ANN LEWIS

ORIENTATION: 

The mandatory orientation for this class is scheduled as follows:

• DAY:     Wednesday
• DATE:   January 21st  
• TIME:    5:30 pm to 7:20 pm
• LOCATION:   RS 311

"Mandatory" means that all students must attend.  You must also bring proof of having met the pre-requisites for this class.   Students who do NOT provide this proof the night of orientation will be dropped from the roster--NO EXCEPTIONS.  See the After section for more information.  

Because this class requires so few F2F meetings, if you have a conflict (i.e. another class), please contact THAT instructor rather than expecting me to make accommodations.  BTW:   I have NEVER had a student complete an online class successfully when he/she did NOT attend orientation.  If you cannot make the orientation, PLEASE sign up for another section of ENGWR 301 and give your spot to one of the wait list students who CAN make the orientation.

Wait List Students: 

• The orientation for this class will be held in RS 311, a classroom with a limited number of computers.  There will be NO ROOM for me to add extra students.  Research shows that ALL students benefit when class sizes are kept as small as possible; therefore I adhere strictly to SCC's class caps (28 for this class).  I will add wait list students ONLY if enrolled students do not show up for the first two class sessions.  Logic should dictate also that if you have a wait list # above 5, there is very little  chance of your being added to this class.

ASSIGNMENTS:   

More information will be available at orientation and in the Course Information packet, but here are the "highlights," in case you are undecided.  This course continues from English Writing 300, so ALL essays will contain outside sources and ALL must be argumentative.  We'll be working on strategies/techniques for agument more in this class.

1. You will be submitting online lessons (informal writing assignments) and participating in discussion boards on blackboard in lieu of attending class.     This is where the teaching and learning occur in an online course.  These twice-weekly "lessons" are designed to teach you the tools you'll need to analyze literature and write arguments about it.
2. But because this is a WRITING class, you will also be composing formal essays--specifically four formal argument essays as follows:
   1. W.A. #1:  Argument of Evaluation  - for this assignment, you will be analyzing and evaluating a piece of short fiction, using the literary "concepts" you'll learn in the first unit of this class. 
   2. W.A. #2:  Explication argument - for this assignment, you will be explicating (i.e. interpreting)  a poem and supporting your interpretation with evidence from the poem itself.   
   3. W.A. #3:  Comparison/Contrast/Evaluation - for this assignment, you will be (a) reading a longer play, (b) watching a movie or live performance of the play, and then, based on the tools you've honed, you'll be evaluating the movie/performance of the written play.
   4. W.A. #4:  We'll end with a short argument--a one-page editorial suitable for readers of The Sacramento Bee, in which you argue why these readers should read ONE of the pieces of literature you've studied this semester.