English 1BH - Composition & Literature

Welcome to English 1B Honors
Reedley College

S. Bowie
Email: sbowie@reedleycollege.edu
Phone: 638.3641 x3273

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9-9:50 Mondays in AGR 1, Wednesday and Friday in CCI 202

Welcome to English 1BH at Reedley College!

English 1BH is a literature survey and composition course that is designed to follow English 1A. Students will be introduced to four major literary genres: short story, novel, poetry, and drama. It is a three unit course, which is fully transferable to University of California and California State University and most other public and private four-year colleges and universities.

Students are required to read approximately 100 pages per week and to write papers related to the reading assignments. It is important to keep up with the reading. Students should plan to spend 10-12 hours a week on this course, reading, writing and discussing the literature for the class.

BlackBoard Discussion: Students are required to post three messages a week to the Bb discussion forum. Full instructions and passwords are given during the Monday meeting.

Students are required to attend three meetings of the class on the Reedley Campus-an introductory meeting to receive passwords and learn to use the software, a midterm meeting to take the midterm and answer questions that have arisen, and a final meeting to take the final examination. For specific dates and times, see the calendar. Information about the midterm and final will be made available well in advance of those tests.

Last Day to drop without a grade: March 11

Texts:

 

Essays on literature topics: Students will write three papers relating to the reading assignments. The papers will vary in length but the general standard is 500-700 words. Specific topics will be assigned. The paper will never be a summary of the work assigned, but will reflect the student's thoughts and analysis of the reading assignment.

Novel Papers: At the end of each unit, students will write a longer (750 word) paper on each novel studied. The last paper will incorporate literary criticism and research.

 Assignment

Points Each

Total Points

Three Essays

50

150

Two short  novel papers

100

200

Weekly participation in Discussion Forum

10 each week (weeks 2-17)

150

Midterm and Final

 50

100

Reading Quizzes

 10-20

100

 Total Points Possible*

 

700

*Assignments and points may be changed a little--each class is different, but this table shows my intentions.

Grades: 90%=A; 80%=B; 65%=C; 50%=D
Note on grades: missing papers receive no points. Late papers are not accepted without points reduction; contact me if you have an extraordinary situation. Discussion (Blackboard) grades are awarded at the midterm and the final; the scores are based on quality and quantity (students need to post three messages a week) of students' messages. It's a subjective grade based on my careful reading of the discussion--it is very clear which students are contributing thoughtful entries.
Revised: 7 December 2007
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