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Read 46 – Vasquez - Cerro Coso Community College Fall 2010 Instructor: Prof. Vasquez Contact: lavasque@cerrocoso.edu Course: 70503 (M/W 10:20am-12:25pm) Office: 317C Student Contact Hours: (Meets in LRC –upstairs) Phone: 760/384-6162 1st & 3rd M 3:00-5:00 pm; 2nd & 4th M 1:00-3:00 pm; T/R 10:00-11:00 and 5:00-6:00 and by appointment “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.” - Anne Rice, The Witching Hour Read C046: Improving Reading Skills Prerequisite: Read C036 or level 3 reading Course Description: In Read 46 students will learn to analyze paragraphs and essays for stated and unstated main ideas, identify supporting material, distinguish patterns of organization, recognize words and phrases that show relationships of ideas, make reasonable inferences, and draw logical conclusions. Required Tests and Materials (“Required” means “Not optional”) Lyn Quitman Troyka and Joseph Wayne Thweatt’s Structured Reading 7th ed. Various reading handouts (instructor provided) Sherrie L. Nist’ and Carole Mohr’s Improving Vocabulary Skills Alicia Appleman-Jurman’s Alicia: My Story ISBN: 0-8335-5419-0 A college level dictionary All students must have their own textbooks. The vocabulary book is a workbook and you will be tearing pages out and turning them in. Please have textbooks by second class meeting. If you are waiting on financial aide or other financial means, please talk with the instructor. You are responsible for having all work completed on time. Please come to class prepared to work, with pens, pencils, highlighter, dictionary, and extra 8½ x 11 paper (with clean edges) to every class meeting. All formal out-of-class work must be typed. All formal in-class work must be written in blue or black ink only on white lined paper with clean edges. What will I know how to do when I successfully complete this course? (SLOs): Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
Attendance and Class Participation Policy: Simply put – when class is scheduled, you are here. Since students who miss class regularly also miss crucial instruction necessary to pass this class, attendance is required, not optional. Furthermore, since we only meet for four hours per week, please schedule all doctor, dentist, counseling, and other appointments outside of class time. Please be on time for class and stay for the duration of the class.
What’s the Read 46 workload like? It can be very intense. You’ll stay busy because
Quizzes, Vocabulary Tests, Midterms and Final Exam: There will be several quizzes throughout the semester. Quizzes are given at the beginning of class. If you arrive late, you do not get extra time to finish. There will be four vocabulary tests, a midterm and a final. Each test will include material we have covered in lecture, class workshops, the textbook, reading, vocabulary, and homework. Specific dates are on the tentative schedule. Homework – Due Dates – and what’s the policy for late work? All assigned work – textbook assignments, thought pieces, vocabulary assignments and other assigned work – is due by five minutes after the start of class. There are many reasons – some legitimate – for work arriving late, but there are also consequences. Late work, as defined by this class, is any work turned in after 10:25am. Work turned in after 10:25 will be considered one day late. Late papers lose 5% off the grade for every 24 hours it is late (not class days – 24 hour days. 10:26 on the day an assignment is due begins the first 24 hours. There are no exceptions. Quizzes are given at the beginning of class and may not be made up. You cannot take it at the end of class if you come in late, nor can you reschedule. If you must miss an exam, you can reschedule if and only if you contact me and talk to me personally in advance and make arrangements. An email or phone call on the day of the test is not acceptable. Rescheduled tests will include an essay portion. Please plan to be in class on the day of a test. Final exam cannot be rescheduled. Additionally, late papers receive a grade only, no comments. Office Visits, E-mails, and Phone Messages: – Please feel free to drop by my office at any time and/or to email me with any questions you have regarding the class. In person, where we can communicate freely is the best way to work, but I know that is not always possible, so you can also email or call me. I check and respond to e-mails everyday Monday through Friday, occasionally on Saturday, never on Sunday. I will also be happy to help you work through a reading, and any ideas you have for writing, help you revise your work, and or give you ideas for improvement. Please turn in hard copies of assignments when asked for. Do not email your homework to me and ask me to print it because you do not have access to a printer. The learning Center and/or library have printers available for your use. Be aware that I check phone messages only when I am on campus (M-R), so the best way to reach me is through email. If you call, make sure you leave a number – one that can be clearly heard and understood. When you send an email, the subject line should be as follows: Read 46, Your Name, Topic
