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Fall 2021 Course Syllabus
Course: ENGL-1302- Section: 2C Composition II |
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| Instructor | Jessie Doiron | ||||||||||
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| Phone | (409) 984-6337 | ||||||||||
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| COVID 19 Information | The Lamar State College Port Arthur (LSCPA) Student Code of Conduct COVID 19 Policy requires students who have been exposed to COVID 19 or diagnosed with COVID 19 to report their condition on the COVID 19 Notification Form (available via a link on the Student Code of Conduct COVID19 webpage). This information will be provided to the Dean of Student Services. In addition, this policy requires all students to wear face coverings in compliance with the criteria included in the policy. For more information please refer to the COVID 19 link on the LSCPA website. | ||||||||||
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| Description | Intensive study of and practice in the strategies and techniques for developing research-based expository and persuasive texts. Emphasis on effective and ethical rhetorical inquiry, including primary and secondary research methods; critical reading of verbal, visual, and multimedia texts; systematic evaluation, synthesis, and documentation of information sources; and critical thinking about evidence and conclusions. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 or its equivalent Note: Students whose degree plan re | ||||||||||
| Prerequisites |
Course Aims • English 1302 is the course following completion of English 1301. Students in the course read and study the literary genres: fiction, poetry, or drama. • The course intends to develop further students’ precision and perceptivity in reading and to develop the students’ abilities to express, in specifically analytical writing, more complex, critical readings than are required in English 1301. • The course also involves students in literature as a way of knowing and defining experience. |
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| Learning Outcomes |
Student Learning Outcomes • Students will compose four (4) expository essays each having a credible thesis with support. • Students will compose clear and fluent sentences. • Students will demonstrate through written discussions and completed notes a serviceable knowledge of Standard English grammar and punctuation. • Students will demonstrate through analytical essays that they can think and write critically about assigned literature. • Students will demonstrate, in their writing, competent use of MLA style. Oral or Visual Communication In standard face-to-face presentations of this course, students will present clear, salient, supported oral/visual speeches/demonstrations, and/or students will participate in class-group discussions. In its correspondence modality, these elements cannot be monitored, measured, or evaluated. Critical Thinking In their essays or presentations, students will compose and sustain arguments and discussions that are appropriate for the academic purposes and audience. Personal Responsibility Any rhetorical act is both personal and social. In written responses (preferably complete essays), presentations, discussions students show an understanding of the complexities and dynamics of personal (t and social responsibilities (one’s family, culture, country, politics, society, etc.). They also reveal consideration through appropriate integrations of audience, purpose, and persona. |
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| Core Objectives |
Core Objectives Communication Skills: Students will demonstrate effective written, oral, and visual communication. Critical Thinking Skills: Students will engage in creative an innovative thinking, inquiry, analysis, evaluation, synthesis of information, organizing concepts, and constructing solutions. Teamwork: Students will demonstrate the ability to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose of goal and consider different points of view. Social Responsibility: Students will demonstrate intercultural competency and civic knowledge by engaging effectively in local, regional, national, and global communities. Person Responsibility: Students will demonstrate the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making. Specific Objectives • Help students develop precision in reading comprehension and in expression of thought • Encourage students to develop more mature writing skills through special attention to aspects of unity and style, flexibility and precision in language, balanced structure, and appropriate blend of subject matter, style, and tone • Aid students in developing their expository skills learned in previous course work: specifically through writing practice in (a) explaining what has been discovered through a critical reading of a particular work and (b) interpreting the meaning of a work by subjecting its techniques either to explication or analysis • Introduce students to basic characteristics of particular literary genres (fiction, poetry, and drama) • Teach the appropriate critical tools for reading, analyzing and writing about the literary genres • Provide students the opportunity to master library resources effectively through the assignment of a suitable library research paper and the supervision of its completion • Assist students in further understanding and mastery of Standard Written English • Help students recognize literature as a valid means of representing and thereby defining personal experience • Inform students of MLA format and its use in the presentation of research |
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| Program Student Learning Outcomes |
N/A The course is not a "technical course." |
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| Textbooks |
Textbook Purchasing Statement: A student attending Lamar State College Port Arthur is not under any obligation to purchase a textbook from the college-affiliated bookstore. The same textbook may also be available from an independent retailer, including an online retailer.
