ASSIGNMENTS
| Discussion
20% |
You will earn discussion grades based on the
quality and quantity of your participation as well as your
ability to foster group discussion by asking questions, building
on ideas of peers, making space for everyone to participate, making connections between and among classmates’ ideas, and tying you comments to specific passages from the texts. |
| Theatrical Essay 20% | A more "creative" essay about one play or scene by each writer. Assignment sheet forthcoming. |
| Essay 25% |
A 4-5 page interpretive argument on a topic of your choosing. |
| Mini-Presentation & Bibliogrpahy 10% | Each student will read an article or set of brief reviews about a topic/text related to Becket or Pinter, write a one-page précis/abstract of the article or set of annotated bibliography entries that will be graded, revised and published on the web. You will also make a brief presentation (5 minutes) isolating the most significant points from the article/reviews and tying the ideas from the article/reviews to Wilde's work. |
| Final Exam 25% |
Take-home essay (1 hour) and in-class portion with quotation identification, objective material (50 minutes) |
Documentation/Works Cited/Format: Use Modern Language Association (MLA) parenthetical documentation and a Works Cited page for all assignments. Use chapters 52-55 of the Bedford Handbook or visit Bedford’s wonderful website for guidelines on in-text citations—pay special attention to citation differences for fiction, plays, and poetry.
Academic Honesty: In order for an academic community to thrive, members of that community must be able to trust the honesty and sincerity of communication between members. The very integrity of a college is grounded in academic honesty. One form of academic dishonesty that can undermine this integrity is plagiarism, intentionally or unintentionally copying the words or ideas from another source without giving that source credit. Because of the serious harm plagiarism causes an academic environment, I have zero tolerance for it: students who plagiarize will likely fail the class. Other form of academic honesty (including but not exclusive of, cheating, double submission, inappropriate collaboration) may result in a range of penalties between zero on an assignment or failure of the class. Do not hesitate to consult with me if you have questions about academic honesty.(For more information, see "Academic Dishonesty" in the college's catalog and pages 575-80 of Bedford.)
Major Errors: At this stage in your student career, you should not be making grammatical errors that significantly detract from verbal expression. When these errors appear in resumes, they will send your application to the bottom of the stack, or when they appear in article submissions, they will send your essay to the rejection bin. Essays which contain fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences; and also subject/verb agreement, pronoun/antecedent, verb tense, tense shift, and pronoun reference problems will be penalized by following the English Department's minimum standards guidelines.