Instructor: Mrs. Mueller

Office: Liberal Arts L (LA L)

Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00, T 12:30-1:30

EMAIL: bmueller@cerritos.edu Web Page: www.cerritos.edu/bmueller

Voice Mail: (562) 860-2451 ex 2821

English 100 Syllabus—Fall 2006 Ticket #25389

Class meets: TTH LA 23 7:00-9:00

Text: A World of Ideas by Lee A. Jacobus

Night by Ellie Wiesel

Materials: Your own disks, a folder for collecting and keeping returned essays.

Course Description

English 100 is designed to help the student learn and apply basic principles of effective composition as well as master important documentation, critical thinking and reading, and grammar skills. Overcoming writing inhibitions through the development of a writing process is stressed through prewriting, practice in composition, revision and sharing of essays. This class has been identified as a Teacher TRAC class.

Course Objectives and Outcomes

Upon completion of English 100, students will A) know and B) be able to do the following:

A.) Content Standards

To read, analyze, and understand college level writing

To understand various rhetorical terms and principles

To understand and be attentive to the conventions of written discourse that govern format, usage, and style in various rhetorical situations

To seek out thought-provoking, discussion-generating writing about current issues

B.) Application Standards

To apply the principles of rhetorical structure, purpose and audience to various writing situations

To produce writing that carefully synthesizes and assimilates the views of other writers, with appropriate citation

To either support or refute a claim (thesis) with reasoned evidence

To plan, draft, and revise an essay using the conventions of standard written English and various modes of writing (description, narration, process, cause and effect, definition, classification, comparison, exemplification, evaluation)

To paraphrase, summarize, and quote accurately what writers have to say on a topic

To attribute ideas to their authors using formal MLA documentation format

To use library and Internet sources

To substantially revise writing in response to the critiques of others

Student Responsibilities and Policies

Purchase Texts: Purchase texts and have appropriate materials in class. Do not expect other students or the instructor to supply materials for you. Get your campus email accounts setup in the first week.

Attendance: Attend class regularly. Attendance means more than physical presence. Your being in class with us regularly—enthusiastic about learning and prepared to participate—is important to your success and sense of well being; it is important to sustaining a productive and fulfilling learning environment. If for any reason you are unable to attend all or part of a class session, your contributions will be missed. Being late for class or leaving early is disruptive to the classroom environment; however, it is usually better to miss part of a class than all of it. Missing more than 30 minutes will be equivalent to a full class absence. Because participation is such an important part of class, a pattern of lateness or more than five absences will lower your grade or result in being dropped from the course.

Late Work: As a mature college student, you know that you are responsible for all lectures, discussions, videos, readings and other assignments, even if you are absent. Contact a classmate for notes, assignments, and handouts whether you miss all or part of a class. Your enthusiasm for and dedication to learning—shown by completing assignments, meeting deadlines, and participating fully in the classroom experience and group projects are keys to success. Late papers are stringently discouraged. You will have the opportunity to rewrite essays one and two, only if they are submitted on the date due. If essays are late, you will not be able to rewrite. I realize unforeseen emergencies are likely to occur. Therefore, one late paper (excluding Essay 6) will be accepted without penalty provided it is no more than one week late. No other late papers will be accepted. If you are unavoidably absent from class, work must be placed in my mailbox before class, with notification by phone, the day it is due to avoid a late penalty. No late papers will be accepted for the final Essay 6. The Inclass essays must be made up within a week. It is the student’s responsibility to contact the instructor and make arrangements. The final cannot be made up.

Plagiarism Policy (Presenting others’ work as your own): Any apparent scholastic dishonesty (i.e. plagiarism). If you are suspected of academic dishonesty, you may face disciplinary action and will result in a grade of “F.” Any assignment that does not appear to be deliberate plagiarism but fails to include clear and appropriate attribution of sources or direct quotation will receive a grade of 0. Lending your work to another person or submitting another person’s work as your own will also result in a grade of 0.

Support Services and Special Enrollment Needs: Students who need accommodations related to a disability, please make an appointment with me as soon as possible. Tutoring services are available to students in LAP. If you do not understand an assignment, ask questions or see me during the office hours listed above. Get a study buddy in class, exchange phone numbers and email addresses. If you are taking this class for Teacher TRAC or Scholars Honors, please inform me as well. Assignments will be provided to meet program requirements.

Study Buddy ___________________________Phone No_________________ email _________________

Classroom Behavior Policy: Disruptive classroom behavior, defined as anything that would interfere with “an instructor’s ability to conduct the class” or “the ability of other students to profit from the instructional program,” is explicitly prohibited. That includes bringing food and drinks to class, other than bottled water, and cell phones.

