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ENGL 133-15 Assignments
Posted by: Prof. O'Brien

Date: Mon 01/13/2003 07:45 PM

Assignment: syllabus

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE

Springfield, Massachusetts

School of Arts and Sciences

SYLLABUS

ENGL 133 - English Composition II: Introduction to Literature

Spring, 2003

Instructor:    Lawrence O’Brien       Office Hours:  MWF 12:00 - 12:45

Office: H114 A

Phone:  2262    E-mail: lobrien0@wnec.edu

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

English 133 introduces students to the analytical reading of three

major literary genres: fiction, poetry, and drama.  The course will

help students to recognize the writer’s central ideas, structure, and

style and to explicate and analyze literature in critical essays.

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

Perrine’s Literature, Structure,Sound, and Sense, eighth edition

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS:  Two 3.5-inch high density disks, formatted

for IBM compatible computers.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:  After taking the course, students should have read

analytically in three main literary genres - short story,  poetry, and

drama - and learned to recognize the writer’s ideas, structure, and

style; they should have learned the techniques of writing critical

literary essays; and they should have written one critical paper

requiring evaluation of sources, synthesis, and documentation.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1.  Exams, tests, quizzes - There will be a mid-term and a final based

on readings in the course.

     Quizzes may be given if student-led discussions are not up to

par.

2.  Attendance: Students are expected to attend each class.  Students

are allowed up to three absences.

     Five points are deducted from the student’s grade for each

additional absence.

3.  Participation: Students are expected to participate in class

discussions on the readings.  Students will

     lead group discussions, give dramatic readings, and act out

scenes from plays.  Students will be

     expected to work cooperatively in small groups to present

classroom discussions.  These student

     discussion groups will need to meet outside of class or through

Manhattan to prepare their

     presentations.

4. Manhattan will be used extensively in class for quiz announcements,

extra help, late papers,

    group work, notices from the instructor, posting of exemplary

sample essays, email, etc.

METHOD OF INSTRUCTION:  Classroom time is devoted to student-led

discussions of the readings with the instructor’s input.  Periodic

lectures will be given but will be kept to a minimum.

GRADING:

1.  Student presentations and quizzes will be graded on a 40 point

scale.  Critical essays will be graded on

     an 80 point scale - 40 points for content and 40 points for

style. The mid-term and final will be

     graded on a 100 point scale.  The final exam will count for 20%

of the semester grade.

2.  The following 100 point scale will be used for the midterm, final,

and final semester grade: A=93-99,

     A- = 90-92, B=83-89, B- = 80-82, C=73-79, D=63-69, D-=60-62, F =

below 60.

Other Policies:

Due Dates and Late Penalties:  All work must be submitted on or prior

to the date it is due.  Late work will be penalized five points per

day that it is late.

Exams: Makeup exams will be at the convenience of the instructor.

Integrity of Scholarship from the College catalog:

“Honesty in all academic work is expected of every students.  This

means giving one’s own answers in all class work, quizzes, and

examination without help from any sources not approved by the

instructor.  Written material is to be the student’s original

composition.  Appropriate credit must be given for outside sources

from which ideas, language, or quotations are derived.”

Changes in Syllabus and Assignment Sheet:

The syllabus and assignment sheet may be modified as deemed

appropriate.  All changes will be announced in class or on Manhattan.

Students Who Are Requesting Academic Accommodations because of a

Disability:

Students with a disability who are requesting academic accommodations

should contact the SDS office in Deliso GO5, or call 782-1257 for an

appointment.

Students Who are Unable, Because of Religious Beliefs, to Attend Class

or Participate in Examination, Study, or Work Requirement on a

Particular Day:

These students will be excused from any such examination, study, or

work requirement and will be provided with an opportunity to make up

such examination, study, or work requirements which they may have

missed because of such absence on any particular day; provided,

however, that such makeup examination or work shall not create an

unreasonable burden on the school.

Faculty Evaluations will be done at the end of the semester.

Assignments and Material Covered

January 13 - Presentation of Syllabus. Class assignments.

Introduction to Writing About Literature.

January 15 - Nelson- Denny test - Writing Lab.

January 17 - Intro. chapters II-IV.  Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life

of Francis Macomber.” First paper assignment.

January 22 - Munro, “How I Met My Husband.”  Lahiri, “Interpreter of

Maladies.”

January 24 - Walker, “Everyday Use.”  Wolff, “Hunters in the Snow.”

January 27 - Joyce, “Eveline.”  Welty, “A Worn Path.”

January 29 - Fiction explication paper due.  Writing Lab.

January 31 - Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.”  Faulkner, “A

Rose for Emily.”

February 3 - O’Connor, “The Drunkard.”  Moore, “You’re Ugly, Too.”

February 5 - Wharton, “Roman Fever.”  Fitzgerald, “A New Leaf.”

February 7 - Chekhov, “Gooseberries” and “The Lady with the Dog .”

February 10 - Chekhov, “The Darling.”

February  12 - Library Unit. Writing Lab.

February 14 - Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and

“Late Encounter with the Enemy.”

February 17 - O’Connor, “Greanleaf.”

February 19 - Fiction analysis paper due. Writing Lab.

February 21 - Midterm Exam

February 24 - Oates, “Heat” and “Lady with the Pet Dog.”

February 26 - Oates, “Life After High School.”

February 28 - Introduction to Poetry - Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est.”

Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow.”  Pound, “Station at the Metro.”

MacLeish, “Ars Poetica.”

March 3 - Dickinson, “There’s Been a Death..”  Plath, “The Mirror.”

Robinson, “Eros Turannos.”

March 5 - Fiction Comparison/ Contrast paper due.  Writing Lab.

March 7 -.  Hopkins, “Spring.” Dickinson, “I felt a funeral...”

Heaney, “The Forge.”  Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays.”

March 17 - Frost, “Desert Places.”  Dickinson, “It sifts...”  Plath,

“Metaphors.”  Donne, “Valediction, Forbidding Mourning.”

March 19 - First poetry explication paper due.  Writing Lab.

March 21 - Reed, “Naming of Parts.”  Piercy, “Barbie Doll.” Browning,

“My Last Duchess.”

March 24 - Frost, “Out, Out -”  Cummings, “In Just Spring.”  Yeats,

“Leda and the Swan.”  Milton, “On His Blindness.”

March 26 - Frost, “Stopping by Woods...”  Bryant, “To a Waterfowl.”

Frost, “Design.”  Hopkins, “No worst, there is none.”

March 28 - Eberhart, “For a Lamb.”  Dickinson, “Apparently with no

surprise...”  Donne, “The Flea.”  Arnold, “Dover Beach.”

April 2 - Auden, “That night...”  Roethke, “The Waking.”  Hopkins,

“God’s Grandeur,”  Stafford, “Traveling through the dark.”

April 4 - Houseman, “Eight O’Clock.”  Hopkins, “Heaven-Haven.”

Kinnel, “Blackberry Eating.”  Williams, “The Dance.”

April 7 - Shakespeare, “That time of year.” Thomas, “Do Not Go

Gentle...”   Donne, “Death, be not proud.”  Frost, “Acquainted with

the Night.”

April 9 - Second poetry explication/analysis paper due.  Writing Lab.

April 11 -  Introduction to Drama.  Albee’s, “The Sandbox.”

April 14 - Ibsen, A Doll House.

April 16 - Ibsen, A Doll House.

April 18 - Ibsen, A Doll House / Shakespeare, Othello

April 23 - Shakespeare, Othello

April 25 - Shakespeare, Othello

April 28 - Shakespeare, Othello

April 30 - Drama paper using sources due.  Writing Lab.

May 2 - Last da