DR. AXELROD,  ENG 102,  SYLLABUS, 

SCCC, SELDEN .  

If you would like to visit my daytime, classroom instruction for this course, you are welcome. Just inform me if you arrive to visit. 

Click here for: Weekly classroom schedule.

Required text:  (Available at SCC Bookstore.) You are required to read one of the autobiographical work, Born on the 4^th of July, by Ron Kovic. (It may be considered autobiography but it reads about the same as a novel!) 

I am requiring you to read a modern version of the play Antigone. Please read Sophocles' play and also read Anouilh's Antigone. This is not the same as Sophocles and is available most frequently as a Samuel French playbook, modern version, in addition to classical in anthology). The required Anouilh version is in the bookstore.

Required texts:  How to Apologize, is the one of my nineteen books that is required for you to write your first, poetry paper. Some others, not required, may be purchased either in bookstores (The Impossibility of Dreams, Deciduous Poems, Another Way; Love in the Keys) or on line at www.writersunlimited.org/LIPS but How to Apologize is required.

How to Apologize is available at Best Bargain Books in Centereach; on-line at Amazon; in Borders in Stony Brook, among other locations!

I have placed as much of the reading on-line as I can for free to you but for those (like me) who don't enjoy reading work on the screen and thus want to own a printed version, the bookstore also has copies of: The Grand Inquisitor (Chapter from Dostoyevsky's Brother's Karamazov); Literature: an Introduction, X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia. 

CLICK HERE TO SEE READINGS LINKS for your free reading materials.     

Grading:   Three papers will be assigned.  All must be completed satisfactorily to receive your grade. You must pass your two quizzes. Your final grade, therefore, will be the average of your three papers and your quiz results.  If you don't pass the quizzes, your final grade will be lowered.

Method:  This class approaches literature from a thematic point of view.  The essay assignments seek to test the values espoused in the literature against the students' own beliefs.  For this reason, students are cautioned that politics, religion, many questions, issues and beliefs often deeply and personally held, will be challenged as you write your essays, all for the purpose of appreciating the place literature holds in any society.   

 English Department

COURSE OBJECTIVES - ENG 102

To complete ENG 102 successfully, a student should be able to do the following:

 1.       demonstrate understanding of short stories and novels through written and goal discussion of such aspects as; plot, setting, character development, point of view, tone, style, theme and  use of language.  

2.       demonstrate understanding of poetry through written and  oral discussion of poetic language and form, including such elements as type of poem (epic, lyric, dramatic); subject matter and speaker; use of language (diction; denotation and connotation); figurative language and imagery (simile, metaphor, symbol, analogy, allusion); verse form; rhythm and meter; theme.  

3.       Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of drama through written and oral discussion of elements such as plot, structure, character development, setting, staging, and of forms such as tragedy, comedy, and modern realism.

4.     Write essays which use the tools of critical analysis to discover and communicate insights into literary works, and which demonstrate the following qualities:  focused response appropriate to the assignment; clear statement of student's main idea (thesis); coherent organization appropriate to the student's thesis; presentation of pertinent textual details and excerpts to support or illustrate thesis.