English II 2026-2027
For Tuesday 9/29:
READ: A Good Man is Hard to Find ; Good Country People; A Late Encounter with the Enemy
For Thursday 10/1:
READ They Say/I Say: Chapter 2
For Monday 10/5:
READ: Greenleaf; The Crop; Criticism Handout
On Wednesday 10/7:
MEET AT 11:00 for lunch with Anna & Georgia to plan group O’Connor essay
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Flannery O’Connor Stories DUE:
Wednesday 9/23: Everything That Rises Must Converge + Interpretive questions
Tuesday 9/29: A Good Man is Hard to Find + Good Country People + A Late Encounter with the Enemy
Monday 10/5: Greenleaf + The Crop + Criticism
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Frost/cummings essay (three paragraphs): Compare Mending Wall to Space being(don’t forget to remember)Curved…
1) What “doesn’t love a wall” and “wants it down”? [Frost paragraph]
2) Why does cummings allude to Frost’s poem in his? [cummings paragraph]
3) Do the two poems communicate similar ideas or attitudes about something? [paragraph 3 — comparison]
4) What role do modern science and “Billiard-Balls” seem to play in this for cummings? [paragraph 3 — comparison]
Vocabulary >>> Part IV Elements of Style: Words and Expressions Commonly Misused learn ALL WORDS/ERRORS +
sanguine, sardonic, insidious, euphemism, cogent, paradigm, august, vortex, quixotic, arable, hectare, potable, anthropogenic, salinization, reticent/reticence, rhetoric, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, consonance, simile, metaphor, homophone, hyperbole, anaphora, enjambment. caesura, antecedent, chiasmus, abstract (noun), utopia, renaissance, explicit, incessant, assimilate, precipitous, lucid, rudimentary, anachronism, fecund, temerity, furtive, ephemeral, itinerant, philistine, profligate, tenet, charisma, chimera, agnostic, static, panacea, ephemeral, itinerant, philistine, profligate, tenet, charisma, chimera, agnostic, static, panacea, parochial, taciturn, unctuous, vitriolic, hypothetical, emulate, bane, ambivalent, solicitous, soporific, colloquial, blank verse, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter + from EOS Glossary (in the back of the book): adverbial phrase, appositive, complement, colloquialism, conjunction, indirect object, nominative pronoun, predicate + ODYSSEY WORDS: agora, megaron, archetype, dissemble, venerate/venerable, prodigious, tantalize, guile, protagonist, antagonist, bane, chimera, charisma, philistine, vainglory, improvise, amulet, protean, epithet, timé, pandemonium, anon, asphodel, titanic, hekatomb, panacea, maudlin, disinterested, supercilious, laconic, taciturn, indolent, credulous, reticent, disapprobation, assiduous, loquacious, contemporary (n), abstract (n), noxious, dispassionately, arrant, licentious
Grammar, key terminology, and vocabulary items that we have discussed in class are on the AP Language & Composition Vocabulary Archive. While most of you will not take the AP Language exam until next year, it always helps to become familiar with these terms now (rather than cramming next year). The sooner you get started, the sooner (comparative degree) you will know all your terms.
Find Honors World Literature vocabulary HERE OR play to study on Quizlet!
Student Resources: English II
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Summer reading list for High School students
Access English II class writing archives to see what our readings and assignments are for this year, and to read sample pieces written by previous English II students.
QUARTER GRADING:
Participation = 30% (purely subjective, based on my perceptions of your initiative, interest, self-motivation, & tenacity)
Assignments = Revisions (20%)
Edits (20%)
Vocab/Multiple Choice tests= 15%
Timed essay grades= 15%
SEMESTER GRADING
Participation = 30% (purely subjective, based on my perceptions of your initiative, interest, self-motivation, & tenacity)
Assignments = Revisions & edits (20%)
Vocab/Multiple Choice tests = 15%
Timed essay grades = 10%
Exam = 25%
“The great skill of a teacher is to get and keep the attention of his scholar... To attain this, he should make the child comprehend...the usefulness of what he teaches him and let him see, by what he has learned, that he can do something which gives him some power and real advantage over others who are ignorant of it.”
— John Locke (1632-1704), on Education
Unfinished Pieces: Semester I
(updated 9/25/26)
Everett
Revisions = 11/36
Edits = 0/6
UC College application
Common App
Junior Autobiography
8 Short application essays
Frost/cummings: Frost paragraph only (1 page/4 quotes to parse poem)
Green poetry: Haiku
Blue poetry: 2 Nature; Ballad; Narrative
Frost paragraph ONLY for essay (see left)
Ari
Revisions = 9/36
Edits = 0/6
UC College application
Common App
Junior Autobiography
8 Short application essays
Frost/cummings: Frost paragraph only (1 page/4 quotes to parse poem)
Pink poetry: The Right Words
Green poetry: Haiku; Tanka; Tercets; Quatrains; Cinquain; Limericks
Blue poetry: 2 Nature; Ballad; Narrative
