English 1302 - 0023 (81828)
Room 604
Instructor: Jo Harper
Contact information:
joharper@juno.com
713-827-1611
How your grade is calculated:
Class work, at-home exercises, participation
Various quizzes
Paper 1, July 16
Interview paper
Paper 2, July 23
Character analysis
Paper 3, July 26
Research paper
Paper 4, August 7
Case study
Paper 5, Final exam, in-class paper
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ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE ON THE DATE LISTED
WRITE THREE QUESTIONS ON EVERY READING ASSIGNMENT. THESE ARE TO BE TURNED IN.
THEY ARE A LARGE PART OF YOUR DAILY GRADE
WE WILL ALSO HAVE NUMEROUS POP QUIZZES OVER THE READING
ASSIGNMENTS
For help with grammar and punctuation please look online at this address:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
or use the Harbrace Handbook or other handbook
English 1302 is a course that involves reading, writing, and research. It is a very important
course; it teaches skills that are essential to your college career and which will help you
throughout your life. To succeed in this course, you must be consistent in doing your homework.
The reading assignments and handouts you are given should be read thoughtfully. You must
write three questions on each reading assignment you are given. These are to be turned in to
the teacher and are an important part of your daily grade. You should keep a copy of these
questions in your notebook. ALWAYS KEEP COPIES OF YOUR PAPERS ON A DISK
Attendance and Class Behavior: You are expected to attend class regularly and to be an
active participant in discussions. This means you should:
1. Be on time and stay until class is dismissed.
2. Class attendance is required. A student may be dropped from the course after five
absences.
3. If you are unavoidably late, quietly take a chair near the door. Try not to disturb the
rest of the class.
4. Be considerate and respectful of your fellow class members and your instructor.
Writing your papers:
Always put your name and phone number and email address on the upper
right-hand corner of your papers.
At-home writing assignments must be written on a word processor or a
typewriter.
Be sure that your printer has ink or that the ribbon on your typewriter is not worn
out. Papers that are too pale to be easily legible will not be accepted.
Due dates: Assignments on the syllabus are due on the date on which they are
listed. Reading assignments on this syllabus may be added or changed as I have more
insight into your needs. Changes will be made in the syllabus as the needs of the class
become apparent.
Students with disabilities:
Any student with a documented disability (e.g. physical, learning, psychiatric, vision,
hearing, etc) who needs to arrange reasonable
accommodations for the classroom and/or testing must
contact the appropriate HCC Disability Support Service
(DSS) Counselor at the beginning of each semester. Faculty
is authorized to provide only the accommodations requested
by the Disability Support Services Office.
Students who are requesting classroom and/or testing accommodations must first
contact the DSS office for assistance prior to the beginning
of each semester:
Disability Support Services Offices: Northwest: 713.718.5422
Academic Dishonesty: Plagiarism (using another’s ideas or words without giving
credit) is a very serious offence and may cause you to make
an F in the course or even more serious disciplinary action.
Students who enroll for most credit CEU classes for a third or more times will be
charged an additional $50.00 per semester credit hour and
$3.00 per contact hour.
ASSIGNMENTS:
WEEK 1
Monday, July 9
Review syllabus; conduct interviews
Tuesday, July 10
Laurie Lee, The Edge of Day, selections to be read aloud in class from a handout
Prepare for paper 1
Wednesday, July 11
Begin consideration of character analysis and a character analysis paper.
