“I ask you for the last time: will you name your three cards or won’t you?”
Wednesday, January 8 (2) - The Enlightenment; Pope, Essay on Man; Set Experience of Evil Essay
Thursday, January 9 (3) - Candide; For tomorrow, read Candide, chapters 2-7 (Norton 379-388)
Friday, January 10 (4) - Candide; For Tuesday, read Candide, chapters 8-12 (Norton 388-396); Continue working on your pilot essay
Monday, January 13 (5) - Candide; For Thursday, read Candide, chapters 13-16 (Norton 396-403)
Tuesday, January 14 (6) - Developing your own hypothesis for a pilot essay; Candide catch-up
Wednesday, January 15 (1) - Vocab Quiz Units 12-13
Thursday, January 16 (2) - Candide; For tomorrow, read Candide, chapters 17-21 (Norton 403-414)
Friday, January 17 (3) - Candide; For Wednesday, read Candide, chapters 22-27 (Norton 414-433); For Tuesday, Submit Pilot Draft without your name on the document.
Monday, January 20 - NO CLASSES (MLK)
Tuesday, January 21 (4) - Peer Revision; To access your peer-edited paper: sign in to turnitin.com; click on correct English course; scroll down to the correct Peermark assignment and click on "Show Details"; under the heading "Review By," click on the blue text, which should read "Student." This process should lead you to a draft of your paper that contains the commentary of your editor.
Wednesday, January 22 (5) - Candide; For tomorrow, read Candide, chapters 28-30 (Norton 433-438)
Thursday, January 23 (6) - Candide
Friday, January 24 (1) - Vocab Quiz Units 14-15; For Monday, read Wordsworth, "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" and "The World is Too Much with Us"
Monday, January 27 (2) - Wordsworth; For tomorrow, read Coleridge, "Kubla Khan;" Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"
Tuesday, January 28 (3) - Coleridge and Shelley; For tomorrow, read Keats, "Bright Star" and "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
Wednesday, January 29 (4) - Keats; For tomorrow, read "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on a Nightingale," and "To Autumn"
Thursday, January 30 (5) - Shelley
Friday, January 31 (6) - NO CLASSES
Monday, February 3 (1) - Set Poetry Writing Assignment; Set Research Portion of Project;
Tuesday, February 4 (2) - Shelley, Keats
Wednesday, February 5 (3) - Keats
Thursday, February 6 (4) - More fun with secondary sources (finding good material)
Friday, February 7 (5) - Working with Secondary Material (Annotating an Article); By Wednesday, read Heinrich Heine, "A Pine is Standing Lonely," "A Young Man Loves a Maiden," "Ah, Death Is Like the Long Cool Night," "The Silesian Weavers"
Monday, February 10 (6) - MLA DAY 1
Tuesday, February 11 (1) - MLA DAY 2; Study these words for a bonus vocab quiz on Thursday, February 20!
Wednesday, February 12 (2) - MLA Quiz; Heine; By tomorrow, read Mikhail Lermontov, "I Do Not Love You," "No, I am Not Byron," "To," "Her Face is Not the Face of Venus," "The Poet's Death"
Thursday, February 13 (3) - Lermontov; For Tuesday, read Pushkin, The Queen of Spades, intro and chapter 1 (Norton 800-804). Also, complete this survey on your reading habits.
Friday, February 14 (4) - NO CLASSES
Monday, February 17 - NO CLASSES
Tuesday, February 18 (5) -The Queen of Spades; For tomorrow, read The Queen of Spades, chapter 2 (Norton 804-808)
Wednesday, February 19 (6) -The Queen of Spades; For tomorrow, read The Queen of Spades, chapter 3 (Norton 809-813)
Thursday, February 20 (1) - Bonus Vocab Quiz!;The Queen of Spades; For tomorrow, read The Queen of Spades, chapter 4 (Norton 813-815)
Friday, February 21 (2) - The Queen of Spades; For Monday, finish The Queen of Spades
Monday, February 24 (3) - Set QofS Writing Assignment; The Queen of Spades
Tuesday, February 25 (4) - The Queen of Spades
Wednesday, February 26 (5) - A review of writing theses; Writing outlines; What's due on Monday?
