Writing (Lucile Vaughan Payne)

Looking Beyond the Ivy League (Loren Pope)

MLA Handbook

The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Michael Myer

Prentice Hall Writer’s Companion

Prentice Hall Authors in Depth: The American Experience

American Literature 1 and 2 (The Center for Learning)

Honors American Literature 1 and 2 (The Center for Learning)

 

WRITING:

Writing assignments may include research project and/or paper(s), formal essays, creative writing pieces, poetry, and journal topics. In essays and research, the emphasis will be on developing specific examples from the text to support one’s point of view, creating a strong thesis statement and topic sentences that will shape the direction and organization of the paper, understanding and applying the concepts on unity and coherence, and recognizing and assuming responsibility for writing errors in individual writing and improving those in future writing.

 

For any research assignments, students are required to spend time outside of class at our library, Sherrod Library or another local library to obtain the necessary sources. Written assignments that require the MLA format be used must be typed; students should plan ahead to avoid any last minute computer glitches. Any work turned in late due to computer malfunctions will receive a grade deduction since students are expected to plan ahead to avoid such problems.

 

Please see the student handbook for the University School policy regarding plagiarism.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

homework research project and/or paper(s)

class work (both individual and group) tests

essays quizzes

oral presentations journal topics

projects semester exam(s)

seminar

sustained silent reading (SSR)

GRADING POLICY:

 

Students will use a password to access individual grades through the program

mygradebook.com. Please consult this site to stay informed of your child’s

progress in class.

 

In addition to the course requirements outlined above, students will receive two participation grades each nine week grading period, one at midterm and one at the end of term. This is an extremely important component of class because this work is intended to prepare students for the course requirements as outlined above in the syllabus. Failure to complete or put effort into daily participation assignments may impact other work required in class. The participation grade includes two components:

1. All daily class work and/or homework is included in the participation grade.

This includes but is not limited to class notes, vocabulary work, Holt Reader, Lively Art questions, work from textbook, and assigned reading. To ensure that students are keeping up with assigned work throughout the grading period, there will be random checks on some assignments.

2. Being on time and prepared for class as well as staying on-task during class is also included in the participation grade. Students are expected

to bring writing utensils, texts, paper and notebook, and any

required work for the day as part of the participation grade.

The state of Tennessee requires all English 11 students to take the English 11 End of Course (EOC) Test in the spring. This test is 20% of your child’s English 11 grade.

 

If a student is absent, there is a notebook with class assignments for each day that students need to consult. This is the student’s responsibility. If there are questions about an assignment or additional materials that the student needs, arrangements need to be made for a time to come after school. Instructional time will not be used to do this.

Late work policy: Please see attachment on the Policy for High School English Department. This is extremely important to your child’s success.

MATERIALS:

* Three-ring notebook

* Writing Portfolio

* Textbook or classroom handouts and/or notes

* Holt Reader and vocabulary workbook

* Students are expected to bring a notebook, pen or pencil, and the appropriate text to class every day. This is crucial to classroom participation. If unprepared, this will affect the student’s participation grade.

CLASSROOM RULES:

* Come on time to class and find a seat before the bell rings.

* Be fully present in class. Reading materials unrelated to class, doing homework for another class, napping, talking to your friends, passing notes, playing on the calculator, tardies, etc. will cost you participation points.

* You are responsible for and expected to give your very best work.

* Listen.

* Respect the dignity and worth of every person in the classroom. This includes

your peers, your teacher, and the perspectives of those individuals studied

in class. Use “I” statements in class discussion.