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Scottsdale
Community College's
ENH. 110
Section
28835 Fall 2008
PROFESSOR: Robert
Mugford (link to my home page)
OFFICE: LC 352,
PHONE: 480-423-6463
ENG DEPT FAX: 480-423-6469
OFFICE HOURS: MWF
12:30 to 1:30 T-TH 10:30 to 11:30
E-Mail:
ishmail.mugford@sccmail.maricopa.edu
Turnitin
Enrollment Information
Class ID:
1970315 Password: litlovers
INTRODUCTION
TO
LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE
Please read the
following
document in its entirety because
as a member of this
class, you are
responsible for fulfilling the
objectives and
understanding the
policies I have established.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In this course, we will read and analyze
the three genres of short
story, drama, and poetry.
Emphasis
is
placed on
the following:
1. developing an overview of each
genre, often with a historical perspective
2. focusing on themes and
movements in the field of
literature
3. noting themes that are common
in all three genres
4. creating and developing
responses to each of the works (in
terms of character, theme,
symbol, elements of style, structure, etc.)
5. aquiring a knowledge of the
terminology used in the study of literature
6. becoming familiar with author
biographies
7. studying
the development of ideas about literature and writers
8. developing
and expressing your own ideas about literature
BIO-OPTIC ORGANIZED KNOWLEDGE
SYSTEM
The following required
text may be purchased at the SCC
bookstore
or online: I have
published the following web page which has
links to
many different online
bookstores:
http://www3.sc.maricopa.edu/mugford/bookstores.htm
Text:
Backpack
Literature:
An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing,
second edition by X.
J
Kennedy and Dana Gioia
ISBN: 0-205-55103-3
Policies:
Attendance
Obviously, you will get
much more
out of the class if you are always in the room
listening, taking
notes, and asking questions about each
genre's materials. As a veteran
teacher, I can honestly say that most students who are
excessively
absent often fail
because they do not fulfill assignments' objectives
and/or fail quizzes, do not submit
homework,
etc. All college level
courses require student responsibility; mine is no
different.
I will effect a
withdrawl if you ask me to, or you may initiate your own withdrawal prior to Oct. 3.
After this date, the instructor has the option of completing the
withdrawal procedure only until Dec
1.
On being late to class:
Because you have
enrolled for this class, you have
established a 16 week committment
to be in the classroom at the designated start time, and I
expect you to honor
it. In my
120 years of teaching, I
have found the consistently late student to be somewhat disrespectful
towards me and his
or her classmates. Sure, sometimes the god
Tardynisis may prevent
us
from
being
on time; however, if you must be
late, please be courteous to everyone in the room:
enter quietly and proceed
to a desk, all the while trying
not to show everyone the sheet-wrinkle
imprints on your face.
Regarding
the
assigned readings below:
Please be aware
that you
may be quizzed
on any assigned reading
materials. Usually, I
give the quiz at the beginning of class and
usually without prior
announcement. (Just a
cursory
reading of the materials is often not enough!)
Furthermore, none, if missed can be
made up unless you are participating in an
authorized college function or unless your excuse
registers a
"five" on my
credibility scale e.g., your having to go
to Sweden on
the day of
a quiz or exam to accept the Nobel
Prize for finding a cure for
student procrastination would register a .9
In addition, pertaining to
our
discussions and literature assignments, I will occasionally assign
short prose
projects, e,g.,
answers to
questions posed by the authors. These
will quite often
be briefer than an essay but within the context of
say
a long paragraph
should still effect
analysis and specificity. Since
I will be announcing their content and due date in
class,
if you are late or absent, you
must
contact me or a reliable classmate. I strongly encourage
the exchange of
e-mails and perhaps phone numbers, depending on your level of
comfortability.
These
writing assignments will
usually be due at
the next class meeting, word-processed
and double-spaced.
Like
quizzes, these short prose
assignments are
governed by the
aforementioned authorization/credibility scale.
