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Schedule #33325 – Engl 100AQ,
Units 3.0
“The highly publicized incidents of gun
violence involving rap artists are important because they reveal
the artists' individual insecurities despite their financial success and
fame as rappers. The media coverage of
these incidents is one-sided, sensationalized, without in-depth analysis
and perpetuates the image of Blacks as
violence- prone. Depictions of this type encourages the general public
to believe that rap music and Black
youth are responsible for gun violence in America " --Bakari Kitwana The Rap on Gangsta Rap
"We must work passionately and
unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure
that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate,
or malice.
We
must never become bitter…We must fight hate with love." --Martin Luther King Jr. A Call to Conscience
Course
Prerequisites: Writing Prereq: Completion of ENG 836 or 400 or ENGL/READ 846 with a
grade C or higher or appropriate scores on approved college placement tests. Reading Prereq:
READ 836 or 400
or READ/ENGL 846 with a grade of C or higher, or eligibility for 400-level
Reading courses on approved Reading placement test, or other means measures as
necessary.
ASTEP:
African-American Success Through Excellence and Persistence:
The
ASTEP Program is a learning community of courses that offers an Afrocentric
curriculum. The ASTEP English course is
directly linked with the ASTEP Counseling course, so the ASTEP students have
the advantage of having a dedicated counselor, Tim Dupre, to provide them with
support in creating focused educational plans and in devising successful
academic strategies with the goals of transferring to four-year colleges and
universities, earning degrees, and returning to the community as leaders and
mentors to future generations.
Course
Objectives:
The
purpose of this course is to help students develop their ability to write
thoughtfully and effectively. The
premise of this course is that writing is an integral part of the thinking
process and that successful essay writing depends on a mixture of creative
thinking and an awareness of writing styles and forms. The objective of this course is to guide
students toward becoming critical readers, writers, and thinkers through
recognizing the effective writing strategies of other writers, through becoming
aware of their own processes of writing, and through learning to discern
logical relationships between words, ideas, and arguments.
Required
Materials:
The
Rap on Gangsta Rap: Who Run It? Gangsta Rap and Visions of Violence by Bakari Kitwana
The
Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America by Ellis Cose
The
Black Woman: An Anthology edited by Toni Cade Bambara
The
Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Monster:
The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur aka Monster Kody Scott
Course
Reader and Hour-By-Arrangement folder (available at Skyline’s Bookstore)
Course
Policies:
(1)
Attendance-- Your active participation
is necessary for you and your classmates to realize the objectives of this
course. Therefore your attendance is
crucial. A maximum of 4 (four) absences
is permitted; each absence after
the fourth will significantly lower your grade.
(2)
Late Assignments—No late work will be
accepted. All due dates are given well
in advance; therefore I feel that it is
unfair to the students who complete their work on time to accept the work from
those who do not. However, because
“life happens,” each student will be allowed two “late tickets” during the
semester; twice students may choose to turn an assignment in the
following class period after the due date. Late assignments beyond this will not be accepted.
(3)
Plagiarism-- Paraphrasing or directly
copying any text and using it as your own without proper attribution, done
intentionally or not, is plagiarism and can result in failure.
(4)
Class participation---It is essential that you
become consciously involved in class by participating in discussions and
contributing thoughtful comments, questions, and answers.
Papers: Six major papers will be written for this class. The requirements are as follows:
(1) Due Dates-- Paper
#1 (2-4 pages, 500-1000 words) Draft due
2/7, Revised 2/14
Paper #2 (3-5 pages, 750-1250 words) Draft due 2/28, Revised 3/7
Paper #3
Midterm essay exam on Thursday, March 23rd
Collaborative Research Paper #4 (4-6 pages,
1000-1500 words) Draft due 4/20,
Revised 4/27
Research Paper #5 (5-7 pages, 1250-1750 words) Draft due 5/18, Revised 5/25
Paper #6 Final essay exam—2 ½ hours on
Thursday, May 25th 11:10am-1:40pm
(2) Revision-- E.B. White said, “The best writing is
rewriting.” Because revising or
“re-seeing” a piece of writing is such an important aspect of the writing
process, each of the papers has two due dates.
Each student will receive feedback and suggestions on each of his/her
papers through class workshop/discussion groups; then each student will be
asked to revise each paper based on peer feedback.
Please note: if the first due
date for a paper is missed, the paper cannot be turned in at all.
(3) Workshopping--Each paper will be read,
discussed, and commented upon by student workshop groups. A missed workshop day will count as two (2) absences
and a late paper will not be accepted.
Students without a completed paper will not be allowed to participate in
the workshop. Below are the workshop
dates--students must bring a copy of their paper for themselves and for the
other members of their group:
Workshops for Paper #1: Tues, Feb
7th Workshops for Paper #4: Thurs, Apr 20th
Workshops for Paper #2: Tues, Feb
28th Workshops for Paper #5:
Thurs, May 18th
(4) Format—Papers must meet the required minimum length
or run the risk of not being accepted.
All papers must be typed, double-spaced, have 1” margins, and have a
font of 12.
Course
Grade: Record Your Own Grades:
Paper
1 10% Score for Paper 1 ______ x .10 = _____
Paper
2 10% Score for Paper 2 ______ x .10 = _____
Paper
3 10% Score for Paper 3 ______ x .10 = _____
Paper
4 15% Score for Paper 4 ______ x .15 = _____
Paper
5 15% Score for Paper 5 ______ x .15 = _____
HBA
Folder 5% %
of HBAs completed ____ x .5
= _____
*
Participation 10% Participation ______ x .10 =
_____
* Participation includes being
prepared each day, meeting *TOTAL: (convert total to %) ________
with me at least once during the
course of the semester, * Deduct 1% for each absence over allowed 4.
adding to daily discussion, and giving
your classmates Scoring as follows: A=100-90, B=89-80,
thoughtful responses to their writing in workshops. C=79-70, D=69-60, F=59-0