2. 8/27 Read Long Day's Journey Into Night up to p. 97, the start of Act 3.
3. 9/3 Finish Long Day's Journey Into Night.
4. 9/10 Turn in essay; discuss short stories assigned class 2; read "Oedipus the King."
5. 9/17 Hand back essays; read "Antigone"; discuss short stories assigned class 4.
6. 9/24 Turn in essay; discuss The Lord of the Flies.
7. 10/1 Hand back essays; discuss short stories assigned class 6; read and discuss "The Road Not Taken,' "Ozymandias," 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," 'To An Athlete Dying Young," and "To His Coy Mistress"; read A Streetcar Named Desire to p. 42.
8. 10/8 Read A Streetcar Named Desire to p. 97; have "love" discussion.
9. 10/15 Finish "Streetcar"; read two "Streetcar" essays of former students; read and discuss 'The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner,' "The Flea," and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
10. 10/22 Read "Death of a Salesman" to p. 1811; read and discuss the poem "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God."
11. 10/29 Take, correct, and discuss a quiz on Les Miserables.
12. 11/5 Finish and discuss "Salesman"; discuss short stories assigned classes 10 and 11; read and discuss "The Tyger."
13. 11/12 Turn in essay; read Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
14. 11/19 Read "Lest We Forget," (which includes "Colin's Choice"), "Mr. Rose" and "The Doorway," and "Barrington Bunny."
75 quotations from the works read - you must identify the speaker; 53 questions matching work and author; 39 general questions on the works = 167 total questions.
Number Wrong on Final x .6 = % wrong (then subtract from 100%)
A+ = 96-100%
A = 93-95
A- = 90-92
B+ = 86-89
B = 83-85
B- = 80-82
C+ = 76-79
C = 73-75
C- = 70-72
D+ = 66-69
D = 63-65
D- = 60-62
F+ = 56-59
F = 0-55
Semester Grade
Each of your four essays (as well as the Les Miserables quiz) = 1/10 of your grade; the final exam = 5/10 (1/2).
Rules and Information
1. Late essays will be downgraded 1/3 of a grade for every day late. In other words, if an essay is due on a Wednesday, and you turn it in on the next Wednesday, it will go down 2 1/3 grades (an "A+" would become a "C"; a "B" would become a "D-"; a "C+" would become an "F").
2. If you are absent on the day an essay is due, you may email it to me to avoid the downgrade penalty. You will be charged 25 cents/page for the printing.
3. If you are absent on the day of the Les Miserables quiz, you must make it up before the next class. You and I will make arrangements as to time and place.
4. On your third absence, you will be dropped from the class.
5. If you need to miss class, please call me at 925-443-9135.
6. My website's address is www.oocities.org/jimwillisca. Then click on "Las Positas Students" (near the top).
7. My email address is jimwillisca@comcast.net.