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2. IntroductionThe WebsiteThe Green SheetThe SyllabusThe QHQDiscussion: Literature andLiterary TheoryAuthor and Text Introduction:Tyson and Freeman 3. Education Ph.D. : University of California, Riverside: English MA: California State University, Long Beach: English BA: California State University, Long Beach: English AA: Long Beach City College, Long Beach: Liberal Arts Special Emphasis Twentieth Century British and American Literatures;Queer Studies; Minority, Gender, Class, and FeministStudies; Writing and Writing Centers. De Anza: Since January 2012EWRT 211EWRT 1AEWRT 1BEWRT 1CEWRT 2EWRT 30ELIT 48CELIT 10 4. I will take 46 students, and I will add until the final dayto do so. If you are on the waiting list, you can stay. I will emailadd codes in waitlist order. Those on the waitlist orthose wishing to add should indicate so on the rollsheet. Please include an email address. As we go over the syllabus, consider whether you willstay in the class. If you want out, please let me know,so I can offer your seat to another student. If you are not on the waiting list, it is very unlikely youwill get into the class unless we have a mass exodusafter the syllabus! 5. http://palmoreelit10q.wordpress.comOur class website is http://palmoreelit10q.wordpress.com. In order todo the homework, you must establish an account. To make your ownFREE Word Press account, go to wordpress.com. The system willwalk you through the steps to signup for a username or to set upyour own user-friendly Word Press blog. Alternatively, you can signinto our website through Facebook.If you prefer not to use your own name, you may use a pseudonym.Just make sure you sign in with YOUR Word Press username beforeyou post on our class page so you get credit for your work. Pleaseemail me your username once you have established whichaccount you shall use for the quarter.If you cannot establish your website and username, please come tomy office hours as soon as possible, and I will help you with theprocess. Much of our work will take place online, so establishing thisconnection is mandatory.You may want to establish your new Gmail account before youestablish your Wordpress username 6. http://palmoreelit10q.wordpress.comWriting TipsHelpful LinksYour Daily HomeworkAssignment (which is where youpost your homework.) 7. Course Requirements Assignments andvalues Participation Required Materials Books Computer Access Dedicated emailaddress Class Policies Plagiarism Conduct and Courtesy The Class Website How to sign up for anaccount How to post yourhomework. 8. Giovannis Room byJames Baldwin Beebo Brinker by AnnBannon The Front Runner byPatricia Nell Warren A Gmail account thatyou will be willing toshare via Wordpress,Kaizena, and GoogleDriveBuy these three for sureThis isavailableas a pdfon thewebsite 9. Active participation in class discussions and regularattendance. You will earn real points for yourparticipation in activities. Keeping up-to-date on the assignments andreading. Formal writing: two out of class essays A midterm and a final (Objective and essay style) A series of homework posts to the class website Reading quizzes and in-class assignments. 10. All out of class essays are to be submitted to me electronicallybefore the due date.1. Before you submit your essay, please save your file as your last name and thenumber 2, like this: Smith 2. That will help me keep your essays organized.2. Submit your essay through Kaizena, a Google Drive add-on, athttps://kaizena.com/palmoreessaysubmissiongmail. Or simply use the link onour class website home page. This system allows me to respond to your essaywith both voice and written comments and to insert helpful links.3. Sign in to your Google Account and allow Kaizena access to your GoogleDrive.4. Click on the Ask Dr. Kim Palmore for feedback link.5. Choose your document from your Google Drive. You will be directed to a newpage to choose a delivery box from a drop down menu.6. Add your essay to the appropriate ELIT box (Essay #1 or #2). Then, click theAsk for feedback button again.7. Once I have graded your paper, Kaizena will automatically share with you thelink to the Google document in the comments section located on the top-rightcorner of the Google document.8. Click on the highlighted sections of the paper to find both audio and writtencomments concerning your essay or links to materials that will help youimprove your writing. 11. Attendance: Success in this course depends on regularattendance and active participation. Participationpoints will be part of our daily activities. If you arenot in class, you cannot earn these points. Youshould save absences for emergencies, workconflicts, weddings, jury duty, or any other issuesthat might arise in your life. It is your responsibility to talk to me your absencesor other conflicts. Work done in class cannot bemade up. Also, please arrive on time, as you will notbe able to make up work completed before youarrive, including quizzes. 