Four or more absences will lower your class participation grade, as will recurrent late arrival. Our midterm exam will cover the course material through March 15. The final exam will have one section covering the course material from March 27 to the end of the semester and then a second section taking in the whole course, asking you to make connections between the various works and periods we've studied. I'll discuss these exams and their make-up in greater detail in class about a week before their dates.
All essays are due at the beginning of class on the date assigned.
Please type or print out your essay on non-erasable paper, and use only a paper clip to fasten your pages, not staples or plastic binders or any other form of attachment. All of these are available in the University Writing Center and the library if you don't have a copy of one. Each student must keep a journal of his or her thoughts on each of the assigned readings, with one entry devoted to the reading before we discuss it in class and then a second entry after we've discussed it. Ordinarily, I ll pose a question for you to respond to in each entry, with that response consisting of at least three paragraphs, but beyond that requirement you're also free to write as much more as you wish about whatever intrigues you, inspires you, confuses you, or upsets you about the work in question, and about this work's relationship to other works you've read and its relevance to human life in general and your own life in particular. There are two goals to this assignment, both of which you're probably already aware of.