Grade Consultations!

Congratulations everyone! You are fully done with the semester! I am still in the process of grading 823 & 838 papers and finals but I'm pretty much done with 882 class!! I just want to remind everyone that we will have grade consultations week starting this Friday, June 6th. If you want to know your grade for the semester and get your research paper and final back, you must come in on the day designated for each class! We will not have a full 2 or 3 hour class of course. It will be a short session of 45 minutes-1 hour at the most. In addition to getting your grade back, you will also have the opportunity to submit a 12-line poem (sonnet) to me and then recite it to class in with which you will gain 5 extra points on your final exam! I look forward to seeing you all soon!


Also, keep in mind that the last day I will check your blogs/blog comments will be a day before your consultation grade day. So make sure you email me your blog link if you haven't done so already! And remember, even 1 or 2 blog entries is better than nothing! This could be the difference between passing and failing the class. So keep that in mind please!

Grade Consultations Schedule:

English 102.0882>Friday, June 6th (10:30 am-11:30 am)

English 102.0823>Wednesday, June 11th (8:00 am-9:00 am)

English 102:0838>Wednesday, June 11th (10:30-11:30 am)

Keep in mind that we may stay longer than an hour if the students' recitations take longer. So keep your schedule open for the full length of the class just in case!

Best of luck in all your other exams and hope to see you soon!

-Salamat

About Wednesday, Your Last Day.

English 102.0823 & 102.0838 Classes:

This is your last week of classes! On Wednesday this week, June 4th, everyone must submit their research papers in hard copy in class. If for any reason you are unable to print it out and bring it to class, note, that it is absolutely your responsibility to find me and hand in the essay. I am absolutely not accepting anyone to put it in my mailbox. So the best thing to do is to print it out and bring it to your own class. 

As for the final, make sure you bring either your textbook or printed copies of all the short stories we have read and discussed in class together. I will not allow any sort of technology use like ipad or smartphones for this test. Make sure you bring a pen or pencil and you are on time with your research papers handy! 

If you submitted me a research paper draft as of today, keep in mind that I do have a lot of papers to grade already so I will not be able to fully read and respond to your essays. This is the time where all of you must visit the writing center to sit with a tutor and check that research paper rubric and make sure you have all you need! 

Good luck everyone! And hope to see all of you on Wednesday, June 4th!

-Salamat

Emailing Revisions....

Everyone in the 823 & 838 section who have emailed me revisions or are still waiting for my feedback, please wait a little longer. I've been getting a lot of emails since yesterday. So by tomorrow morning you should get your essay back with my comments! So hang in there! Have a good night!

-Salamat

Resources to help you with the research paper!!

Here are the resources/websites that you can use for the research paper:

Perdue Owl: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

http://library.laguardia.edu/home/index.php?/research/database/subject/english_and_world_literature/

https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Transitions.html

http://www.loyno.edu/wac/quotations-using-signal-phrases

http://myenglishta.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/how-to-write-a-research-paper-using-literary-criticism/

Sample essay: http://dianahacker.com/pdfs/Hacker-Lars-MLA.pdf

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If there are more resources that you have been using to help you with your research paper & would like to share with the class, please do go ahead and share it with the rest of us by posting a comment to this blog entry!

-Salamat

Research Paper Rubric

This is how you will be graded on your research paper. Study it CAREFULLY please!

Research Paper Rubric

Also, if you have emailed me a revision of your 3rd essay, just wait. I will email it back to you in a couple of hours at the latest.

-Salamat

About Revisions This Week!

Hey everyone!

So I have already mentioned this to everyone who already came for their individual conferences for 823 & 838 section classes and also to the 882 class but I want to mention it again so everyone knows. First of all for the 823/838 classes (Mon/Wed classes):
Because this week we are off on Monday & we have a short class on Wednesday, I am allowing everyone to "email" me revisions/late papers etc (of course this would be third essay only; I'm not accepting any more 1st & 2nd essays!). I have already given back a couple of essay threes with feedback so if you want to email me a revision sooner than Monday (June 2nd when it is officially due) you can definitely do so! In fact, I'm encouraging everyone to do so because if I have commented in your essay that your "thesis" is unclear & needs to be revised OR if you did not at all or properly use the literary criticism essay from the book, then you really should make sure first that you get an "OK" from me on your third essay first before moving on to do your research papers. Remember, you will not be able to "revise" your research papers and it is 20% of your grade. So get started on it asap by first correcting your third essay & then, of course, you can always send me "drafts" of your research paper so I can email you feedback on those.

As for the Friday/882 class: we have a shortage of classes in general due to the way the semester is scheduled so, if you haven't yet submitted a revision of your THIRD ESSAY, I'm allowing you to do so by emailing me the revision & taking a pic/scanning your original essay with my comments on it, by MONDAY MAY 26 at the latest for a GRADE change for your third essay! After Monday, if you didn't get a chance to send me a revision or if you did and you changed something within your essay or if you're not sure that you're going in the right direction for the research paper, you can still email me drafts/sections of your essay & I will still try to email back some comments though I would not be able to change your third essay grade at that point. Since your research papers are due on this upcoming Friday, May 30th, you would want to email me drafts/revisions/questions etc BEFORE Thursday! Since Monday is off, I will not have my office hours then but if you need help for anything, please contact me for an appointment another day so I can schedule my time accordingly.

Also, I'm going to post your research paper Rubrics later on today. So please keep that in mind as this is how you will be graded on your research papers!

Have a good extended weekend guys!

-Salamat

The Yellow Wallpaper

In " The Yellow Wallpaper " by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , I expected this story to be a love story about a couple moving into a  new home .  What I liked most about this story  is how the narrator is trapped in this room  and the outcome of her turning insane. What I liked least is how her husband did not  really take her seriously. I  do recommend this story to a friend because its a great story and its very interesting.