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Paper for Short Stories

Paper for Tony Hoagland's What Narcissism Means To Me (and other poems)

Paper for The Zoo Story and The American Dream

Paper for Philip Roth's The Plot Against America

Final


Grades 1:00- 2:15 (21319)

Homework Grade 1:00- 10:50 (21319)

Total Grade 10:00- 10:50 (21319)


English 301 Advanced English Composition (Literature)

Tim Kahl (916) 714-5401 (Please no calls after 9:30 PM) alias Victor Schnickelfritz Tuesday, [In class] Thursday [online] 1:00 AM-2:15 AM
e-mail: tnklbnny@frontiernet.net or tnklbnny@mongryl.com Room: RS 326 (21319)

Required Texts:

Highly Recommended:

Course Objectives:

Attendance Policy: There are 35 days we are scheduled to meet. Please be present for all of them. Any absence will greatly affect your ability to meet the requirements of the course. Absences and/or early departures in excess of 5 class periods may result in my dropping you from the course. Attendance will be noted and taken into consideration concerning borderline grades when the final grade is given. Remember: You're paying for the time whether you come or not.

Electronic Submissions: You may choose to submit any and or all of your work via electronic submissions. You may submit:

Color Code

Workshop Days: All students must have rough drafts available on the designated due dates or sacrifice 10% of the total grade for that paper.

Revision Policy: One of the four out-of class papers may be turned in for revision. This paper must be below a 90 % to be eligible for revision.

Due Dates: All assignments are due on the dates given (unless otherwise notified).

Late assignments: Late assignments will be assessed a 10% penalty per late class session.

{Electronic submissions will be considered late if they are received after the end of the class period. Some leeway may be given for first-time offenders and for technical problems, but the discretion will be mine. [Note: most students choose to e-mail assignments the night before they are due.]}

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is pretending that someone else's ideas or writing is your own. Intentional failure to cite source material will be dealt with quickly and severely

Blog Posts: You will be expected to post to the course blog every Thursday. Blog assignments will be worth 10 pts. a piece, and they must be completed by midnight on Thursday.

Course Objectives:

Attendance Policy: There are 35 days we are scheduled to meet. Please be present for all of them. Any absence will greatly affect your ability to meet the requirements of the course. Absences and/or early departures in excess of 5 class periods may result in my dropping you from the course. Attendance will be noted and taken into consideration concerning borderline grades when the final grade is given. [Remember: You're paying for the time whether you come or not.]

Rough Draft Due Dates: All students must have rough drafts available on the designated due dates or sacrifice 10% of the total grade for that paper.

Revision Policy: One of the six out-of class papers may be turned in for revision. This paper must be below a 85 % to be eligible for revision.

Due Dates: All assignments are due on the dates given (unless otherwise notified). Late assignments will be assessed a 10% penalty per late class session. Electronic submissions will be considered late if they are received after the beginning of the class period. Some leeway may be given for first-time offenders and for technical problems, but the discretion will be mine. [Note: most students choose to e-mail assignments the night before they are due.]

Plagiarism: all papers will documented using MLA parenthetical citation. Plagiarism is pretending that someone else's ideas or writing is your own. Intentional failure to cite source material will be dealt with quickly and severely.

Help with PeopleSoft: Help is available at B153 for students having difficulty with Peoplesoft so that they can access their student records.

Grading Scale:

  87%Ð89% B+ 77%Ð79% C+ 67%Ð69% D+ Below 60% F
92%Ð100% A 83%Ð86% B 74%Ð76% C 63%Ð66% D  
90%Ð91% A- 80%Ð83% B- 70%Ð73% C- 60%Ð62% D-  

 

 

 

Criteria For Grades On Written Assignments:

A work requires a compliance with the guidelines and the stated purpose of the assignment. Content is clear and balanced. There are no tangled sentences. A varied length of sentences is present and correct sentence structure is used. The pattern of development is clear and apparent and demonstrates forethought regarding the desired effect upon the reader. The styleand tone are appropriate to the topic and audience. There may be an occasional mistake in mechanics. The topic of the paper should aim to be fresh and original and should attempt to stretch the academic horizons of the writer.
B work requires a compliance with the guidelines and the stated purpose of the assignment. Content is generally clear and balanced, but there may be some instances in which there are some confusing or awkward sentences, though these do not detract from the overall effect of the paper. A somewhat limited variety of sentences may exist, but the sentence structure is generally correct. The pattern of development is apparent, but may deviate at times. The style and tone of the paper are generally appropriate to the topic and audience. There are relatively few mistakes in mechanics. The topic may not demonstrate any original thinking or particularly or novel approach to the assignment.
C work requires a fair amount of compliance with the guidelines and the stated purpose of the assignment, but may miss the stated objectives to some degree. Content is generally clear and balanced, but there may be several points where the sentence structure becomes jumbled and confused and this interferes with the flow of the paper. A limited variety of sentences is readily apparent. The pattern of development may be vague and unclear, but there is more than a semblance of formal constraint apparent. The style and tone may be somewhat varied and inappropriate for both the topic (misnomers) and the perceived audience. The topic does not demonstrate any novel approach to the given assignment. There are a distracting number of mistakes in mechanics.
D work demonstrates a minimal amount of compliance with the guidelines and the stated purpose of the assignment. Content is unclear and unbalanced and there may be a significant amount of jumbled and confused sentences. The pattern of development is unapparent and it demonstrates a lack of forethought on the part of the writer. The style and tone of the paper are wildly varied and inappropriate for both the topic and the perceived audience. The topic does not demonstrate any novel approach to the given assignment. There are an overwhelming number of mistakes in mechanics. In general, the paper demonstrates a hurried and haphazard approach devoid of any forethought (i.e. the paper that is written the night before).
F work demonstrates a minimal amount of compliance with the guidelines and the stated purpose of the assignment. Any work deemed to be completely unsatisfactory with regard to content, pattern of development, style, tone, topic, or mechanics. A paper in this category demonstrates an absolute minimum of effort.

