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College
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801: Reading Improvement -- Fall 2001
Course
Meetings: MWF 1:10-2pm
Room 5102
Schedule #87382 - Read 801AF
Course Dates: 8/20 - 12/19
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"Words set
things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up
atmospheres, electrical fields, charges." --Toni Cade
Bambara
Course Requirements:
Recommended completion of ESOL 830 or 830 and
831, or appropriate score on the college Reading Placement
test and other measures as necessary. English 801 is a
co-requisite of Reading 801. That means that Reading 801 and
English 801 should be taken together if you place into those
two courses. If you are unable to take both at the same
time, Reading 801 should be taken first.
Course Objectives:
The objective of this course is to guide students toward
becoming more active, purposeful, and confident readers. To
achieve this goal, we will work on strengthening and
developing study skills as well as reading strategies. By
the end of this course, students will be able to read more
efficiently, distinguish the main ideas from supporting
details, apply strategies to increase retention, evaluate a
writer's argument or reasoning, and draw from a larger
vocabulary.
Required Materials:
William Faulkner said, "The tools I need for my
work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky." Here
are the "tools" required for this course:
The course books come in a discounted, packaged bundle
and should include these 4 items:
(1) The Reader's Handbook
by Brenda D. Smith
(2) The Short Prose Reader by Gilbert H. Muller
& Harvey S/ Wiener
(3) 15-week Newsweek magazine subscription (to be
purchased at bookstore)
(4) Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
& James D. Houston
Recommended: a paperback portable
dictionary
"Language is
the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell
you things you never thought or felt before." -- W.H.
Auden
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 5 (five)
absences is permitted; each absence after the fifth 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) Class
participation--- Remember that participation
counts--both for your grade and in your life. It is
essential that you become consciously involved in class by
participating in discussions and contributing thoughtful
comments, questions, and answers.
Assignments:
In this course we will be keeping reading
journals, taking in-class quizzes, working on vocabulary
building exercises, completing reading strategy assignments,
and the course will end with a 2 hour final exam.
Course
Grade:..............................................Record
Your Own Grades:
Reading
Journal...........................40%...........................Average
Journal score______ x .40 = _____
Homework.................................15%...........................Average
HM score.....______ x .15 =
_____
Quizzes.......................................15%...........................Average
Quiz score....______ x .15 =
_____
Final
Exam..................................20%...........................Score
for Final Exam..______ x .20 =
_____
*
Participation.............................10%...........................Participation...............______
x .10 = _____
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*TOTAL: (convert total to %) ________
* Participation includes being prepared each day,
meeting
with me at least once during the course of the
semester,............* Deduct
1% for each absence over allowed 5.
and adding to daily
discussion.....................................................Scoring
as follows: 100-90=A, 89-80=B
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79-70=C, 69-60=D, 59-0=F
.."Wrestling
with words gave me my moments of greatest meaning." --
Richard Wright
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