ENGL 1302: COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC II
SPRING 2015
Course Information
Course Title: Composition and Rhetoric II
Course Number: ENGL 1302
Course Section: 6018
Credit Hours: 3 credits: 3 hrs. lecture
Prerequisite: ENGL 1301
Class Days and Times: periods 3 & 7
Faculty Information
Name: Kimberly Athans, M.A., M.Ed.
E-mail: Kimberly.a.athans@lonestar.edu
Blog: kathans1216.blogspot.com
kathans@conroeisd.net
Phone: 936-709-1200 X91019
Office Hours: 2:35-4:30 every day except
Friday
Room Location: 208
COURSE MATERIALS (Required):
Madden, Frank. Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing About Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay.
About Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay. Boston: Pearson, 2012 (or newer). You will also need to
purchase a copy of your own lit circle books.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A continuation of ENGL 1301 with an emphasis on critical papers, and speculative writing responses
culminating in a term paper or multi-genre paper. Readings in prose, poetry, the novel, and drama.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Students will read college level materials to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of individual and collaborative research processes.
2. Develop ideas and synthesize primary and secondary sources within focused academic arguments,
including one or more research-based essays.
3. Analyze, interpret, and evaluate a variety of texts for the ethical and logical uses of evidence.
4. Write in a style that clearly communicates meaning, builds credibility, and inspires belief or action.
5. Apply the conventions of style manuals for specific academic disciplines (e. g., APA, CMS, MLA,
etc.)
Attendance: If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to find a classmate from whom you can get notes,
handouts, and assignments, or e-mail me for missed work. You will have one day for every day missed to
make up an assignment. Please refer to the reading calendar as a guide so that you do not get behind.
Assignments:
All assignments are to be completed and submitted to the instructor on the scheduled due date. This class
follows The Woodlands High School policy on late work. You need to submit hard copies to me in class-not
electronic copies.
Class Participation:
It is EXTREMELY important that all students are prepared each day. Your active participation in class
discussions, cooperative learning opportunities, and group projects is essential. This is a college class, and it
is expected that we will all treat each other with fairness and respect.
Cell Phone Policy:
Please silence cell phones and electronic devices during class and keep them in your bag or pocket.
Additionally, do not send text messages or browse the Internet during class. If either of these items is
violated, you may be asked to not bring the device into class again.
Department/Division Contact:
Department Chair: Beverly Turner; Beverley.C.Turner@Lonestar.edu; (936) 273-7226
Dean of Instruction: Brandy Harvey; Brandy.A.Harvey@Lonestar.edu; (936) 273-7257
Grading Policy:
Final grades are determined by the following activities which have the point values listed below:
Vocabulary lessons/Quizzes
Reading/ Terms Quizzes
Reading Responses
Class Activities
Poetry/Literature Circles
Short Story Exam
Multi-genre Poetry Paper
Final Portfolio Reflection
10 pts.
15 pts.
15 pts.
10 pts.
10 pts.
100 pts.
100 pts.
50 pts.
Grading Scale:
Major
Quizzes
Daily
60%
20%
20%
Withdrawal Policy:
Withdrawal from the course after the official day of record and prior to “W” Day, (see current catalog for
this date) will result in a final grade of “W” on your transcript. Instructor approval is necessary if you
want to withdraw after official day. No credit will be awarded for a course earning a “W.” If you stop
attending class, you must withdraw at the registration office prior to “W” day. If you stop attending class
and do not officially withdraw, you will receive an “F” for the course.
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The Write Place:
Having strong writing skills helps students become successful not only in their academic lives, but also in
their professional and personal lives. The Write Place, The LSC Montgomery Writing Center, provides
tutoring and additional services to help students strengthen their writing skills. Students enrolled in any
course that requires any type of writing can get individualized help at the Writing Center. Any student who
attends the Writing Center at least one time during the course of the semester for help on a major essay will
receive 15 points extra credit. Proof of attendance must be provided and students must attach the Writing
Center form and 1302 Writing Center form (attached here) to the essay for credit.
Library:
For library hours and contact information, please visit mclr@lonestar.edu Phone: 936.273.7390
Monday-Thursday 7:30-9:30
Friday 7:30-7:30; Saturday 9:00-4:00; Sunday 1:00-6:00
Activate Your Card: 936-273-7387
Get Research Help: 936-273-7390
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.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Having additional class requirements imposed,
Receiving a grade of zero or “F” for an exam or assignment,
Receiving a grade of “F” for the course,
Being withdrawn from the course or program,
Being expelled from the college system.
Student Behavior Expectations
Students are expected to conduct themselves appropriately while on college property or in an online
environment. Students may receive disciplinary action up to and including suspension, if they violate
System or College rules, disrupt classes, or interfere with the opportunity of others to obtain an education.
Students who pose a threat to the safety of others will be subject to immediate withdrawal from the
classroom, campus environment, and/or online environment, as well as face subsequent criminal charges, as
appropriate. Please refer to the Student Code of Conduct located online at
http://www.lonestar.edu/student-responsibilities.htm for additional information.
