AMERICAN LITERATURE
Module
Instructor Information
Instructor:
Prof. Danni Polillo
Email:
dapsada@yahoo.com
Phone:
Smart: 093959996000
Globe: 09275313379,
TM : 09675012624
Room
Number: GenEd 202
Course Description
This
course presents a onesemester survey of American literature from the period of
exploration and
settlement
to the present. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction
in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected
from among a diverse group of authors for what they reflect and reveal about
the evolving American experience and character. Prerequisite:
Required Text and Materials
Title:
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Eighth Shorter Edition
Editor:
Nina Baym
Publisher:
W. W. Norton and Company, 2013
ISBN:
9780393918854
Core Objectives
This
course directly meets the following of the six Core Objectives:
●
Critical Thinking Skills: To include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry,
analysis, evaluation, and
synthesis
of information
●
Communication Skills: To include effective development, interpretation, and
expression of ideas
through
written, oral, and visual communication
.
Methods of Assessment
In
this class we will read, study, evaluate, and discuss many works of fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Based on this, students will complete the
following assignments to facilitate and assess their learning. Each of these
assessments addresses one or more of the Core Objectives: Critical Thinking Skills (CT),
Communication
Skills (COM), Empirical and Quantitative Skills (EQS), Teamwork (TW), Personal
Responsibility (PR), Social Responsibility (SR).
●
Rhetorical Analysis Essays: Students will compose 4 rhetorical analysis essays
in timed situations over different American nonfiction genres, such as
speeches, letters, memoirs/narratives, essays, news articles, etc.
●
Literature Presentation (COM): Students will prepare and present a 10minute
talk, with accompanying visual presentation and written component, about a
selected author and his or her contribution to and significance for American
literature.
●
Multimedia Project (CT, COM, TW, PR): Students will work in teams to create
and present a multimedia project over a chosen theme from their reading of The
Crucible by Arthur Miller.
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Quizzes (CT): 10 quizzes will assess students’ completion and understanding of
the assigned readings.
●
Reading and homework (PR): Students are expected to complete all of the
assigned readings. These readings may come from the official course textbook or
from other sources chosen by the instructor.
●
Midterm Exam and Final Exam (CT, COM, PR): Students will take a Midterm and a
Final.Grading
To
pass the class, students must achieve at least a 70% overall grade.
A
90100%
B
8089%
C
7079% (a C in this course will not count as an Advanced Measure)
F
Below 70%
Student
grades will be made up of the following components:
● 4
Rhetorical Analysis Essays 20%
●
Literature Presentation 20%
●
Multimedia Project 10%
●
Quizzes 10%
●
Periodical Exams (Prelim,Midterm,Finals) 40%
Total 100%
ADDITIONAL
READINGS FOR LITERATURE PRESENTATION: The following authors and works will be
the subject of the student literature presentations throughout the semester. They
will be presented in the exact order given here. You will be required to sign
up for ONE of these items. Presentations will begin on Week 4, with two or
three presentations per class period to be delivered for the remainder of the
semester until all students have presented. Full details about the requirements
of this assignment, including the dates for each presentation, will be given in
class.
1.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5.
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
6.
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Grades:
Grades
will be recorded in this class to meet the minimum expectations per district
policy, but you need to understand that there will be more grades will actually count toward your Final Grade. Only the methods of assessment
listed below will count toward your credit grade.
Google apps:
All
students are required to be familiar with Google apps and to upload them on their
phone: gmail (this will be your E-mail), Google Calendar, Google Drive, Blogger,
and Google Docs.
CLASSROOM POLICIES
1.
Absences: If a student has the equivalence of three weeks of unofficial
absences in a course in which he/she is currently enrolled, the instructor may
drop the student with a grade of “F.” Unofficial absences are counted from the
first day of class as listed in the College Calendar, regardless of the date of
the student’s registration. The only official absence is an authorized school
activity or extracurricular event. All work and/or assignments missed because
of an official absence must be completed in the time
allowed
according to my policy given to you .
2.
Late Work: Late papers will receive a grade of zero.
3.
Participation: Students are expected to participate in class discussions and
come to class having completed the assigned readings.
4.
Cheating/Plagiarism: Any assignment reflecting cheating, plagiarism or any other
form of academic dishonesty will receive a grade of zero. A second instance of
plagiarism results in automatic failure of the class.
5.
