El Paso Community College

El Paso Community College Syllabus, Part 1 Instructor Course Requirements Spring 2017

I. Course Number and Instructor Information Dual Credit English IV - ENGL 2323, British Literature II Class 2nd - 9:33 P.M. – 10:19 A.M. (M-F) CRN: 24737 Class 3rd - 10:24 P.M. – 11:10 A.M. (M-F) CRN: 24738

Instructor: Daniel Chavez, M. A. (Interdisciplinary Studies: English and Psychology) and M.S. (Sports Management) Campus and Office Hours: Eastlake High School, B-208 Phone: 937-3600 Office Hours/Tutoring: 8:00 -8:45 A.M. (Mon/Wed) Lunch, Before and After School by appointment Conference Period: 3rd Period and contact me via Email: [email protected]

II. Text and Materials Greenblatt, Stephen et al. Eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Ed. New York: Norton, 2012. Print. (Volume D, E, and F) Hacker, Diana. A Writer’s Reference with Writing about Literature, 7th Ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. Print.

Textbooks will be issued to students during the first week of the semester and turned in after the final exam. Since the textbooks are furnished by the school, students will not be allowed to write in them. You are encouraged to “Mark the Text” using Post-it Notes and Flags. A classroom set of the MLA Handbook will be available to all students. MLA information is also available at Http://www.mla.org.

III. Catalog Description Examines a survey of the development of British Literature from the Romantic period to the present. Students will study woks of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of author and traditions. This course is strongly recommended for those pursuing a major in English at the baccalaureate level. ENGL 2322 is not required in order to enroll in ENGL 2323. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 with a “C” or better. (3:0).

IV. Course Objectives Upon satisfactory completion of this course the student will be able to accomplish the following:

A. Explain the relationship between authors and their works in the context of their historical, social, and philosophical issues during the corresponding time periods. B. Identify major trends of thought and literature in each period studied: i.e., the Romantic, Victorian and the Twentieth Century. 2

C. Analyze and understand works of each literary figure studied. D. Define literary terms and understand their practical application. E. Better understand the various people of the Western World and their approach to life as these elements are presented in the literature considered. F. Successfully articulate in writing his/her responses and interpretations of literary works through the writing of critical essays, research papers, journals, or a combination of these. G. (Recommended) Attend at least one interpretive performance of a piece of literature from the period, (poetry reading, play, film, etc).

V. THECB Learning Objective Upon successful completion of this course, students will: 1. Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions. 2. Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods. 3. Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristics forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions. 4. Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities. 5. Write research-based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct prose, using various critical approaches to literature.

VI. Evaluation A. Pre-assessment Instructors should check each student's prerequisites the first week of class; those who do not qualify should be sent back to Admissions.

B. Post-assessment 1. The instructor will maintain a continuous record of each student's progress. 2. Students should be evaluated periodically throughout the semester. 3. The instructor will determine the weight of each graded assignment. 4. Instructors will require writing assignments other than quizzes and formal exams. 5. Plagiarism is both intellectual theft and academic dishonesty and will not be tolerated. Any work that is plagiarized could result in failure of the course (References: EPCC, Student Handbook/Eastlake High School Student Handbooks).

VII. Disability Statement (American with/Disabilities Act [ADA]) EPCC offers a variety of services to persons with documented sensory, mental, physical, or temporary disabling conditions to promote success in classes. If you have a disability 3

and believe you may need services, you are encouraged to contact the Center for Students with Disabilities to discuss your needs with a counselor. All discussions and documentation are kept confidential. Offices located: VV Rm C-112 (831-2426); TM Rm 1400 (831-5808); RG Rm B-201 (831-4198); NWC Rm M-54 (831-8815); and MDP Rm A-125 (831-7024).

VIII. 6 Drop Rule Students who began attending Texas public institutions of higher education for the first time during the Fall 2007 semester or later are subject to a 6-Drop limit for all undergraduate classes. Developmental, ESL, Dual Credit and Early College High School classes are exempt from this rule. All students should consult with their instructor before dropping a class. Academic assistance is available. Students are encouraged to see Counseling Services if dropping because exemptions may apply. Refer to the EPCC catalog and website for additional information.

IX. Course Requirements This course is designed to cover three major time lines of British Literature:

1. The Romantic Period 2. The Victorian Age 3. The Twentieth Century and After

In addition to following a historical time line, we will also analyze each selection in relation to the social and cultural aspects during each time period.

A. Daily Assignments/Quizzes/Journals (50%) - In college level courses, students are expected to read all assigned texts and participate in classroom discussions. In addition to reading assignment, supplemental work will be assigned to reinforce the reading. This may be in the form of daily assigned work or quizzes on the reading assignments.

Journals - Students will prepare a weekly one page written response which represents their analysis of one of the assigned readings. These responses should reflect your close reading of the text, support critical analysis, and may be used to annotate questions you have regarding the assignment. The journal may not simply be a summary of the reading. The journal entries should concentrate on historical, social, and cultural influences. Also pay particular attention to the author’s point of view and what literary devices are illustrated in the writing.

