REVISED SEPT-OCT SYLLABUS!

HORROR LITERATURE E BLOCK OCTOBER 2013

 

Mon., Sept. 23           Hand in and discuss college essays

Horror and HUBRIS
            “Sea Perils and Defeat”- Quiz
           

Tues., Sept. 24          The story of Babel
                                    Beowulf – Grendel

                                    Diction and passive voice

Punctuation Review
                                   

Wed., Sept. 25           Punctuation Quiz

MONSTER PRESENTATIONS

Thurs., Sept. 26        College essay idea 2 written down and submitted

Beowulf – Grendel’s Mom and the Dragon

                                    MONSTER PRESENTATIONS

Mon., Sept. 30           College Essay 2 due

ROMANTICISM AND THE GOTHIC – Powerpoint

                                     “The Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allen Poe

                                   

Tues., Oct. 1              “A Tell-Tale Heart”

WRITING UNIT II: The analytical essay

The difference between observation and idea

Wed., Oct. 2               Back to school night!

 “The Pit and the Pendulum”

                                    Developing the Thesis

Thurs., Oct. 3                        “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Mon., Oct. 7               “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

                                    Body Paragraphs, Transitional Topic Sentences

Tues., Oct. 8              Intro and concluding paragraphs

“The Monkey’s Paw”

Wed., Oct. 9               Setting up quotations

                                    Hand out Frankenstein

Factoids: Who was Mary Shelley?

Thurs., Oc. 10                        Factoid presentation

                                    Frank, chapters 1 – 4

                                   

Mon., Oct. 14             No school

Tues., Oct. 15                        Hand out Frank Vocab List 1. Go over usage.

                                    Frankenstein 5 - 7

                                   

Wed., Oct. 16             8 – 13

                                   

Thurs., Oct. 17          14 – 16

                                    Frank Vocab quiz 1

                                    Hand out Frank Vocab list 2

Mon., Oct. 21             17 – 19

Tues., Oct. 22                        Frankenstein, 20 – 21

                                    Vocab Quiz 2

Wed., Oct. 23             Discuss end of novel

“Frankenstein” the movie

Thurs., Oct. 24          Finish “Frankenstein” movie.

                                    Hand out Frankenstein essay assignment

Mon., Oct. 28            Outline for Frankenstein  essay due

                                    Frankenstein movie review due

 

Tues., Oct. 29                        One-on-one for Frank essays

Wed., Oct. 30             Outside reading presentations

Thurs., Oct. 31          Outside reading presentations