English 110: Critical Reasoning & Writing: Literature Fall 2011 Ms. Theresa Lavarini

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1 Lavarini 1 English 110: Critical Reasoning & Writing: Literature Fall 2011 Ms. Theresa Lavarini Prerequisites: English 100 Office & Office Hours: Humanities 131: Fridays 12:15 1:15 pm; and / or virtual office hours via . tlavarini@gwc.cccd.edu or through MyGWC. Phone: , ext Course Number, Time, & Place: Eng #54839; Hum 302 on Fridays from 9 am 12:10 pm Required texts: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (recommend the Scribner 2004 paperback ed.) Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Roberts & Roberts, 10 th ed Long Day s Journey into Night by Eugene O Neill (needed in December) Recommended text: Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide by Lois Tyson. Note: Older editions of the Literature and Critical Theory texts are both on reserve in the library and may be used for the class. Other Necessities: A good dictionary, large green or blue essay books for in-class essays, thesaurus, and a notebook Course Description: This course will develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills as they apply to the analysis of literature--short stories, poetry, plays, and a short novel--and literary criticism from diverse cultural sources and perspectives. Student Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course, passing students should be able to do the following: 1. Actively read, identify, and evaluate various literary genres (both fiction and related nonfiction). 2. Using literary terms, generate critical arguments through the synthesis of material from various sources, including researched secondary sources. 3. Construct and revise arguments that exemplify analytical control of language, that avoid formal and informal fallacies, and that exhibit no disruptive errors in English grammar, usage, and punctuation. Structure of Course: Reading quizzes will be given on a regular basis over the material BEFORE we discuss the assignments. Essays are required: some written in-class, and some written outside class, requiring research. Students will make presentations on poems chosen from a selected list. Attending a live play is required, followed by a short summary/response essay on that play. Lastly, there will be an in-class essay for the final exam. Our reading will consist of reading critically and applying argumentative theory to literature. We will read short stories, a novel, poetry, and drama. Extra credit is offered, but extra credit only applies if all essays and the presentation are completed. ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY: Excessive absences (over two) may result in the student s final grade being dropped by one full letter grade. Because this class is conducted more like a

2 Lavarini 2 writing workshop than a straight lecture class, YOU are an important part of this class! Do not cheat yourself and your classmates by depriving the class of your unique personality and insights. Be sure to attend the first three classes to hold your spot. If you do not attend or stay the entire first class and/or miss the second or third classes, you run the risk of being dropped in favor of more persistent students who wish to add the class. If you miss more than one class in a row, please do me or call me to make sure that I do not drop you. Tardies: Being late more than five minutes constitutes a tardy. Two tardies = one absence. Excessive tardies will lower your final course grade. Classroom Conduct: The classroom is for learning, so we should conduct ourselves responsibly and politely. This is not a coffeehouse or a living room in someone's home. Please follow these guidelines: Turn off all beepers, pagers, and cell phones before class begins. Make sure that those who need to get in touch with you understand that you are in class and not to be disturbed when class is in session. Text messaging / ing is usually not allowed during class, unless the professor asks you to text for specific class activities. Do NOT text during films. Water is always allowed, but other food or drink is allowed in the classroom only when we have a long film to watch in class. Have something to eat before class or ready for break outside the class, and do clean up all containers and materials and deposit in the waste bins. Do not get up and leave the room during class, unless you have an emergency. Do not chat with your neighbor when the professor or a student is addressing the class. If you have a question, please direct it to the front of the room, so we can all benefit from the ideas raised. You will have plenty of time to chat with classmates during group work. Begin packing once class is dismissed. No zipping or jangling of keys will be tolerated. No talking during quizzes. Talking during quiz times will result in a zero for the quiz. Students who disturb the class in this manner will have points deducted the opposite of extra credit Suggestion: It is a good idea to exchange addresses or phone numbers with a few of the students around you just in case you cannot reach the professor to find out what happened in a class you missed. Also, be sure to check the class home page regularly for class announcements. If I need to cancel class or change a due date for an assignment, I will post a message there. Late Papers: Students are allowed ONE late paper without offering any explanation. That paper may be docked up to 20% of the total points. I am under no obligation to accept any other later papers, but if I do accept further late work, that late work may also lose 20% of the points. Other: Bring text, paper, and pen to class every meeting. Academic Honesty: Plagiarism is a serious academic offense that can result in an F for the assignment and/or course, not to mention expulsion. Please carefully read the policy at the end of this syllabus to understand your responsibilities as a student. Needless to say, copying or buying papers will result in a zero for the assignment, and you may be dropped from this class. Also, do not have someone else write your paper, for I will notice the discrepancy between your in-class essays and outside essays and will be required to fail you.