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LSC Montgomery Writing Center Form
Student Name
Date & Time of
session
Tutor Name
Essay Assignment
Course
Please write a brief description (a paragraph will do) of what you worked on in the session below, and
attach this form to your final draft:
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Tentative Reading Calendar Spring 2015
“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” ~E.M. Forrester
Week
The Short Story
Jan 5-9
Jan 12-16
Assigned Reading
*in our text book
Assignment/Lens
Speculative Writing
*“A & P” by John
Updike
“A Clean, Well-Lighted
Place” &
Plot Map, Point of
View; SR #1
Tone, Diction, Style,
Iceberg Theory
Edward Hopper’s
Nighthawks & Van
Gogh’s Café Terrace at
Night; SR #2
*“Hills Like White
Elephants” by Earnest
Hemingway
Lit Circles
SR=Speculative
response
Select Books
Lit Circle #1
Jan 19-23
“The
Chrysanthemums” by
John Steinbeck;
“Miss. Brill” by
Katherine Mansfield
Symbol, Setting;
SR #3
Lit Circle #2
Jan 26-30
*“Two Kinds” by Amy
Tan
“I Stand Here Ironing”
by Tillie Olsen
Character; Compare &
Contrast; SR #4
Lit Circle #3
Feb 2-6
“The Monkey Garden”
& *“Eleven” by Sandra
Cisneros
Figurative Language;
My Monkey Garden
Read Around Groups
Lit Circle #4
Feb 9-13
*“A Good Man is Hard
to Find” & Mystery &
Manners by Flannery
O’Connor
Theme; SR #5
Lit Circle #5
Feb 16-20
*“Where Are You
Going, Where Have
You Been?” by Joyce
Carol Oates
Motif; SR #6
Select Books; Found
Poems
Feb 23-27
Short Story Exam
Appendix A
pp. 1273-1280
Select a story and
analyze it under a
critical lens
Lit Circle #1
Jane Eyre
Criticism: Madwoman
Lit Circle #2;
Mar 2-6
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Mar 9-13
Jane Eyre
Mar 16-20
Spring Break
Poetry
Mar 23-27
Mar 30-Apr 3
Apr 6-10
Apr 13-17
Apr 20-24
Apr 27-May 1
April is National
Poetry Month!
T.S. Eliot, Roethke
W.C.W.; Pound,
Stevens; Coleridge
Plath, Sexton, Rich,
Mora, Cisneros
Frost, Dickinson,
Hughes, Keats, Arnold
Hayden, Thomas,
O’Hara, Soto, Marvell
Shakespeare,
Browning(s), Blake,
Wordsworth
in the Attic & Women
in Lit; Victorian Era
view film
Gothic elements;
allusions, SR #7
Lit Circle #3;
view film
*a separate calendar
will be disseminated
for poetry circles
Responding to Poetry;
SR #8
SR #9
Poetry Circles #1;
Research
Poetry Circles #2;
Research
Poetry Circles #3;
Research
Poetry Circles #4
Writer’s Workshop:
Rough Drafts
Drama & Film
May 4-8
Trifles
May 11-15
Death of a Salesman
May 18-22
Rear Window
May 25-29
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Criticism: Women in
Lit; SR #10;
Sidewalk Chalk Poems
Poetry Paper
due May 4;
Final Exam: Portfolio
Reflection & Author
Share
View film;
Six Word Memoirs
View film
Senior Letters
View film;
GRADUATE!
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Lit Circles #4
Lit Circle #5
Black Out Poems
LIBRARY
Athans
English 1302
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought
and the thought has found words.”
~ William Butler Yeats
Poetry Reading Calendar
Date
Mar 23-27
Mar 30-Apr 3
April 6-10
April 13-17
Poem
“The Love Song
of J. Alfred
Prufrock”; “My
Papa’s Waltz”;
“An Introduction
to Poetry”
“This is Just to
Say”; “The Red
Wheelbarrow”;
“In a Station at
the Metro”;
“Thirteen Ways
of Looking at a
Blackbird”; “The
Emperor of Ice
Cream”; “Dream
Deferred”
“Daddy”; “Lady
Lazarus”;
“Cindarella”,
“Living in Sin”;
“Sonrisas”,
“Pumpkin Eater”
“The Road Less
Traveled”; “Fire
& Ice”, “Nothing
Poet
T.S. Eliot,
Roethke, Collins
Job/Activity
How to
deconstruct a
poem; dual
meanings
W.C.W.; Pound,
Stevens; Hughes
Read Mark Doty
on Pound
poets.org;
Silent
Conversation
Plath, Sexton,
Rich, Mora,
Cisneros
Read Ted Hughes
excerpt of “Rag
Rug”; LIBRARY
PC #1; PT Quiz #1
Frost, Dickinson,
Yeats, Keats,
Arnold
PC #2; PT Quiz #2
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April 20-24
April 27-May 1
May 4-8
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”;
“When You are
Old”; “Dover
Beach”
“Those Winter
Sundays”; “Do
Not Go Gentle
into That Good
Night”; “Why I
Am Not a
Painter”;
“Oranges”; “To
His Coy Mistress”
“Shall I Compare
Thee to a
Summer’s Day?”;
“How do I Love
Thee?”; “My Last
Duchess”;
“London”; “The
World is Too
Much With Us”;
“The Rhyme of
the Ancient
Mariner”
*MULTIGENRE
POETRY
PAPER DUE;
ENGL 1302
FINAL EXAM
Hayden, Thomas,
O’Hara, Soto,
Marvell
PC #3; PT Quiz #3
Shakespeare,
Browning(s),
Blake,
Wordsworth,
Coleridge
Sonnet
Paraphrase;
PC #4
Author Share
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Athans
English 1302
Portfolio List of Works
Assignment
“A & P” Response
“A Clean, Well-Lighted
Place” Response
“Hills Like White
Elephants” Response
“The Chrysanthemums”
Response
“Ms. Brill” Response
“Two Kinds”/”Ironing”
Response
My Monkey Garden
“A Good Man is Hard to
Find” Response
“Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been?”
Response
Short Story Exam
(midterm)
Lit Circle Reflection:
Critical Lens
Jane Eyre Response
Eliot Response
Stevens Response
Black Out Poem: Lit
Circles
Poetry Research Paper
Trifles Response
Six Word Memoir
Senior Letter
Final Portfolio
Reflection (Final Exam)
Title
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Date