Freshman Composition IIInstructor: Ida Pollack
ENC 1102-W16 (21180)Phone: 954-401-7378
MW 7:00-8:15Building 4, Room 202 F 9-11 (online)
Spring, 2011Email:
Freshman Composition II
COURSE OBJECTIVES
ENC 1102 is designed to improve critical reading and analysis skills through discussion and examination, both oral and written, of selected works of literature. It is also designed to develop research skills through the successful completion of a research paper.
BOOKS AND MATERIALS
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing.
7th ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2010.
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. The Wadsworth Handbook. 8th ed. Boston:
Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.
Dictionary
Folder with side pockets for research paper
COURSE WORK
Literary Analyses
Five literary analyses will be required: two essays on short stories, two essays on poetry, and one essay on film.
The short story and poetry essays should be typed, double spaced. They should be 500-700 words in length. Please staple the pages together, and provide a title page in MLA format (see Wadsworth, page 267). The film essay will be written in class as a final exam.
Late Literary Analyses
You are allowed to turn in one literary analysis one class meeting late with no grade penalty. This is your late freebie. The late freebie cannot be used for any portion of the research paper assignment. After you have used up your late freebie, any essay turned in late will be docked ten points (one letter grade) for every class meeting it is late.
Research Paper
The research paper should be completed by the end of the semester. It should be four to five pages in length (1200-1500 words), fully researched and accurately documented. Further information will be provided.
Quizzes and Reader Responses
Many classes will begin with short quizzes on the reading assignments. Each quiz will be worth 10 points.
At the end of class, a question related to the reading assignment or your own experiences will be asked. You will freewrite your response within whatever time remains. The reader responses will not be graded for grammar or mechanics. They will receive a check-plus (5 points), a check (3 points), or a check-minus (1 point) based on the thoughtfulness of the response.
Quizzes and reader responses cannot be made up in the event of an absence. The lowest score of each will be dropped.
ATTENDANCE
Attendance is required. After three absences, an excessive absence warning will be sent. Five absences are grounds for withdrawal from the course.
Absence from class is not an excuse for incompletion of the reading assignments or papers. In the event of an absence, the student is responsible for contacting the instructor about missed work before the next class meeting. The syllabus is not always an accurate indication of the assignment; changes will be made.
Students leaving class before it is dismissed will be charged with half an absence. Students arriving more than twenty minutes late will be charged with half an absence.
The withdrawal deadline is in late March. Students withdrawing before that date will receive a W. Students withdrawing after that date will receive a WP (withdrawn passing) or WF (withdrawn failing), depending on the grade earned at the time of withdrawal.
NOTE: Many classes will begin with short quizzes on the reading assignment. Students arriving late will not be permitted to take the quiz, and quizzes cannot be made up.
CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE
Students are expected to arrive prepared and on time, and to participate in classwork and discussions. In the case of chronic tardiness, a warning notice will be sent; any lates after that notice will count as absences.
All cell phones, beepers, and pagers should be turned off or switched to silent mode before class begins. All earpieces should be removed. All laptops, iPods, and other electronics should be turned off.
COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING ACTIVITY
To demonstrate competence with the basic use of computers, a formal computer-based learning activity will be assigned. For this particular course, the following assignment, assessment, and percentage of final-grade protocols have been established. The research paper assignment will require the inclusion of sources located via computer. The sources must be documented according to MLA style. Assessment will be based on effective use and presentation of source material and will be included as part of the essay’s overall grade.
FINAL GRADE
Quizzes/Reader Responses/Misc...... 15%
Literary Analyses ...... 60%
Research Paper ...... 25%
ACADEMIC HONESTY
Plagiarism is claiming as your own a paper that in whole or in part was prepared by someone other than yourself. Incomplete paraphrasing constitutes plagiarism, regardless of intent. Any essay that contains a plagiarized passage, no matter how short, will be failed. Intentional plagiarism can result in failure of the course.
GORDON RULE
To satisfy state requirements, students are required to complete multiple college-level writing assignments and achieve a grade of C or higher.
CLASS SCHEDULE
Key: PL = Portable Literature
WWH = Wadsworth Handbook
SS = short story essay
PO = poetry essay
RP = research paper
January Assignments
Introduction to class; writing sample
Read PL “A&P” 131
Jan 18MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY – no class
Read PL “Greasy Lake” 396
Read PL “A Worn Path” 360
Read PL “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” 264
February Assignments
Read PL “A Story of an Hour” 106
Read WWH Ch 13
Read WWH Ch 16; RESEARCH PAPER PROPOSAL DUE
Read WWH Ch 17
Read PL “Everyday Use” 312; “Two Kinds” 457
Read PL “The Lottery” 304; “The Tell-Tale Heart” 450
Read PL “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” 427
March Assignments
Read PL “The Secret Lion” 453
SPRING BREAK – no class
SPRING BREAK – no class
Read PL “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time” 498; “Living in Sin” 515; “My mistress’ eyes . . . ” 540; “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose” 548; “To My Dear and Loving Husband” 558; “To His Coy Mistress” 559; “You fit into me” 563; “General Review of the Sex Situation” 660
Read PL “Suicide Note” 488; “Fire and Ice” 491; “Hope” 502; “Ballad of Birmingham” 506; “Do not go gentle into that good night” 651; “Because I could not stop for Death” 687; “Death Be Not Proud” 689
Read PL “The Man He Killed” 491; “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” 550; “To Lucasta Going to the Wars” 564; “The Soldier” 663; “Dulce et Decorum Est” 664; “The End and the Beginning” 670
Mon Mar 29RESEARCH PAPER SOURCES FOLDER DUE
April Assignments
Read PL “Ozymandias” 501; “The Waking” 605; “Buffalo Bill’s” 687; “The United
Fruit Co.” 712
Read PL “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” 543; “Harlem” 544; “Metaphors” 549; “The secretary chant” 551; “Yet Do I Marvel” 636; RESEARCH PAPER ROUGH DRAFT DUE
Read PL “We Real Cool” 525; “Leda and the Swan” 638; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” 697
Apr 21RESEARCH PAPER FINAL DRAFT DUE
This syllabus is subject to change!