Katherine Anne Porter “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
http://people.morrisville.edu/~whitnemr/html/The%20Jilting%20of%20Granny%2
0Weatherall.htm
“There were three stout pillars ...” Stephen Vincent Benet
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/618
“Spade,” Stephen Vincent Benet, handout
Thursday, July 12
Visit Museum of Fine Arts
WEEK 2
Monday, July 16
Interview Paper Due
Eudora WA worn Path
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/41feb/wornpath.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/233/802.html “Mr. Flood’s Party,” E.A. Robinson
Tuesday, July 17
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
http://www.americanliterature.com/Jackson/SS/TheLottery.html
E.A. Robinson, “Richard Cory”
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/robinson.html
E.A. Robinson, “Ruben Bright”
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/robinson/additional.htm
Wednesday, July 18
“No Name Woman,” Maxine Hong Kingston
chake.chinatefl.com/class/No%20Name%20Woman.doc
opens as a word document
Thursday July 19
Kate Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby”
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DesiBaby.shtml
WEEK 3
Monday, July 23
In Class Paper, Character Analysis, Paper 2
Select author for Case Study
Tuesday, July 24
Anton Chekhov, “Misery”
http://members.multimania.co.uk/shortstories/chekhovmisery.html
Wednesday, July 25
Louise Erdrich, “Saint Marie”
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/stmarie.htm
Thursday, July 26
Research Paper on Visual Artist Due, Paper 3
WEEK 4
Monday, July 30
William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”
http://www.rajuabju.com/literature/barnburning.htm
Tuesday, July 31
Tobais Wolff, “Powder”
www.ccdmd.qc.ca/media/pdf/en/EEE_Powder.pdf
Wednesday, August 1
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur,” “Carrion Comfort,” “Spring and Fall,”
“My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On,” “No Worst, There is None,”
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poets/26/
Thursday, August 2
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
WEEK 5
Monday, August 6
http://www.internal.org/Robert_Frost
“Desert Places,” “Fire and Ice,” “Home Burial,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,”
“Stopping by the Woods,” “To Earthward,” “Tree at my Window”
Tuesday, August 7
Case Study Due
Wednesday, August 8
Conferences
Thursday, August 9
Final
Interview Paper
1. Interview three of your classmates. What you choose to talk about is your personal decision.
(Done in class). Be sure to exchange phone numbers and email addresses as more questions will
probably occur to you.
2. Write a 750 word paper based on the interviews. This is a descriptive paper. You are describing
the persons. Remember that descriptions of people include their personalities and bearing. Be
guided by the descriptions from The Edge of Day by Laurie Lee that we read in class.
3. Remember to have a clear thesis statement (the main idea of your paper).
4. Attempt to find a unifying idea so that you can incorporate all three persons you interview into
one paper. If you are unable to do this, you may write on the three individuals separately.
5. Never forget that while grammar and punctuation are fundamental, a writer is also obligated to
interest his reader. Find interesting things about your classmates. Your reaction to them is perfectly
appropriate to include.
6. You may need to interview several people in order to find three that suit your needs for the
paper. Tell only the truth about them. DO NOT MAKE ANYTHING UP
Research Paper on a Visual Artist
First acquaint yourself with the works of the artist you have selected. Be sure that you have
selected someone you like and find interesting. It will be to your advantage to spend time making
your choice.
The paper is to focus on the work of the artist. The artist’s time and place will influence his work,
as will events in his personal life. Those aspects of his experience that affect his work should be
mentioned. Personal experiences are interesting, but you should slant all the information toward its
importance to his art.
You must have at least three sources; one must be a book.
You must use parenthetical notes and must have a bibliography. Be very careful to use the correct
MLA format. Consult http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ or a handbook.
You should form your own opinion about the artist’s work; then look at what critics have said. In
your paper, you may report general critical opinion and may agree or disagree.
I will be glad to confer with you after class about organization and other issues you may have.
The paper should be 1,500 to 2,000 words in length.
ENGLISH 1302
CASE STUDY
This paper permits you to use both your literary analysis skills and your research skills.
Select an author we have read that you would like to explore further, or select any author in
our text book. This may be a short story author or a poet.
Read a variety of works by that author. You must read enough to be able to make general
observations about the author’s writing – subject matter, style, themes.
In your paper, locate the author in time and place. Consider influences. Make observations
about the author’s work and prove them by citing examples from the work using the
techniques you learned for our papers on characterization and literary analysis.
Having established your own points and proofs by example, look at what the critics have
said about the works. Consider whether or not you agree with them and why.
Use internal citations to credit sources. You must have a bibliography of at least three
sources, and at least one of them must be a book.
Suggested length:
2,000 words