Format and Revision Policy: Students are strongly encouraged to revise Essays 1and 2. Late essays cannot be rewritten. Letter grades can be improved by one score provided the revision is substantial and at least one third of the material is a new addition to the content. All drafts must be included with all essay assignments. Final copies to be graded are placed on top. Staple in the upper left hand corner. Do not use cover sheets or plastic folders. See pages 656-666 for assistance with MLA documentation and the World of Ideas website: www.bedfordstmartins.com/worldofideas . For essays 2-6students will participate in the peer editing process for revisions but will not be given the opportunity to rewrite after a grade is given.

All essays must be typed, double spaced and formatted as follows:

Student’s full name in upper left hand corner

Mrs. Mueller

English 100 TTh 7-9

Date

Title Centered with First Letter of each Important Word Capitalized

Indent the first line of each new paragraph.

Grading will be on a 100 point scale: 90-100=A, 80-89=B, 70-79=C, 55-69=D, Below 54=F

Complete all out of class and in class essays as well as journals and submit them for grading on time(with a minimum of “C” or better to pass the class).

Essays—70 points

Essay 1—Narrative 4-5 pages 10 points (rewrite)

Essay 2—Oral History Interview 4-5 pages. 10 points (rewrite)

Essay 3—Introduction to a great thinker. 5-6 pages. 10 points

Essay 4— Making Connections 6-7 pages. 15 points

Essay 5— Reading Approach to Night 6-7 pages 15 points

Essay 6 – Cause and Consequence Analysis 6-7 pages. 15 points. No late papers accepted.

Quizzes and Responses to Readings—5 points

Grammar (bring scantron).

Night

InClass Essays—10 points

Other—15 points

Peer Edits

Reading response journals (10 total)

PowerPoint presentation for Essays 3 and 4.

Collaborative Group Presentation for Night

Class participation and group work

Essay Evaluation Criteria:

Addresses all parts of the writing assignment—using a specific writing strategy and significant content

Organization is coherent and unified with thesis, purpose, and audience clearly in mind

Mechanics, grammar, and form reflect standard English usage and MLA citation of sources

Essays: For the most part, your essay assignments will come from ideas generated in your text on the chapters indicated. Handouts will be given out to offer further clarification and evaluation criteria.

Presentation: Each student is responsible for a presentation in class for Essays 3and 4 which makes some use of computer technology (PowerPoint or linked websites are good possibilities). As soon as you have selected your topic, reserve it with your instructor. We want a range of subject matter in the presentations. We will be talking about project and paper topics as we discuss related readings.

Book Length Work: I have selected Night

Schedule of Assignments for English 100

Aug. Assignment and readings from World of Ideas Deadlines

Course introductions. Essay 1 Narrative.

Read: Douglas (263-280). Narrative Elements

Grammar diagnostic. Read: De Montaigne (231), Emerson (247)

Read: Montessori (281), Dewey (297), Freire (315)

Group work on readings

Assign Essay 2—Oral History

Draft of Essay 1/Peer Edit

Essay 1 Due

Sept.

Rewrite Workshop. Read: Plato (443), Descartes (457)

Read: Freud (469), Jung (483)

Read: Klein (499), Gardner (515)

Library orientation

Group work on reading

Assign Essay 3 Introduction to a great thinker

No Class—your instructor will be going to a conference—begin research on your author

Read: Nature essays (541-626) Group work

Essay 1 rewrite Due

Draft of Essay 2/Peer Edit

Essay 2 Due

Oct.

Works Cited and MLA format

Return Grammar Test. Read: Justice essays (113-224) Groups

Work on PowerPoint Presentations (bring disk)

Assign Essay 4—Making Connections

Read: Ethics and Morality essays (627-738) Group Work

Video on faith

Group presentations on belief systems

Midterm based on Ethics and Morality Readings—bring text.

Read: Arendt (85-97). Work on presentations

Grammar Test (ScanTron)

Rewrites of Essay 2 Due

Draft of Essay 3/Peer Edit

Essay 3 Due/Presentation

Thesis due for Essay 4

InClass Essay--Midterm

Draft of Essay 4-Peer Review

Nov.

Assign Essay 5 Approaches to writing on Night

Read: Ellie Wiesel’s Night

Claim statement due.

Discuss Night. Video

Cause and Consequences Global Plight of women--Essay 6 assign.

Woolf (761) Video

Thanksgiving Holiday

Feminism: Wollstonecraft (730)

De Beauvior (781), Gilligan (797),

Essay 4 Due/PowerPoint

Quiz on Night

Draft of Essay 5/Peer Edit

Essay 5 Due

Journals Due (10)

Dec.

hooks (821).

Discussion of final, sharing of Essay 6/Symposium

Final InClass Essay over Feminism Tues. 8-10

Draft of Essay 6/Peer Edit

Essay 6 Due (no late papers)

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