English 1423.A2 –Writing and Reading Critically
M,W,F 10:30 – 11:30
BAC 204
Prof: Richard Cunningham
Office: BAC 431
Office Hours: T,Th 11:30 – 12:00 & 1:00 – 2:30, W,F 11:30 – 12:30
Acknowledgement of Traditional Territory:
We are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
Accessible Learning Services
If you are a student with documentation for accommodations who anticipates needing supports or accommodations, please contact Marissa McIsaac, Accessibility Resource Facilitator at 902-585-1520, disability.access@acadiau.ca or Emily Duffett, Accessibility Officer, 902-585-1823, disability.access@acadiau.ca. Accessible Learning Services is located in Rhodes Hall, rooms 111-115.
Writing Centre
The Writing Centre offers free help to students wanting to improve their writing skills. You can sign up online today:
To book a one-to-one appointment with a trained writing tutor, click here:
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To see which helpful presentations and workshops you’ll want to attend this year, click here:
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Other Important Resources
Acadia's "You quote it, you note it" on-line tutorial
Similar resources on the topic of plagiarism at the U of Alberta
Course Description
This is not a correspondence course, a distance education course, or an online course. This is a course that you are required to attend every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in room 204 of the Beveridge Arts Building for the duration of the Winter term, 2020. When attendance is a requirement that means you must come to every class. If you miss more than three classes without a documented explanation you forfeit a minimum of 5% of your course grade, and this number will climb very high very quickly.
This is a course devoted to both writing and reading.
In order to do the reading, you must have a copy of the course anthology. To ensure you meet this requirement, an on-going chance to lose 10% of your course grade is built in to the grading scheme. On any given day, if you do not have the anthology open in front of you while we discuss a work you’ve had assigned to read, you risk forfeiting up to ten percent of your grade.
Writing assignments will be due on two specific dates for each of the three major assignments. The first of each of these dates will be for peer review, and on those dates you are required to bring a paper copy of your writing assignment to class. On the second of each of these dates you must submit your assignment in both electronic (through Acorn) and printed forms.
You must turn your phone off and put it away during class. This is the professor's rule. The professor assigns your grade for this course. You do not want to make an enemy of the person who assigns your grade.
Course Texts
The Broadview Introduction to Literature, Concise Edition. Edited by Lisa Chalykoff, Neta Gordon, Paul Lumsden. Broadview Press, 2015.
Fotheringham, Scott. The Rest is Silence. Goose Lane: 2012.
| Course Outline | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Assigned Reading | In-Class Activity |
| January | ||
| 6 | Introductions, discussion. | |
| 8 | None. | “Words, words, words.” (Shakespeare, Hamlet, 2.2.210). And now, to paraphrase Shakespeare: “Rules, rules, rules.” Lecture, and First assignment given |
| 10 | Writing Instruction | Lecture |
| 13 | Peer Reviewing | First assignment due for peer review |
| 15 | Writing Instruction MLA citation generator |
Lecture |
| 17 | Writing Instruction | Lecture & First assignment due for grading |
| Mon. 20 | Broadview Introduction, pp. xxi – xxxii. (This piece is entitled "The Study of Literature" for those who have a different version of the Anthology) |
Mostly lecture |
| Wed. 22 | Broadview Introduction to "Poetry," pp. 461 – 84. | Discussion |
| Fri. 24 | “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love,” p. 473 (2nd ed.) and “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.” P. 472 (2nd ed.) | Discussion |
| Mon. 27 | John Donne’s “The Flea.” P. 478 (2nd ed.) | Reading Poetry |
| Wed. 29 | Shakespeare’s Sonnets. All. P. 475 ff. (2nd ed.) | Explication |
| Fri. 31 | Donne’s Holy Sonnets 10 & 14. Pp. 479 & 480. (2nd ed.) | Explication. Discussion. |
| February | ||
| Mon. 3 | No class b/c the rich don't pay their fair share of taxes. For example. | |
| Wed. 5 | Herbert’s “Easter Wings” & “The Altar” | Discussion |
| Fri. 7 | Milton’s “When I consider how my light is spent” | Discussion |
| Mon. 10 | Peer Reviewing | Second Paper due for peer review |
| Wed. 12 | Shelley’s “Ozymandias” & Keats’s “When I have fears that I may cease to be” | Romanticism lecture; Discussion |
| Fri. 14 | Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shallot” & Browning’s “My Last Duchess” | Second Paper due for grading. Discussion |
| Reading Week | Feb. 17 – 21 | |
| Mon. 24 | The Rest is Silence | Discussion |
| Wed. 26 | The Rest is Silence | Discussion |
| Fri. 28 | The Rest is Silence | Discussion |
| March | ||
| Mon. 2 | The Rest is Silence | With a guest |
| Wed. 4 | The Rest is Silence | With a guest |
| Fri. 6 | The Rest is Silence | Discussion |
| Mon. 9 | Oedipus Rex |  |
| Wed. 11 | Third paper writing period | Student's choice of location |
| Fri. 13 | Third paper writing period | Student's choice of location |
| Mon. 16 | Oedipus Rex | Discussion |
| Wed. 18 | Broadview Introduction, “Short Fiction,” pp. 1 – 16. | Discussion |
| Fri. 20 | Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” | Third paper due for grading. Discussion |
| Mon. 23 | Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” | Discussion |
| Wed. 25 | Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” | Discussion |
| Fri. 27 | Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” | Discussion |
| Mon. 30 | Williams’ “The Read Wheelbarrow” & Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” | Discussion |
| April | ||
| Wed. 1 | Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” | Discussion |
| Fri. 3 | Course Evaluations & Exam Preview | |
| TBD | Final Exam | Location to be determined |