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Office Hours:
TR 12:30and
EH 102: Freshman Composition
EH 102-04 TR 9:35-10:55
Fall 2004
Course Catalog Description: Critical reading of literature,
essay writing, and research. Prerequisite: EH101. Grading
system: A, B, C, NC (No Credit).
Required Texts: Textbooks are available in the UAH
bookstore.
Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Ed. Laurie G.
Kirzner & Stephen G. Mandell. 5th
ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2004.
Hacker, Diana. A Writer’s Reference. 5th ed. Boston:
Bedford, 2003.
Course Requirements and Grading Percentages:
*6 graded essays, ranging from 2-10 pages in length,
with drafts and commentary
*Class Participation/Homework
*Final Exam
*Tests
80%
10%
5%
5%
Policies:
ATTENDANCE: Come to class. Every session. If you miss often,
you won't improve as a writer, and certainly you won't have
participated in activities upon which your participation
grade is based. Your essay grades depend upon you providing
evidence that your group has worked with you on your essays,
so missing workshop days is particularly damaging. If you
miss more than 20% (roughly 5) of the class sessions, I
won't be able to pass you for the course. There are NO
EXCUSED ABSENCES. Tardiness and early departures can also
be unproductive, so students should try to be in class for
the duration. Every 3rd tardy or early departure will count
as an absence. If a student is having scheduling conflicts
that will mean repeated tardiness or absences, he/she may
wish to consider withdrawing from the course. Contact me if
you will to miss a class--your presence is important,
particularly to members of your group, and we need to know
whether you'll be in class or not. NOTE: Failure to attend
does not constitute withdrawal from a class.
LATE WORK: In fairness to everyone, papers are due at the beginning of
class on the date assigned. Late work loses 1 letter grade per day (per
24 hours); it isn't reasonable for the same standards to be applied to
papers on which you've taken more time than the rest of the group has
had. (It's also to be fair to me; I schedule my time to give your papers
my complete attention, and I may not be able to give it that attention
if your paper comes in at an unexpected time.) Barring emergencies,
papers not on my desk at the beginning of the class session will count
as late (so don't come late or miss class and still expect the paper to
count as on time).
CONFERENCES: Feel free to visit me any time during my office
hours, particularly if you're having trouble with a specific
paper. I will schedule appointments for writing conferences
at times other than my office hours, and I strongly
encourage you to come in to discuss your writing--to go over
drafts of any essay or my comments on previously graded
essays if you have questions or concerns. I particularly
encourage you to come in either to discuss your performance
on the first essay or to look toward the second or both. I
will leave it up to you to decide when this would be most
productive, but schedule an appointment or bring an essay to
my office hours. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHEDULING
CONFERENCES!!! You will find your grade penalized if you do
not do so, but I will not repeatedly remind you about this
component of your grade.
At least one conference is
required this semester to discuss a proposal for your
Research Project (i.e., the longer documented essay).
Failure to attend a scheduled conference will constitute a
class absence.
WITHDRAWAL POLICY: Students who choose to withdraw from the
course may do so, but they are solely responsible for
handling any appropriate paper work.
Students who do not
follow procedures properly often remain on class rosters and
receive No Credit grades for the course.
The last day to
withdraw with a refund for Fall Semester is September 13;
without a refund the withdrawal date is November 10th.
PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION POLICIES: Due to departmental
policy, I must maintain a file of all your essays. To this
end, give me your first essay in a 9” x 11” manila type file
folder (no other type of folder will be accepted) with your
name and EH102 Fall 2004 printed on the sidetab. At the end
of the term, all papers and the file will become the
property
of
the
English
Department.
Follow
all
recommendations on manuscript form and preparation in
Section M4 of A Writer’s Reference. All papers should be
submitted stapled.
ACADEMIC HONESTY: Plagiarism, whether intentional or not, is
considered a serious offense.
All work submitted by
students should be original to those students. If students
choose to use outside source material in the creation of
their papers, they will need to provide the appropriate
documentation.
All summaries, paraphrases, and quotations
should be documented according to MLA guidelines. Students
should refer to their A Writer’s Reference books for
appropriate documentation procedures or ask me.
Students
caught plagiarizing are subject to one or more of the
following sanctions: they may fail the paper, fail the
course, and/or be reported to the Judicial Affairs
Committee. I will be checking papers for plagiarism by all
means available, including the Internet. Your written
assignments and examinations must be your own work. Academic
misconduct will not be tolerated. To ensure that you are
aware of what is considered academic misconduct, you should
review carefully the definition and examples provided in
Article III, Code of Student Conduct, Student Handbook, p.
