Language Arts and Humanities
 Fundamentals Of English
 

ENGL 0123 - Fundamentals of English....................................................................................................................2 Credits Class 3. Prerequisite: A score of 60 or above on the COMPASS reading placement test, or successful completions of ENGL 0003 - Developmental Reading 1. This course is required of students who score below 19 on the ACT subtest in English or below 60 on the COMPASS Writing Skills Placement Test. This course includes an overview of basic grammar, mechanics, and paragraph construction. Students may concurrently enroll in ENGL 0013 and ENGL 0123. ENGL 0123 credits do not count toward an associates degree.

 

 

 

Syllabus

Class Grades

Sentence Pattern Practice

Special Day Sentences

Prep. Phrase Practice

Sentence Editing Practice

Herringbone

I like to see it lap the Miles

I like to see it lap the Miles--
And lick the Valleys up--
And stop to feed itself at Tanks--
And then--prodigious step

Around a Pile of Mountains--
And supercilious peer
In Shanties--by the sides of Roads--
And then a Quarry pare

To fit its Ribs
And crawl between
Complaining all the while
In horrid--hooting stanza--
Then chase itself down Hill--

And neigh like Boanerges
Then--punctual as a Star
Stop--docile and omnipotent
At its own stable door--
(1862)
 

Metaphors
Sylvia Plath

I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.
Money's new--minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off

 

 

 

 

 

IMPORTANT MESSAGES         

     

      

  

 

DAILY CALENDAR

DAY  
 
8/15   Syllabus;     Pre-test
8/22   Unit 1;   
8/29   Unit 2; notes; Writing Process, pgs. 443-448;  App. A, pg. 449
9/12   Unit 2; notes and test.  Paragraph due
9/19   Unit 3; notes
9/26  

Unit 4;   notes & test
10/3   Unit 5;   notes & test
10/10   Unit 5;   In-class writing   Directions from home to school
10/17   Unit 6;   In class writing:
10/24   Unit 7;   Bring blue books tonight.   P. 457/458 due tonight
10/31   Unit 8;   In-class editing
11/14   Unit 9;   In-class editing
11/21   Unit 10; In-class editing
11/28   Unit 11 & 12;  In-class editing
12/5   begin final paragraph
12/12  

Final exam and final paragraph due tonight