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(9%): Fiction Paper |
(9%): First Unit Test: Short Story Test |
(10%): Literature Review/Annotated Bibliography |
(9%): Second Unit Test: Poetry Test |
(9%): Third Unit Test: Drama Test/Final Exam |
(20%): Research Paper |
(20%): Reading Quizzes and Grammar Quizzes. Quizzes will be over the reading(s) to be discussed that day, or over grammar, or both. There will be 20 quizzes. For more important
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(10%): Participation |
(1%): Pre-Assessment Test on literary terminology. The test will be taken on D2L at the end of week 3. Consult the "Weekly Reading Schedule" section of this syllabus for the window of time
available to take this test. Failure to take the Pre-test will result in a 1% reduction to the final average. This test cannot be made-up or rescheduled. |
(1%): Post-Assessment Test on literary terminology. The test will be taken on D2L at the end of week 13. Consult the "Weekly Reading Schedule" section of this syllabus for the window of time available to take this test. Failure to take the Post-test will result in a 1% reduction to the final average. This test cannot be made-up or rescheduled.
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(2%): ConnectLit Assignment: three pre-diagnostic quizzes on editing skills: apostrophes, commas, semicolons. Consult the "Weekly Reading Schedule" section of this syllabus for the window of time available to take this test. Failure to take it will result in a 1% reduction to the final average. This test cannot be made-up or rescheduled.
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All three unit tests must be taken, and the Fiction Paper, Poetry Paper, and Research Paper must be turned in, or students cannot pass this course. In effect, failure to negotiate this guideline successfully would result in automatic failure of this course.
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