93. If you have any question in this regard, please contact
me right away.
USE OF PRIOR WORK: You may not submit in fulfillment of
requirements in this course any work submitted, presented,
or used by you in any other course.
COPYRIGHT: Copyright Chantell Marsh 2004.
The following
statements provided by the UAH legal department outline the
terms of this copyright. “All federal and state copyrights
in my lectures and course materials are reserved by me.
[Students] are authorized to take notes in class for
[their] own personal use and for no other purpose. [They]
are not authorized to record my lectures or to make any
commercial use of them or to provide them to anyone else
other than students currently enrolled in this course
without my prior written permission. In addition to legal
sanctions for violations of copyright law, students found
in violation of the prohibitions may be subject to
University disciplinary action under the Code of Student
Conduct.”
THE WRITING CENTER:
UAH has an excellent writing center
designed to assist students with questions and concerns
regarding any writing project.
Consultants work with
students to help them work through any difficulties they may
be having with the writing process. If you choose to visit
the Writing Center, please be sure to make an appointment
for your 30-minute consultations. You may make appointments
in person at the Writing Center in Morton Hall Room 228 or
call 824-2363 to make an appointment. You may also consult
the Writing Center’s website, <http://www.uah.edu/writing>.
CLASS PROCEDURE: Each of you needs to come to class prepared
to engage the material intellectually. This means coming in
with questions, ideas, and concerns that we can address in
class. This also means exercising basic courtesy toward me
and toward the class. Be in class, on time, every session.
Schedule other appointments during non-class hours. Let me
know at the beginning of class if you will have to leave
during a class. Turn off beepers and cell phones for the
duration of the class session. I hold you responsible for
disruptions in class. Restrict non-class related
conversations to breaks and other non-class times. Do not
eat crunchy foods or crunch ice in class.
All students in the class must treat others with
civility and respect and conduct themselves during class
sessions in a way that does not unreasonably interfere with
the opportunity of other students to learn. Failure to
comply with this requirement may result in points being
deducted from a student’s final numerical average, up to a
maximum of 15 points.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
This schedule does not list all assignments, and it is
subject to change.
Assignments are due on the date listed.
8/31 Introduction to course
9/2
Read pp 1-15; 2199-2220
9/7
“Dulce et Decorum Est”(961); “Delight
(848); “Once Upon a Time”(90-94).
Trifles (134-52); “Everyday Use” (354)
in
Disorder”
9/9
“To Lucasta Going to the Wars” (942); “God’s Grandeur”
(1201); “The Windhover” (1202). Continue discussion.
9/14 Assign Essay 1. Essay-writing reminders. Reading and
Writing about Literature (15-43); Reading and Writing
about Fiction (57-81); Understanding Poetry (767-775);
Reading
about
Writing
about
Poetry
(801-822);
Understanding Drama (1289-1316); Reading and Writing
about Drama (1316-1336).
9/16 Discuss Research Project/Group Project; “Good Country
People” (714); “My Papa’s
Waltz” (778)
9/21 Essay 1 Due; Continue Research Project/Group Project
Discussion; “Theme”(381-386,
1766-1771); “Stop All the Clocks…” (787)
9/23 “The Cask of Amontillado”(244); “Ozymandias”(849);
“Suicide Note”(831); “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
(936); “Young Goodman Brown” (335)
9/28 “My Last Duchess”(828); “Porphyria’s Lover”(847);
“Living In Sin”(872); The Stronger (1306); Beauty
(1310); Assign Essay 2
9/30 Research Paper Discussion; “The Yellow Wall-Paper”(45063);
“Mirror”(1227);
“A
Woman
Mourned
by
Daughters”(775); The Brute (1469-80); “The Faithful
Wife”(882);
10/5 Class
Workshop
for
Essay
2;
“Those
Sundays”(780);
“Dover Beach”(1153); “Plot”
1336-1340); “A Worn Path” (422)
Winter
(82-85,
10/12
Essay 2 Due; “Uphill”(1019); “A Valediction
Forbidding Mourning”(925); “Leda and the Swan”(1029);
“The Second Coming”(1255); Assign Essay 3
10/14
“Big Black Good Man”(233); “The White City”(982);
“Negro”(827); “Setting” (171-175); “Imagery” (897)
10/19
Test 1; “Seventeen Syllables”(411); “Point of
View”(222-231); “Symbol” (330-335, 1012-1018); “Voice”
(822, 837, 847); “Sound” (948, 949, 951, 958, 961)
10/21
Essay 3 Due; True West (1354); “First Fight. Then
Fiddle”(985); “Style, Tone & Language” (276-281);
Assign Essay 4
10/26
The Meal”(902); “Rites of Passage”(1219); “Sadie
and Maud”(950); “Baca Grande”(878); “Character” (121123)
10/28
The Cuban Swimmer (1644); “Cinderella”(853);
“Araby”(283); Life is a Nice Place”(996)
11/2 “A
Very
Old
Man
With
Enormous
Wings…”(614);
“Eveline”(652); “My Son, My Executioner”(940); “Because
I Could Not Stop for Death”(1051)
11/4 Workshop Day (Research Paper/Essay 4)
11/9 Essay 4 Due; Understanding Drama (1289-1316); Reading
and
Writing
about
Drama
(11316-1336)
(just
a
reminder!!); Test 2; “Character” (1457-1466); “Staging”
(1638-1642); Research Paper Workshop
11/11
The Glass Menagerie (1909)
11/16
Discussion Con’t
11/18
Drama Casebook (1958-1991); Discussion Con’t
11/23
Critical Paper Due; Discussion Con’t
11/30
Discussion Con’t
12/2 Discussion Con’t
12/7 Essay 5 in class
12/9 Discuss/Review Final Exam
Final Exam: Tuesday December 14, 2004
PORTFOLIOS DUE NO LATER THAN 12:00 p.m.
