ENGL.1302.4048 (14217)
Spring 2016
Dr. Janet Emmons, EdD
Composition and Rhetoric II
COURSE SYLLABUS
Instructor Contact & Course Information
Semester: Spring 2016
Section: Engl 1302-4061 (15969)
Instructor: Dr. Janet Emmons, EdD
Email Address: jemmons@conroeisd.net/ Janet.Emmons@lonestar.edu
Office: 214
Phone Number(s): 936-790-1200
Office Hours: 7:05 AM to 3 PM
Course Days/Times: Check syllabus
Catalogue Description
A multi-paragraph composition course, including language study and the mechanics of writing, with
examples from selected readings. Students may be required to achieve a departmentally approved score
on a proficiency test before credit for the course may be awarded.
Credit
3 hours
Prerequisites
Placement by testing or completion of ENGL 1301
The Vocational Rehabilitation Act (1973)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
These acts protect us against discrimination. Therefore, if you require reasonable accommodations
because of a physical, mental, or learning disability, notify the instructor of this course as soon as
possible and preferably before the 7th hour of class.
Additionally, students with disabilities who believe that they need accommodations in this course are
encouraged to contact the Disability Services Office at 936-273-7239 located in Building E, Office 103H,
as soon as possible to better ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.
EEOC Statement: LSC-Montgomery is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in education and
employment. The college does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender,
religion, disability, age, veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, or ethnicity in the
administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, employment policies, scholarship and loan
programs, or other college administered programs and activities.
District Course Learning Outcomes
In completing this course, students will be able to:
1. Analyze a text by implementing rhetorical and/or literary strategies.
2. Recognize the elements of appropriate literary genres.
3. Focus a topic and formulate a critical/analytical thesis, focus, main point, or claim appropriate for an
academic audience that analyzes literature, fiction and/or non-fiction.
4. Use a variety of organizational strategies within a single paper to support a thesis, main point, or
claim.
5. Interpret texts in a variety of culture and historical contexts.
6. Demonstrate an ability to use effective research techniques to find appropriate oral and/or written
media such as books, articles, interviews, visuals, and government documents.
7. Demonstrate an ability to evaluate sources.
8. Avoid plagiarism when incorporating quotes, paraphrases, and ideas.
9. Follow standard MLA guidelines in documenting sources.
10. Synthesize and evaluate various interpretations of texts to complete extended research project.
11. Compose relatively error free papers.
Academic Integrity
The Lone Star College System upholds the core values of learning: honesty, respect, fairness, and
accountability. The system promotes the importance of personal and academic honesty. The system
embraces the belief that all learners—students, faculty, staff, and administrators—will act with integrity
and honesty and must produce their own work and give appropriate credit to the work of others.
Fabrication of sources, cheating, or unauthorized collaboration is not permitted on any work submitted
within the system.
The consequences for academic dishonesty are determined by the professor, or the professor and
academic dean, or the professor and chief student services officer and can include but are not limited to
1. Having additional class requirements imposed,
2. Receiving a grade of zero or "F" for an exam or assignment,
3. Receiving a grade of "F" for the course,
4. Being withdrawn from the course or program,
5. Being expelled from the college system.
Professors should clearly explain how the student’s actions violated the academic integrity policy, how a
grade was calculated, and the actions taken.
(Revised Spring, 2009; 2009-2010 Catalog)
Required Materials:
Schilb, John and John Clifford. Arguing About Literature. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2014. Print.
Attendance Policy:
The attendance policy for this class is required attendance, except when instructor is notified. After six
(6) absences, excluding UIL, a student may be dropped from the course. Extenuating circumstances will
be handled individually.
Make-Up Work: Assignments are due upon assigned date. Late work follows TWHS policy.
