Main, Michael

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Eastern Illinois UniversityThe KeepSpring 1999 1999Spring 1-15-1999ENG 1002C-019-037: Literature andCompositionMichael MainEastern Illinois UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/english_syllabi_spring1999Part of the English Language and Literature CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 1999 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Spring 1999 by an authorizedadministrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact tabruns@eiu.edu.Recommended CitationMain, Michael, "ENG 1002C-019-037: Literature and Composition" (1999). Spring 1999. 29.http://thekeep.eiu.edu/english_syllabi_spring1999/29Michael Main E.I.U.-- Composition II MWF 11-11:50, 2-2:50 MW 3-4:15 Required Texts: Office Hours: MWF 9:30-11:00, Office Phone: 581-6288 Office: Coleman 339 G CLASS POLICY SHEET /coac- 01 q -03 ii W 1-2, TH 10-12 · The Bedford Introduction to Literature, 4th ed., and A Pocket Style Manual, 2nd ed. (grammar reference). A dictionary is also strongly suggested. Both books should be brought to class every day. Catalog description: 1002C. Composition and Literature. A writing course designed to improve skills in critical thinking and analytical expression based on the reading of literary texts. Prerequisite: 1001C-- you must have passed Comp I to be eligible to take this class. INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES: (from departmental guidelines): Students should receive instruction that enables them: To write expository and persuasive papers in which paragraphs, sentences, and words develop a central idea that responds to reading of literary works. To read poetry, fiction, and drama expressing a wide range of cultural perspectives and values and to think critically and write analytically about them. To engage in reading and writing experiences about literature so as to establish a foundation for continued social, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic discovery and appreciation. Minimum writing requirement: 5000 words. EVALUATION SYSTEM AND GRADING STANDARDS: The grade for the course will be based largely upon the student's demonstrated mastery of the above listed objectives. In addition to the major essays, a journal, attendance, participation, and a take-home final exam will also determine the final grade. Grades given are A,B,C, and NC (no credit). Students must be writing at C level or above to pass. A grade of NC will force the student to retake the course. The grade breakdown is as follows: 2 three page essays 1 seven page paper, research 1 group project, approx. 9 pages + student journal, quizzes, participation, etc. 1 take-home final exam essay (6 pages) 10% 20% 20% 20% 20% each total The grading standards issued by the English Department are available to every student. If you have questions regarding a grade you are issued, please don't hesitate to bring your questions to my attention. I consider it your responsibility to make sure you fully understand the grades and comments you are given on any assignment. Absences will also factor into the final grade. Attendance is vitally important to successful completion of the class, and it is the student's responsibility to make up any assignments missed due to absences. More than four absences-- unexcused-- will result in a lower final class grade. Additionally, I prefer to be contacted beforehand if an absence is unavoidable. Plaaiarism is "the appropriation or imitation of the language, ideas, and/or thoughts of another author, and representation of them as one's own original work" (Random House Dictionary of the English Language). See your school handbook, or see me for details. Plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the assignment, and can also result in a failing grade for the class. Any incident of plagiarism will be reported to the Judicial Affairs Office. Disabilities: If you have a documented disability and wish to receive academic accommodations, please contact the Coordinator of the Office of Disability Services (581-6583) as soon as possible. