Frederick Community College
Course Syllabus
English Composition
and Literature EN 102-ONL1 Spring 2012
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Class Begins: 01/30/12 |
Class Ends: 05/17/12 |
Last Day to Withdraw: 04/16/12 |
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Meeting Date & Time: Online |
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Instructor Information
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Instructor: Frederick Cope |
Office: H-271 |
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E-mail: fcope@frederick.edu |
Phone
Number: 301-846-2584 |
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Office
Hours: Mon-Thur: 10:00-11:00 am Tuesday: 7:00 pm
(Online Only) |
Campus
Mail Box Number: 320 |
Course Information
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Course: EN
102 English Composition and Literature |
Credits:
3 |
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Prerequisites: EN 101 |
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Course Description
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EN102 reinforces, through an examination of
literature, the reading, writing, critical thinking, and information literacy
skills introduced in freshman composition. By exploring literary texts from
fiction, poetry, and drama, students learn to clarify their own values and
identities as well as develop a better understanding of ideas and cultures
beyond their own experience. |
Core Learning Outcomes:
By the
completion of the course students will:
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Upon completion of this course, students
will demonstrate 1. informed critical responses to the fiction, poetry, and drama genres
and to the human values they express through an awareness of literature as
both a record and a reflection of culture 2. an understanding and interpretation of social values by identifying
and evaluating moral issues and conflicts, by displaying academic honesty,
and by valuing lifelong learning. 3. college-level communication skills and appropriate documentation of
source material 4.critical thinking skills in the analysis,
comparison, synthesis, interpretation, and evaluation of literature and the
techniques used by writers to create it.
5.appropriate use of literary terminology. 6.the value of literature as evidence of a multicultural society
expressing the universality and diversity of the human experience and the
importance and responsibility of the individual. 7.the use of technology to format papers
and conduct research. |
Instructional
Methods
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EN102-ONL
will require you to read critically and formulate well-written responses that
you share with the instructor and with other students. The majority of that
writing will come in the form of exercises that you will compose at home and
share online. You will also write regular responses to other students in
class via the Discussion Board. Methods include on-line lecture notes, class
discussion (via Discussion Board), peer conferencing (via Discussion Board),
collaborative learning (via Discussion Board), instructor comments on written
work, a plagiarism unit, and on-line and/or library research for a documented
paper. |
Texts
for Course:
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Pike, David, and Ana M. Acosta. Literature:
A World of Writing. Boston: Longman, 2010. Print. ISBN 13: 978-0-321-36489-0; ISBN 10:
0-321-36489-9 |
By the end of the 3rd week of
the semester, you will have an opportunity to evaluate your progress in this
course and decide if you need to make any adjustments (additional study,
tutoring, conference with instructor) to assure your success in this course.
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Tests / Papers / Projects /
Participation
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Point Value
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Final Grade Scale |
Integrity Pledge submission
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10
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On-Campus Writing Sample
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10
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900 – 1000 = A |
Discussion Boards (14 @ 10
points each)
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140
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Reading Quizzes (12 @ 10 points each)
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120
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800 – 899 = B |
MLA & Anti-Plagiarism Unit,
2 tests
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50
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Fiction Unit Test, 3 parts
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100
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700 – 799 = C |
Fiction Essay
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100
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Drama Unit Test, 3 parts
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100
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600 – 699 = D |
Drama Essay
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100
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Documented Research Paper
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170
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599 & below = F |
Poetry Unit Test, 2 parts
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100
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TOTAL
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1000
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If the graded performance for online
assignments differs significantly from the grade average for proctored
assignments, the instructor reserves the right to administer additional
tests. Late assignments are penalized 20% for two days, and receive a grade of
zero thereafter. |
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Codes of Academic Integrity and Student
Conduct
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Students are required to uphold the Code of
Academic Integrity and the Code of Student Conduct. Students who violate
either of these codes may receive a failing grade in the class. Information about these codes and other
student policies, procedures, and penalties is available on the Student
Policy and Procedures web page at http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/studentpolicies.aspx
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Student Services
A variety of
services are available to assist students in succeeding at FCC. Students can
learn more about these services by visiting the Student Services web page: http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/index.aspx
Students
with disabilities who are in need of accommodations or who have questions
related to disabilities services should contact the Services for Students with
Disabilities (SSD) office at 301-846-2408. Students can learn
more about these services by visiting the Services for Students with
Disabilities web page:
http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/disability.aspx .
