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......................................Skyline
College
....................................Reading
801: Reading Improvement -- Spring
2002
Course
Meetings: MWF 1:10-2pm
Room 8220
Schedule #38200 - Read 801AF
Course Dates: 1/14 - 5/24
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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:
(1) Controversy by Pula, Edwards, and Dermott
(2) 8 Ball Chicks by Gini Sikes
(3) The Course Reader (available at Skyline's Bookstore)
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 ½ 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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