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION: This class will involve workshopping, group-discussion, in-class writing, and (possibly) student presentations as well as lecturing. Students are expected to write polished essays, correctly documented research papers, and personal/student journals. Failure to turn in assignments (including rough drafts and collected journals) by the beginning of the period on the due date will result in a lowered letter grade for the assignment. My in-class expectations are simple; I expect each student to respect the opinions and the expressions of every other student in the class. I will allow a great deal of classroom freedom of expression; do not abuse the classroom space by disrespecting other members of the class. Anyone who cannot responsibly participate in class discussion may be asked to leave the classroom. In this literature-based class, it is imperative that you be prepared, having completed the reading assignments for each day's discussion. Failure to demonstrate your timely completion of the reading, through discussion, quizzes, journals, etc. will result in drastic grade-related measures. Journals: Journals will be simple: for each class day, when a story/poem/play is assigned, I expect to see a brief written response, which may (or may not) involve questions from the book at the end of the piece; I expect to see your thoughts or questions on one or more pieces written out in brief form. The journal related to a given reading assignment should be completed before that assignment is to be discussed in class. I reserve the right to collect some journals on the date for which they should be done, as a sort of quiz; otherwise, they will be collected en masse at the end of the semester. I look forward to an exciting semester working with you. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. That's why I'm here. CALENDAR (This calendar is subject to change; unless you are told otherwise, however, it is expected that you will have all readings, journals, and essays listed for each day ready on that day) Week Mon: Wed: Fri: l (Jan. 11-15) PART I: FICTION Introduction to class 3-11, 11-19, 22-24 (Reading Literature, 54-63 (Faulkner, essays on Faulkner) Week 2 (Jan. 18-22) Mon: Martin Luther King Jr. Day-- no classes Reading Fiction, Rom. Tip Sheet) Wed: 78-118 (Character, Dickens, Mukherjee, Melville, Hawthorne+McCall on Melville) ESSAY #1 ASSIGNED (3+ pages) Fri: 118-131 (Atwood, "Death by Landscape") Week 3 (Jan. 25-29) Mon: 148-153, 160-186 (lst and 3rd person narration), (Checkov, Oates) Wed: 187-193 (Symbolism, Cisneros, Prager) Fri: 207-226 (Theme, Crane, Mansfield, Welty) Week 4 (Feb. 1-5) Mon: 229-243 (Style, Tone, Irony, Garcia Marquez, Olsen) ESSAY #1 DUE!! Wed: 264-277, 286-297 (Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown, "The Birthmark") Fri: 308-313, 317-320 (Perspectives on Hawthorne, by various authors) ESSAY #2 ASSIGNED (3+ pages) Week 5 (Feb. 8-12) Mon: 416-439 (Faulkner, perspectives on Faulkner by various) Wed: 443-450 (Erdich, "Snares") Fri: Lincoln's Birthday-- no classes Week 6 (Feb. 15-19) Mon: 450-456, 462-463 (Jewett, Kincaid) ESSAY #2 DUE! ! ! Wed: 492-497, 540-550 (Allende, Gish Jen) Fri: Finish discussion of fiction GROUP PROJECT ASSIGNED (9 pages, 3 students) Week 7 (Feb. 22-26) PART II: POETRY Mon: 589-607 (Reading Poetry: concentrate on Piercy, Updike, Francis cummings) Wed: 607-9+11-12, 621-624, 627-628 (Farries, Springsteen), (Diction, Jarrell), (Tone, Fainlight) Fri: 631-635, 640-642 (Herrick, Marvell, Keats, Brooks) Week 8 (Mar. 1-5) Mon: 649-650, 670-72 (Images, Williams, Pound, Hulme) Wed: 672-674, 687 (Sim., Metaphor, Shakespeare, Atwood, Atwood) GROUP PROJECT OUTLINE DUE!!! Fri: 693-698, 701, (Symbol, Allegory, Irony, Frost, Poe, Robinson, cummings) 9 (Mar. 8-12) Week Mon: Wed: 719-21, 725-6, 731, 736, (Sounds, Rhyme, Anon., Southey, Carroll, Kingston) 744-751, 755, 757 (Rhythm, Whitman, Wordsworth, Yeats, Blake, Tennyson) GROUP PROJECT DUE!!! Fri: 762, 65, 67, 69-70, 72, 74-5, 76, 79-80 (Common Poetic Forms; Sonnet, Shakespeare ("My mistress'"); Villanelle, Thomas; Epigram, Coleridge; Haiku, Basho; Elegy, Heaney; Ode, Shelly; Parody, De Vries) Week 10 (Mar. 15-19) SPRING BREAK-- NO CLASSES Week 11 (Mar. 22-26) RESEARCH PAPER ASSIGNED (7+ pages) Mon: 788, 