3Rs Syllabus (13--15)
Fall Semester 2010

The assignments below are due on the dates shown.

08/23
Book report due: Someone Named Eva
Harp and Laurel Wreath: Psalm 23, p. 49 memorize
Read Genesis 1, Exodus 20.
Bring Strunk and White’s Elements of Style to class.
Bring Bible to class.
Journal 2x

08/30
Model writing at home: Exodus 20
Harp and Laurel Wreath: “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes” 118 memorize
Harp and Laurel Wreath: “In Coventry,” 223; read and answer questions. “The Vulture,” 224; read and answer question.
Read Proverbs Chapters 9--14
Journal 2x

09/06
No class/Labor Day. We will make up this class on the Monday before Thanksgiving.

09/13
Model writing on 10 Commandments due.
Harp and Laurel Wreath: “Hiawatha’s Childhood,” first ten lines p. 69 memorize
Antigone: Read the play. Bring the play to class.
Journal 2x

9/20
Antigone in class.
Model writing: descriptive passage on appearance
H & LW: “Hiawatha’s Childhood,” second ten lines, p. 69--70. Memorize.
Journal 2x

9/27
Model writing: exercise on appearance due
H & LW: Read pages 219--222. Read poems and answer question pages 223--226.
Journal 2x.

10/04
Read assigned chapters of The Old Man and the Sea.
H & LW: Read and answer questions 226--232. Memorize “When I Was in Love.”
Model writing: Aquinas, Catechism, Question-And-Answer.
Journal 2x.

10/11
Read assigned chapters of The Old Man and the Sea.
H & LW: Read and answer questions pages 239--245.
Model writing: Question-And-Answer on chosen topic rough draft due.

10/18
Hemingway: model writing
Question -and-Answer model writing due.
H & LW: “The Eagle,” 124. Memorize.
Journal 2x.

10/25
Read The Importance of Being Earnest assigned acts..
Review of The Old Man and the Sea.
H & LW: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” 118. Memoirize.
Journal 2x.

11/01
The Importance of Being Earnest. Bring book to class.
Review of The Old Man and the Sea due.
How To Eat A Poem: pages 1--15. Bring book to class.
Journal 2x.

11/08
The Importance of Being Earnest: character sketch
How To Eat A Poem: pages 16--40. Memorize one poem from the first forty pages.
Journal 2x.

11/15
Character essay due
I Capture The Castle, assigned chapters.
How To Eat A Poem: pages 41--50.
Journal 3x.

11/22
I Capture The Castle, assigned chapters
Harp and Laurel Wreath: Read 62--63, 340--343. Answer questions on 343.
Journal 2x

11/29
I Capture The Castle, assigned chapters.
Journal 2x.

12/06
I Capture the Castle discussion. Bring book to class
Christmas essay rough draft due.
H & LW, “Christmas,” 315--317. Answer questions.
Journal 2x.

12/13
Christmas essay due.
Journal 2x.

01/03
Very Good, Jeeves. Assigned chapters.
Journal 2x