1. Papers are due on the day assigned. Late papers will be downgraded one letter grade for each class day late.
2. Papers written in class (impromptus) will be evaluated on a 100-point scale; papers written outside of class on a 200-point scale. Paragraphs will be evaluated on a 50-point scale.
3. Reading quizzes will accrue to a total equal in value to an impromptu paper, i.e., 100 points. There are NO make-up's for reading quizzes.
4. This course follows the ATTENDANCE POLICY of the University. (See the back of the English Department Syllabus and your Student Handbook for details.) Regular attendance is expected, and students are responsible for work and assignments missed as a result of absences from class.
5. Plagiarism of any kind will not be tolerated in this course.
Syllabus
Week 1
8/25
Course Introduction
8/27 Diagnostic Essay, Paper #1
9/6 LABOR DAY-- NO CLASSES
9/8 Introduction to Poetry
9/10 Read and discuss
Billy Collins poems "Advice to Writers," "Books," "Introduction
to Poetry,"and "Schoolville"
Week 4
9/13 Read and discuss Billy
Collins poems "Questions About Angels," "The Dead," "The History Teacher,"
and "First Reader"
9/15 Discuss Paper
No. 2: Analysis of Argument (Poetry) using Billy Collins' poem "Marginalia"
9/17 Read and discuss Billy Collins poems
"Consolation," "Days, "The Blues," "Aristotle," "Sonnet," and "The Movies"
Week 10
10/25 Paper #4 (Revision of Argument Essay)
due
Week 11
11/1 Paper
#4 (Abstract) due
Introduction of James Joyce's
Dubliners (D)
11/3 Read"Araby" and "Clay" (D) DRILL
Introduce Paper #5 (Annotated
Bibliography)
11./5 Read "The Sisters"
and "The Boarding House" (D) DRILL
Week 12
11/8 Read "A
Mother" and "A Painful Case" (D) DRILL
11/10 Read "The Dead" (D) DRILL
11/12 Continue discussion of "The Dead"
Week 13
11/15 Paper #5 (Annotated bibliography ) due
11/17 Discuss Paper #6 (Research Paper)
11/19 Handbook, Chapter 44, 606-620
Week 14
11/22 Handbook,
Chapter 46, 651-679
11/24 and 11/26 Thanksgiving Vacation: No class
12/6 LAST DAY OF
CLASS
Paper # 6 due