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Welcome to EAC 150! This semester we will be working hard on refining your English writing, reading, oral and analytical skills. The EAC150 subject outline is available at http://els.senecac.on.ca. This addendum is your guide to the subject requirements and activities in my class.
Texts and Materials
Kanurkas, Irene and Darrell Nunn. An Anthology of Readings for College English Online. ISBN 017641579-3
A good quality English-language dictionary such as the Oxford Canadian Dictionary
A good quality thesaurus (optional but strongly recommended)
A folder/portfolio to keep all work throughout the semester
Grading/Assignments
“Pop” Reading Quizzes or Group Work 10%
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Evaluation
Term Work
The term work will constitute 75% of the final grade. A minimum of 50% of graded term work must be completed in class. Students will read 8-10 selections and write a minimum of 2500 words during the term, including at least two 500-word analytical essays written in class; a 1000-word analytical essay; and a research assignment. Students will develop arguments based upon a critical appreciation of the themes and literary techniques presented in the readings. They will also support their views with textual references. No more than 10% of the final grade will be allotted to quizzes and/or group work.
Final Examination
The final exam will constitute 25% of the course grade. It will be a common exam in the form of a textual analysis. Students must pass the term work and the final exam to pass the course.
Grading System
In addition to the usual passing grades of A+ to D, there are two grades that denote unsuccessful attempts at EAC150:
F (0 to 49%) Failure (term work has not been completed)
ATT The student has satisfactory attendance and has completed the term work, but has not met the learning outcomes. Any students receiving ATT in EAC 150 will continue their studies in EAC 150 in subsequent semesters until they have met the learning outcomes. In the meantime, the ATT grade does not affect the
I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby soxers and drug-store Romeos with reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe! (62).
My English Literature major has helped me to achieve an outstanding level of appreciation, enjoyment, and knowledge of both American and British Literature. As a high school AP English student, I struggled through great works like Hamlet and To the Lighthouse. My teacher’s daily lectures (there was no such thing as class discussion) taught me merely to interpret the works as critics had in the past. I did not enjoy the reading or writing process. As a freshman at Loras, I was enrolled in the Critical Writing: Poetry class. For the first time since grade school, my writing ability was praised and the sharing of my ideas was encouraged by an enthusiastic and nurturing professor. Despite the difficulty of poetry, I enjoyed reading it.
Look to see how many journal entries are required for your grade level on the page where your book is listed. Journal entry requirements are per book. You are all reading different books, of different lengths, and of different levels of potential analysis. The more you converse and analyze the text, the more you will be prepared with the essay assignment and test to follow in September.
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Letter Grade: A = 90 - 100%; B = 80 - 89%; C = 70 - 79%; D = 60 - 69%; F = 0 – 59%.
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There will be formative assessments on student’s participation, progress, and effort during the lesson. For instance, in the individual handout sheet, student’s ideas and thoughts on each question will be assessed, and the differences of the responses between the Bellringer and the exit slip will also be evaluated as well. The Bellringer can be examined as a pretest that teachers can use for determining what students already know (Woolfolk, 2015, p. 571). The summative assessments will be held mainly on students’ English language development in order to examine the level of accomplishment students gained (p. 571). For native speaking students, teachers will examine the quality of student’s response on the homework assignment sheet and the usage of tone, diction, and literary devices in building arguments on the critical response. Also, student’s reflection on fellow students’ contribution regarding the argument construction and the racism will be examined as well.
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JAMES HURST Adapted from: Elements of Literature: Third Course. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 2003.
Too many F’s in a school year will fail the student and require the student to take the same grade a second time.
It's that time of year again, the last few weeks college. You have been on time to every class session and have managed to add a few points to your normal course average. Just a few more weeks to go and you will be on your way to a well needed vacation, which you have carefully spent the last couple months planning. There is only one thing that stands in the way, final exams. Just as every student before you and every student that will come after you, final examinations can be very frustrating and stressful. Proper testing preparation combined with skilled testing strategies can help anyone overcome those examination nightmares.
“A & P.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 10th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007. 16-20.
I am trying to get a head start on the final exam. Can you please tell me if it will cumulative? Will the information on the midterm be part of it, along with the new material? I am just trying to see were my facts should be, because there is a lot of information in the material to remember. Thank you for the heads up in your “Response About Exam, Course-to-Date and Survey Results.” (2017) I really appreciate the feedback.
Since Freshman year at Rowan University, I have aspired towards obtaining a higher education of graduate studies within the field of English Literature. Thus, I am applying to Rutgers University-Camden Masters in English program in the quest to realize my greatest career objective of pedagogy at the collegiate level. This Masters in English program will be the institution that sharpens my literary prowess and analytical writing methods.
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