B. Exams/Literary Analysis (30%) – Students will write one literary analysis paper over each of the of the major time periods covered. Literary analysis essays will be 3-4 pages in length and must include at least five sources. Students will have one exam over the assigned independent reading. 4

C. Final Exam (20%) – Comprehensive exam- Multiple choice exam covering the three major periods.

1. Grading Scale and Course Grade: Average Grade Letter Grade 90 - 100% A 80 - 89% B 70 - 79% C 60 - 69% D 0 - 59% F (I=Incomplete, W= Withdrawal – the student is responsible for I/W, WF = Instructor Withdraw Failing - EPCC, Dual Credit Handbook at EPCC website).

Assignments for Grades: Daily Assignments/Quizzes/Journals (50%) Literary analysis papers (3) and exam (30%) Final Exam (20%)

2. Late Work - Daily Assignments and Exams/Essays I accept no late work. Check the calendar for assignment due dates. If you know you will be absent, make arrangements to turn-in the work early or by email. You may only make-up scheduled exams/essays if you have an excused absence. Arrangements for make-up exams must be made prior to the scheduled exam and it is your responsibility to notify me. All students must be present for the final exam.

X. Instructor’s Policies

A. Attendance/Drop Policy

Attendance is a major factor in succeeding in any college course. Students are expected to come to class on time and prepared. The attendance guidelines for this course will follow the procedures defined by Eastlake High School and Socorro Independent School District. If an absence is un-excused students will not be able to make-up missing assignments. Students are responsible to provide the necessary documentation for the absence to their assigned attendance clerk. Students will come to class on time and not be tardy. Tardiness causes a disruption and will not be tolerated. The EPCC drop policy is outlined in EPCC, 5

Dual Credit Handbook: http://www.epcc.edu/dualcredit/Documents/Dual %20Credit%20Handbook%2010-30-12.pdf

All students should consult the instructor before dropping this course. If for any reason you cannot complete the course you should drop the class on or before the official drop date.

B. Plagiarism:

Plagiarism is the use of another person’s work or original idea without giving credit to that person. Plagiarism also includes unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing an assignment. Examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to:

1) copying word for word out of a book, magazine, or the internet and not giving credit to the original source 2) turning in another person’s work with your name on it 3) paraphrasing too closely or changing only a few words in a sentence or paragraph

C. Cheating:

Cheating is copying another student’s work and includes: homework, class-work, or test answers. This applies whether copying is done with or without the other person’s knowledge. Cheating also includes the use of “cheat sheets” or writing information and/or answers on clothing, arms, or hands (text messaging answers with a cell phone or other electronic device).

D. Penalties for plagiarism and cheating:

These penalties apply to all assignments, including research papers. A referral will be sent to the assistant-principals’ office for documentation of the violation. Any student who is caught cheating or plagiarizing in any way while enrolled in Dual Credit classes will be immediately reassigned to regular classes. A report will also be sent to the Academic Dean and Vice President for Student Services, EPCC.

Any incident of cheating or plagiarism will become a permanent part of your school record and may affect future admission to colleges. Please refer to EPCC Dual Credit Handbook located on the EPCC website.

E. Writing Assignments: 6

All assignments must follow MLA guidelines using an MS-Word processing program. Font size will be 12 point, Times New Roman. Assignments not completed in the correct format will be returned and be subject to the late work policy.

1. Please refer to the following sources and internet sites for MLA format for your essays: Review – A Writer’s Reference, Diana Hacker:

http://www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/hacker-Daly-MLA.pdf http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/13/ http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/write/writesite/MLA_updates.pdf

2. All papers must be typed (12 pt., Times New Roman font, double spaced) 3. The format will be MLA style (1” margins, headers, pagination). Pagination will begin on 2nd page (Ex: Chavez 2 in the upper right hand corner):

Student Name Mr. Chavez English IV DC 2nd 8 January 2017

4. Title of Assignment (Centered)

F. Student Resources:

Students are encouraged to use EPCC’s Writing Center. EPCC’s has Writing Centers at each of their campuses. Students are also encouraged to meet with me during my office hours for questions or assistance with assignments. EPCC Online and Onsite Tutoring:

http://start.epcc.edu/Student/Tutorial/tutorialservices.html

G. Standard of Conduct/Cellular Phones:

Students must be familiar with the EPCC Standards of Conduct published in the College Catalog, Student Handbook, and Dual Credit Handbook. Cellular phones must be turned off during class. 7

XI. Calendar – British Literature II – 2323, Spring 2017 Note: The syllabus and calendar are subject to revisions. British Literature II - 2323 Spring Semester 2017 Calendar

EPCC First day of Class, 17 January 2017 EPCC End of Semester 15 May 2017 EPCC Final Exam Days: 8-13 May 2017 13 April 2017 – (Notify counselor by 10 April 2017) Last Day to Drop with a grade of “W”