93; 799-802 (Open Form Poems, Williams, Ginsberg, Olds, writing about poetry, Bishop) Wed: Dickinson: 805-808, 811 "Success", 815 "I taste", 819 "The Soul", 823 "Fly Buzz" 825 "stop for death", 827 "bustle in the house" Fri: Perspectives on Dickinson: 831, 832, 833, 838-41; Writing about author in depth 843-Week 11 (Mar. 29-Apr. 2) Mon: Frost 849-855 (through "Mending Wall"); Hughes 883-84, 899 "Let America," 904 "English B," 911-912 ("Perspectives on Hughes") Wed: Case Study: Eliot's "Prufrock": 921-932 Fri: 962 (Hogan); 984 (Piercy); 987 (Plath); 1011 (WCW) 1018-19 (Yeats); Finish Poetry. Week 12 (Apr. 5-9) PART III: DRAMA Mon: 1071-1084, 1107-1113; (Reading Drama, Glaspell, paper on Glaspell) Wed: Sophocles 1113-1120, 1162-1175 Antigone (first half) Fri: 1175-1198 Antigone (second half), Reading Shakespeare 1211-1222 Week 13 (Apr. 12-16) Mon: 1222-1276 Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream Wed: Midsummer Night's Dream Fri: Midsummer Night's Dream Week 14 (Apr. 19-23) RESEARCH PROJECT OUTLINE/MATERIALS DUE Mon: 1500-1523 Ibsen's A Doll House, Act I Wed: 1523-1552 A Doll House, Acts II and III Fri: Case Study on Ibsen: 1565-1582 RESEARCH PAPER DUE ! ! ! Week 15 (Apr. 26-30) Mon: Movie: drama (or finish plays, above) COMPLETE JOURNALS DUE Wed: Movie: drama FINAL EXAMINATION (take home) ASSIGNED Fri: Last Day of Classes Finals (May 3-7) FINAL EXAM due Tuesday by 3:00 p.m. 

ENG 1002C-019-037: Literature and Composition

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Eastern Illinois University
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Spring 1999 1999
Spring 1-15-1999
ENG 1002C-019-037: Literature and
Composition
Michael Main
Eastern Illinois University
Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/english_syllabi_spring1999
Part of the English Language and Literature Commons
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 1999 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Spring 1999 by an authorized
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Recommended Citation
Main, Michael, "ENG 1002C-019-037: Literature and Composition" (1999). Spring 1999. 29.
http://thekeep.eiu.edu/english_syllabi_spring1999/29
Michael Main 
E.I.U.-- Composition II 
MWF 11-11:50, 2-2:50 
MW 3-4:15 
Required Texts: 
Office Hours: MWF 9:30-11:00, 
Office Phone: 581-6288 
Office: Coleman 339 G 
CLASS POLICY SHEET 
/coac- 01 q 
-03 ii 
W 1-2, TH 10-12 · 
The Bedford Introduction to Literature, 4th ed., and A Pocket Style Manual, 2nd ed. 
(grammar reference). A dictionary is also strongly suggested. Both books should be 
brought to class every day. 
Catalog description: 1002C. Composition and Literature. A writing course designed to 
improve skills in critical thinking and analytical expression based on the reading of 
literary texts. Prerequisite: 1001C-- you must have passed Comp I to be eligible to take 
this class. 
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES: (from departmental guidelines): 
Students should receive instruction that enables them: 
To write expository and persuasive papers in which paragraphs, sentences, and words 
develop a central idea that responds to reading of literary works. 
To read poetry, fiction, and drama expressing a wide range of cultural perspectives 
and values and to think critically and write analytically about them. 
To engage in reading and writing experiences about literature so as to establish a 
foundation for continued social, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic discovery and 
appreciation. 
Minimum writing requirement: 5000 words. 
EVALUATION SYSTEM AND GRADING STANDARDS: 
The grade for the course will be based largely upon the student's demonstrated 
mastery of the above listed objectives. In addition to the major essays, a journal, 
attendance, participation, and a take-home final exam will also determine the final grade. 
Grades given are A,B,C, and NC (no credit). Students must be writing at C level or above 
to pass. A grade of NC will force the student to retake the course. 
The grade breakdown is as follows: 
2 three page essays 
1 seven page paper, research 
1 group project, approx. 9 pages 
+ student journal, quizzes, 
participation, etc. 