Personal Conduct: Adult behavior is expected of all students at all times.
Misconduct, including sleeping in class, will be punishable by immediate
dismissal from class. Students are expected to maintain classroom decorum that
includes respect for other students and the instructor, as well as an attitude
that seeks to take full advantage of the education opportunity represented by
enrollment in this class and Ranger College.
6.
Tutorials: Tutoring is available upon request. 7. ADA Statement:Ranger
College provides a variety of services for students with learning and/or
physical disabilities. The student is responsible for making the initial contact
with the Ranger College Counselor. It is advisable to make this contact before
or
immediately
after the semester begins.
8.
Cell Phones and Electronic Devices: Students
should not text or use phones/electronic
devices in class unless instructed to do so for class purposes only.
COURSE OUTLINE AND SCHEDULE
Week
1 Beginnings
to 1700
Of Plymouth Plantation
by William Bradford
Wonders of the
Invisible World by Cotton Mather
Timed Rhetorical
Analysis Essay
Week
2
17001820
Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
Declaration of
Independence by Thomas Jefferson
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano… by Olaudah Equiano
Week
3 18201865
“SelfReliance” by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Walden Chapter 1
Economy by Henry David Thoreau
Timed Rhetorical
Analysis Essay
Week
4 “Rip Van
Winkle” by Washington Irving
“The Minister’s Black
Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Fall of the House
of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
Week
5 “Address
Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg” by
Abraham Lincoln
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of
July” by Frederick Douglass (with analysis worksheet and a Timed Rhetorical
Analysis Writing)
Week 6 “The Wound
Dresser” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” by Walt Whitman
poetry selections from
Emily Dickinson: “Success is Counted Sweetest,” “I’m
Nobody! Who Are You?,”
and “Because I Could not Stop for Death”
Presentations Begin
Week
7 18651914
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“War Is Kind” by
Stephen Crane
Presentations Continue
As Needed
Week
8 “Desiree’s
Baby” and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
“We Wear the Mask” by
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Presentations Continue
As Needed
Week
9 19141945
“Mending Wall,” “‘Out,
Out’” by Robert Frost
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
by William Carlos Williams
“Richard Cory” by Edwin
Arlington Robinson
Presentations Continue
As Needed
Week
10 “If We
Must Die” by Claude McKay
“How It Feels to Be
Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston
“I, Too” by Langston
Hughes
Presentations Continue
As Needed
Week
11 Since 1945
Acts
1 and 2 of The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Presentations Continue
As Needed
Week
12 Acts 3 and
4 of The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Presentations Continue
As Needed
Week
13 Multimedia
Presentations due during the original class schedule.
Week
14 “Little
Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman” and “Courage” by Anne Sexton
“Lady Lazarus” and
“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath
Week
15 “I Have a
Dream” by Martin Luther King, Jr.
from Woman Hollering
Creek by Sandra Cisneros
Timed Rhetorical
Analysis Essay
Week
16 Final Exam
RECEIPT AND UNDERSTANDING OF SYLLABUS/Module
After
our review of the syllabus, you understand the following:
1.
You must use your group chat/ email
address. Because of the nature of this course,
communication
is essential. If you cannot access your email address, please see as soon as possible
to rectify the problem.
2.
If you are going to be absent for a schoolrelated function ,it is up to you to
get any notes from that day’s lecture. Do not say, “I was gone yesterday. Did I
miss anything?” The answer is always yes, you missed something. Please ask your
classmates for their notes.
3.
All assignments are due on the due date given on your syllabus. These must be
shared with me in Google Drive (preferred) on the day they’re due.
4.
Papers emailed or handed in the next day are considered late. Late papers lose
30% on
the
overall grade before scoring. Papers more than one day late will not be accepted.
5.
Schoolrelated events are not reasons to turn in papers late. You know about
your events ahead of time; if you know you’re going to be gone on essay day,
you are still responsible the paper.
6.
Your high school report card and transcript could possibly reflect a different
grade than the one that you receive on your Ranger College transcript.
I
HAVE RECEIVED AND UNDERSTAND THE INFORMATION IN THE SYLLABUS FOR AMERICAN
LITERATURE COMPOSITION I, AND I AGREE TO ABIDE BY THE STATED POLICIES.
Signed:_______________________Date:___________
(Legibly
print your Full Name ) Please affix your
signature, above your Printed Name)
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