3 Lavarini 3 Grading: Essays and papers will be graded on a point system. A scoring sheet outlining the distribution of points is handed out to enable you, the student, to keep track of your grade throughout. You may also check your grades online through MyGWC. Your grade should never be a surprise, happy or otherwise to you, for you will be well informed of the points available and the points you have earned thus far. It is YOUR responsibility to know what your grade is as we progress, so do keep track and do keep a folder with all your returned work to verify any discrepancies between the grades in MyGWC and your records. All outside papers MUST be typed to be accepted to be graded. Class 1: Go over syllabus. Go to Tutoring Center in the new LRC for an orientation. In-class writing assignment. Write me a letter and include the following information: your name, educational background in regard to English (classes you have taken, how you did, your feelings towards English classes), area of emphasis, what goals you have for yourself in this class, a hobby or interest, questions/fears/worries that you have in regard to this course, and the best way to reach you ( or cell phone) with the corresponding information ( address and phone number). Watch short film on Fitzgerald short story. Review fiction terms and Academic Honesty Policy (pages 6 9) to prepare for quiz #1. Homework for next class: Purchase the required texts and a notebook. If short on money, buy The Great Gatsby. Read The Great Gatsby, reading as far as you can by next class. Study the Fiction Terms worksheet and the Academic Honesty Policy (pages 6 9 of this syllabus); be prepared to take a quiz both. How to pass this class: --Come to class regularly and participate. --Read the assignments, take the quizzes, write your essays, and turn your work in on time. --Do not plagiarize or cheat in any way. --Get passing grades on most of your work.

4 Lavarini 4 Semester Grading Score Sheet for English 110 Grading: Essays will be graded on content, grammar, form, and revision. ALL ESSAYS AND PRESENTATIONS MUST BE COMPLETED TO PASS THIS CLASS. Total Points: 1500 (not including any extra credit assignments). Quizzes 10 quizzes, 20 pts each 200 pts. Essay 1 on the novel & critical theories 200 pts. Essay 2 on the short stories 200 pts Poetry Presentation and source list 200 pts Essay 3 on poetry 200 pts. Essay 4 summary/response on a live play 100 pts Final essay 5 linking drama to other works--300 pts. Other (attendance, participation, progress, etc.) 100 pts Extra Credit: Extra credit will apply ONLY if all essays and the final exam are completed. Extra credit cannot substitute for required assignments. Maximum extra credit allowed is 100 points. Extra credit needs to be submitted during the last two weeks of the semester in a folder or stapled together with all assignments and a tally sheet on the front. Writing Center: Eng. 020/21.18 unit 20 pts.;.25 units 40 pts;.50 units 60 pts. Submit signed slip in extra credit folder. Tutoring Center: 10 pts. for each session for English, up to 4 sessions. Submit signed slip after tutoring sessions in extra credit folder. Perfect Attendance: 50 pts (being here for the full class every class). Any Extra Quizzes beyond the ten. Other: activities approved by professor, 10 pts per activity Scoring for Grades: 1350 points or more = A points = B = C = D 899 or less = F

5 Lavarini 5 Your full name Ms. Lavarini class name date Title Centered The first paragraph begins here (indented five full spaces, which is usually ½ inch or one tab). This is the format for all of your typed work. Margins are one inch all the way around. The essay is double-spaced. You can double-space by going up to Edit in the tool bar on your computer, hitting select all. Then go over to Format and click, selecting paragraph ; then, select double. Create a header that numbers each page and has your last name, space, page number. Use MLA 2009 format for citations and the work cited page (should you need a w.c. page). Do not justify the right margin. Use Times New Roman style print, size 12. After each period, hit the space key twice. For more detailed information look in your handbook at the sample papers.