1 take-home final exam essay (6 pages) 
10% 
20% 
20% 
20% 
20% 
each 
total 
The grading standards issued by the English Department are available to every student. If 
you have questions regarding a grade you are issued, please don't hesitate to bring your 
questions to my attention. I consider it your responsibility to make sure you fully 
understand the grades and comments you are given on any assignment. 
Absences will also factor into the final grade. Attendance is vitally important to 
successful completion of the class, and it is the student's responsibility to make up any 
assignments missed due to absences. More than four absences-- unexcused-- will result in 
a lower final class grade. Additionally, I prefer to be contacted beforehand if an 
absence is unavoidable. 
Plaaiarism is "the appropriation or imitation of the language, ideas, and/or thoughts of 
another author, and representation of them as one's own original work" (Random House 
Dictionary of the English Language). See your school handbook, or see me for details. 
Plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the assignment, and can also result in a 
failing grade for the class. Any incident of plagiarism will be reported to the Judicial 
Affairs Office. 
Disabilities: If you have a documented disability and wish to receive academic 
accommodations, please contact the Coordinator of the Office of Disability Services (581-
6583) as soon as possible. 
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION: 
This class will involve workshopping, group-discussion, in-class writing, and 
(possibly) student presentations as well as lecturing. Students are expected to write 
polished essays, correctly documented research papers, and personal/student journals. 
Failure to turn in assignments (including rough drafts and collected journals) by the 
beginning of the period on the due date will result in a lowered letter grade for the 
assignment. 
My in-class expectations are simple; I expect each student to respect the opinions and the 
expressions of every other student in the class. I will allow a great deal of classroom 
freedom of expression; do not abuse the classroom space by disrespecting other members of 
the class. Anyone who cannot responsibly participate in class discussion may be asked to 
leave the classroom. In this literature-based class, it is imperative that you be 
prepared, having completed the reading assignments for each day's discussion. Failure to 
demonstrate your timely completion of the reading, through discussion, quizzes, journals, 
etc. will result in drastic grade-related measures. 
Journals: 
Journals will be simple: for each class day, when a story/poem/play is assigned, I 
expect to see a brief written response, which may (or may not) involve questions from the 
book at the end of the piece; I expect to see your thoughts or questions on one or more 
pieces written out in brief form. The journal related to a given reading assignment 
should be completed before that assignment is to be discussed in class. I reserve the 
right to collect some journals on the date for which they should be done, as a sort of 
quiz; otherwise, they will be collected en masse at the end of the semester. 
I look forward to an exciting semester working with you. If you have any questions, 
don't hesitate to ask. That's why I'm here. 
CALENDAR 
(This calendar is subject to change; unless you are told otherwise, however, it is 
expected that you will have all readings, journals, and essays listed for each day ready 
on that day) 
Week 
Mon: 
Wed: 
Fri: 
l (Jan. 11-15) PART I: FICTION 
Introduction to class 
3-11, 11-19, 22-24 (Reading Literature, 
54-63 (Faulkner, essays on Faulkner) 
Week 2 (Jan. 18-22) 
Mon: Martin Luther King Jr. Day-- no classes 
Reading Fiction, Rom. Tip Sheet) 
Wed: 78-118 (Character, Dickens, Mukherjee, Melville, Hawthorne+McCall on Melville) 
ESSAY #1 ASSIGNED (3+ pages) 
Fri: 118-131 (Atwood, "Death by Landscape") 
Week 3 (Jan. 25-29) 
Mon: 148-153, 160-186 (lst and 3rd person narration), (Checkov, Oates) 
Wed: 187-193 (Symbolism, Cisneros, Prager) 
Fri: 207-226 (Theme, Crane, Mansfield, Welty) 
Week 4 (Feb. 1-5) 
Mon: 229-243 (Style, Tone, Irony, Garcia Marquez, Olsen) 
ESSAY #1 DUE!! 
Wed: 264-277, 286-297 (Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown, "The Birthmark") 
Fri: 308-313, 317-320 (Perspectives on Hawthorne, by various authors) 
ESSAY #2 ASSIGNED (3+ pages) 
Week 5 (Feb. 8-12) 
Mon: 416-439 (Faulkner, perspectives on Faulkner by various) 
Wed: 443-450 (Erdich, "Snares") 
Fri: Lincoln's Birthday-- no classes 
Week 6 (Feb. 15-19) 
Mon: 450-456, 462-463 (Jewett, Kincaid) 
ESSAY #2 DUE! ! ! 