Regarding students
with disabilities:
It
is a
college policy to provide reasonable accommodations to students with
disabilities.
If you would like to
request accommodations due to a
physical,
mental, or learning
disability, please contact the Disability Resources
&
Services office,
SC-144,
480-423-6517.
Regarding
Audio-Visual Cellular Communication Devices:
Though
I
realize that many of you may suffer withdrawal symptoms----I often see
students' hands shaking and right
ears suffering withdrawl from
tactile stimulation----
the English Dept. policy is CPO (Cell Phones
Off) while
in a
classroom.
The only "texting" in this class
should be your fingering the required book!
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For those of you who don't
own a flash
drive, I would like to suggest
that you purchase one to enable you to transport files from home to SCC.
Each of you also has free server space,
which you can inquire about @ the Writing Center
and @ mySCC.
Literature Related
Links
Voice of the Shuttle: an
excellent, comprehensive site from the University of California at
Santa Barbara
Authors of fiction
Periods and movements
Poets
Literary Terms
Daughter of
Literary Terms
Arts
and Letters Daily (A service of The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Literature
Resources
Bedford,
St Martins Glossary of terms
COURSE
CONTENT:
Please
note: the
instructor reserves the right to make changes in the course
outline, to
modify the
following
assignments and assignment dates, etc., as necessary.
T Sept.
2:
Orientation
and Overview/ Course outline distribution/Turnitin discussion
Th 4:
Continue
Overview/ Q and A on
syllabus and book buying
Student Introductions
Kenndy
and Gioia video (if time permits)
Fiction
Section
T 9:
We’ll begin the aproximate
five week section on fiction
with some historical perspective and definitions.
Also a discussion of reading techniques.
Assignment: pp. 2
to 12 download
Powerpoint
TH
11 : Discussion of Plot in
Fiction
Assignment:
pp. 13-16, and “A and P,”
pp. 16-22
and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been ?”
pp.
251-65
download
Powerpoint
T 16:
Discussion of
first person point of view in fiction
Assignment:
pp. 25-45; this includes “A
Rose for Emily,”
and “The Tell-Tale
Heart” download
Powerpoint
TH
18: Discussion of
limited omniscient and objective points of view in fiction
Assignment:
handout: “Interpreter of Maladies,”
and pp. 176-85, “The Chrysanthemums” download
Powerpoint
T 23:
Discussion of
Characterization in Fiction
Assignment:
pp. 47-50; then 55-76 which
includes “Cathedral
and “Everyday Use,”
download
Powerpoint
TH
25: Discussion of
Setting in Fiction
Assignment:
pp. 79-95, this includes
“The Storm,” and
“Greasy Lake”
download
Powerpoint
T 30:
Discussion of tone and style in
fiction
Assignment: pp. 115-38; this includes “A Clean, Well-Lighted
Place” and “Barn Burning”
download
Powerpoint
TH
Oct. 2: Discussion of theme in fiction, continued
Assignment: pp.
158-71; This includes “Dead Man’s Path,”
“The Parable of the Prodigal Son,” and “Harrison Bergeron”
download
Powerpoint
T 7
Review
for Fiction section exam
TH 9:
Fiction
Section Exam
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Fiction
Related
Links
Fish
Publishing
New
Century Writer Awards
Poetry
and short story contest
Drama
Section
T 14:
Begin Drama section / overview
Discussion of Play Review assignment;
Reading a play; historical perspectives, Greek
drama,
tragedy, tragic hero defined:
Assignment:
pp. 568 to top
of 571; then pp. 616-21
The
Modern Theater : A Doll’s
House by Henrik Ibsen
TH 16:
Begin
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
In class discussion of Act I
Augmented by selections
from the DVD
Assignment:
pp. 795-821
T 21:
A
Doll’s House
continued
In class discussion of Act II
Augmented by selections from the DVD
Assignment:
pp.
