If you read steadily, you will become a lover of Russian literature and you will do very well in the class. To receive a grade in English 22, you must evaluate the quality of the course design and the instruction you have received. Consider yourself to be acting on behalf of future students who take this class with this instructor. Be rigorous, be specific, be fair. Good readers revel in details.
Details are keys to meaning and they are markers of artistic uniqueness.
Quizzes are exercises that help us attend to the details. There will be thirteen quizzes, drawing upon all the material since the previous quiz. Your ten best quizzes will count toward your final grade. An explication is a kind of structural analysis. Your task, then, is to select several key features and show how they work together to create meaning.