Mr.

Brennans Senior English Course Calendar Fall Semester, 2016

Monday

Tuesday

No School
22

17
No School
24

Lang & Lit., p. 1-8

Lang & Lit., p. 12-16

29

Diagnostic: Essay 2

25

30

p. 1-5

p. 6-13
7

p. 50-53

p. 54-56

19

Workshop

p. 66-67

26

28

p. 77-83

p. 83-88

16
Cone, Theory 3

Weigle, Theory 4

p. 57-62

p. 63-65
23 Due: Religion Essay

Gilgamesh, Part 1

Gilgamesh, Part 1

p. 68-72

p. 72-76

29

30
Odyssey, Part 1

Monomyth Essay

Pre-Socratics, Fragments

Workshop

p. 103-106

10

Plato, Apology

p. 107-111

p. 113-116

12

7 Due: Myth Essay

11 Fallacy Exam

Plato, Euthyphro

p. 95-102

Logical Fallacies

Plato, Euthyphro

Lang & Lit, p. 37-40

p. 107-111

13 EQ1

14

October

Unit 3:
Ancient Greece

Odyssey, Part 2

p. 89-95

Iliad, Part 2

p. 42-49

22

27
Iliad, Part 1

Quran

p. 34-41

Unit 2:
The Epic &
The Monomyth

21

Campbell, H. Adventure

Matthew, Part 2

15

20
Theology Essay

p. 21-26

14
Gutirrez, Theory 2

Exodus, Part 2

p. 14-20
9

13

Exodus, Part 1

Matthew, Part 1

Marx, Theory 1

L & L, p. 10-11; 19-20; 28-29

p. 27-34
12

Analytical Essays

Lang & Lit., p. 21-27

1

6
No School

26
Rhetoric

31
Genesis, Abraham

Diagnostic: MC

Genesis, Creation

Friday cc.
19 Due: Diagnostic Essay 1

September

Language & Style

Thursday
18 Due: Meaning Profile

Introduction

23
Literary Elements

Unit 1:
Theology &
Critical Theory

Wednesday

16

15

August

Course
Introduction

No School

Plato, Crito
p. 117-119

17

19

Plato, Republic, Part 1

p. 120-124

p. 125-131

24 Due: Plato Essay

26

p. 138-140

p. 141-146

Unit 5:
Ancient Rome

31 Due: Aphorisms

Aristotle, N. Ethics

Epicurus, Letter & Princi.

p. 154-159

p. 160-163

Virgil, Aeneid

Book I, p. 169-177

Book II, p. 177-183

No School

Canto XXXII-XXXIV

No School

Book V, p. 195-202

Epictetus & Aurelius

Greco-Roman Essay

p. 164-168
10

Workshop
11
No School

Virgil, Aeneid
Book III, p. 183-189
17

18
Virgil, Aeneid

Aeneid Essay

Book VI, p. 202-208

21

22

23

24

25

28

29

30

Dante, Inferno

Dante, Inferno

Canto I-II, p. 209-215

Canto III-VI, p. 215-222

Book IV, p. 189-195

p. 151-153

16
Virgil, Aeneid

Tu Fu, Select Poems

Dante, Inferno

Dante, Inferno

Canto XV XVIII, p. 238-245

Canto XIX-XXII, p. 245-253

12

13
Dante Essay

Canto XXXI-XXXIV, p. 269-278

Workshop

19 Due: Inferno Essay

* Course readings and calendar are subject to chance.

20

Dante, Inferno

Dante, Inferno

Canto VII-X, p. 223-230

Canto XI-XIV, p. 230-238

9
Dante, Inferno

Dante

Canto XXIII- XXVI, p. 253-261 Canto XXVII - XXX, p. 261-269

14

Dante, Inferno

15

16 EQ2

Mid-Term Exams .
21

22

23

December

Unit 6:
Medieval Italy

15
Virgil, Aeneid

28
Li Po, Select Poems
p. 147-150

Virgil, Aeneid

14

27

Workshop

7 Due: Meaning Profile, rev. 8

Plato Essay

p. 131-137

21

Plato, Republic, Part 2

November

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

25

Confucius, Analects

20

Unit 4:
Ancient China

18
Plato, Phaedo