Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
English Literature A
English Lit.
Jr., Sr.
Sammy Yi
The primary goal of this course is to improve students students engagement with literature by employing the SLOW READING
technique to carefully read and critically analyze contemporary English literature.
Through the active reading of selected texts, students will deepen their understanding of the ways writers use the English language to
provide both profound meaning and deep pleasure for readers.
To that end, the secondary goal will be for students to interact more intimately with certain works in order to understand these works
complexities, to absorb their meaning and to analyze how their meaning is conveyed within the context of each works literary form.
Students will also consider these selected works in both a historical and social context, to allow for interpretation, critical analysis and
the understanding and relevance of various critical perspectives in literature through a Christian worldview.
This course will utilize works from both various genres and periods to support an intensive study of representative works of great
literary merit, so that students will be exposed to many varied works. However, it is the goal of this course not only to introduce
students to a wide variety of works, but to ensure that they become intimately familiar with some of the best of the best.
This course will also include a heavy emphasis on discussion and debate, including critical analyses, structured research, readerresponse to text, and creative writing projects, all with the goal to connect the student with texts, their contents and constructs, their
meaning and purpose, their structure and their sturdiness in the long unfolding of literary time all the while working on their English
language skills in an intensive environment.
American Born Chinese by Gene Yang
SOAR Study Skills by Susan Kruger, Creative Teaching Methods by Marlene LeFever, and various gathered articles and studies
throughout my years of teaching and also progressive teaching methodologies and research found through great and varied resources
throughout the internet.
()
Happy Week
Intro week
Day 1 - 5:
Essay Writing Workshop
-Handwriting Workshop
Day 6-10:
Day 11-15:
-Introduction into the mechanics of good and proper essay and also the
techniques involved in writing a good and proper essay
Chapter 4:
Chapter 5:
Chapter 6:
Chapter 7:
Scheduling
Organizing Papers
Organizing Space
Organizing Time
Day 27-31:
Day 32-36:
ABC Lectures 1
Starting at week 9, we will take the next step and go into a more in-depth
examination of American Born Chinese. We take a holistic and critical look
at the history, culture, the experience and struggle, and even the humor
that is involved in this graphic novel.
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Day 42-46:
Day 47-51:
ABC Unit 3
Day 52-56:
Day 52-56:
ABC Unit 4
Days 57-61:
Days 62-66:
Final Exams