Class: Eng 1121, Section D477
Prerequisite: Eng 1101; CUNY certification in reading and writing.
Days: M/W 2:30-3:45, rm: Library 636
Professor: Raquel Dorman
Email: RDorman@citytech.cuny.edu
Office Hours: W 3:50-5:00 *by appointment: set up via email or in person
Course Website: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/dorman-english1121-d447-fall18
Required Text:
The Literary Experience, 2nd Edition, Eds. Beiderwell and Wheeler
Cengage 2016, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8400-3076-4
This anthology and other supplies are available at the City Tech bookstore. Please note that this book is essential to success in this course and must be rented, purchased, shared, or otherwise acquired so that reading assignments can be completed. *If this is not possible, reach out to me via email as soon as possible.
*While students are not required to purchase a grammar book for this course, we will discuss grammar frequently. In order to help us improve and understand college-level grammar, we will use a free, online grammar guide called Purdue OWL, published by Purdue University:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Class Description:
This class is designed to further the foundational work of Eng 1101. Students in this class can expect to build stronger writing, critical thinking, and active reading skills in a manner that is both practical and engaging.
As a class, we will focus on foundational rhetoric and essay principles, poetry, short stories, and excerpts. As time allows, we will explore plays and articles. Most classes will begin with a brief free write. The governing principle of this class is expository writing, which means we will be exploring how we think and write about what we know and how this can be expanded upon.
You will be expected to critically engage with the ideas presented in these readings as you participate in class discussions, as you think through and write through the material, and as you write your formal essays. This means explicit participation in class- sharing ideas and thoughts as well as responding to those of others-is mandatory, and I will call on students during class.
Methods:
- Reading and writing assignments, frequent in-class discussion, in-class exercises, and small group workshops
- Journals: we will start every class with a short free write based on a prompt
- Reading responses and/or questions to assigned work
- Utilization of online resources such as OpenLab and Blackboard
Class requirements:
- Essays: there will be three formal essays.
- Attendance: as this is a discussion-based class, attendance is mandatory.
- Completion of assigned reading and writing responses.
- Participation
Absences/tardiness:
Consistent attendance on time and focused on the day’s activities, is necessary for passing the course. Absences can lower your grade since they will affect your participation grade. If you stop attending class and don’t return for the rest of the semester, you will receive a grade of WU.
Late essays and homework:
10 points (one letter grade) will be taken off for every late class.
*ALL PAPERS ARE DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS PERIOD. Skipping class to turn in the paper at the end of the period will be considered late work.
Journals:
Composition notebooks have been provided for in class writing. Please note that these will be collected twice for review: once in the middle of the semester and once at the end of the semester and will constitute part of the participation grade.
Classroom Decorum:
Students are expected to be present both physically and mentally. Phones are acceptable only as pertains to classroom work- if they are used in any other manner, students will be asked to put them away. Respect of other students and class community is essential.
CUNY Plagiarism Policy:
“Students and all others who work with information, ideas, texts, images, music, inventions, and other intellectual property owe their audience and sources accuracy and honesty in using, crediting, and citing sources. As a community of intellectual and professional workers, the College recognizes its responsibility for providing instruction in information literacy and academic integrity, offering models of good practice, and responding vigilantly and appropriately to infractions of academic integrity. Accordingly, academic dishonesty is prohibited in The City University of New York and at New York City College of Technology and is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension, and expulsion.”
Grading:
Essays: 60%
*please note that grading rubrics will be given for the expectations of each essay assignment. As a matter of course, all papers should be double-spaced with MLA formatting. The final paper will be a research paper and require three additional sources.
Final Exam: 10%
Participation: 15%
Hw: 15%
*There will be an extra credit opportunity at the end of the semester for 5% of total class grade.
Class Objectives:
- Write clearer and more logical sentences using correct spelling, conventional punctuation, and standard grammar and syntax;
- Paraphrase, summarize, and quote effectively;
- Develop active reading skills and understand audience;
- Critically read one’s own writing and that of peers and professionals;
- Competently engage in various modes of writing and analyzing including: narration and description, comparison and contrast, definition, cause and effect, division and classification, argument and persuasion;
- Write a research paper that presents a thesis, develops an argument, and properly incorporates and cites secondary source material;
- Appreciate writing as a source of power and satisfaction as well as the means for success in academia and career advancement.
*The readings, topics, and due dates are subject to change over the course of the semester.
CALENDAR
*All classes will begin with a free write
**All readings listed below are from the required text; additional reading assignments may be given out in class the day of.
