Grades:
| Major Essays | 60% |
| Class Participation (Attendance, Class Discussion, Workshop Participation) |
10%
|
| In-class Writing & Quizzes | 30% |
| TOTAL |
100% |
General Explanation of Assignments:
Essays:
There will be a total of four major essays completed during this course (see daily schedule for peer review and final draft due dates).
Essay 1 will be a New Critical analysis of an assigned text.
Essay 2 will focus on how Deconstructive criticism reveals layers of seemingly contradictory
meanings in the same text.
Essay 3 will use Feminist Criticism to examine how women have revised fairy tales for their
own purposes.
Essay 4, the Final Paper, will be an independent project of your own choosing (more guidelines
will be given later in the term). You will have the option of presenting this paper in a web
page (this will also be discussed later in the term).
Format:
All work is due at the beginning of class on the day it is due. All major essays should be typed on only one side of 8 ˝” x 11” white paper, double-spaced with 1” margins on all sides, and be in Times New Roman font. On days when drafts are due (workshop days), you must bring two copies of your paper to class. These copies should be clean, typed papers (the same format as the final draft) and already well edited by you. I will not accept any papers that are not in this format.
Any in-class writing assignments should be on one side of loose-leaf college-rule notebook paper and in blue or black ink.
Class Participation:
In addition to attending class, you are also expected to contribute to class discussions and participate in workshop sessions with your peers. Learning is not a solitary process, but one that necessarily involves others and I thus consider class participation a very important part of achieving this class’s goals.
In-Class Writing & Quizzes:
Every week, you will complete in-class writing assignments that will deal with the material that has been assigned and discussed that week. In addition, you will have reading quizzes throughout the semester on material that is being discussed for that class meeting. If you are reading the texts as we progress though the semester, you should do fine.
Grammar Panels:
You will be responsible for presenting to the class an assigned grammar topic. Read the assigned material and then create a handout that organizes and condenses the given topic. Make sixteen copies of your handout and distribute them to the class on the date of presentation. A good presentation should be both highly informative and interesting. A sign-up sheet will be passed around the class in the second week of class.