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1. The
course level class participation policy is designed to support the
learning process. 2. The
course level class participation policy is designed within the framework of
the approved class formats for online classes. 3. To
maintain the highest quality of academic work, the course level class
participation policy encourages and expects the student to participate fully
in all course activities. 4. In
case of serious illness, emergency, religious holidays, or participation in
official college functions, students remain responsible for completing the
requirements of the course. 5.
Class Participation affects the
grade of the student. The course
syllabus identifies measurable units of class participation in course
activities such as discussion board responses and completion of the required
essays, projects, and modules. |
Email
Communication
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With the exception of MOL students, all FCC
students will receive and are expected to use their FCC email address for
correspondence with faculty and staff at the college. Students can establish
and access their FCC email accounts at https://myfcc.frederick.edu. Email
is an instructional tool essential to student-instructor and student-student
communication. In the Blackboard environment by default, your email address
is available to all students in this course. However, students are permitted to use
email addresses of other students in this course only for the purpose and the
duration of this course. The instructor can be expected to respond
to regular student email inquiries (grades, posted assignments, and tests
excluded) within the time frame of 24 to 48 hours. |
Assignment
Guidelines
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All written assignments (essay and poetry
project) must be turned in on time via Blackboard – assignments WILL NOT BE accepted via
Email. It is important to log into Blackboard
regularly and meet the deadlines. To receive full credit for any of your
work, you must submit it ON TIME and in the CORRECT LOCATION. All assignments
are due by midnight on the date specified. For those where a specific due
date is not given, it is due Saturday of that week no later than midnight. Late written assignments lose 20% of their
credit for two days; after that they earn no credit. All other workshop
assignments lose 20% of their credit for two days if late; after that they
earn no credit. All assignments must be submitted according
to the course guidelines. Assignments are due by midnight of the date
due. Students who find themselves more than a week behind will not be able to
make up missed work. Instructor reserves the right to not accept late
assignments. |
Topical Outline (ONLINE
COURSES)
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Key to
Abbreviations: WOW = Literature: A World of Writing BB = Blackboard document
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Week |
Subject |
Content |
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Week 1 |
Module
1: Introduction Read:
WoW
02-06 WoW
06-14 BB
– “Reading Literature” WoW
07 – Fernandez – “Wrong Channel” WoW
10 – Plath – “Metaphors” WoW
12 – Shields – “Absence” |
Submit the Integrity
Pledge Begin
the MLA & Anti-plagiarism unit, due at the end of Module 03 Discussion Board |
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Week 2 |
Module
2: Genre & Fiction Read:
WoW
114-15 – “The Conventions of Genre” WoW
118 – “Comparing Genres” WoW
131-38 – “What Is Fiction?” WoW
116-17 – Atwood – “Happy Endings” WoW
118-21 – Momaday – From The Way to Rainy Mountain WoW
133 – Powell – “A Gentleman’s C” WoW
278-82 – Walker – “Everyday Use” WoW
624-28 – Bambara – “The Lesson” |
On-Campus
Writing Sample (required) Module 02 Quiz Discussion Board Work
on Anti-plagiarism unit |
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Week 3 |
Module
3: Fiction Read: WoW
250-58 – O’Connor – “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” WoW
519-25 – Alexie – “This Is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” WoW
358-62 – Updike – “A&P” |
Module 03 Quiz Discussion Board Due: MLA
& Plagiarism Assignment |
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Week 4 |
Module
4: Fiction Read:
WoW
435-42 – Hawthorne – “Young Goodman Brown” WoW
442-43 – Chopin – “The Story of an Hour” WoW
444-46 – Hemingway – “Hills Like White Elephants” WoW
447-56 – O’Brien – “The Things They Carried” |
Begin
the Fiction Essay Module 04 Quiz Discussion Board |
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Week
5 |
Module
5: Fiction Read:
WoW
