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English 102 - SUMMER, 2008, Tues/Thursday, 10-12

English 102 Syllabus

Mr. Mike Briscoe

BS, MA, EdS, The University of Alabama

Mike.briscoe@adjunct.wallacestate.edu

Tuesday/Thursday 10-12pm

Website:  www.schoolrack.com/brisc001

Departmental Syllabus:  http://www.wallacestate.edu/english/syllabi/eng-102.html

  

This syllabus is subject to change. Students should check the website each and every time a class is scheduled to make sure that class has not been canceled.  If you do not have Internet, please have someone check it for you.

Attendance:  Students are responsible for the full work of any course in which they are enrolled.  Students are responsible for attending all class meetings, being punctual, and taking all exams, quizzes, etc. Attendance is counted from the first class meeting.  To maintain financial aid eligibility, a student must meet state and/or federal guidelines as to numbers of hours successfully attempted and grade-point average, and a student must be enrolled in a certificate-seeking or degree-seeking program.

Make-up work:  According to the Wallace State Community College Catalog:  “It is the decision of the instructor whether the student will be permitted to make up the class work missed.”  NO make-up work will be given unless there is valid documentation for unavoidable absences:  mandatory participation in WSCC activities, such as athletic or performing arts events, personal illness or accident; death of immediate family member(s); mandatory court appearances; and military service.  Routine doctor or dentist visits are not excused.  Pop tests/pop essays and note cards are class work grades and cannot be made up.  Make-up tests/essays will be different from original tests, ensuring greater difficulty, and all make-up work (without exceptions) will be given on a date and at a time and place specified by the instructor.  Should the student fail to attend, there will not be a third chance, and the student will receive a zero for the assignment. 

Materials:

1.        The Norton Introduction to Literature, 9th edition. New York:  W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. ISBN: 0-393-92614-1.

2.       A reference guide on MLA documentation is required.

3.       A paperback college dictionary.

4.       Jubilee, by Margaret Walker. 

5.       Optional:  A jump drive, for saving your work in the computer lab.  NOTE:   You should always anticipate computer and/or printer problems, and do not wait until the last minute or expect to use the lab!

Grading:  Points based. 

Assignments:

A.       Note card grades.  20 points each.  Each class, students will be give a note card to reflect upon the reading assignments.

B.      Essays:  Six essays, four of which are in-class.  All must typed according to MLA standards.  A paper which is not typed according to MLA will suffer a one letter grade penalty.

C.      Other assignments as deemed appropriate by the instructor, including but not limited to, pop tests/quizzes, power point presentations, plays, etc.

Due date:                            Have completed:

May 29                                 introductions; writing sample for note card grade; review of MLA; review of grading rubric; Alabama Virtual Library Card

June 3                                   Maya Angelou “Africa”; W. H. Auden “Musee des Beaux Arts”; Elizabeth Bishop “Casabianca”; William Black “London”

June 5                                   Essay #1

June 10                                 Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool”; Emily Dickinson “A narrow fellow in the grass”; Emily Dickinson “After great pain a formal feeling comes”; Emily Dickinson “Because I could not stop for Death”

Jubilee, chapters 1-5

June 12                                 Essay #2

June 17                                 Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”; Michael S. Harper “Dear John, Dear Coltrane”; Gerard Manley Hopkins “Spring and Fall”; Li-Young Lee “Persimmons”

Jubilee, chapters 6-10

 

June 19                                 Christopher Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”; Willie Perdomo “123rd Street Rap”; Adrienne Rich “Diving into the Wreck”; Anne Sexton “the Fury of Overshoes.”

                                                Jubilee, chapters 11-19

June 24                                 William Shakespeare “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”; William Shakespeare “That time of year thou mayst in me behold”; William Shakespeare “Like as the waves”

Jubilee, chapters 20-28

June 26                                 Essay #3

July 1                                     Wallace Stevens “The Idea of Order at Key West”; Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle”; Derek Walcott “A Far Cry from Africa”; Richard Wilbur “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”

                                                Jubilee, chapters 29-40

July 3                                     No class

July 8                                     Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman, pp. 2121 – 2131

                                                Jubilee, chapters 41-45

July 10                                   Essay #4*

July 15                                   Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman, pp. 2132 – 2150

                                                Jubilee, chapters 46-51

                                                Research in library

July 17                                   Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman, pp. 2151 – 2171

                                                Jubilee, chapters 52 – end

                                                Research in library

July 22                                   Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman, pp. 2172 - end

July 24                                   Research paper due

July 29                                   Review/movie

July 31                                   Final Exam