1. Modern Fiction
Mrs. Walsh

2. English Department Goals
To teach students to
read critically
write and speak clearly and cogently
To see course proficiencies, please click HERE.

3. Grading Policy
65% - Major Assessments (includes, but is not limited to, tests, essays, in-class short answer or essay questions, reader response journals, extended projects, and creative writing pieces). At least 1 major assessment at the end of every unit
35% - Minor Assessments (homework, quizzes, Canvas discussions)

4. Schoolwires and Canvas
Students should check the syllabus daily on Schoolwires or Canvas.
Includes
schedule of daily class work (CW) and homework (HW, in red)
materials (handouts, online texts)
policies (including grading) and expectations
contact information
To access my Schoolwires site, please click HERE.

5. Some Essential Course Questions
What does it mean to be modern? Post-modern?
Stylistically, how are modernism and post modernism different from traditional forms?
What is the relationship among form, style, and content?
How have the accumulated horrors and realities of the world wars added to our understanding of what it means to be modern?
How has our relationship with technology and materialism evolved / changed?

6. Media Literacy- Life in the Modern/ Postmodern World
What we consider (selected titles)…
Media Literacy- Life in the Modern/ Postmodern World

7. Ideology in Media - Gender Lenses

8. The Psychoanalytic Lenses: Freud and Jung

9. Existentialism

10. Horrors of War / Satire / Truth and Perception

11. The Postmodern Condition/Effects of Technology