6 Lavarini 6 Golden West College enforces the following policies: Smoking is not allowed on campus, but smoking areas are designated in the parking lots. NO Skateboarding /roller skating on campus NO bicycling on campus Public Safety Contact Information: 24 Hour Phone: (714) Emergency Numbers: (714) or Dial 911 Website: Academic Honesty Policy Golden West College has the responsibility to ensure that grades assigned are indicative of the knowledge and skill level of each student. Acts of academic dishonesty make it impossible to fulfill this responsibility, and they weaken our society. Faculty, students, administrators, and classified staff share responsibility for ensuring academic honesty in our college community and will make a concerted effort to fulfill the following responsibilities. Faculty Responsibilities Faculty have a responsibility to ensure that academic honesty is maintained in their classrooms. In the absence of academic honesty, it is impossible to assign accurate grades and to ensure that honest students are not at a competitive disadvantage. Faculty members are expected to 1. Explain the meaning of academic honesty to their students. 2. Conduct their classes in a way that makes cheating, plagiarism and other dishonest conduct nearly impossible. 3. Confront students suspected of academic dishonesty and take appropriate disciplinary action in a timely manner (see Procedures for Dealing with Academic Dishonesty which follow). Student Responsibilities Students share the responsibility for maintaining academic honesty. Students are expected to 1. Refrain from acts of academic dishonesty. 2. Refuse to aid or abet any form of academic dishonesty. 3. Notify instructors and/or appropriate administrators about observed incidents of academic dishonesty. Administration Responsibilities 1. Disseminate the academic honesty policy and the philosophical principles upon which it is based to faculty, students, and staff. 2. Provide facilities, class enrollments, and/or support personnel which make it practical for faculty and students to make cheating, plagiarism and other dishonest conduct nearly impossible. 3. Support faculty and students in their efforts to maintain academic honesty.

7 Lavarini 7 Classified Staff Responsibilities 1. Support faculty, students, and administration in their efforts to make cheating, plagiarism and other dishonest conduct nearly impossible. 2. Notify instructors and/or appropriate administrators about observed incidents of academic dishonesty. EXAMPLES OF VIOLATIONS OF ACADEMIC HONESTY Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following: Cheating 1. Obtaining information from another student during an examination. 2. Communicating information to another student during an examination. 3. Knowingly allowing another student to copy one s work. 4. Offering another person s work as one s own. 5. Taking an examination for another student or having someone take an examination for oneself. 6. Sharing answers for a take-home examination unless specifically authorized by the instructor. 7. Using unauthorized material during an examination. 8. Altering a graded examination or assignment and returning it for additional credit. 9. Having another person or a company do the research and/or writing of an assigned paper or report. 10. Misreporting or altering the data in laboratory or research projects. Plagiarism Plagiarism is to present as one s own the ideas, words, or creative product of another. Credit must be given to the source for direct quotations, paraphrases, ideas, and facts which are not common knowledge. Other Dishonest Conduct Stealing or attempting to steal an examination or answer key. Stealing or attempting to change official academic records. Forging or altering grade change cards. Submitting all or part of the same work for credit in more than one course without consulting all instructors involved. Intentionally impairing the performance of other students and/or a faculty member, for example, by adulterating laboratory samples or reagents, by altering musical or athletic equipment, or by creating a distraction meant to impair performance. Forging or altering attendance records. Collusion occurs when any student knowingly or intentionally helps another student perform an act of academic dishonesty.

