Marni L. Magda
English 101
Information and Requirements
Office: SS 200 F
Office Hours:
Office Phone: 432-5594
Textbooks:
Literature by Kennedy
Writing Essays About Literature by Griffith
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Attendance and participation in group discussions is mandatory
and will affect your grade. Readings must be completed before
the date listed except the first meeting of class.
A point system will be used to determine your grade.
B=80%; C=70%
A=90%;
300 points for a Short Story Journal
The first half is due the fourth week of class. The second
half is due the eighth week of class. This journal will
include approximately three pages of your reactions
supported by quotes from the story for each of the twenty
short stories we read.
200 points for a Drama Journal
Due on the date of the final, this journal will use the same
format as above except the entries will be approximately six
to ten pages with quotes for support.
200 points for notes on the Griffith textbook
These notes may be in outline, mapping, or summarizing
format. However, they must show understanding of a concept,
not just listing. The required chapters will include:
. Due
date:
This textbook must be read
and comprehended in order to write essays that reflect the
critical thinking of induction, argumentation, and proof
necessary for English 101 essays. The correct form of these
essays is also addressed. The entire text must be completed
before the first essay is due or you are defeating yourself
as a writer.
100 points for 20 quotes collected and presented in class on:
. The subject will be a theme found in the 1950
version of the film Cyrano De Bergerac as the subject or the
1992 French version of the same film.
100 points for each of four formal typed essays of 750 to 1500
words. All of the essays will be written on a discovered
theme in the piece of literature. The essays will use
quotes from the text as proof of the discovered theme. The
first essay will be guaranteed 100 points for completing it.
The first two essays will be discovering theme in the short
stories we read.
One essay will analyze a theme from Atwood's novel Cat's
Eye. This novel should be read well in advance of the
paper's due date. It must be thoroughly annotated for
complex themes. Lists should be made with page references
to potential themes, and quotes that "pop out" as you read
should be highlighted.
The final essay will be chosen from one of the dramas we
view in class for its themes. Your journals will be an
exploration of the tragic fallacies in the thinking of the
main characters.
All four of the essays will demand inductive inquiry for
discovery of a thesis embedded in literature. They will
demand analytical thinking to formulate a thesis which will
be a logical argument. And finally they will demand a clear
proof system that functions like a waltz -1,2,3...1,2,3...1,2,3. Statement, proof, explanation.
300 points for the final exam which will be short answer and
short essay based upon all of the readings assigned. Its purpose
is to give credit to those students who completed all of the
readings thoughtfully.
Week 1
Paz "The Blue Bouquet" Handout; Setting; Chopin "The
Storm"; Chopin "The Story of Hour"; Plot; Updike "A and
P.” Griffith -- A detailed summary of the information
of the textbook is due for all chapters except
Analyzing Poetry, Taking Essay Exams, and Example
Essays.
Week 2
Point of View; Poe "A Tell-Tale Heart"; Tone and Style;
Hemingway "A Clean-Well Lighted Place"; Sample student
essays; Critical thinking in the gray areas; journals
that work. Graham Wallis’s Creative Process Model:
Preparation; Incubation; Illumination; Verification.
Week 3
Cyrano De Bergerac dialoging with literary films – 20
quotes from film as proof of theme due; Theme; Walker
"Everyday Use"; Character; Irony; Joyce "Araby”; Stream
of Consciousness. Begin novel Cat's Eye reading and
underscoring quotes 50 pages per week.
Week 4
Rough Draft of first short story essay on theme due for
Peer Critique 25 points; Porter "The Jilting of Granny
Weatherall"; Cather "Paul's Case.” Final draft of essay
due.
Week 5
Faulkner "A Rose For Emily”; Atwood "Sin Eater"
Handout; First ten short stories journals due for 150
points. “The Art of the Essay” video.
Week 6
Jackson "The Lottery”; Steinbeck "Chrysanthemums”; The
waltz of an essay.
Week 7
Lessing "A Woman On A Roof"; Woolf "A Haunted House"
Handout; Rough Draft 2nd Short Story Essay due.
Week 8
Final draft of 2nd essay on short stories due; Olsen "I
Stand Here Ironing"; Chekhov "The Lady with the Pet
Dog.”
Week 9
London "To Build A Fire"; Oates "Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been?” Second Half of Short Story
Journals due for 150 points; Albee, The Sandbox;
Miller Death of a Salesman;
Week 10
Quiz and class discussion of Cat's Eye with 30 quotes
from novel due; Death of A Salesman continued. Rough
draft of Cat’s Eye due.
Week 11
Williams The Glass Menagerie; Final draft of Cats'Eye
due.
Week 12
The Glass Menagerie continued.
Week 13
Ebsen A Doll's House 1258;
due.
Week 14
A Doll's House continued. Final drama essay due. **Last
week for any late assignments or rewrites.
Week 15
Final draft of Drama Essay ; Drama journals due
Week 16
Final Exam and Course critique.
Rough draft of drama essay