ENG 102

Wk 1

1. Review Syllabus ppt. and paper2. Expectations are required for

continued success in the class.

Questions: #1

How many points does a student earn for each day they participate; answering questions, discussing, working during in class time?

Answer

10 points total possibleIf there is lack of participation or No

Show…No points.

Questions: #2

How many journals need to be written each week?

Answer

1 journal every week, not to be confused with 4 Essays

Questions: #3

Which Essay is the largest one and what is the topic?

Answer

The 3rd EssayOthello or The Great Gatbsy

Questions: #4

How do I keep in touch with the instructor? What site can I go to on the web, where I can find the latest update on the class?

Answer

1. E-mail dysart.org2. Telephone3. readingcomprehensionline.com Writing Workshop ENG102 ppt.

Questions: #5

When is the latest a student can turn in a paper? How many points will they get at this point?

Answer

1 wk NO LATER½ points after 1 week

3. Login to GCC user account

Instructor’s web site:Readingcomprehensiononline.com

Literature The Human Experience: Why We Read Literature (Klotz and Abcarian)

Pg. 3&4 It’s apart of our lives It helps define us It’s something we have done since we first watched cartoons “Serious” Literature, no less than “popular” literature, embodies

thrilling adventure. American Literary history helps us to define who we are and what

our society values, what it condemns, how our society expects us to behave, what constitutes success both economically and morally, “Good and Evil”.

Reading can make us wise, humane, and just citizens of us all.

Reading Actively

Pg. 5Don’t read passivelyDon’t let the author con you.Keep a pencil in your hand and interact

with the page. When you feel a protest rising in your

throat, mark your feeling in the margin.

Reading and Thinking Critically

Pg. 5-6 When you become a critical reader, you learn

to address your biases, enlarge your universe, and test your comfortable convictions.

When you adopt a critical position toward a piece of literature, you need to test and question that position.

Scrutinize your argument to determine whether your readers will find your thesis persuasive and your supporting evidence convincing.

Reading Fiction

Pg. 6-10 Works of fiction narrate, or tell, stories Fiction creates imaginary worlds by telling

stories written in prose, about realistic characters, set in physical environment, and with sustained attention to descriptive detail.

Narrative fiction is not meant to recount actual events, of course, it may refer to real events or real persons.

Methods of Fiction

1. Tone2. Plot3. Characterization4. Setting5. Point of View6. Irony7. Theme

Tone

Plot

Characterization

Setting

Point of View

Irony

Theme

Exploring Fiction ?’s

1. What is the tone of the story? How does the tone contribute to the effect of the story?

2. What is the plot of the story? Does the sequence of events that make up the plot emerge logically from the nture of the characters?

3. Who are the principal characters? 4. What is the setting of the story? What other settings would

effect the story? 5. What point of view is the narrator telling the story? 6. What is the theme of the story ? Does the story seem to support or conflict with your own political

and moral position? When was the story written? Draw on your knowledge of history

and inference about the events that were not clarified.

Annotating While You Read

Pg. 19-21Be serious and aggressive reader. Don’t

let your eyes wonder. Keep a pencil in your hand and interact

with the text.Answer questions as you read.Review and practice

Writing About Literature

Responding to Literature “Span of Life” by Robert Frost

The old dog barks backward without getting up.

I can remember when he was a pup.

Take 5 minutes to write a response…???IS it difficult? Look again, closely…READ PAGE 38

Now Challenge yourself from now on when you read and respond.

Now Challenge yourself from now on when you read and respond.

When you write about literature, you begin with your response to the work.

Then you need to consider the writer’s purpose. Explore the text, try to discover how the plot, setting, characterizations- the very words conspire to a theme. Than respond.

DEFINE, DETAILS, DISCOVER, DESCRIBE, DESIGN

Keeping a Journal

You do not need to worry about grammatical sentences, writing cohesive paragraphs, developing your ides, or even making sense. A free to comment and record your reactions.

In time the journal comes to write a full-length essay by providing topics and jotting down your thoughts and expressions.

NOTE: I do have a certain set of reactions I need you to respond to. (Syllabus)

“The Habit of Expression leads to the research for something to Express”

Exploring and Planning in Writing.