Thursday, February 27 (6) - Sample theses; The Queen of Spades; For tomorrow, read Gogol, The Overcoat (Norton 1012-1017)
Friday, February 28 (1) - Psychological Profiles of Hermann, Lisaveta, and the Countess; Gogol, The Overcoat; Over the weekend, finish The Overcoat (1017-1025)
Monday, March 3 (2) - NO CLASSES
Tuesday, March 4 (3) - Гогол, Тче Оверцоат
Wednesday, March 5 (4) - Гогол, Тче Оверцоат
Thursday, March 6 (5) - Integrating secondary material into your own writing
Friday, March 7 (6) - Integrating secondary material into your own writing; Овер тче шеекенд, бе суре то финисч Гоголжс Оверцоат иф ыоу чаве нот алреады!
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END OF THIRD QUARTER
Monday, March 10 (1) - Гогол, Тче Оверцоат
Tuesday, March 11 (2) - NO CLASS - RECONCILIATION SERVICE - REPORT DIRECTLY TO CHAPEL
Wednesday, March 12 (3) - Гогол, Тче Оверцоат
Thursday, March 13 (4) - KUBUS OUT WITH TENNIS TEAM; Тче Оверцоат Assignment (due at the end of class to turnitin.com - see below for submission details - work individually); *** Over the break, complete developing pages 1-2 of your research paper. They are due in class and to turnitin.com by 8am. Have a look at this document for more pointers on how to integrate secondary material. We covered most of it, but there may be one or two more helpful hints buried in there. Harvard also has this new website for students such as yourselves. Very handy. Take advantage. Additionally, be sure to read the introduction to Leo Tolstoy as well as the first chapter of The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Norton 1327-1336). Watch this very short lecture. Have a good break. Write well, read well... and live. ***
SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 24 (1) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; Set creative writing essay; By tomorrow, read Ivan Ilyich, chapter II (Norton 1336-1341).
Tuesday, March 25 (2) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Wednesday, March 26 (3) - Sample Developing Pages; Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; By tomorrow, read Ivan Ilyich, chapter III (Norton 1341-1346).
Thursday, March 27 (4) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; By tomorrow, read Ivan Ilyich, chapter IV (Norton 1346-1350).
Friday, March 28 (5) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; By Tuesday, read Ivan Ilyich, chapters V-VII (Norton 1350-1358).
Monday, March 31 (6) - Peer Editing (Meet in Library); By tomorrow, read Ivan Ilyich, chapters VIII-IX (Norton 1358-1364) and the first supplementary reading to the right.
Tuesday, April 1 (1) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; By tomorrow, read Ivan Ilyich, chapters X-XI (Norton 1364-1367).
Wednesday, April 2 (2) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; By tomorrow, finish Ivan Ilyich (Norton 1367-1368).
Thursday, April 3 (3) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Friday, April 4 (4) - Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; Read "Dante Alighieri" and Cantos 1-2 of Inferno by Tuesday (Norton 1456-1471). Additionally, watch Professor Mazzotta's lecture that introduces the poem (found to the right).
Monday, April 7 (5) - Introductions and Conclusions: A Review
Tuesday, April 8 (6) - Dante, Inferno, Canto 1
Wednesday, April 9 (1) - Dante, Inferno, Canto 2; Read Canto 3 by tomorrow.
Thursday, April 10 (2) - Dante, Inferno, Canto 3; Be through Canto 4 by tomorrow.
