September 2007 Mr. Bryan STUDENT'S NAME...... Parent's Signature...... ENGLISH 6320 Junior English...... DAY 3 VOC/SAT W114

Students are responsible to have AND bring to class regularly the following items: 1- pen, pencil, textbook, notebook...unprepared - points lost

2-JUNIORS: Adventures in American Literature NYSTL The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald Ragtime Doctorow The Catcher in the Rye Salinger The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne Our Town Thornton Wilder Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller 3- Grading Quizzes are worth 20 points with a built in extra point value. Quizzes are NOT always announced. 4- Tests and major assignments are worth 100 points and are to be made up in the event of absence every TUESDAY in E104 Assignment submitted late are worth less -10% each day late 5- Homework COUNTS. It is worth 25% of the grade. 6- Summer reading will be a 100 point test for quarter one. 7- Each quarter will involve an outside major work. 8- JUNIORS WILL DO A PAPER OF FIVE (5) PAGES. Each semester the term paper work is worth 30% of the grade. Q#1 book and bibliography Q#2 notes Q#3 written draft Q#4 typed version MUST BE ON A PC. 6320 Period 2 IS DUE ON WEDNESDAY, April 4, 2007 IF I FAIL TO SUBMIT THIS WRITTEN DRAFT...THIRD QUARTER STARTS AT 75% 9- S.A.T. writing, vocabulary and grammar will be major parts of the class. 10- Absence: After 5 days in a marking period warning sent home. On Day 6 the student's grade is a 75%; after day 7 the grade is 70%. 10- I have the phone numbers of three fellow students in this class. I am responsible to call them when I am absent to keep abreast of class work...... 11- CONDUCT My appraisal of the conduct of the St. Francis students to this point has been exemplary. The byword is R E S P E C T. Please continue to conduct yourself in this manner in your dealings with your fellow students. Name...... phone #......

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Name...... phone #...... Regents English 6320 SEPTEMBER 2007- JUNE 2008 Mr. Bryan COURSE OUTLINE NIT=not in text...separate paperback purchased Benjamin Franklin 57 ff Autobiography Thomas Jefferson 77 ff Declaration of Independence Washington Irving 106 ff Devil and Tom Walker William Cullen Bryant 129 To a Waterfowl Thanatopsis Edgar Allan Poe 134 ff Fall of the House of Usher The Raven Ralph Waldo Emerson 174 ff Nature Self-Reliance Henry David Thoreau 201 ff Walden The Pond in Winter Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter NIT** The Minster's Black Veil 220 John Greenleaf Whittier 262 Snowbound Oliver Wendell Holmes 267 Old Ironsides The Chambered Nautilus Abraham Lincoln 306 Gettysburg Address Chief Joseph 311 The Words of Chief Joseph Walt Whitman 314 ff Song of Myself I Hear America Singing Noiseless Patient Spider Mark Twain 334 ff Life on the Mississippi Huck Finn Bret Harte 360 Outcasts of Poker Flat Ambrose Bierce 368 Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Willa Cather 405 Sculptor's Funeral Jack London 416 To Build A Fire Edwin Arlington Robinson 431 ff Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy Edgar Lee Masters 436 Lucinda Matlock Katherine Porter 525 Jilting of Granny Weatherall Flannery O'Connor 585 The Crop Robert Frost 628 Road Not Taken Fire and Ice Stopping by the Woods... Mending Wall Death of the Hired Man Carl Sandburg 640 Chicago