English 122, Section 2005

Monday/Wednesday 2-3.15

LA 116

Jessica Barksdale Inclan, Instructor

Office Hours T/TH 8-10 online, M/W 10-11, FO 240 on land.

www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com

 

I do have a phone on campus, but your best bet is to contact me via email. 

 

(For my web site, click on the DVC icon on the right side of the home page, find your class by section and you will find the syllabus and the assignment for the Writer Write Up.  A good idea is to save my web site as a favorite place on your browser so if you lose the syllabus, you will be able to get another fast)

 

Texts:   The Best Non-Required Reading 2011, Eggers

            Interpreter of Maldies, Jhumpa Lahiri

            180 More, Collins

 

Welcome to English 122.  The formal definition of what you will learn here is this:

 

The purpose of this course is to have students apply disciplined thought to language in order to comprehend and analyze college-level readings, and to compose college-level essays that are coherent, detailed, and free of serious error.

 

SLO#1. recognize how style and literary features (symbols, images, metaphors, etc.) influence meaning; recognize varieties of tone; recognize the importance of allusions.

SLO#2. demonstrate ability to use a variety of rhetorical strategies to develop a topic appropriately. They will include research appropriate to their purpose and be able to find support for their ideas in the library and other appropriate sources (personal interviews, personal experience, online resources, etc.).

SLO#3. demonstrate ability to use a variety of rhetorical strategies to develop a topic appropriately, which includes research appropriate to their purpose.

 

The aim of this class is to help you learn to read and think more critically and to help you learn to develop ideas in writing.  As you enter the class, your English should be clear in terms of basic English grammar, syntax, and diction.  What we are focusing on is level of discussion, argument, style, form, and style.  If you are not writing at the level I discussed for entry into this class, please know that this class will not be easy. 

 

You will write three papers, work on your editing skills by grading and commenting on your classmates’ essays, learn to respond with some distinction in class, go to a literary reading, come in to have a face-to-face meeting with me, and read a great deal.  If you don’t like reading, get out while you can.  If you don’t like to speak in class, I advise the same.

 

In class, you are expected to have the book we are reading in front of you, to discuss, to think, to offer up ideas.  If you do not bring your book to class, you will lose some portion of your participation points.  You are expected to give to the class in terms of discussion and attention.

 

Missing more than 4 classes will automatically lower your grade one full grade AND you will be asked to drop if you miss one more.

 

The Writer Write Up assignment (the literary reading field trip and paper) can be found on my web site—www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com for details.  I will go over this a couple of times in class, but this is self directed.  Read through the assignment carefully.

 

• If you miss four classes, I will drop you. 
• If you are unprepared or disruptive, I will ask you to leave class.
• Two tardies/early departures equal an absence.  An absence per day is 10 points.
• I accept no late work—and you cannot make up work that you are not in class to do.  You cannot make up anything.
• I do not entertain discussions about why you received the grade you earned.  Unless you think I made some kind of math mistake, please do not contact me about such.  I know that you have compelling reasons for wanting an A, but I will not be moved by them.  Do the work in the class to get the grade you want.
• If I think for one instant that your writing is not your own, I will not pass you.  I do a quick introductory writing at the beginning of class so that I can see what you write like in general.  And then I employ all the online help and on-land help I can to validate your writing.  Do not have a tutor, friend, relative, anyone write
• your work.  It will show.
• Emailing me:  Don’t’ write to me asking for homework assignments or to fill you in on what you missed in class.  Find a buddy in class for such. Do email me to alert me to absences and emergencies.
• Dropping—I don’t do this for you, though I will drop you on periodic web advisor clean ups. Just don’t count on me doing this when “you” need it to happen.  If you want to hit one of these dates, make sure to drop yourself via Web Advisor:

 

            Last Date to Add:                               02/03/12
            First Date to Drop:                              01/21/12
            Last Date to Drop with no 'W':          02/16/12
            Last Date to Drop with 'W':               04/27/12
            Last Date to Drop with Refund:       02/03/12

           

 

Electronics policy:

 

Despite the fact that we are all wired to everything, you may not use your electronic devices in class.  This refers to any MP3 player, phone, computer (unless using for writing).  You may not wear headphones during class or Bluetooth headset.

 

·         Turn your devices to silent—not vibrate.

·         Devices need to remain in your backpacks or purses or pockets

·         You may not answer your phone in class.

·         If you chose to answer a call during class time, leave and do not return until the following class.  If you are expecting an important call, alert me to that fact ahead of time.  If you leave, it counts as an early absence and will be included in my count of them (remember two early/lates equals an absence).

·         No texting in class, even during down times.

 

Grade scale:

 

Writer Write Up                                  100                                          1360-1224       A

Participation  - up to10 per day          260                                          1223-1088       B

Essays 200 x 3                                                600                                          1087-952         C

Essay Grading Sheets 3 x 100            300                                          951-816           D

Conference                                          100                                          815 below       F                     

 

Below, you will find the class and reading schedule.  The reading listed for each date is the reading you will read before class and then bring to class. 

 

January

 

23—Introduction to class/In class writing

 

25—The Best Non-Required Reading 107-112, 199-209

 

30—NR 131-154

 

February

 

1—NR 168-182

 

6—NR 337-357

 

8—NR 405-419

 

13—NR 446-462

 

15—NR 220-235

 

20—Washington Holiday

 

22— Essay/Group Work

 

27— Essay One Due.  Group Essay Grading.

 

29—TBA—Purchase and start reading Interpreter of Maladies

 

March

 

5— Conferences

 

7--Conferences

 

12—Short stories:  A Temporary Matter

 

14—When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine

 

19—Interpreter of Maladies

 

21—A Real Durwan, Sexy

 

26—Mrs. Sens, This Blessed House

 

28—The Treatment of Bibi Haldar

 

April 2-6—Spring Break

 

9—The Third and Final Continent

 

11—Essay/Group Work

 

16—Essay Two Due/Group Essay Grading—Purchase 180 More and begin reading poems. In your final essay on poetry, you will be required to read, analyze, and use one or two poems of your own choosing—aside from those assigned or discussed—in your essay.

 

18—Conferences

 

23—Conferences

 

25—180 More 3-27

 

30—180 More 28-53

Writer Write Up Due

 

May

 

2—180 More 54-79

 

7—180 More 80-120

       

14—Essay/Group Work

180 More 121-161

 

16—Essay Three Due/Group Grading

 

Final Grades Posted by May 21