English 101: Composition 1 (Semester 1) &
English 210: Introduction to Literature
(Semester 2)
"Seeing is of course very much a matter of
verbalization. Unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes,
I simply won't see it." --Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Mr. Christensen
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What we do in class |
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| Monday | "Composition" (not "writing"?) | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: "composition" | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: "Composition" (not "writing"?) & share Google Docs | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: compose | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | (Wo)Manhood essay |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Syllabus, files, & compose letters (sample letters: Lily, Craig Steltz, & bat removal) | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: "Logos, Ethos, Pathos" | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 1 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: compose | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: table forums on letters | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | C.H.E.S.S. persuasive strategies | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: "thesis" | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 2 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | Letters |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Grammatical Classification | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: A | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 3 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: compose essays | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: (Mr. C. gone early) | Classification essay rough draft: two pages |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Rhetorical Devices | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: B | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 1-3 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: symposium | Classification essay |
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What we do in class |
Due Today |
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| Monday | "The Art of Styling Sentences" | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: C; symposium | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 4 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: symposium | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | Comparison-Contrast essay rough draft: two pages |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | "The Art of Styling Sentences" | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: D | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 5 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: compose essays | |
| Friday | No classes | Comparison-Contrast essay |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | ACT study test 1 | |
| Tuesday | ACT study test 2 | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 6; Term Tuesday: E | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: wor on essay | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: work on essay | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | symposium & work on essay | Causal essay rough draft: two pages |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: F | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 4-6 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: work on essay (Mr. C. gone early) | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: polish Causal essay | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Macro vs. Micro enhancements | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: G | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 1-6 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: finalize Causal | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | Causal essay |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Literary devices | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: H | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 7 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: table symposiums | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | Narrative rough draft: three pages |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Professional, published samples | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: I | |
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| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: Vocabulary quiz 8 | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | Narrative essay |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Argumentation introduction | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: J | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 9 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: write essays | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: write essays | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | grammatical classification review | Argumentation essay rough draft: 3 pages, 3 Works Cited, 3 Annotated Bibliography entries |
| Tuesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 7-9 | |
| Wednesday | Term Tuesday: K | |
| Thursday | no classes | |
| Friday | no classes | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | grammatical classification practice | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: L | |
| Wednesday | grammatical classification practice | |
| Thursday | grammatical classification quiz | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: polish essays | Argumentation essay |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | grammatical classification practice | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: M | |
| Wednesday | Vocabulary quiz 1-9 | |
| Thursday | grammatical classification quiz | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: compose essay | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | compose essay | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: work on essay | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: | Expansion essay |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | |
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What we do in class |
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| Monday | study | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: study all terms from semester | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: study | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: study | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: study | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | study | |
| Tuesday | SEMESTER TESTS: Composition final exam 8:00 a.m. | |
| Wednesday | SEMESTER TESTS | |
| Thursday | SEMESTER TESTS | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Lord of the Flies: literary theory and application | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: "Introduction" to Literature & The Lion King with literary theory and criticism | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: clarifications | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: read & annotate | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | page 206 Lord of the Flies |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: exposition and anticipation guide | |
| Tuesday | read & annotate | |
| Wednesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday A: [Some Basics] 1. Mimesis; 2. Ambiguity; 3. Hermeneutics; 4. The Classic | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | page 101 |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday B: [Some Basics] 5. Intentionalism; 6. The Affective Fallacy; 7. Narrative/Story; 8. Epic | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | page 201 |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: anticipation guide and film to juxtapose | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday C: 9. [Some Basics] Lyric/ Prosody; 10. Gothic; 11. The Translation Paradox | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: film & read | |
| Thursday | Forum Friday: read | Blog task |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
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| Tuesday | Forum page 325 Cuckoo's Nest | page 325 |
| Wednesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday D: [Machinery: How It Works] 12. Culture; 13. Milieu; 14. Base/Superstructure; 15. The Canon; 16. Genre | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: Vocabulary quiz 10 | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: introduction, read and study Life of Pi | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Life of Pi: modeling critical statements and experimental fiction techniques | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday E: [Machinery: How It Works] 17. Closure; 18. Paradigm Shift; 19. Ownership; 20. Critical Authority; 21. Style | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 11 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: read | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: forum | page 169; Lens essay |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Life of Pi: | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday F: [Literature's Devices] 22. Allegory; 23. Irony; 24. Imagery; 25. Allusion | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz 12 | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: read | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: forum | page 238 |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Life of Pi: literary devices | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday G: [Literature's Devices] 26. Defamiliarization; 27. Bricolage; 28. Metafiction; 29. Solidity of Specification | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: forum | page 319 |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Beatrice & Virgil: | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday H: [New Ideas] 30. Structuralism; 31. Deconstruction; 32. Textuality; 33. Double Bind | Page 54 forum |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: read & write | Chapter analysis essay |
| Thursday | Forum | page 116 in Beatrice & Virgil |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Beatrice & Virgil: read & write | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday I: [New Ideas] 34. Postmodernism; 35. Heteroglossia; 36. New Historicism; 37. Post-Colonialism | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: read & write | |
| Thursday | Forum | Blog task; page 223 in Beatrice & Virgil |
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What we do in class |
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| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday J: [New Ideas] 38. Semiology; 39. Reception Theory; 40. Sexual Politics | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: Hemingway | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: short stories | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: short stories | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Selected poetry: Confessional poets | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday K: [Word Crimes] 41. Plagiarism; 42. Obscenity; 43. Libel; 44. Blasphemy | |
| Wednesday | Selected poetry | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: selected poetry | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: Li-Young Lee | Momentum (1/3 progress on Manifesto) |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Selected stories & poetry juxtaposed: read, study | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: Term Tuesday L: [Word
Crimes] 45. Permissiveness; 46. Literary Lies; 47. Ghost-Writers and Term Tuesday M: [Literary Futures] 48. Fanfic; 49. The e-book; 50. Literary Inundation |
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| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: read, study | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: Maintenance work | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: Nathaniel Hawthorne & William
Faulkner stories-- "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" "Barn Burning" "Pantaloon in Black" |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice: DVD | |
| Tuesday | Senior events | |
| Wednesday | Senior events | |
| Thursday | PAC for Othello DVD | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: DVD | Maintenance |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Act I Presentations | |
| Tuesday | Act II Presentations | |
| Wednesday | Act III Presentations | |
| Thursday | Act IV Presentations | |
| Friday | Act V Presentations | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice: | |
| Tuesday | Othello test | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: | Blog task |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | Manifesto |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Final Exam preparation: | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | |
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What we do in class |
Due Today | |
| Monday | Final Exam: | |
| Tuesday | Term Tuesday: | |
| Wednesday | Words Wednesday: ACADEMIC AWARDS ASSEMBLY | |
| Thursday | Thoughts Thursday: | |
| Friday | Forum Friday: | |
| GRADUATION | GRADUATION | |
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