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ENGLISH 2327 SYLLABUS
PART I: ENGLISH 2327 COURSE INFORMATION
Southwest College: West Loop
Summer II - 2013
Instructor
Name: Patricia Green
Office hours: 5:00 and 8:00 Room C247
Class hours: 5:30-8:00 Room C247
E-mail: [email protected]
Textbooks
The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volumes A and B: Beginnings to 1865,
eighth edition
Other Materials
Paper and pens, Folder for handouts, Jump drive/flash drive
Grade Percentages
Essay #1: (20%) 750 word essay and Presentation: Native American Literature
Essay #2: (25%) 1000 word Research Paper and Presentation
Essay #3: (15%) 750 word in-class mid-term essay exam
Essay #4: (20%) 750 word in-class final exam
Daily grades: (20%) 8 Quizzes, 4 journals, and participation
Important Dates
July 8 – First day of classes for Summer II
July 11 – Official Day of Record
July 29 – Last Day for Administrative/Student Withdrawals
August 6 – Instruction Ends
August 8 - Final
August 11 – Semester Ends
Attendance Policy
Regular attendance is required at Houston Community College. HCCS class policy states
that a student who is absent more than 12.5% (6 hours) of class may be administratively
dropped. Students who intend to withdraw from a course must do so by the official last
day to drop.
Withdrawal Policy
The State of Texas has begun to impose penalties on students who drop courses
excessively. For example, if you repeat the same course more than twice, you have to pay
extra tuition. Beginning in the Fall of 2007, the Texas Legislature passed a law limiting
first time entering students to no more than six total course withdrawals throughout their
academic career in obtaining a certificate or baccalaureate degree. There may be future
penalties imposed.
If you do not withdraw before the deadline, you will receive the grade that you are
making as the final grade rather than a “W.” This grade (due to missing classes and
missing work) will probably be an “F.”
Student Course Reinstatement Policy
Students have a responsibility to arrange payment for their classes when they register,
either through cash, credit card, financial aid, or the installment plan. Students who are
dropped from their courses for non-payment of tuition and fees who request reinstatement
after the official date of record can be reinstated by making payment in full and paying an
additional $75.00 per course reinstatement fee. The academic dean may waive the
reinstatement fee upon determining that the student was dropped because of a college
error.
HCC Student Email Accounts
All students who have registered and paid for courses at HCC automatically have an
HCC email account generated for them. Please go to http://www.hccs.edu/students/email/
to review how to send email using this account.
Free English Tutoring
The Southwest College offers you numerous opportunities for free English tutoring at our
tutoring centers (Stafford, Alief, and West Loop) or our electronic tutoring services.
Signs will be posted once the HCC live tutoring hours have been established. On-line
tutoring services include AskOnline and mycomplab.com. You will find the AskOnline
tutoring icon on the HCC homepage for students. More information about the on-line
services will be available once the semester gets started.
Open Computer Lab
You have free access to the Internet and word processing in the open computer lab in the
Scarcella Science Center and in the West Loop Campus. Check on the door of the open
computer lab for hours of operation.
Academic Honesty
Plagiarism results in a grade of zero (“F”) on that project. Consult your on-line student
handbook on scholastic dishonesty. Cheating and/or collusion also result in a grade of
zero (“F”) on that project. Two instances of plagiarism will sabotage the course grade and
will result in an “F” in the course. Consult your on-line student handbook for more details
on scholastic dishonesty. No opportunities for rewriting/resubmitting the plagiarized
project will be given.
Late Paper Policy and Make-Up Exams
All assignments are required to be submitted on the date they are due. Due dates are
posted on your syllabus and/or assignment page. Late papers will be docked a letter grade
(ten points) per class day.
Electronics Policies
1. Turn off and put away all cell phones, beepers, text-messaging devices and other
electronic devices when class starts. The sounds of cell phones ringing during class are
disruptive. Students should not leave the class to make a call or answer one (or worse—
answer a call in class). No cell phones permitted on top of desks.
2. No Bluetooth devices in ears allowed during class.
3. No MP3 players or other music devices with earphones allowed during class.
4. No laptops open during class, except to take notes.
5. You can answer your calls and make calls during your break.
Use of Cameras and Recording Devices
Use of recording devices, including camera phones and tape recorders, is prohibited in
classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, and other locations where instruction, tutoring,
or testing occurs. These devices are also not allowed to be used in campus restrooms.
Students with disabilities who need to use a recording device as a reasonable
accommodation should contact the Office for Students with Disabilities for information
regarding reasonable accommodations.