January (17-22) Reading Assignments: Introduction: Norton D The Romantic Period (1785-1832), Read pgs. 3-27 Lecture/PPT/Video: The Romantic Period William Blake (112-116) “The Lamb,” (120) “The Clod and the Pebble,” (127) “The Tyger,” (129-130) “The Garden of Love,” (131-132)

Writing Activity: Journal- A minimum of a one page entry in response to the works assigned for the week. Consider entries to be a reflection of your critical and innovative thinking about topics of the course. Quiz- Period introduction overview quiz

January 23-29 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Video: The Romantic Period

Mary Wollstonecraft (208-211)

From A Vindication of the Rights of Women, (211-239)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Quiz- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Introduction and 8

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Chapters 2 and 4

January 30- February 5 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Video

William Wordsworth (270-272) “Lines Written in Early Spring,” (280) “Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known,” (305) “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” (337-341) “The World is too much with us”

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Discussion questions

February 6-12 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Videos

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (437-439)

“Kubla Khan,” (459-462)

George Gordon, Lord Byron (612-616)

“She Walks in Beauty,” (617-618) “So we’ll go no more a roving,” (620) “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year,” (742-744)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Discussion questions Literary Analysis Paper (Romantic Period) due February 16

February 13-19 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Videos

Percy Bysshe Shelley (748-751)

“Mutability,” (751-752) “Ozymandias,” (776) “On Love,” (776-777) “Stanzas Written in Dejection—December 1818, near Naples,” (778-779) “Prometheus Unbound,” (791-832). This is a beautiful but challenging play written in the tradition of classical Greek epic poetry. Please open the link below; it provides a simple, line- by-line explanation of the events taking place in the play and their significance. 9

Notes on Shelley's Prometheus Unbound

Introduction to “A Defence of Poetry,” and From “A Defense of Poetry,” (856-869)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Quiz: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Defence of Poetry”

February 20-26 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Video

John Keats (901-903)

From“Endymion: A Poetic Romance,” (906-910) “La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad,” (923-924) “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” (930-931)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Introduction, (981-983) “The Last Man”, (983-986) “The Mortal Immortal”, (986-995)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Discussion questions Literary analysis (Romantic Period) due Feb 16

February 27-March 5 Reading Assignments: Introduction: Norton E The Victorian Age (1830-1901) Read pgs. Lecture/PPT/Videos

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1123-1124)

From Sonnets From the Portuguese, # 21, #22, #32, and #43, (1129-1130)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1156-1159)

“Mariana,” (1159-1161) “The Lotus Eaters,” (1166-1170) “Tears, Idle Tears,” (1183)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Quiz: Period introduction overview quiz

March 6-12 10

Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Videos

Robert Browning (1275-1278)

“Porphyria’s Lover,” (1278-1279) “My Last Duchess,” (1292-1283) “The Bishop Orders His Tomb,” (1286-1289)

March 13-19, EPCC - Spring Break/EHS Spring Break Read novella- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848dj/index.html

March 20-26 Intercession Break Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Video

Review novella- handouts/ activities/discussion questions

Writing Activity: Journal response to novella Exam- Multiple choice test over novella Literary Analysis Paper (Victorian Age) due April 7

March 27-April 2 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Video

Oscar Wilde (1720-1721)

The Importance of Being Earnest, (1733-1777)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Quiz: The Importance of Being Earnest

April 3-9 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Video

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1830-1831)

“The Speckled Band,” (1831-1848)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading 11

Discussion questions Literary Analysis Paper (Victorian Age) due April 7

April 10-16 Reading Assignments: Introduction: Norton F The 20th Century and After pgs. 1887-1910 Lecture/PPT/Video

Thomas Hardy (1914-1915)

“Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave,” (1942) “Channel Firing,” (1939)

James Joyce (2276-2278)

“Araby,” (2278-2282)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Quiz: “Araby” and period introduction overview quiz

Last Day to Drop with a grade of “W” – 13 April 2017, notify counselors by 10 April 2017

April 17-23 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Videos

Joseph Conrad (1947-1948)

Heart of Darkness pgs. (1951-2011)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Quiz: Heart of Darkness Literary Analysis Paper (18 Century - Present) due May 5

April 24-30 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Video

Virginia Woolf (2143-4)

“A Room of One’s Own,” (2264-2276)

D.H. Lawrence (2481-2482) 12

“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” (2496-2507)

May 1-7 Reading Assignments: Lecture/PPT/Video

T. S. Elliot (2521-2524)

“Tradition and the Individual Talent” (2554-2559)

Katherine Mansfield (2567-2568)

“The Garden Party” (2581-2591)

Writing Activity: Journal response to weekly reading Discussion questions Quiz: Over “Tradition and the Individual Talent” and “The Garden Party” Literary Analysis Paper (18 Century - Present) due May 5

May 8-13 EPCC Finals Review for Final Exam – Comprehensive Exam (Multiple Choice/Essay) Final Exam