1. Ask good questions2. Establish a working Thesis3. Gather information4. Organize information

Research Papers

Chapter 1: (pg. 1-16) Shaping Your Topic

Preliminary Decisions: nature of paper, purpose of writing, audience

Report: a record of your research Argument: Develops a viewpoint about the research. 1. Subject 2. Purpose and narrow to a topic 3. Thesis: Your plan for accomplishment…purpose. 4. Investigate the topic : respond information onto note cards. 5. Organization: plan 5. Documenting the sources

Audience: Writing is a two way process involving a writer or a speaker and a reader or a listener. It is easy to ignore your invisible audience. The audience should determine what and how you write.

What does the audience know? What are their opinions? Keep your imagined audience in mind during every phase of the research process.

HELPFUL TECHNIQUES: Research Log Work Schedule mental inventory into a list Brainstorming Techniques

Narrow Subject: surfing and browsing

Formulating a Thesis: a statement of purpose or a positionWriting a Prospectus: a paragraph or two that identifies your topic,

thesis and kinds of sources that will be consulted, problems that are anticipated and special aspects of the projects.

List Possible MAIN IDEAS

Exercise A

Page 17 and 18

Exercise B

Page 19 and 20

"The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

http://members.accessus.net/~bradley/page3.html http://www.bookrags.com/The_House_on_Mango_Str

eet http://english.byu.edu/Novelinks/Novel%20pages/The

%20House%20on%20Mango%20Street.htm http://masconomet.org/teachers/trevenen/mango.html http://hometown.aol.com/joporyk/HOMS.html http://eolit.hrw.com/hlla/novelguides/hs/Mini-Guide.Cis

neros.pdf http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ehowarth/557/house.html

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/Hawthorne.htm Essay Example

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/criticaldefine/psychessay.pdf

Sample Essayhttp://wps.prenhall.com/

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http://www.bookrags.com/Young_Goodman_Brown

Poetry:

"Incident" by Countee Cullen http://www.duboislc.org/ShadesOfBlack/CounteeCullen.html http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/cullen.htm http://www.afropoets.net/counteecullen.html http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/cullen_countee.html

"Advice to My Son" by Peter Meinke http://www.wintektx.com/freeman/advicetomyson.htm http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/experience_literature7e/

poetry/meinke.htm http://www.leelanau.com/nmj/summer/gradspeech.html Speech

Reading Response Journal Questions and Guidelines:

A reading journal is an informal piece of writing in which you explore your own experiences, ideas, and feelings related to and stimulated by the selection you have read. They will be used as the basis for class discussions, tests, and essays. Journal entries will be date-stamped, collected periodically, and graded for being complete, on time, and showing evidence of your engagement with the selection. There are no “wrong” entries, merely incomplete, late, and/or off-topic ones. Spelling, grammar, etc. will not be graded.

Although it is important to keep track of what events took place, what ideas were discussed, and what characters were mentioned in the reading selection, your reading journals should not just summarize the information or sound like you are answering a series of questions. The purpose of a reading journal is to enter into a conversation with the text, the author, and yourself. Comment on what puzzles you, what attracts you about the reading, and indicate reasons for your response. Sometimes you might find the literary terms and critical approaches that we will be incorporating in the course

Reading journal entries must be HANDWRITTEN and completed in a lined hardcover, wide-ruled, 100 sheet composition book. You can and should use both sides of the paper. You should fill at least one page (one side) each time. There is no need to rewrite the questions; nevertheless, make sure your responses are complete enough to incorporate the ideas effectively. It is more effective to produce a response that resembles a long paragraph rather than a numbered list of answers to questions; you do not need to answer all of these questions or in this particular order, although they do encourage a broad range of ways to respond to a selection regardless of genre.

Reading Homework Assignment

1.) 10/12/07Innocence and Experience "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros (pgs. 127)Short Story (Fiction)

2.) 10/12/07Innocence and Experience "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (pgs. 80)Short Story (Fiction)

3.) 10/12/07Innocence and Experience "Incident" by Countee Cullen (pg. 141) "Advice to My Son" by Peter Meinke (pgs. 144)Poetry

Reading Assignments: Innocence and ExperienceRead Chapter 1 and 2 in Research

Paper text.Journal Writing1st Essay Assigned- Due 2 weeks later.

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