Course Textbooks • Literature, an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. Longman Publishers, 8th ed. (0-321-08768-2). • The Little, Brown Handbook, Fowler, H. Ramsey, and Jane E. Aaron. Pearson Longman Publishers, 12th ed. (ISBN 978-0-205-21307-8). • Random House Webster’s Dictionary (ISBN 0-375-42561-8) or any other college-level dictionary. |
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| Lecture Topics Outline |
Preliminary Work Schedule Week 1 Introduction to course, books, methodology MLA Overview CORE COMMON Introduction to the Library Paper ASSIGNMENT Week 2 Introduction to Fiction CORE COMMON Research Paper: ASSIGNMENT The Art of Hemingway Week 3 Card Report Major Elements of Fiction ESSAY ONE “The Short Story” “A&P” Week 4 Plot ESSAY ONE Review Elements of Fiction REVIEW Review Fable, Parable, Tale, Short Story Week 5 Point of View ESSAY ONE “A Rose for Emily” FINISH “A Worn Path” “Sonny’s Blues” Week 6 Character ESSAY TWO START “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” “Cathedral” Week 7 Setting ESSAY TWO “The Storm” REVIEW “To Build a Fire” Week 8 Tone and Style ESSAY TWO FINISH “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” “Barn Burning” “The Gift of the Magi” Week 9 Theme ESSAY THREE START “The Open Boat” “The Parable of the Prodigal Son” “Harrison Bergeron” Week 10 Symbol ESSAY THREE REVIEW “The Swimmer” “The Lottery” Week 11 Further Reading ESSAY THREE FINISH “The Metamorphosis” TEST ONE REVIEW Week 12 Poetry TEST ONE DUE “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” “Sir Patrick Spence” ESSAY FOUR “Out, Out” START “My Last Duchess” “Piano” Week 13 Listening to a Voice ESSAY FOUR REVIEW “My Papa’s Waltz” “To a Locomotive in Winter” “I like to see it lap the Miles" “A Glass of Beer” “The Red Wheelbarrow” “The Unknown Citizen” “At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border” “Dulce et Decorum Est” Week 14 Words ESSAY FOUR FINISH “This Is Just to Say” “Grass” “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment” “anyone lived in a pretty how town” “Jabberwocky” Week 15 Saying / Suggesting / Imagery FINAL EXAM REVIEW “In a Station of the Metro” “Root Cellar” “The Fish” “Pied Beauty” FINAL EXAM Refer to Administrative Schedule TEST TWO DUE FINAL EXAM |
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| Major Assignments Schedule |
Preliminary Work Schedule Week 1 Introduction to course, books, methodology Assignment: Longman 2 – 14 MLA Overview CORE COMMON Introduction to the Library Paper ASSIGNMENT START Week 2 Introduction to Fiction CORE COMMON Assignment: Library Paper: ASSIGNMENT The Art of Hemingway FINISH Week 3 Card Report Major Elements of Fiction ESSAY ONE Assignment: Longman START “The Short Story” 15 – 16 “A&P” 16 – 22 Week 4 Plot Assignment: Longman 4 – 22 ESSAY ONE Review Elements of Fiction REVIEW Review Fable, Parable, Tale, Short Story Week 5 Point of View Assignment: Longman 25 – 29 ESSAY ONE “A Rose for Emily” 29 – 35 FINISH “A Worn Path” 52 – 58 “Sonny’s Blues” 58 – 82 Week 6 Character ESSAY TWO Assignment: Longman 77 – 79 START “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” 84 – 92 “Cathedral” 105 – 120 Week 7 Setting Assignment: Longman 120 – 123 ESSAY TWO “The Storm” 123 – 127 REVIEW “To Build a Fire” 127 – 137 Week 8 Tone and Style ESSAY TWO Assignment: Longman 163 – 167 FINISH “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” 167 – 170 “Barn Burning” 170 – 182 “The Gift of the Magi” 182 – 188 Week 9 Theme ESSAY THREE Assignment: Longman 199 – 201 START “The Open Boat” 201 – 218 “The Parable of the Prodigal Son” 230 – 231 “Harrison Bergeron” 231 – 238 Week 10 Symbol ESSAY THREE Assignment: Longman 239 – 242 REVIEW “The Swimmer” 249 – 257 “The Lottery” 262 – 274 Week 11 Further Reading ESSAY THREE Assignment: Longman 275 – 280 FINISH “The Metamorphosis” 318 – 356 TEST ONE REVIEW Week 12 Poetry Assignment: Longman 668 – 675 TEST ONE DUE “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” 675 “Sir Patrick Spence” 679 ESSAY FOUR “Out, Out” 680 START “My Last Duchess” 682 “Piano” 1107 Week 13 Listening to a Voice ESSAY FOUR Assignment: Longman 687 REVIEW “My Papa’s Waltz” 687 “To a Locomotive in Winter” 690 “I like to see it lap the Miles 690 “A Glass of Beer” 699 “The Red Wheelbarrow” 700 “The Unknown Citizen” 702 “At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border” 708 “Dulce et Decorum Est” 709 Week 14 Words ESSAY FOUR Assignment: Longman 716 FINISH “This Is Just to Say” 716 “Grass” 723 “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment” 728 “anyone lived in a pretty how town” 729 “Jabberwocky” 734 Week 15 Saying and Suggesting and Imagery FINAL EXAM Assignment: Longman 739 / 751 REVIEW “In a Station of the Metro” 751 “Root Cellar” 753 “The Fish” 754 “Pied Beauty” 757 FINAL EXAM Refer to Administrative Schedule TEST TWO DUE ALL WORK FINAL EXAM DUE FOR SCORING |