Scoring

Paper for Short Stories 100 Points

Paper for Tony Hoagland and other poetry [1000 words]

100 Points
Paper For The Zoo Story and The American Dream [1500 words] 150 Points
Research Paper for The Plot Against America [2000 words] 200 points
Blog Posts 170 points

 

 
Final 50 points

 

Total 770 points

 

Schedule of Events

Note: This schedule reflects work that will be discussed in class on the date given. Students should be prepared to discuss the items listed for that day.

Week 1

Tues Aug. 22 [classroom] Introductions [Class Format]
Thurs Aug. 24 [online] Blog Post #1

 

Week 2

Tues Aug. 29 [classroom]

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant

"A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka

"The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence

"A Little Cloud" by James Joyce

"A Rose For Emily" by William Faulkner

"I'm Not Your Son, I Am No One You Know" by Joyce Carol Oates

Thurs Aug. 31 [online] Blog Post #2

 

Week 3

Tues Sept. 5 [classroom]

"The Circular Ruins" by Jorge Luis Borges

"One of These Days" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"The Soft Moon" by Italo Calvino

"The New Zoo" by Rikki DuCornet

Thurs Sept. 7 [online] Blog Post #3

 

Week 4

Tues Sept. 12 [classroom]

Rough Draft of paper for short story section due; whole class critique

Thurs Sept. 14 [online] Blog Post #4

 

Week 5

Tues Sept. 19 [classroom]

Final Draft for paper for short story section due

Read Tony Hoagland's What Narcissism Means To Me part 1 (p. 5-42)

Thurs Sept. 21 [online] Blog Post #5

 

Week 6

Tues Sept. 26 [classroom]

Read Tony Hoagland's What Narcissism Means To Me part 2 (p. 45-78)

Thurs Sept. 28 [online] Blog Post #6

 

Week 7

Tues Oct. 3 [classroom]

"I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman

"Fame Is A Fickle Food" by Emily Dickinson

"Birches" by Robert Frost

"Of Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" by William Carlos Williams

"In the Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop

"A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes

"Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond" by e.e. cummings

"The Emperor of Ice Cream" by Wallace Stevens

"Dirt and Not Copper" poem #6 from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein

Thurs Oct. 5 [online] Blog Post #7

 

Week 8

Tues Oct. 10 [classroom]

"Black Stone Lying on a White Stone" by Cesar Vallejo

"Ode To Salt" by Pablo Neruda

"Duino Elegy Number 1" by Rainer Maria Rilke

"Death Fugue" by Paul Celan

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

"The Most Emily of All" by Mebdh McGuckian

"The Self-Concealing" by Mebdh McGuckian

"Outsider" by Bei Dao

"Teacher's Manual" by Bei Dao

Thurs Oct. 12 [online] Blog Post #8

 

Week 9

Tues Oct. 17 [classroom]

"What Work Is" by Philip Levine

"Facing It" by Yusef Kommunyakaa

"A Reservation Table of the Elements" by Sherman Alexie

"Diving Into The Wreck" by Adrienne Rich

"Oranges" by Gary Soto

"Thesaurus" by Billy Collins

"The Psychic Detective" by Ai

"The Animals of America" by Stephen Dunn

"Knife On a Plate" by Forrest Gander

Thurs Oct. 19 [online] Blog Post #9

 

Week 10

Tues Oct. 24 [classroom]

Rough Draft of paper for poetry/Tony Hoagland's What Narcissim Means To Me due ; whole class critique

Thurs Oct. 26 [online] Blog Post #10

 

Week 11

Tues Oct. 31 [classroom]

Final Draft for paper for short story section due

Read The Zoo Story (p. 7-49)

Thurs Nov. 2 [online] Blog Post #11

 

Week 12

Tues Nov. 7 [classroom] Read The American Dream (p. 53-127)
Thurs Nov. 9 [online] Blog Post #12

 

Week 13

Tues Nov. 14 [classroom] Rough draft of paper for The Zoo Story and The American Dream; whole class critique.
Thurs Nov. 16 [online] Blog Post #13

 

Week 14

Tues Nov. 21 [classroom]

Final draft of paper for The Zoo Story and The American Dream due

Read The Plot Against America Part 1 (p. 1-121)

Thurs Nov. 23 [online] Thanksgiving Blog Post #14

 

Week 15

Tues Nov. 28 [classroom] Read The Plot Against America Part 2 (p. 122-236)
Thurs Nov. 30 [online] Blog Post #15

 

Week 16

Tues Dec. 5 [classroom] Read The Plot Against America Part 3 (p. 237-362)
Thurs Dec. 7 [online] Blog Post #16 and Blog Post #17

 

Week 17

Tues Dec. 12 [classroom] Rough Draft due for The Plot Against America; whole class critique
Thurs Dec. 14 [online]

Final Draft of paper for The Plot Against America due

Finals Begin

 

Week 18

  Final: Tues. Dec. 19 [3:10-5:10]