12. I do not accept late work. I do, however, extendan opportunity to revise your first essay for a bettergrade. If you miss the essay due date, you maysubmit that essay when the revisions are due.Revised and late essays receive no feedback. Quizzes: I may decide to include pop quizzes fromtime to time to ensure you are completing allreadings in a timely fashion. There are no make upopportunities for quizzes. Exams: We will have two exams during thequarter. There are no make-up tests. If you miss atest and have a valid excuse, you may take it inlieu of submitting a revised or late essay. 13. Conduct, Courtesy, and Electronic Devices: In this class, we will regularly engage in the discussionof topics that may stir passionate debates. Pleasespeak freely and candidly; however, while your thoughtsand ideas are important to me and to the dynamics ofthe class, you must also respect others and theiropinions. Courtesy will allow each person to have theopportunity to express his or her ideas in a comfortableenvironment. Courtesy includes but is not limited to politely listeningto others when they contribute to class discussions, notslamming the classroom door, and maintaining apositive learning environment for your fellowclassmates. To help maintain a positive learningenvironment, please focus on the work assigned, anddo not text-message in class. 14. Academic Dishonesty:Plagiarism includes quoting orparaphrasing material withoutdocumentation and copying fromother students or professionals.Intentional plagiarism is a graveoffense; the resulting responsewill be distasteful. Dependingupon the severity, instances ofplagiarism may result in a failinggrade for the paper or thecourse and possibleadministrative action. Allassignments will be scannedand scrutinized for academicdishonesty. Please refer to yourhandbook for more informationregarding plagiarism. 15. The Syllabus 16. The syllabus is a tentative schedule. It may be revised during the quarter. Use it to determine how to prepare for class.Week andClass What wewill do in class Homework duebefore the nextclass Date 17. There is writing homework due before6 pm the evening before each meeting.This is both to help you think aboutyour reading and to help you produceideas for your essays.In order to earn an A on yourhomework, you must do the following: Complete all of the posts. Post them on time. Be thoughtful in yourresponses. 18. On the front page of the website, you will find the homeworkpost after each class (text me if you dont see it). Below that post on the right, are the words Leave acomment. Click there and a comment box will open. Copy and pasteyour homework into the comment box Click Post Comment.A word of advice: compose all of your homework for the quarter in asingle word document. This way, you will be able to edit before youpost, saving you stress over silly errors. This will also enable you toaccess your posted work throughout the quarter. You will find that veryhelpful at the end of the quarter. 19. Thinkingaboutwriting 20. Each text we study will provide material for response writing called aQHQ (Question-Hypothesis-Question). The QHQ requires students tohave second thoughts, that is, to think again about questions thatarise during their reading and to write about questions that aremeaningful to them.Begin your QHQ by formulating some question you have about someaspect of the reading. The first question in the QHQ may be onesentence or longer, but its function is to frame your QHQ writing. Astudent might start with a question like, Why is the house in this storyhaunted? Or, Why do I suspect the murdered child has come back tolife? A student might even write, Why am I having so much troubleunderstanding this story? 21. After you pose your initial question, focus on a close reading of thetext in search of a hypothesis. This hypothesis section comprisesthe body of your text. The student who asked about the hauntedhouse might refer to multiple passages about haunting in the text,comparing and contrasting them to other instances of haunting withwhich he or she is familiar. The student who asked about the deadchild might connect passages associated with the death to sectionsabout a new child who abruptly appears in the text. The studentwho struggled to understand the text might explore those passageswhose meanings were obscure or difficult to understand,connecting them to other novels and/or cultural texts.After carefully exploring your initial question (Thisexploration should include quoted text and be atleast 250 words), put forward another question,one that has sprung from your hypothesis. Thiswill be the final sentence of your QHQ and willprovide a base for further reflection into the text. 22. The QHQ is designed to help you formulate your response to the texts westudy into clearly defined questions and hypotheses that can be used as abasis for both class discussion and longer papers. The QHQ can berelatively informal but should demonstrate a thoughtful approach to thematerial. While your responses need to be organized and coherent, becauseyou will sharing them in class, the ideas they present may be preliminaryand exploratory.Remember, a QHQ is not a summary or a reportit is an original, thoughtfulresponse to what you have read. All QHQs should be posted on the websitethe by 5 pm the evening before the class for which they are due. This willgive both me and other students time to ponder your ideas and think aboutappropriate responses. Moreover, this sharing of material should provideplenty of fodder for essays. Even though you have posted your QHQ, youshould bring a copy of it to class in order to share your thoughts and insightsand to stimulate class discussion. 