507-11 – Welty – “A Worn Path” WoW
534-38 – Poe – “The Cask of Amontillado” WoW
538-43 – Faulkner – “A Rose for Emily” |
Module 05 Quiz Discussion Board Continue the Fiction Essay |
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Week 6 |
Module
6: Literary Devices Read:
WoW
210-23 – “Working with Literary Devices” WoW
384-87 includes: ·
Teasdale – “The Look” ·
Shakespeare – “Sonnet 128” ·
Shakespeare – “Sonnet 116” ·
Shakespeare – “Sonnet 29” ·
Donne – “The Flea” |
Fiction
Unit Test (3 parts) Submit
the Fiction Essay |
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Week 7 |
Module
7: Drama Read: WoW
– 139 & 146-56 – “What Is a Play?” WoW
139-45 – Glaspell – Trifles WoW
189-93 – Beckett – Krapp’s Last Tape |
Module 07 Quiz Discussion Board |
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Week 8 |
Module 8: Drama - Hamlet Read: WoW
285-300 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 1 WoW
300-311 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 2 |
Begin
the Drama Essay Module 08 Quiz Discussion Board |
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Week 9 |
Module 9: Drama -
Hamlet Read: WoW
194-95 – “Writing About a Performance” WoW 199
– “Types of Essays About Performance” WoW
311-325 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 3 WoW
325-335 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 4 |
Module 09 Quiz Discussion Board Continue the Drama Essay |
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Week 10 |
Module
10: Drama - Hamlet Read: WoW
335-46 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 5 |
Discussion Board Drama
Unit Test (3 parts) Submit
the Drama Essay |
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Week 11 |
Module
11: Genre & Poetry Read:
WoW
114-21 -- “On the Conventions of Genre” WoW
122-123 – “What is Poetry? WoW
123 – Coleridge – “Metrical Feet” WoW
175 – Blake – “London” WoW
457 – Donne – “Death Be Not Proud” WoW
652-53 – Basho & Wright – Haikus |
Module 11 Quiz Discussion Board |
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Week 12 |
Module
12: Poetry (Translations) Read
WoW
232-38 – “Reading & Writing Between Languages” Includes:
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Catullus – “Poem 85” & “Translation of Poem 85” ·
Lovelace, Landor, Pound, Whigham, Martin, Bidart, Sagan –
“Translating Catullus” |
Module 12 Quiz Discussion Board Begin
the Documented Research Paper |
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Week 13 |
Module
13: Poetry Read: WoW
176 – Frost – “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” WoW
525-26 – Frost – “Mending Wall” WoW
655-56 – Bishop – “The Fish” WoW
654 – H.D. – “The Sea Rose” WoW
658 – Hopkins – “Inversnaid” WoW
660 – Merwin – “Rain at Night” |
Module 13 Quiz Discussion Board Continue work on Research Paper |
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Week 14 |
Module
14: Poetry Read:
WoW
238 – Owen – “Dulce et Decorum Est” WoW
458 – Thomas – “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” WoW
459 – Dickinson – “Because I could not stop for Death” WoW 460 – Dickinson –
“I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” WoW
553 – Smith – “Not Wavings but Drowning” |
Module 14 Quiz Discussion Board Submit
the Research Paper |
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Week 15 |
Module
15: Poetry Read: WoW
382-83 – Uruttiran – “What She Said …” WoW
387 – Baca – “Spliced Wire” WoW
388-89 – Poe – “Annabel Lee” WoW
389 – Eliot – “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” WoW
620-21 – Gang – “Red Azalea on the Cliff” |
Discussion Board Poetry Unit Test (2 parts) |
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NOTE: Your
instructor reserves the right to make changes to this outline as needed. |
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Calendar
of Due Dates |
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Date |
Assessment |
POINTS |
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Wednesday |
Feb 1 |
Integrity Pledge submitted |
10 |
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Wednesday |
Feb 1 |
DB for Module 01 |
10 |
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Week
of |
Feb 6 – Feb 12 |
On-Campus
Writing Sample |
10 |
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Wednesday |
Feb 1 |
DB for Module 02, Part I |
5 |
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Saturday |
Feb 4 |
DB for Module 02, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Feb 4 |
Reading Quiz for Module 02 |
10 |
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Wednesday |
Feb 8 |
DB for Module 03, Part I |
5 |
