IMPORTANT DATES: Will be identified in first class
- Last day to withdraw
- Holiday - No Class:
- Midterm
- Final Exam
TEXTBOOKS:
- The Bedford Handbook - 8th Edition. Edited by Hacker and Sommers.
- The Transformation (Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka - translated by Pasley - published by Penguin
- Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - published by Dover
- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster - published by Random House
ASSIGNED READINGS: See Reading List
REQUIRED WORK:
- A CAREFUL READING OF THE ASSIGNMENTS - quizzes, discussion
- ESSAY # 1 - Personal Experience - 3 pages or 750 words See Essay Guidelines.
- ESSAY # 2 - Argument - 3 pages or 750 words
- ESSAY # 3 - MIDTERM - in class - on The Transformation
- ESSAYS # 4 & # 5 - REVISION FOLDER- includes Final Revisions of Essay # 1 and Essay #2
- ESSAY # 6 - Research Argument - 5 pages or 1250 words
- ESSAY # 7 - FINAL - in class - on Where Angels Fear to Tread
EVALUATION: HOLISTIC - EVERYTHING COUNTS
Your final grade will be based on completion of the above requirements and compliance with Course Rules and Guidelines and Criteria for Evaluation and Grading.
SPECIAL NEEDS AND ACCOMMODATIONS:
Please address with the instructor any special problems or needs at the beginning of the semester. If you are seeking accommodations based on disability, you should provide a disability sheet, which can be obtained from the counselor for special needs.
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