23. Is this classtoo hard?Is this classHistory 10?Will I be theteachersfavorite? 24. What is it?Why study it? 25. Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking,"literature" is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical orscientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creativeimagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.Literature represents a language or a people: culture and tradition. But, literature ismore important than just a historical or cultural artifact. Literature introduces us tonew worlds of experience. We learn about books and literature; we enjoy thecomedies and the tragedies of poems, stories, and plays; and we may even growand evolve through our literary journey with books.Ultimately, we may discover meaning in literature by looking at what the author saysand how he/she says it. We may interpret the author's message. In academic circles,this decoding of the text is often carried out through the use of literary theory, using amythological, sociological, psychological, historical, or other approach.Whatever critical paradigm we use to discuss and analyze literature, there is still anartistic quality to the works. Literature is important to us because it speaks to us, it isuniversal, and it affects us. 26. What is it?Why use it? 27. GLBTQI literature focuses on texts aboutsexual minorities--including Gay, Lesbian,Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersexed, andQueer identities--cultural contexts, and socialmovements.In this course we will study the trajectory ofGLBTQI literature as it weaves its through the20th century and into the new millennium. 28. Dr. Lois M. Tyson is professor ofEnglish at Grand Valley State University.Tyson earned a Bachelor of Arts in Frenchfrom Rutgers University in 1972, anddouble masters degrees in education andEnglish from Ohio University in 1982 and1984. She earned a Ph.D. in English fromthe Ohio State University in 1989.She has authored various publications,anthologies and papers on wide-rangingtopics including critical theory, literaryanalysis, and American literature. Herhighly acclaimed text, Critical TheoryToday: A User-Friendly Guide, now in itssecond edition, is in wide distribution andhas contributed to her recognition as oneof the nation's preeminent authorities onthe subject. 29. In Critical Theory Today, Lois Tyson considers varyingtheoretical approaches to literary criticism. She describesand explains eleven different critical approaches. At theend of each chapter, she includes an essay thatdemonstrates that theory applied to F Scott FitzgeraldsThe Great Gatsby. In this class, we will only read herchapter on Lesbian, gay, and queer criticism, but I haveincluded a link to a pdf version of her complete book forthose of you who would like to see the entire text.You will find the chapter reading for the homework under the headingSecondary Sources at the top of the webpage. Click on GLBTQ Criticism LoisTyson. You will find both a link to a pdf and a scroll through document. Pleaseread at least the first 26 pages. For those of you interested, I have included thequeer reading of The Great Gatsby.When you come to class, you must have access to the document: either anelectronic source or a printed document is acceptable. Please dont plan to useyour phone. 30. American short story writer, novelist, playwright, andpoet. As a realist chronicler of post-Civil War New Englandlife, Freeman is acknowledged as an importantcontributor to regionalist literature. She is frequentlylabeled a local colorist because she depicted the socialand physical aspects of the New England countryside,including the flavor of local speech patterns. YetFreeman's most exemplary writing, which focuses onthe psychology of her characters, transcends thelimitations of local color writing. Although Freemanwrote novels, plays, and verse, she is most known forher stories, particularly The Revolt of Mother and ANew England Nun. 31. Written in 1895, The Long Arm is acompilation of both epistolary writing andjournal entries.You can find a link to the work on the websiteunder short stories. This piece is 17 pages long. When you come to class, you must haveaccess to the document: either an electronicsource or a printed document is acceptable.Please dont plan to use your phone. 32. Read Tyson onGLBTQ Theory (1-26)and The Long Arm byMary Wilkins Freeman1895 (17 pages)Post #1: Choose one1. What is LiteraryTheory? Why studyGLBTQ Theories?2. A QHQ on either Tysonor Freeman