James Baldwin Collected Essays
How you will be assessed:
I.
5 Wiki Discussions @ 20 points each (100 points)
Insightful comments to discussion questions, justified with evidence
Must be completed on due date, when they will be scored
II.
3 Dialectical Journals @ 25 points each (75 points)
Find a 15-25 line passage that you find striking.
Type it out and put into 2-column chart. Add line numbers.
Write 3-paragraph analysis of passage. Short opening passage should
be context (of text, within text) and thesis (no hook needed), then two
paragraphs about techniques that create that effect.
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III.
1 Seminar Performance @ (50 points)
Absent or late on a seminar day? Must record two passage
commentaries to make up points.
IV.
2 Seminar Feedbacks @ 25 points/each (50 points)
Absent or late on a feedback day? Must write essay about topic to
make up points.
V.
3 Commentary Quizzes @ 25 points/each (75 points)
VI.
Commentary Recording completed online (50 points)
VII.
Personal Vocabulary List of 25 vocabulary words (3 per essay, plus one
more) you owned this unit. (Word, Baldwin phrase found in w/ MLA
citation, definition, part of speech, your own sentence) (50 points)
VIII.
Personal essay in the style of Baldwin – 500 words (125 points)
IX.
1500-word analytic essay tracing an idea, and analyzing the techniques
used to convey this idea, of Baldwin’s throughout any 3 essays, including any
unassigned essay. (225 points)
800 points total