Week 1: Introduction
Mon Aug 27: 1
In class: Journals/syllabus/questionnaire/attendance, song exercise/story
HW: Read syllabus and bring three questions about it, fill out questionnaire
Wed Aug 29: 2
In class: Discussion of syllabus/open lab/song exercise/story
HW: Introduction: Critical Writing as Conversation, Beiderwell xxxi-xxxiv,
Developing a Flexible Critical Vocabulary, Beiderwell p. 39-42,
Writing as a Process, Beiderwell 3-13
https://writingcommons.org/open-text/information-literacy/critical-reading-practices/766-active-reading
Week 2: Foundations
Mon Sep 3rd: *LABOR DAY, NO CLASS*
Wed, Sep 5th: 3
In class: brief quiz on reading, community building, hand out first essay assignment
HW: Research & citation, Beiderwell 20-36
Student Model Essay Collection, Beiderwell, Appendix A 1481-1500
Start working on first draft
Week 3: Foundations
Mon, Sep 10th: *NO CLASS*
Wed, Sep 12th: 4
In class: Discussion of first essay assignment & readings, in class analysis news article
HW: Work on draft, handouts
Week 4: Foundations
Mon, Sep 17th: 5
In class: Discussion, in class analysis news article
HW: work on draft, handouts
Wed, Sep 19th: *NO CLASS*
Week 5: Foundations
Mon, Sep 24th: 6
Draft of Essay 1 due
In class: revision in small groups
HW: Revising, Beiderwell 14-19, polish draft using in-class feedback
Wed, Sep 26th: 7
In class: Discussion of poetry, hand out of terms, collins poem
HW: rhythm, Beiderwell, 535-536, 540-545, 548-55, 602-611
Write one page response to poem of choice from hw
Week 6: Understanding & analyzing poetry
Mon, Oct 1st: 8
final Essay 1 due along with first draft
In class: discussion of reading, in class poem analysis
HW: Coherence and form, Beiderwell, 743-758
Images, Beiderwell, 665-670, 678-689 +answer questions on 689
Response to Prufrock
Wed, Oct 3rd: 9
In class: essay 2 handout
HW: Word choice, Beiderwell, 1075-1077
Definition & usage, Beiderwell, 1085-1089
Symbolism, Bedeirwell 1147-1155
The Pomegranate, Boland, Beiderwell, 367-368
The Colonel, Forche, Beiderwell 136-137
Ozymandias, Shelley, Beiderwell 1448-1449
Ozymandias, Smith, Beiderwell, 1449
*Write one page comparing two poems we’ve looked at using at least two different poetry terms
Week 7: Understanding & analyzing poetry
Mon, Oct 8th: *NO CLASS*
Wed, Oct 10th: 10
In class: discussion
HW: Ethics, Pastan, Beiderwell 138-139
ABC, Szymborska, Beiderwell 199
The Window at Arles, O’Rourke, Beiderwell 1142-1143
Sonnet 18, Shakespeare, 1084-1085
Daddy:1933, Brock, Beiderwell, 378-379
How to Watch Your Brother Die, Lassell, Beiderwell, 382-384
Week 8: Understanding & analyzing poetry
Mon, Oct 15th: 11
In class: wrap up on poetry
HW: Scene, Episode, and Plot, Beiderwell, 195-212 & answer questions on 212
A Scandal in Bohemia, Beiderwell, 218-256
Wed, Oct 17th: 12
In class: Discussion of readings and principles of fiction
HW: Character, Beiderwell, 309-326, bottom of 331-367
Week 9:
Mon, Oct 22nd: 13
draft Essay 2 due
In class: revision in small groups
HW: work on paper
Wed, Oct 24th: 14
In class: Discussion
HW:: POV, Beiderwell, 387-401, 414-422
Week 10: writing about fiction
Tues, Oct 30th: 15
Final Essay 2 due
In class: Discussion
HW: Tone, Beiderwell, 1023-top of 1025, 1034-1041, bottom of 1044-1071,
Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, Beiderwell, 121
Reading response one page response to work of choosing
Wed, Oct 31st: 16
In class: Discussion, handout for essay 3
HW: Context, Beiderwell, 1247-1264, 1271-1291, one page response to Hemingway or O’Brien
Week 11:
Mon, Nov 5th: 17
In class: Discussion of reading
HW: Interruption, Beiderwell, 845-860, 865-873
Wed, Nov 7th: 18
In class: discussion of reading, discussion of writing about longer works
HW: Beiderwell, 906-943, answer questions at end of 943
Week 12:
Mon, Nov 12th: 19
In class: Discussion
HW: Beiderwell, 1366-top of 1369, 1375-1379, bottom of 1382-1395, bottom of 1429-1439
One page reading response
Wed, Nov 14th: 20
Draft Essay 3 due
In class: revision in small groups
HW: Continue to work on paper
Week 13:
Mon, Nov 19th: 21
In class: Discussion
HW: tbd, work on paper
Wed, Nov 21st: 22
In class: Discussion
HW: Beiderwell, 762-772, 707-719
Week 14:
Mon, Nov 26th: 23
In class: Discussion
HW: Beiderwell, 559-601
Wed, Nov 28th: 24
final Essay 3 due
In class: Discussion
HW: Beiderwell, 481-518
Week 15:
Mon, Dec 3rd: 25
In class: Discussion & review
HW: work on paper
Wed, Dec 5th: 26
In class: Discussion & review
HW: tbd
Week 16:
Mon, Dec 10th: 27
In class: Discussion & review
HW: tbd
Wed, Dec 12th:
In class: Discussion of reading and of final
HW: prepare for final, handout given
Week 17:
Dec 14-20 FINAL EXAM WEEK, review & exam
