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Mr. Smith reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice. |
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First Semester |
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Week 1, 08.16 |
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Tuesday: |
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Basic Introduction: Syllabus
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• Overview: What is an Academic Paragraph? |
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• Foundations for Critical Thinking / Taking Notes / Critical Observations |
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• Reading Guidelines (Remaining Focused)—part 1 |
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Discussion in Schoology— #NobodyKnows |
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Follow |
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@PrufrocksBlues /Twitter |
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mr_smith_eng2332 /Instagram |
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Wednesday: |
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Basic Introduction: continued |
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• What is an "A" Paper—Course Rubric |
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• What is Synthesis? |
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Google Documents |
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• General Essay Guidelines / Writing Templates |
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• Turnitin.com |
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Reading Guidelines—part 2 |
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• demo-Habitual Reading |
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Thursday: |
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Senior meeting with Ms. Nichols |
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Friday: |
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Forms of Prewriting |
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• Freewriting |
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• Journaling / Commonplace books |
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• Japanese Zuihitsu: Sei Shonogan |
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• demo |
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Exercise— Freewriting, 200-words (+) |
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Week 2, 08.23 |
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Monday: |
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Forms of Prewriting 2 |
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• Mapping • Clustering • Grouping |
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Notions of the Self <keyword examples> |
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• demo |
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Exercise—Analysis of Self Portrait |
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Tuesday: |
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Essay Writing Modes Overview |
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Types of Narrative Voice: Personal, Academic, Stream of Consciousness |
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• demo |
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• Identification of Narration Type |
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Exercise— Different narrations/ at least one page |
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Wednesday: |
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Crafting the Perfect Paragraph |
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Tone • Audience • Formality |
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• John Updike, "The Beercan" |
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Thursday: |
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Crafting the Perfect Paragraph |
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• exercise |
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Friday: |
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Narration Mode |
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• demo: Purpose, Conflict, and Narrative Introduction Paragraphs |
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• N. Scott Momaday, "The Way to Rainy Mountain" |
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Week 3, 08.30 |
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Monday: |
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Warmup Exercise: Doodle Time |
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Narration Mode, continued |
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• N. Scott Momaday, "The Way to Rainy Mountain" |
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• Strategies in Momaday's work: Narration, Implied Conflict, Theme |
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Tuesday: |
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Narration Mode, continued |
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• Passage Analysis |
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Wednesday: |
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Narration Mode, continued |
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• Passage Analysis |
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Thursday: |
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Narration Mode, continued |
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• Passage Analysis |
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• Folktale as Metaphor / Denotation versus Connotation / Literal versus Implied Meaning |
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In-Class writing session. |
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Friday: |
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In-Class writing session. |
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Week 4, 09.06 |
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Monday: |
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Labor Day Holiday; no class |
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Tuesday: |
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Narration Assignment due |
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Narration Mode, continued |
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• E. B. White, "Once More to the Lake" |
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Wednesday: |
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Narration Mode, continued |
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• E. B. White, "Once More to the Lake" |
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Comparisons of Technique: Momaday and White |
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Thursday: |
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Elements of Rhetoric: Recognizing Claims |
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• demo |
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Friday: |
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Timed Writing Exercise |
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Week 5, 09.13 |
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Monday: |
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Narration/Description Modes |
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Isabel Allende, "The Amazon Queen" |
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Tuesday: |
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• school closed due to weather |
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Wednesday: |
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Discussion Questions for Allende's essay |
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Thursday: |
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Discussion Questions for Allende's essay |
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Friday: |
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Freewrite: Phobias and Worries |
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Haunted Narrative Assigned |
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• Ray Bradbury, "October Game" |
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Week 6, 09.20 |
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Monday: |
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Senior Meeting in Library |
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Tuesday: |
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Personal Haunted Narrative |
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Wednesday: |
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Personal Haunted Narrative |
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Thursday: |
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Personal Haunted Narrative |
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Friday: |
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Personal Haunted Narrative due |
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Creating a Blog in 2021 |
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• demo |
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Week 7, 09.27 |
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Monday: |
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Claim-Example-Conclusion (CEC) Academic Paragraph |
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Critical Analysis Defined |