8:00-10:30
NCATE-based Learning Outcomes
SECTION V--Indicators of Student Competencies—EH 101
Goal #1: A competent EH 102 student is a CONTENT EXPERT.
The student knows the subject and structure of the
discipline, organizes and creates learning opportunities
that link the subject with other disciplines, and engages
in construction of meaning within the discipline. The
competent EH 102 student demonstrates knowledge of the
content discipline by:
Indicator
1. Obtaining an introduction to
poetry, drama, and fiction
2. Acquiring a basic knowledge
of grammar, sentence structure,
rhetorical strategies; treating
writing as a process
3.
Exhibiting
a
clear
understanding
of
the
organization and structure of
relevant disciplines.
4.
Developing,
writing,
and
revising assigned materials that
connect new concepts to prior
knowledge structures.
5. Demonstrating knowledge of
discipline
topics
that
are
typically
problematic
and
acquiring an ability to address
common
difficulties
and
questions.
6.
Using
multiple
representations,
which
may
include symbolic, graphical, and
numerical
representations,
to
illustrate crucial concepts.
7.
Employing
multiple
explanations
of
crucial
concepts
to
encourage
richer understanding and
to
maximize
various
learning styles.
8.
Producing
assigned
materials that illustrate
multiple
viewpoints,
theories, and methods of
inquiry important to the
understanding
of
the
discipline.
9.
Producing
assigned
materials
that
approach
the
discipline
from
diverse perspectives.
10. Creating, writing, and
revising interdisciplinary
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Assessment Tool
Peer Review Workshops
In-class Writing
Formal Essays
Peer Review Workshops
In-class Writing
Formal Essays
Formal Essays
In-class Writing
EH 102
Formal Essays
In-class Writing
EH 102
Peer Review Workshops
In-class Writing
Formal Essays
Formal Essays
EH 102
Formal Essays
EH 102
Peer Review Workshops
In-class Writing
Formal Essays
EH 102
Formal Essays
EH 102
Formal Essays
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assigned
materials
that
give
opportunities
to
integrate
knowledge
and
skills across disciplines.
Goal #5: A competent EH 102 student is a CRITICAL THINKER.
The student models effective critical thinking patterns,
problem solving approaches, and methods for developing
abstract knowledge structures by:
Indicator
Course
1.
Creating
assigned EH 102
materials
that
include
recognized
(researchbased)
methods
for
developing
critical
thinking.
3. Selecting or creating
interesting
problem EH 102
situations
to
engage
audiences
for
assigned
materials.
4. Integrating real-world
problems
into
assigned EH 102
materials.
Assessment Tool
Peer
Review
Workshops
In-class
Discussion
of Readings
Peer
Review
Workshops
In-class
Discussion
of Readings
In-class
Discussion
of Readings
Goal #6: A competent EH 102 student is an EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATOR.
The student evidences effective communication skills by:
Indicator
1. Demonstrating effective
verbal, nonverbal, written and
media communication techniques
that foster inquiry,
collaboration, and supportive
interaction in the classroom.
Course
EH 102
2. Displaying writing samples
that are grammatically correct,
convey information effectively,
and are appropriately
constructed for various
purposes and audiences.
EH 102
Assessment Tool
Peer Review Workshops
In-class Discussion of
Readings
Formal Essays
In-class Writing