Wed: 492-497, 540-550 (Allende, Gish Jen) 
Fri: Finish discussion of fiction 
GROUP PROJECT ASSIGNED (9 pages, 3 students) 
Week 7 (Feb. 22-26) PART II: POETRY 
Mon: 589-607 (Reading Poetry: concentrate on Piercy, Updike, Francis cummings) 
Wed: 607-9+11-12, 621-624, 627-628 (Farries, Springsteen), (Diction, Jarrell), (Tone, 
Fainlight) 
Fri: 631-635, 640-642 (Herrick, Marvell, Keats, Brooks) 
Week 8 (Mar. 1-5) 
Mon: 649-650, 670-72 (Images, Williams, Pound, Hulme) 
Wed: 672-674, 687 (Sim., Metaphor, Shakespeare, Atwood, Atwood) 
GROUP PROJECT OUTLINE DUE!!! 
Fri: 693-698, 701, (Symbol, Allegory, Irony, Frost, Poe, Robinson, cummings) 
9 (Mar. 8-12) Week 
Mon: 
Wed: 
719-21, 725-6, 731, 736, (Sounds, Rhyme, Anon., Southey, Carroll, Kingston) 
744-751, 755, 757 (Rhythm, Whitman, Wordsworth, Yeats, Blake, Tennyson) 
GROUP PROJECT DUE!!! 
Fri: 762, 65, 67, 69-70, 72, 74-5, 76, 79-80 (Common Poetic Forms; Sonnet, Shakespeare 
("My mistress'"); Villanelle, Thomas; Epigram, Coleridge; Haiku, Basho; 
Elegy, Heaney; Ode, Shelly; Parody, De Vries) 
Week 10 (Mar. 15-19) 
SPRING BREAK-- NO CLASSES 
Week 11 (Mar. 22-26) 
RESEARCH PAPER ASSIGNED (7+ pages) 
Mon: 788, 93; 799-802 (Open Form Poems, Williams, Ginsberg, Olds, writing about poetry, 
Bishop) 
Wed: Dickinson: 805-808, 811 "Success", 815 "I taste", 819 "The Soul", 823 "Fly Buzz" 
825 "stop for death", 827 "bustle in the house" 
Fri: Perspectives on Dickinson: 831, 832, 833, 838-41; Writing about author in depth 843-
Week 11 (Mar. 29-Apr. 2) 
Mon: Frost 849-855 (through "Mending Wall"); Hughes 883-84, 899 "Let America," 904 
"English B," 911-912 ("Perspectives on Hughes") 
Wed: Case Study: Eliot's "Prufrock": 921-932 
Fri: 962 (Hogan); 984 (Piercy); 987 (Plath); 1011 (WCW) 1018-19 (Yeats); Finish Poetry. 
Week 12 (Apr. 5-9) PART III: DRAMA 
Mon: 1071-1084, 1107-1113; (Reading Drama, Glaspell, paper on Glaspell) 
Wed: Sophocles 1113-1120, 1162-1175 Antigone (first half) 
Fri: 1175-1198 Antigone (second half), Reading Shakespeare 1211-1222 
Week 13 (Apr. 12-16) 
Mon: 1222-1276 Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream 
Wed: Midsummer Night's Dream 
Fri: Midsummer Night's Dream 
Week 14 (Apr. 19-23) 
RESEARCH PROJECT OUTLINE/MATERIALS DUE 
Mon: 1500-1523 Ibsen's A Doll House, Act I 
Wed: 1523-1552 A Doll House, Acts II and III 
Fri: Case Study on Ibsen: 1565-1582 
RESEARCH PAPER DUE ! ! ! 
Week 15 (Apr. 26-30) 
Mon: Movie: drama (or finish plays, above) 
COMPLETE JOURNALS DUE 
Wed: Movie: drama 
FINAL EXAMINATION (take home) ASSIGNED 
Fri: Last Day of Classes 
Finals (May 3-7) 
FINAL EXAM due Tuesday by 3:00 p.m. 


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