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CEC Discussion Post in Schoology |
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Tuesday: |
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Critical Analysis—part 2 |
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CEC Discussion—part 2 |
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Wednesday: |
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Review/Reteach CEC Components |
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Importance of Analyizing Literature (Overview) |
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Thursday: |
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Conflict, Journey, Mode |
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• demo |
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Early Genres |
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• demo |
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Aesop, "The Fox and the Goat" |
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Friday: |
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Gothic Movement Overview |
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• demo |
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Edgar Allan Poe, three story introductions |
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Close Reading, Poe,"The Fall of the House of Usher" |
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Discussion Post in Schoology |
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Week 8, 10.04 |
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Monday: |
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Aesop, "The Old Man and Death" |
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Class Discussion: Six Elements for Analysis |
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Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado," introduction paragraph |
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Tuesday: |
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Reader-Response Criticism |
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• Visual Example |
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• demo |
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Wednesday: |
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Critical Lens—Brief General Overview |
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• demo |
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• list of top eleven critical theories |
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Thursday: |
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Reader-Response Assignment |
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Friday: |
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Reader-Response Assignment |
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Week 9, 10.11 |
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Monday: |
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school closed /no classes |
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Tuesday: |
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Visual Analysis |
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• demo |
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Visual Analysis Assignment |
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Wednesday: |
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no class—Senior Picnic |
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Thursday: |
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Definition Mode |
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• demo |
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Video: The Rashomon Affect |
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Types of Argument |
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• demo-overview |
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Friday: |
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Definition Assignment |
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Sandra Cisneros, "Only Daughter" |
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Week 10, 10.18 |
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Monday: |
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Definition Assignment |
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Tuesday: |
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Reasoning (Argument)Types |
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• demo—part 1 |
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• video: Deductive — Inductive — Abductive |
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• example texts |
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Wednesday: |
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Reasoning (Argument) Styles |
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• demo—part 2 |
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Rabbit Season / Duck Season |
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Thursday: |
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Comparison/Contrast Mode of Writing |
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Friday: |
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John Berger's Comparison of Francis Bacon with Walt Disney |
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Week 11, 10.25 |
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Monday: |
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Classic Aristotelian Argument |
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Deborah Tannen glossed |
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Tuesday: |
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Toulmin Argument Overview |
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Wednesday—Friday: |
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Toulmin Assignment |
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Week 12, 11.01 |
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Monday: |
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Rogerian Discussion Overview |
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Tuesday: |
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school closed /no classes |
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Wednesday—Friday: |
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Rogerian Assignment |
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Week 13, 11.08 |
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Monday: |
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Existentialism as a Literary Mode |
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Albert Camus, The Stranger overview |
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Tuesday: |
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Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus" overview |
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Wednesday: |
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Antiheroes defined |
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Thursday—Friday: |
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What proves Meurssault is an antihero from part 1 of The Stranger? —assignment |
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Week 14, 11.15 |
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Monday: |
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Psycopath versus Sociopath |
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Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is Humanism" overview |
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Tuesday—Friday: |
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Discussion of Existentialism and Camus |
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Prep for Test |
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Week 15, 11.22 |
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Thanksgiving Break |
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Week 16,11.29 |
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Monday: |
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Quick Review Literary Topic Sentences |
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Modernism overview |
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Critical Theory Demo Review |
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• demo |
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra overiew |
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Editor's/Translator's Notes |
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Tuesday—Thursday: |
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, "Prologue" |
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Mythic Criticism |
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Image > Symbol > Archetype |
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Friday: |
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Timed Writing Exercise |
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Week 17, 12.06 |
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Monday—Friday: |
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Blackout Poetry |
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Week 18, 12.13 |
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Finals Week |
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Winter Break begins 12.17.2021; School reopens January 05, 2022 |
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