COURSE DESCRIPTION, PURPOSE, AND OBJECTIVES
MISSION STATEMENT OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
The purpose of the English Department is to provide courses that transfer to four-year colleges;
introduce students to literature from diverse traditions; prepare students to write clear,
communicative, well-organized, and detailed prose; and develop students’ reading, writing, and
analytical skills.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Enjoy reading literature and literary analysis.
2. Explain the characteristics of literary genres: nonfiction prose, fiction, and poetry
3. Use critical contexts: formal, biographical, historical, feminist, psychological, and reader
response.
4. Make and defend critical judgments about literature.
5. Practice and improve research skills
6. Write essays using primary and secondary sources.
7. Present a critique of literature to the class.
8. Work cooperatively with others in class discussions
9. Practice and improve study skills.
PART II: English 2327 Syllabus
WEEK ONE
July 8: Session 1: Introduction to English 2327: Early American Literature, Beginnings to 1865.
Course information, objectives, and competencies
Class Policies and Grading Procedures
Introduction to the American Enlightenment
Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanaks,” “Savages of North America”
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.”
The Declaration of Independence as an Argument Essay. Argumentation packet.
Quiz # 1: diagnostic on 18th century American history and literature.
Assignment: Purchase the textbook. Read two selections from the Native American
Collection. Write Journal # 1 about one of the Native American selections in the Norton
Anthology. Read Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
July 9: Session 2: Native American Literature. Discuss Trickster Tales, different legends, etc.
Continue American Enlightenment. Discuss Frederick Douglass.
Assignment: Read “the Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington
Irving.
July 10: Session 3: Library to research Native American Literature (trickster tales, etc.) for
Thursday’s presentations and find sources for the research paper.
Assignment: Read Cotton Mather: “Wonders of the Invisible World” and Jonathan
Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” The Bay Psalm Book, “The Day of
Doom”
July 11: Session 4: Native American Literature Presentations.
Essay # 1 is due.
Discuss Washington Irving.
Discuss Puritan Literature
Quiz # 2: Washington Irving. Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards
Assignment: Read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil.”
Poems of the Enlightenment, Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, William Cullen Bryant:
“Thanatopsis.”
WEEK TWO
July 15: Session 5:
Discuss Puritan Poetry. Discuss “The Minister’s Black Veil.”
William Byrd: “Secret Diary,” New England Primer.
Presentations
Quiz # 3: Poems of the Enlightenment
Assignment: Read Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young
Goodman Brown.”
July 16: Session 6: The American Romantic Movement
Discuss Edgar Allan Poe’s poems
Assignment: Read Edgar Allan Poe’s “the Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
July 17: Session 7: Edgar Allan Poe. Short video of “The Cask of the Amontillado.”
Discuss Gothic literature
Quiz # 4: Edgar Allan Poe
Assignment: Review Volume A and notes since July 8th for the mid-term
Journal #2: Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, or Puritan literature
July 18: Session 8: Mid-Term: the American Enlightenment, Native American
Literature, and Puritan Literature
Assignments: Read Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Self-Reliance,” “The Poet,”
and “Thoreau.”
WEEK THREE
July 22: Session 9: The Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quiz # 5: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Assignment: Read Henry David Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience.”
July 23: Session 10: Henry David Thoreau
Assignment: Read James Fenimore Cooper, John G. Whittier: “Ichabod”
July 24: Session 11: Library. Work on the research paper and prepare the presentation
Assignment: the Research Paper
July 25: Session 12:
Research Paper is due.
Discuss Cooper and Whittier
Presentations based on the research paper
Quiz # 6: Henry David Thoreau
Assignment: Read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Read Frederick Douglass: “From “My
Bondage and My Freedom: Life as a Slave,” Chapter 1.
Journal # 3 on Douglass, Cooper, Emerson, or Thoreau.
WEEK FOUR
July 29: Session 13: Discuss Longfellow, Cooper, Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalism
Discuss Douglass
Read Walt Whitman’s poems in class. Assignment: Read Walt Whitman
July 30: Session 14: Discuss Walt Whitman
Assignment: Read Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney. Journal # 4: Walt Whitman.
July 31: Session 15: Discuss Sigourney. Read Margaret Fuller and Sojourner Truth.
Presentations based on the research paper
Quiz # 7: Walt Whitman
Assignment: Read Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Journal # 4 is due
August 1: Session 16: No Class. Independent Study at home. Finish reading Billy Budd.
WEEK FIVE
August 5: Session 17: Discuss the works of the anti-Transcendentalists: Melville and Hawthorne.
Discuss Billy Budd.
Read Emily Dickinson’s poems in class.
Quiz # 8: Billy Budd
Assignment: Emily Dickinson’s poems
August 6: Session 18: Discuss Emily Dickinson’s poems.
Review for the Final
August 7: Session 19: Make-up day for presentations
August 8: Session 20: Final