Weeks 4-8: Pride and Prejudice
**Please note that assignments are likely to change and small writing assignments might be added to light days.
**Please take notes on the reading every night for which reading is assigned.
Week Four
10 Sept S--Read and take notes on Pride and Prejudice, pp. 20-40
In class, be ready to let me know which in-class essay you'd like me to grade.
11 Sept S--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 40-60
12/13 Sept L--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 61-84
14 Sept S--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 84-107
Week Five
17 Sept S--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 107-129
18/19 Sept L--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 129-156
Note: assignments have been shortened
20/21 Sept L--Pride and Prejudice, pp.156-177 (" . . . disposition.")
Week Six
24 Sept S--No class (Fall holiday)
25 Sept S--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 177-196
26/27 Sept L--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 196-216
28 Sept S--No class, but read Pride and Prejudice, pp. 216-237
On Canvas, please post a 500 word freewrite on one of the essay prompts about friendship
**If you prefer, you can write on a different friendship topic. Just remember to think about a moment in the friendship you can put into scene and that would be interesting for someone else who doesn't know your friend to read about.
***If you're writing about a friend at school, please change their name and possibly one minor physical attribute.
Sample essay on Aristotle posted on Google Classroom under "Sample Essays."
Week Seven
1 Oct S--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 237-257
2/3 Oct Sept L--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 258-278
4/5 Oct Sept L--Pride and Prejudice, pp. 278-298 (finish)
Week Eight
8 Oct S--In-class essay on Pride and Prejudice
Practice essay questions on the Google Classroom site under "Classwork/Writing Practice"
Ways to study:
Come up with good essay questions
Freewrite on questions
Write practice essays
In other words, writing in advance of an essay, whether or not you know the topic, is a great way to prepare for an in-class essay
9 Oct S--Writing workshop day
Homework on Canvas posted here
10/11 Oct Sept L--Writing workshop day
For tonight's homework, write a dialogue between you and the friend (or sibling or significant other).
The dialogue should be crafted around some sort of conflict, but submerge the conflict.
In other words, don't have either of the "characters" in your dialogue actually state what they're in conflict about--at least until the end of the exchange.
Incorporate some setting details into the dialogue
Also incorporate 1-2 distinctive aspects of the friend's appearance (face, body, movement, clothing, way of speaking, etc.)
Word count: 300 words total
Post the assignment on Canvas
12 Oct Sept S--Personal essay due