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 7 th 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
Assigned Reading
“A & P” by John
Updike (383); “Girl”
(43)
Jan 11-15 “A Clean, Well-
Lighted Place” &
“Hills Like White
Elephants” by
Earnest
Hemingway (296)
Jan 18-22 “The
Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck;
“The Yellow
Wallpaper” by
Charlotte Perkins
Gilman (778)
Jan 25-29 “Two Kinds” by
Amy Tan; (240) “I
Stand Here
Ironing” by Tillie
Olsen (233)
Feb 1-5 “The Monkey
Garden” by Sandra
Cisneros; “A Rose for Emily” by
Class Focus
Speculative Writing
Plot Map, Point of
View (Image)
Tone, Diction,
Style, critical analysis
Symbol, Setting,
Short Stories
Character; theme, gender
Figurative language, literary terms
Assignments
SR=speculative response
SR #1
SR #2
Lit Circle #1; SR
#3 (major); read
“Why I Wrote the
Yellow
Wallpaper” p. 792
Lit Circle #2; SR
#4
Lit Circle #3;
My Monkey
Garden
Discussion Groups

William Faulkner
(403)
Feb 8-12 “A Good Man is
Hard to Find” (938)
& Mystery &
Manners by
Flannery O’Connor
Read essays on the story on the following pages:
951, 953, 956, 959
Feb 15-19 Short Story Exam
Theme; foreshadowing; irony; plot
Feb 22-26
Feb 29-Mar 4
Of Mice & Men
Of Mice & Men
Introduction to
John Steinbeck;
Study questions
Discussion/analysis
Test
Lit Circle #4; SR
#5
Lit Circle #5; SR
#6
SR #7
POETRY
Mar 7-11 T.S. Eliot, Roethke,
Collins
Responding to
Poetry;
“The Love Song of
J. Alfred
Prufrock”; “My
Papa’s Waltz”;
“An Introduction to Poetry”
SR #8
Mar 14-18 Spring Break
Mar 28-Apr 1 Steinbeck
Stevens; Pound,
W.C.W.
View
Men
Of Mice and
How to Read a
Poem;
“The Emperor of
Poetry paper is due
May 2-plan your
research wisely.

Apr 4-8
Apr 11-15 Plath, Sexton, Rich,
Mora, Cisneros;
Apr 18-22
Apr 25-29
Pound, William
Carlos Williams,
Stevens
Frost, Dickinson,
Hughes, Keats,
Arnold
Hayden, Thomas,
O’Hara, Soto,
Marvell
Ice Cream”; introduction to multi-genre research paper & poetry circles
“In a Station at the
Metro”, “This is
Just to Say”; “The
Red Wheelbarrow”
“Thirteen Ways of
Looking at a
Blackbird”
“Daddy”; “Lady
Lazarus”; “Sylvia’s
Death”, “Living in
Sin”, Sonrisas”,
Pumpkin Eater”
“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”
“Those Winter
Sundays”; “Do Not
Go Gentle into that
Good Night”;
“Why I am Not a
Painter”;
Poetry Circles #1
Poetry Circles #2
Read essays on
Plath in text: p.
348 & 358
Poetry Circles #3
Poetry Circles #4

May 2-6 Shakespeare,
Browning(s), Blake,
Wordsworth
“Oranges”; “To His
Coy Mistress”
“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
Circles for these poets and their
poetry.
Drama & Film
May 9-13 Trifles by Susan
Glaspell
May 16-20 Bright Star
May 23-27 Dead Poets’ Society
Criticism: in Lit
View film
View Film
Women Discussion
Discussion
Connect to poetry studies.
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, your monkey garden, and literary terms essay, and your research paper.