Course Requirements/Grading:
- To receive credit for Lit 112A, you are required to:
- Read all assigned selections by the designated discussion dates (see "Calendar").
- Participate in daily class discussions of assigned readings (20% of course grade)
- Participate in a Special Interest Group (SIG) that will contribute one presentation to the class in an area of special interest to you--history, politics, society, psychology, religion, myth, author biography, language, theatre, etc.--as it relates to one of the assigned readings (10% of course grade). SIG presentations are intended to help the class more fully understand the context of an assigned reading. SIG members will be required do some focused out-of-class reading in the library or on the Internet to gather information for their presentation.
- Participate in daily quizzes, either by designing the quiz or taking the quiz. Students in class, on a rotating, voluntary basis, will design all quizzes, of which there will be 30 (30% of course grade, total). Quizzes will be given within the first ten minutes of class. Each student who designs a quiz (in accordance to prescribed
quiz guidelines) will be given an automatic "A" for that quiz. NOTE: Once a student has volunteered to design the quiz, he/she can design another quiz only if no one else volunteers.
- Keep a reading journal that records your personal response to each of the assigned readings (to be turned in three times during the semester) (10% of course grade).
- Write three (3) short papers or original creative pieces (2 - 3 pages long) in response to each of three different readings (your choice of one assigned reading from each unit). (Each paper or original piece is worth 10% of the course grade, for a total of 30% of the course grade).
Each paper should offer your interpretation of one aspect of the assigned reading. Papers must include a clear thesis and at least three quotations from the assigned reading in support of the thesis. If you do not wish to write a paper, you may write your own original creative piece (poem, short story, play, essay, narrative) that in some way responds to the assigned reading and shows your greater understanding of the work. Papers must use standard academic prose. Both papers and original pieces must abide by Assignment Submission Guidelines. See Student Portfolio (on the course support Web site) for examples of papers and original pieces.
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