821-40
TH 23: A Doll’s House
continued
In
class discussion of Act III
Augmented by selections from the DVD
Assignment:
pp.
840-59
T 28:
Begin Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Assignment:
Act I,
pp. 886-924
In class
discussion of Act I
Augmented by
selections from the DVD
TH 30: Death of a Salesman, continued
Assignment:
Act II
and Requiem, pp. 924-968
In class
discussion of Act II and Requiem
Augmented by
selections from the DVD
T Nov. 4: Review for Drama section exam
TH 6
Drama
section exam
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Drama
Related
Links
Drama
sites at MIT
Poetry
Section
T 11
Veterans’
Day
TH 13:
Begin Poetry section
What is poetry? Reading a poem
difference between explication and analysis
Assignment: pp.
311-15 and 455 to top of
456
T 18:
Poetic forms: English and Italian Sonnets
guest lecturer: Sandra Desjardins,
Coordinator of SCC’s Creative Writing
Program
Assignment:
handouts distributed in
class
Exploring various themes in poetry
Th 20 Language
and Writing
Assignments:
“Jabberwocky,” pp. 370-71
“Poetry,” pp. 537-38
“Theme for English B,” pp. 339-40
“Bilingual/Bilingüe,” pp. 513-14
“A Martian Sends a Postcard Home,” (Handout)
T 25: City
Life
Assignments:
“We Real Cool,” p. 434
“I hear America Singing,” handout
“A Supermarket in California,” pp. 516-17
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” pp. 509-13
Thanksgiving
break Nov 27-30
T Dec. 2 Protest
Assignments:
“The World Is Too Much With Us,” handout
“America,” p. 447
“Indian Boy Love Song (#1),” p. 494
“The X in My Name,” p. 347
“Ballad of Birmingham,” p. 443
“The Times They Are A Changing,” (handout)
Th 4
War
Assignments:
“Naming of Parts,” pp. 548
“The Fury of Aerial Bombardment,” pp. 365-66
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” p. 525
“Facing It,” p. 485
“War forced us from California,” p. 393
“The Names,” handout
T 9
Happiness
Assignments:
“Carnation Milk,” p. 369
“First Poem For You,” p. 458
“How Do I Love Thee,” p. 500
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond,” pp. 503-04
“The lake Isle of Innisfree,” p. 313
TH 11: Review for Poetry section exam /
Explication Handouts
(Download
SCC's final exam schedule) you'll need the Adobe pdf reader
T 16: Poetry
Section Take
Home Exam (Final) due between
11:30 and
1:20 on Tuesday, Dec 16 @ my office, LC 352
Need
assistance with the final?
1. Explicating a poem
2. Explicating a poem
Link to definitions of poetry terminology
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Poetry Related
Links
Poetry sites from MIT
Wocky
Jivvy
The American
Academy of Poetry
About.com's
Links to
Poetry
The
Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Page
Book
Stacks Poetry
Poets
The Internet
Poetry Archive
IU Faculty
and Undergraduate
Chapbooks
Nua
Dán, a collaborative
effort by Irish artists
The
Pittsburgh Quarterly,
a small press literary zine
Poetry Forum
Representative
Poetry Archive
The English Server Poetry Journal, Sudden
Poetry
Daily (a focus on
contemporary poets/poetry)
Poetry
Archives (looking
for a poem?)
Poets'
Corner (extremely
comprehensive site!)
Interested in Poetry
Contests?
GRADING:
Your
grade for the
course will be determined by an evaluation of the following:
Fiction
Section Exam
25%
Drama
Section Exam
25%
Poetry
Section Exam
25%
Quizzes / Intellectual Exercises
25%
The
quiz and exam scores are percentage based:
e.g., for each,
Passing
Grades
90
to 100 = A
89
to 80 = B
79
to 70 = C
Passing
Challenged Grades
69
to 60 = D
59
or
below = F
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