8 Lavarini 8 Collusion Collusion occurs when any student knowingly or intentionally helps another student perform an act of academic dishonesty. Collusion in an act of academic dishonesty will be disciplined in the same manner as the act itself. PROCEDURES FOR DEALING WITH VIOLATIONS OF ACADEMIC HONESTY Action by the Instructor 1. An instructor who has evidence that an act of academic dishonesty has occurred shall, after speaking with the student, take one or more of the following disciplinary actions: a. Issue an oral reprimand (for example, in cases where there is reasonable doubt that the student knew that the action violated the standards of academic honesty). b. Give the student an F grade, zero points, or a reduced number of points on all or part of a particular paper, project, or examination (for example, for a first time occurrence of a relatively minor nature). c. Assign an F for the course (for example, in cases where the dishonesty is more serious, premeditated, or a repeat offense). 2. For any incident of academic dishonesty which is sufficiently serious for the instructor to take disciplinary action which can lower the student s grade (for example, an F given for all or part of an assignment), the instructor shall report the incident to the Vice President of Student Services on an Academic Dishonesty Report form. NOTE: A grade of F assigned to a student for academic dishonesty is final and shall be placed on the transcript. If the student withdraws from the course, a W will not replace an F assigned for academic dishonesty. Academic disciplinary actions taken by the instructor based on alleged cheating may be appealed as specified in the College s Instructional Grievance Policy. Action by the Administration Upon receipt of the first Academic Dishonesty Report form concerning a student, the Vice President of Student Services shall send a letter of reprimand to the student which will inform the student that: He/she will be on academic disciplinary probation for the remainder of his/her career at Golden West College. Another incident of academic dishonesty reported by any instructor shall result in a one year suspension from the College. Upon receipt of a second reported incident of cheating by the student, the Vice President of Student Services shall suspend the student for one calendar year (two full semesters and one summer session). For more serious incidents of academic dishonesty the student shall be suspended from the College on the first offense for one calendar year. Offenses warranting suspension on the first offense include, but are not limited to, the following:

9 Lavarini 9 Taking an examination for another student or having someone take an examination for oneself. Altering a graded examination or assignment and returning it for additional credit. Having another person or a company do the research and/or writing of an assigned paper or report. Stealing or attempting to steal an examination or answer key. Stealing or attempting to change official academic records. Forging or altering grades. If, after a student returns from a suspension for Academic Dishonesty, the Vice President of Student Services receives yet another Academic Dishonesty Report form, he/she shall recommend to the Coast Community College District Board of Trustees that the student be expelled from the District. NOTE: Disciplinary actions taken by the Vice President of Student Services based on alleged cheating may be appealed as specified in the College s Disciplinary Grievance Policy. Portions adapted from the academic honesty policies of University of California Irvine, Cypress College, and California State University Long Beach as published in their catalogs. Website: STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT ACE s Student Handbook

10 Lavarini 10 Daily Schedule for September 2011 Friday, Sept. 2: Go over syllabus; write introductory letter and turn in. 10:15 am: Tutoring Center Orientation Watch short film of Fitzgerald short story to introduce novel s setting. Hand out and discuss fiction terms worksheet. H: Purchase and read The Great Gatsby; bring to class. Review syllabus and fiction terms worksheet. Your quiz will be on the Academic Honesty portion of the syllabus and applying the fiction terms to the novel. Friday, Sept. 9: Quiz #1 on fiction terms & syllabus. Watch film on The Great Gatsby in class. Discuss film and first page of study guide. H: Be sure to finish reading The Great Gatsby, and read The Necklace by Guy de Mauspassant pages 5 11 in Literature text quiz #2 will be on comparing the short story to the novel. Friday, Sept. 16: Quiz # 2 on The Necklace and The Great Gatsby. Discuss Gatsby film, novel, and its background, and discuss The Necklace. Discuss how to think and write about fiction; discuss characters in fiction. Watch film clip. H: Read Bierce s An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge & O Connor s First Confession. Quiz #3 on characters in short stories. Friday, Sept. 23: Quiz #3 on characters in The Great Gatsby and short stories assigned. Discuss applying Psychoanalytic Theory to short stories. Watch related film. H: Read Faulkner s Barn Burning and A Rose for Emily. Quiz #4 on short stories and psychoanalytic critical theory. Friday, Sept. 30: Quiz #4 on applying Psychoanalytic Critical Theory to Faulkner short stories. Discuss Marxist/Social Darwinism Critical Theory. H: Read The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman and A Jury of Her Peers by Glaspell. Friday, Oct. 7: Quiz #5 on content of two short stories. Discuss Feminist Critical Theory. Watch related film. H: Midterm--bring large blue book, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby Study Guide, and Lit text to class for in-class essay. No electronic devices are allowed to be used for in-class essays, although a paper dictionary may be used.