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| Final Exam Date | December 6, 2021 - 6:90 PM Through December 13, 2021 - 6:90 PM | ||||||||||
| Grading Scale |
A = 90 – 100 B = 80 – 89 C = 70 – 79 D = 60 – 69 F = 0 – 59 |
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| Determination of Final Grade |
Grading Policy • Core Common Assignment (1) 10% • Essays / Writing Assignments (4) 80% • Discussions (weekly) 5% • Homework / Notes (weekly) 5% NOTE: _______________________________________________________________ Since the goal of the course is to improve writing, expect that grading will proceed from more lenient to less lenient as the semester progresses. A = 90 – 100 B = 80 – 89 C = 70 – 79 D = 60 – 69 F = 0 – 59 |
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Make-up Work / Late Assignments According to the College, all coursework must be submitted by administrative deadlines assigned for the institution. A student must receive specific permission from me to make up missed work or turn in an assignment after its original due date. I will permit make up work and accept overdue assignments only under excused absences or in situations of extreme hardship. Requests to make up work or exceed due dates will be evaluated case by case. Approved make up work will correspond to the original assignment in grade value plus one or more of the following categories: subject matter, form, style, level of difficulty, learning focus. Dropping Class If a student wishes to drop a class, it is always the student’s obligation to complete the required procedures for dropping. It is also the student’s responsibility to drop even in the event of a lengthy absence from campus for reasons of illness or personal hardship. In such cases, it is the student’s duty to complete the drop by contacting either the FCC or LSCPA by letter to request that the drop be completed. If a student stops attending classes but does not complete the official drop procedure, he will earn a grade of “F” in the course. Plagiarism / Collusion / Cheating IMPORTANT NOTICE: Students who plagiarize, collude, or cheat on any course assignment will earn a failing grade for the course. REFER TO TSUS POLICY ON ACADEMIC DISHONESTY • Plagiarism can lead to a student’s receiving a failing grade in the course and can result in administrative action through which the student is suspended from the university. Plagiarism is the appropriation of passages, either word for word, or in substance, from the writing of someone else, and the incorporation of such passages as one’s own, in an assignment offered for credit. • Collusion could lead to a student’s receiving a failing grade on a particular assignment or for the course. Collusion refers to the student’s receiving unnecessary or unauthorized tutoring in the preparation of written work to be offered for credit. • Cheating implies dishonesty or deception of a different sort, whether in the preparation of written work offered for credit or in the taking of a test or examination Course Etiquette All students must contribute to class discussions with written opinions or comments. Students who refuse to participate in discussions will lose points from their final course grade. (See above.) The course requires active participation discussions of assigned material. A student owes it to himself and his instructor to approach discussions with enthusiastic contributions. Full participation requires a student to give ideas in a courteous and forthcoming manner. Students have homework to complete and notes to review. All students must complete homework and use their notes to support other work in the course. All graded work must be submitted as scheduled. Failure to submit graded work in a timely fashion will result in a failing grade for the assignment. Mature Content Warning This course contains strong language, adult situations, graphic depictions