X-BIN Elements of Style
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”— William Strunk, Jr. If brevity and clarity appeal to you, if you want learn how to get those crystal-clear ideas in your head to be as crystal-clear on paper, then this is the class for you. You’ll learn wordsmithing as you’ve never learned it before, and you will emerge a master of language and style.
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 3Xab
Credits Apply Toward English
The Odd Cast: Writing
and Producing Podcasts Podcasts are currently one of the most popular forms of entertainment and information distribution in the 21st century. With a little bit of searching, you can find a podcast on nearly any topic, from current events to cat care, from political humor to fly casting, from fantasy baseball to book fights, etc. In this class, you’ll listen to, discuss, and analyze a variety of popular podcasts. Inspired by their variety, you’ll then script, perform, and produce a podcast of your own on a topic of your choice.
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 4Xab
Credits Apply Toward English
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) Bernard
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) Dauterman
At First Sight: A Survey of
the World’s Best Love Poems Because love, in all of its forms, acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships, it is naturally one of the most common themes in the creative arts. This X-bin is an exploration of the various ways people have declared their love in verse over the millennia—tragically, jokingly, tearfully, bombastically, timorously, cleverly…
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 1Xab
Credits Apply Toward English
Through the Looking Glass:
Adventures with Lewis Carroll Puzzle along with Alice as she ventures through the looking glass, where you will find a veritable playground of linguistics and logic in both poetry and prose works that have resonated deeply within Western culture. This “frabjous” introduction to the works of Lewis Carroll will plunge you into literary “non-sense” as you hunt for the Snark and the Jabberwocky, encountering a wild, innovative, and intuitive lexicon that has beguiled generations of readers, not to mention mathematicians.
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 4Xab
Credits Apply Toward English
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) McGrath
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) McGrath
Make it New!
As long as the literary arts continue to exist, there will be writers who bend and break the rules, undermine the conventions, and challenge the sensibilities
of the
reader, all with the goal of breathing freshness and relevancy into their chosen medium. This X-bin will use excerpts from Laurence Stern’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, with its irreverent use of irony, narrative, allusion, double entendre, and digressions, as a launching pad to the literary present, while examining innovations and experimentations with narrative, verse, typography, metafictional elements, and, for lack of a better phrase, creative wellsprings. Along with Stern’s work, prose selections will include excerpts from James Joyce, Anthony Burgess, Donald Barthelme, John Barth, David Foster Wallace, and George Saunders. Poetical subjects will include works by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, and William Burroughs (among others).
Length of Course 1 X-bin
Mod + Period 6Xab
Credits Apply Toward English
Grade Level(s) 9, 10, 11, 12
Teacher(s) McGrath
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