Friday, April 11 (3) - Dante, Inferno, Canto 4
Monday, April 14 (4) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 5-6
Tuesday, April 15 (5) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 7-8
Wednesday, April 16 (6) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 9-10
Thursday, April 17 (1) - Dante, Inferno, Canto 11
Friday, April 18 - NO CLASSES - GOOD FRIDAY
Monday, April 21 - NO CLASSES - EASTER MONDAY
Tuesday, April 22 (2) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 12-15
Wednesday, April 23 (3) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 16-18
Thursday, April 24 (4) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 19-20
Friday, April 25 (5) - NO CLASSES - TESTING DAY
Monday, April 28 (6) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 21-22
Tuesday, April 29 (1) - Dante, Inferno, Canto 23; REVISED SCHEDULE
Wednesday, April 30 (2) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 24-25
Thursday, May 1 (3) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 26-27
Friday, May 2 (4) - KUBUS ON FACULTY RETREAT
Monday, May 5 (5) - Dante, Inferno, Cantos 28-31
Tuesday, May 6 (6) - Dante, Inferno, Canto 32
Wednesday, May 7 (1) - Dante, Inferno, Canto 33
Thursday, May 8 (2) - Dante, Inferno, Canto 34
Friday, May 9 (3) - LAST DAY OF ENGLISH - FINAL THOUGHTS
Due Dates
Guide to iPad submissions to turnitin.com
Full list of research turn-ins with due dates and point values
Dante's Inferno Presentation Guidelines
Sample Research Essays of Mr. Volding's Students of Yesteryears:
The Enlightenment: A Primer
Helpful Research Links
Research and Documentation Online
Registering on JSTOR
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"The Rich Fabric of Invention:" Gogol's The Overcoat
Genealogy of the English Alphabet
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Links
Reader's Guide from The Big Read
“In reading exam papers written by misled students, of both sexes, about this or that author, I have often come across such phrases — probably recollections from more tender years of schooling — as ‘his style is simple’ or ‘his style is clear and simple’ or ‘his style is beautiful and simple’ or ‘his style is quite beautiful and simple.’ But remember that ‘simplicity’ is buncombe. No major writer is simple. The Saturday Evening Post is simple. Journalese is simple. Upton Lewis is simple. Mom is simple. Digests are simple. Damnation is simple. But Tolstoys and Melvilles are not simple... This story is Tolstoy’s most artistic, most perfect, and most sophisticated achievement... Tolstoy’s style is a marvelously complicated, ponderous achievement.”
Here is the official, departmental description of English 4: Using The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, seniors build on their knowledge of the traditions of American and British literature by studying literature of the wider world, reading excerpts and full-length works from Western and Eastern cultures. Seniors continue their study of writing with The Little Brown Handbook, learning to improve their prose style and to write clearer and more cogent essays of literary analysis and personal reflection. In the spring, students learn the basics of academic research while producing an essay that combines their own insights with their synthesis of the ideas of scholars.
You are, however, to expect for things to vary. We have, for instance, added the Killgallon, Sentence Composing for College to the course syllabus. This will take up a good deal of time throughout the year. Below is a list of texts that we may or may not read. There are also, in fact, a few million texts not on the list that we may or may not read. Be flexible. I am. I like it that way.
First Quarter – The Ancient World
Stories of creation and ancient ideologies - Genesis, Hesiod, Plato, Lucretius
The Epic – Homer, Virgil, Ovid
Ancient drama – Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus
Second Quarter – The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Narrative fiction before the novel – Boccaccio, Dante, Chaucer, The Arabian Nights, Cervantes
Renaissance thought – Montaigne, Castiglione, Machiavelli
Drama – Shakespeare, Marlowe
Third Quarter – The 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries
The Mock-epic and satire – Swift, Pope, Voltaire
Russian literature – Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov
Fourth Quarter – The 20th Century
The Novel and the Novella – Conrad, Achebe
The Short Story – Kafka, Joyce
Course Texts
Killgallon, Sentence Composing for College
The Little, Brown Handbook (11th Ed.)
The Norton Anthology of Western Literature (8th Ed.)
Shostak, Vocabulary Workshop, Level H
If you do not mind (even if you do mind) bring in the Killgallon text on each day 1.