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Saturday |
Feb 11 |
DB for Module 03, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Feb 11 |
Reading Quiz for Module 03 |
10 |
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Wednesday |
Feb 15 |
DB for Module 04, Part I |
5 |
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Wednesday |
Feb 15 |
Anti-Plagiarism
Test, Part I |
20 |
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Saturday |
Feb 18 |
DB for Module 04, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Feb 18 |
Reading Quiz for Module 04 |
10 |
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Saturday |
Feb 18 |
Anti-Plagiarism
Discussion Board, Part II |
30 |
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Wednesday |
Feb 22 |
DB for Module 05, Part I |
5 |
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Saturday |
Feb 25 |
DB for Module 05, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Feb 25 |
Reading Quiz for Module 05 |
10 |
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Saturday |
Mar 3 |
Fiction
Unit Test, Parts I & II |
70 |
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Saturday |
Mar 3 |
Fiction
Unit Test, Part III |
30 |
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Saturday |
Mar 3 |
Fiction
Essay Assignment |
100 |
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Wednesday |
Mar 7 |
DB for Module 07, Part I |
5 |
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Saturday |
Mar 10 |
DB for Module 07, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Mar 10 |
Reading Quiz for Module 07 |
10 |
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Wednesday |
Mar 14 |
DB for Module 08, Parts I & II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Mar 17 |
DB for Module 08, Part III |
5 |
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Saturday |
Mar 17 |
Reading Quiz for Module 08 |
10 |
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Spring
Break—March 19-25—No Modules this Week!! |
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Wednesday |
Mar 27 |
DB for Module 09, Parts I & II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Mar 31 |
DB for Module 09, Part III |
5 |
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Saturday |
Mar 31 |
Reading Quiz for Module 09 |
10 |
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Wednesday |
Apr 4 |
DB for Module 10, Part I |
5 |
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Wednesday |
Apr 4 |
Reading Quiz for Module 10 |
10 |
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Saturday |
Apr 7 |
DB for Module 10, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Apr 7 |
Drama
Unit Test, Parts I & II |
70 |
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Saturday |
Apr 7 |
Drama
Unit Test, Part III |
30 |
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Saturday |
Apr 7 |
Drama
Essay |
100 |
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Wednesday |
Apr 11 |
DB for Module 11, Part I |
5 |
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Saturday |
Apr 14 |
DB for Module 11, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Apr 14 |
Reading Quiz for Module 11 |
10 |
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Wednesday |
Apr 18 |
DB for Module 12, Part I |
5 |
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Saturday |
Apr 21 |
DB for Module 12, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Apr 21 |
Reading Quiz for Module 12 |
10 |
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Wednesday |
Apr 25 |
DB for Module 13, Part I |
5 |
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Saturday |
Apr 28 |
DB for Module 13, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
Apr 28 |
Reading Quiz for Module 13 |
10 |
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Wednesday |
May 2 |
DB for Module 14, Part I |
5 |
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Saturday |
May 5 |
DB for Module 14, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
May 5 |
Reading Quiz for Module 14 |
10 |
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Sunday |
May 6 |
Documented
Research Paper |
170 |
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Tuesday |
May 8 |
DB for Module 15, Part I |
5 |
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Wednesday |
May 16 |
DB for Module 15, Part II |
5 |
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Saturday |
May 18 |
Poetry
Unit Test, Part I |
20 |
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Saturday |
May 18 |
Poetry
Unit Test, Part II |
80 |
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1000 points total |