ENL 3251 VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Dr. C. Snodgrass, 4336 Turlington, 376-8362,
snod@english.ufl.edu
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE
Your
grade will be based largely on how well you demonstrate your ability to read
accurately and to assimilate the material. Your final grade will be
computed based on the following:
·
30%: Your average score on six (6) concise and succinct 1½-page “Insights”
papers (1-½-page single-spaced; or 3-page double spaced; maximum
1000 words. Each of these papers should offer at least three [3] key “insights,”
“ideas,” or “themes” you have found in the works assigned that week,
one paragraph per “insight.” At least one (1) of the insights must address how
the themes relate to the themes and
patterns found in the previous
works/authors/assignments. Each
“Insights” paper must be both posted on the class’s SAKAI site and turned in as
a printed hard copy:
Exactly
What to do & When:
1. Write the 3-paragraph/insights “Insights”
paper (1000 word maximum) due for the appropriate assigned week.
2. Go to https://lss.at.ufl.edu/
3. Click the big orange “e-Learning
login” button.
4.
Login using your Gator Link username and password. After logging in, you will
be taken to your “My Workspace.”
5. Click on ENL3251: 064E, Fall 2013. (You will see this course listed across the top
of the screen).
6. Click on “Discussions” tab in
left-hand menu.
7. Click on the appropriate week &
assignment.
8. Click on “Post New Thread.”
9. Type in your name as the “Title.”
10. Then copy/write in your paper in the
“Message” box (can paste in from a Word document).
11. Post your paper (by clicking “Post
Message” at bottom) NO LATER THAN NOON TUESDAY ON THAT WEEK.
12. Print out a hard copy of your
paper & turn it in Tuesday in class.
[Individual “Insights” papers will receive one of the following
numerical scores: A+ = 100 (rare); A = 95; A- = 90; B+ = 88; B = 84; B- =
80; C+ = 78; C = 74; C- = 70; D+ = 68; D = 64; D- = 60; E = 0]. No Late “Insights” Papers will be accepted.
However, you will be permitted to drop from your record the lowest grade
on these assignments, if you
have not
cut more than three (3) hours’ worth of class time.
·
30%: Your composite grade for your brief
one-paragraph “insights” posted online during each week when the three-insight papers are not due, and your
online responses to three of the postings by other students during
each of those weeks, as follows:
What
to do & When:
1. Write the 1-paragraph/insight “Insights”
paper due for the appropriate assigned week. 350 words
maximum.
2. Go to https://lss.at.ufl.edu/
3. Click the big orange “e-Learning
login” button.
4.
Login using your Gator Link username and password. After logging in, you will
be taken to your “My Workspace.”
5. Click on ENL3251: 064E, Fall 2013. (You will see this course listed across the top
of the screen).
6. Click on “Discussions” tab in left-hand
menu.
7. Click on the appropriate week &
assignment.
8. Click on “Post New Thread.”
9. Type in your name as the “Title.” Then
copy/write in your paper in the “Message” box (can paste in from a Word
document).
10. Post your 1-paragraph
“Insights” paper (by clicking “Post Message” at bottom) NO LATER THAN NOON
TUESDAY ON THAT WEEK.
11. After class
Tuesday but BEFORE NOON THURSDAY, return to the appropriate week and assignment
on SAKAI. Click on the posted 1-paragraph “insights” paper for any 3 students
to whom you have NOT responded before (listed under “Thread”).
12. Click on the “Reply” button to the far
right. Then respond to the paragraph, amplifying on it. (Do that for 3
different students).
13. Print out one printed hard copy that
includes (a) your own originally posted 1-paragraph “Insight”; and (b) the
1-paragraph “Insight” for the student you selected; followed by your
response to that student’s “insight” paragraph. Do (b) for each student
selected (i.e., 3 times). Turn in these hard copies Thursday in class.
[Individual “Insights” papers will receive one of the following
numerical scores: A+ = 100 (rare); A = 95; A- = 90; B+ = 88; B = 84; B- =
80; C+ = 78; C = 74; C- = 70; D+ = 68; D = 64; D- = 60; E = 0]. No Late “Insights” Papers will be accepted.
However, you will be permitted to drop from your record the lowest grade
on these assignments, if you
have not
cut more than three (3) hours worth of class time.
· 10%:
Your degree of active class
participation and general preparedness during each class session.
[Total points for the entire term will be
awarded as follows: A = 10 points (speaking effectively nearly every
class session); A- = 9 (speaking almost every class session, usually
effectively); B+ = 8.5 (speaking effectively every week); B = 8 (speaking every
week, but not as effectively); C+ = 7.5 (speaking almost every week); C = 7
(speaking intermittently during the semester); D = 6 (speaking rarely); E = 5
(almost never speaking)].
·
30%: A comprehensive
final exam.
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OPTIONAL
PAPER: 20%: As an option for students wishing to
compensate for poor performances, you may substitute for poor grades in
any of the above assignment categories or combination of categories — except
for the Final Exam — your grade on an optional additional assignment, but only
up to a maximum of 20% of your final grade. There is no
guarantee that your optional term paper will improve, rather than
lower, your overall grade (if the optional paper is weaker than your
performance on what you hoped to substitute it for, your grade will actually be
lowered). That is the gamble you would be taking.
Students
wishing to attempt such a substitution must meet with me beforehand during
office hours to discuss the options, which are as
follows:
OPTION 1:
A detailed poem analysis of approximately 1000–2500 words (approximately
4–8 printed pages), choosing for your analysis one poem from a selection of fifteen poems
that I will provide. This paper is designed mostly to confirm
that you have sound critical-reading skills (or to enable you to learn those
skills, if you haven’t already).
OPTION 2:
An analytical term paper of approximately 2000–4000 words (approximately
7–14 pages) on a topic of your choosing (related to the material of this
course).
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OPTIONAL
EXTRA CREDIT PAPERS: Extra credit papers do not substitute
for regular assignments and will
only serve to give you the “benefit
of the doubt” if your final grade computes to a choice between two
grades. The most you can benefit from these reviews is to raise your final
grade one-third of a letter grade.
To
earn extra credit: Write a 7–10 page
(double-spaced) review of one of the books in the “Possible Secondary Readings”
list at the end of this syllabus (or another book that I approve). The first
page or two should summarize the main argument of the book and the remaining
6–9 pages should react to specific ideas in the book (giving the page numbers).
This extra-credit paper does not need to be a well-organized essay; it can be a
collection of notes or disconnected reactions. Just interact intelligently with
the material.
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Final
course grades will be awarded on the following scale:
A = 93–100; A– = 90–92; B+ = 87–89; B = 83–86; B– = 80–82; C+ = 77–79; C =
73–76; C– = 70–72; D+ = 67–69; D = 63–66; D– = 60–62; E = 0–59.
Course Rules
Syllabus: Reading Schedule
Possible Secondary Readings