Composition+2

COURSE OUTLINE Composition 201 Professor Ellen Feig Fall 2011 efeig@bergen.edu Office Hours at Paramus 201-301-1243

COURSE DESCRIPTION: English Composition II is a reading and literary comprehension course

GRADING SCALE
Please refer to the following grading scale. Note that in order to receive the higher grade, a .5 and above is necessary. For example, an 89.4 is still a B+; only an 89.5 and above is equal to a 90, A. A 90-100% B+ 85-89% B 80-84% C+ 75-79% C 70-74% <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">D 64-69%
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">F Below 60% **

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">STUDENT ASSESSMENT
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Short Essays 40% <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Final Paper 30% <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Class Participation and Attendance 30%

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Active participation is a requirement in this class. My classroom is a forum for the free exchange of ideas. Therefore, students are encouraged to challenge one another’s ideas. What’s more, you shouldn’t be afraid to disagree with me, your instructor.
 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">CONDUCT __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The principles of academic integrity encompass simple standards of honesty and truth. Each member of the College community has a responsibility to uphold the standards of the community and to take action when others violate them. Faculty members have an obligation to educate students about the standards of academic integrity and to report violations of these standards to the Office of Student Development and Campus Life. Students are responsible for knowing what the standards are and for adhering to them. Students also should bring any violations of which they are aware to the attention of their instructors. Any breach of academic integrity is a serious offense that may result in disciplinary consequences. Plagiarism is a violation of the integrity of the academic community. Representing someone else's work as one's own is a serious academic offense and may result in failure, suspension, or dismissal. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the end of the course, students are expected to have: <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Developed critical thinking skills as evidenced by the ability to form a strong thesis and to develop and to organize an introduction, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion using the various modes of development. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Developed critical reading skills through close reading, analysis, and evaluation of works of fiction. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Developed a recursive process of writing through prewriting, drafting, and revising essays as evidenced by their writing portfolios. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Developed research skills through researching, organizing, drafting, and revising a short 1500- word research essay.
 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ACADEMIC INTEGRITY STATEMENT __**
 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES __**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">:

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Developed the ability to use MLA Style of in-text parenthetical citation and a documented “Works Cited” page.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Developed the ability to properly cite print, nonprint, and electronic sources using the MLA Style of documentation and to avoid plagiarism. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Developed unity and clarity in their writing by using transitional devices throughout all their writing. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Improved their language skills by using the appropriate diction and avoiding colloquialisms, slang, euphemism, regionalism, clichés, and archaisms. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Developed the ability to analyze their papers for “Surface Errors” (fragments, comma splices, fused sentences, misplaced modifiers, misspellings, errors in agreement, mechanical errors, etc.) and make needed corrections. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Participated in a community of writers by sharing their writing and taking part in evaluative discussion and peer review. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Developed the capacity to be supportive, constructive contributors to class discussion.
 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">LEARNING OBJECTIVES: __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Students will take part in the following activities: <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Keep an online journal <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Given a choice of topic, the student will write and revise three unified, coherent, well-organized mechanically correct two- to three- page essays using the structure of introduction, body, and conclusion to analyze literary readings <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Given a choice of topic, the student will write a 1500 research essay demonstrating the proper use of MLA Style of research documentation using a minimum of two outside sources.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Text: Meyer, Michael. //The Bedford Introduction to Literature//, 9th Edition. NY: Bedford St Martin’s, 2009. **

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This **course outline** contains all of your reading, class and writing assignments. As part of your class work, you will be expected to keep preparation notes and responses in your journal for the week’s reading assignments; this is important for class discussion purposes. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There will be four 500 word papers due during the course. A 7 to 10 page research paper will focus on a specific element of literature reviewed during the course. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Review syllabus, class requirements. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “A Sorrowful Woman” by Gail Godwin <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Online journal topic: What types of things do you read?
 * __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 21.33px;">Week One __**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Writing Assignment 1 **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: Discuss how the authors portray the plight of women in society/in marriage.


 * __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Two __**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Discussion of essential elements of literature <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Discuss narrative structure/plot


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Writing Assignment 2: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How do the Southern gothic elements in the story factor in plot?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Online journal topic: Where do you come from?


 * __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Three __**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Review Writing About Literature <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Discuss character <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “Fiesta, 1980” by Junot Diaz


 * __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Four __**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Discuss setting <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Connecting Stories in Literature <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Writing Assignment 3: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What does the setting reveal about Krebs?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Online journal: If you could set your story in any location, where would it be?


 * __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Five __**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Discuss point of view in literature <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Anton Chekhov and “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Joyce Carol Oates


 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">FINAL PAPER: //Discuss which version of the story, which point of view, you// **
 * //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">like better and using quotes from the pieces show why. //**


 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Six __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Symbolism in literature <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Online journal: If you had to pick one thing/person/place that would symbolize you, what would it be and why?


 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Seven __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Discuss theme <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield


 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Eight and Nine __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Discuss style, tone and irony <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver, “How to Tell a War Story” by Tim O’Brien and “Boys” by Rick Moody

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Online journal: Does gender make a difference in storytelling?


 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Week Ten __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Discuss symbol, allegory and irony <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost, “The Haunted Palace” by Edgar Allan Poe and “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson


 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Eleven __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Poetic Forms <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “That the Night Come” by William Butler Yeats, “When I was one and twenty” by A.E. Housman, “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson


 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Writing Assignment 4: **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Using the first line from the Yeats poem, write your own metered poem. The poem must be at least ten lines, must use iambic pentameter and must use enjambment.


 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Twelve __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Reading Drama <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Online Journal: How does the view of women in this play differ from the view in The Story of an Hour?


 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Thirteen __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Elements of Drama <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read “Seinfeld” and view one episode of Seinfeld on television/Hulu.com


 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Writing Assignment 5: **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Analyze the differences between the written version and the televised version. Does the written version translate the author’s intention/humor?


 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Fourteen __**

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read Chapter 53 in the book <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">First draft of Final Paper (see above) due

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Work on and finish final paper
 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Week Fifteen __**