Reading Calendar Spring 2016
“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” ~E.M. Forrester
Week
The Short
Story
Jan 5-8
Jan 11-15
Assigned Reading
Class Focus
Assignments
Speculative Writing SR=speculative
response
“A & P” by John
Plot Map, Point of
Updike (383); “Girl” View
(43)
“A Clean, WellLighted Place” &
“Hills Like White
Elephants” by
Earnest
Hemingway (296)
SR #1
Tone, Diction,
SR #2
Style, Iceberg
Theory
Edward Hopper’s
Nighthawks & Van
Gogh’s Café Terrace
at Night
Jan 18-22
“The
Chrysanthemums”
by John Steinbeck;
“The Yellow
Wallpaper” by
Charlotte Perkins
Gilman (778)
Symbol, Setting
Lit Circle #1; SR
#3 (major); read
“Why I Wrote the
Yellow
Wallpaper” p. 792
Jan 25-29
“Two Kinds” by
Amy Tan; (240) “I
Stand Here
Ironing” by Tillie
Olsen (233)
Character; theme
Lit Circle #2; SR
#4
Feb 1-5
“The Monkey
Garden” by Sandra
Cisneros; “A Rose
for Emily” by
Figurative
Language
Lit Circle #3;
My Monkey
Garden
Discussion Groups
William Faulkner
(403)
Feb 8-12
“A Good Man is
Theme;
Hard to Find” (938) foreshadowing;
& Mystery &
irony
Manners by
Flannery O’Connor
Read essays on the
story on the
following pages:
951, 953, 956, 959
Lit Circle #4; SR
#5
Feb 15-19
Short Story Exam
Lit Circle #5; SR
#6
Feb 22-26
Of Mice & Men
Introduction to
John Steinbeck;
View film
Feb 29-Mar 4
Of Mice & Men
Discussion/analysis SR #7
POETRY
Mar 7-11
Mar 14-18
Mar 28-Apr 1
T.S. Eliot, Roethke, Responding to
Collins
Poetry;
“The Love Song of
J. Alfred
Prufrock”; “My
Papa’s Waltz”;
“An Introduction
to Poetry”
SR #8
Spring Break
Stevens; Pound,
W.C.W.
How to Read a
Poem;
“The Emperor of
Ice Cream”;
Poetry paper is due
May 2-plan your
research wisely.
Apr 4-8
Pound, William
Carlos Williams,
Stevens
introduction to
multi-genre
research paper &
poetry circles
“In a Station at the Poetry Circles #1
Metro”, “This is
Just to Say”; “The
Red Wheelbarrow”
“Thirteen Ways of
Looking at a
Blackbird”
Apr 11-15
Plath, Sexton, Rich, “Daddy”; “Lady
Mora, Cisneros;
Lazarus”; “Sylvia’s
Death”, “Living in
Sin”, Sonrisas”,
Pumpkin Eater”
Poetry Circles #2
Read essays on
Plath in text: p.
348 & 358
Apr 18-22
Frost, Dickinson,
Hughes, Keats,
Arnold
“The Road Less
Traveled”; “Fire &
Ice”, “Nothing
Gold Can Stay”;
“Because I Could
Not Stop for
Death-”; “I Heard
a Fly Buzz-when I
died-“ “When I
Have Fears that I
May Cease to Be”;
“Dover Beach”
Poetry Circles #3
Apr 25-29
Hayden, Thomas,
O’Hara, Soto,
Marvell
“Those Winter
Poetry Circles #4
Sundays”; “Do Not
Go Gentle into that
Good Night”;
“Why I am Not a
Painter”;
“Oranges”; “To His
Coy Mistress”
May 2-6
Shakespeare,
Browning(s), Blake,
Wordsworth
“Shall I Compare
Thee to a
Summer’s Day?”;
“How do I Love
Thee?”; “My Last
Duchess”; “The
World is too Much
With Us”;
“London”
Poetry Circles #5
Poetry Paper
due May 2
May 9-13
Trifles by Susan
Glaspell
Criticism: Women
in Lit; Dialectical
journal: symbols
SR #9
May 16-20
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
View film
Eulogy for Willy
May 23-27
Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee
Williams
View Film
SR #10; Portfolios
due
Drama & Film
All lit circle responses will be speculative writings. They must be at least one
full page in length, typed, double-spaced. Poetry circle jobs will be: Biographer,
Poet Laureate, Line Leader, Illustrator, and Literary Critic. Each student will
do each job once for all five meetings.
SR=Speculative response-one page minimum. Please refer to handout & rubric
disseminated in class.
Your Portfolio will contain ten speculative writing responses, five lit circle
responses, and your monkey garden and eulogy for Willy pieces.