So, your subject line might look something like this: Read 46 Janet Parker, Question about first quiz IMPORTANT NOTE: Please use and check your college email frequently. I sometimes send email messages to the entire class and this is the email I will send it to. You are responsible for getting and following all email communication. Please Be Considerate. This is an excuse-free workplace: Remember to take responsibility for your decisions. This includes coming to class on time, staying for the duration of the class, and turning in each and every assignment when it is due. If you choose not to, for whatever reason, you will have to live the consequences of your choice. Please keep two concepts in mind: respect and consideration. Please respect others’ personal property and intellectual property – don’t touch what they own and don’t ridicule what they think. You are not required to be here. You are here because you choose to be. Your peers in class have also made that choice, and like you, are spending their hard-earned money. No person in this classroom has the right to interfere with another’s right to an education. Excessive disruptions or disturbances will be cause for a student’s removal from the course. PLEASE: Turn off cell phones and leave them off for the duration of the class. Students who use their phones in class will be removed from the class and marked absent for the day. A second offense may mean removal from the course. Same goes for headphones and iPods – put them away – do not wear/use them in class. Academic Integrity: Hmmm. . . what’s that mean? It’s plagiarism, or intellectual theft. Any student who plagiarizes in any form, intentionally or unintentionally by
Will receive an automatic F on the assignment which may lead to failing a class. Plagiarism is serious and so are its consequences. It’s just not worth the risk! Do your own work!!! Grades*: By using snapgrades.net you will always know where you stand in the class. You can check your grade on individual assignments and find your overall grade at any time. Grades will be based on the following point totals: 10 Thought Pieces 20 points each 200 2 Formal Papers 100 points each 200 10 Quizzes 10 points each 100 24 Homework (vocab chapters) 10 points each 240 In-class work/participation* (various) 260 and other homework Midterm 150 150 4 Vocabulary Unit Tests 100 points each 400 4 vocabulary Tests 100 points each 400 Novel Packet (includes various activities) Packet includes: 5 quizzes 20 points each 100 2 Maps @ 50 points each 100 Homework/various @ 20 points each 100 5 In-class Writings 10 points each 50 Final Exam 200 points 200 (May include group presentation) TOTAL POINTS 2,500 * Exact point totals may change based on actual work assigned. The points are averaged on a standard 100 percentile scoring. I do not grade on a curve. I do not give extra credit. Each individual student earns his/her own grade. 2250 - 2500 (90 – 100%) A 2000 - 2249 (80 – 89%) B 1750 - 1999 (70 – 79%) C 1500 - 1749 (60 – 69%) D 0 – 1499 ( 0 – 59%) F Special Assistance: **If you will be working with Disabled Students Programs & Services, or have any special challenges that will affect your participation and progress in class, you are responsible or informing the instructor as soon as possible. Questions, Questions, Questions???: If at any time during the class you do not understand a concept we have covered, please ask. I will do my best to make everything covered in lecture and in the readings as clear and understandable as possible and I actually mean for everyone to understand everything. This means that you have the right, indeed the obligation to question, ask, and argue for clarification at any point. If there is something you do not understand, please raise the question in class since chances are if you do not understand something there are probably other students in class who are struggling with the same concept. If you still don’t understand, ask me before or after class, e-mail, call me or do all four!! Don’t just let things that aren’t clear to you slide by. Remember, I cannot help you if you do not let me know you are struggling. I strongly – very strongly – encourage everyone to bring a draft of their formal papers by my office before they are due – give yourself enough time to revise. One more thing: while most of you will progress well in your understanding of this course’s content, you may find that you are receiving grades below what you expect. A significant cause of this results from the fact that you are not fully appreciating the assignments and/or rubrics. Please make sure that you know and follow what the assignment requires. Check out the rubric before constructing your answers. Now, relax, stock up on chocolate, ice cream, and a big bag of M&M’s (to assuage your guilt, just tell yourself that they are for Halloween), relax, and enjoy the ride. Prof. V I reserve the right to revise and modify this syllabus and the attached schedule as necessary. Tentative Schedule – Read 46: Fall 2010 *All readings and written assignments should be completed on the dates indicated. While I expect the actual weekly assignments for the course to approximate closely the following list, additional readings, handouts, exercises, and homework assignments may be added. If you have to miss a class, do not assume that we’ll be doing exactly what this list promises the following class meeting: e-mail me or get in touch with a colleague in class to be sure you know what you are responsible for. (Better yet, avoid missing any classes!!!) ** Even though “Vocabulary” will not be listed each day on the schedule below, we will devote the first few minutes of each class to review vocabulary homework from the Improving Vocabulary Skills workbook. Week Date In-class Assignments Homework
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