of human interactions. The course also requires discussions that are intended for mature audiences. Were the course a motion picture, the rating for it would be at least R (for restricted to adults 18 years or older). In no manner is it the intention of the instructor to disturb students whose sensitivities do not permit full, frank, candid, light-hearted, serious, intense, and adult discussions. Terms, words, comments, statements, ideas, concepts, and descriptions that appear in the textbooks or surface in course materials may be offensive to one or more persons in the class group at some time or another. Nothing intentionally offensive should ever be directed at any single individual, minority group, social class, ethnicity, gender, or race. Never should any single individual feel personally affronted by the language used in the books, handouts, or discussions. American conversational English has multiple levels of social acceptance. Misunderstandings of comments or words will occur that might discomfit or annoy some individuals. Should any terms, phrases, words, or comments offend a particular individual, please bring this to my attention at the earliest convenient time so that I might do what I can to alleviate the perceived injury. With the above observations in mind, remember that we live in a free and democratic society, one in which all individuals have the right to think and believe and speak what they will without fear of governmental sanctions. In America, individuals have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Let us balance these inalienable rights with the need to get along with one another in our course community so that we may all successfully achieve our course objectives. |
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| Attendance Policy |
Attendance and Participation Students taking the course in a traditional classroom environment must attend classes regularly according to their institutional schedules. Students must arrive to class meetings on time according to their institutional schedules. In its correspondence modality, these elements cannot be monitored, measured, or evaluated. Excused Absence For absences to be excused, a student must furnish appropriate information, in writing, detailing the nature of the absence and, when possible, verification of the need to be absent from class. Make-up Work / Late Assignments According to the College, all coursework must be submitted by administrative deadlines assigned for the institution. A student must receive specific permission from me to make up missed work or turn in an assignment after its original due date. I will permit make up work and accept overdue assignments only under excused absences or in situations of extreme hardship. Requests to make up work or exceed due dates will be evaluated case by case. Approved make up work will correspond to the original assignment in grade value plus one or more of the following categories: subject matter, form, style, level of difficulty, learning focus. Dropping Class If a student wishes to drop a class, it is always the student’s obligation to complete the required procedures for dropping. It is also the student’s responsibility to drop even in the event of a lengthy absence from campus for reasons of illness or personal hardship. In such cases, it is the student’s duty to complete the drop by contacting either the FCC or LSCPA by letter to request that the drop be completed. If a student stops attending classes but does not complete the official drop procedure, he will earn a grade of “F” in the course. |
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| Academic Honesty | Academic honesty is expected from all students, and dishonesty in any form will not be tolerated. Please consult the LSC-PA policies (Section IX, subsection A, in the Faculty Handbook) for consequences of academic dishonesty. | ||||||||||
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| ADA Considerations | The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the the Office for Disability Services Coordinator, Room 231, in the Madison Monroe Building. The phone number is (409) 984-6241. | ||||||||||
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| HB 2504 | This syllabus is part of LSC-PA's efforts to comply with Texas House Bill 2504. | ||||||||||
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