required texts: Fiction 100, An Anthology of Short Fiction, Pickering (Prentice Hall)
Wolf Whistle, Nordan (Algonquin Books)
Salvation on Sand Mountain, Covington (Penguin)
any handouts and reserve materials

OVERVIEW:

ENG 105 will help you become a more attentive and critical reader through the study of narrative as presented in a novel, short stories, non-fiction, popular culture, and poetry. You will demonstrate your development as a reader in various papers, quizzes, exams, and of course, discussion.

You will be responsible for two formal papers of 5-7 pages (each 20% of the final grade), a mid-term exam and a final exam (each 20% of the final grade), and quizzes, informal writing assignments and classroom presence, which will make up the final 20% of your grade. Two quizzes are scheduled, and more will or will not show up, circumstances depending.

Due dates are scheduled to provide you with plenty of time to complete your work without missing class. If you miss a class on a day we have a quiz or informal writing assignment, you will not be able to make that up. Please plan to attend every classyou know all the reasons attendance is important; I wont list them here. I will enforce a strict late work and absentee policy: late work incurs the penalty of one grade on the paper per day late (after 3:00 pm; this is per day, NOT per class meeting). Three absences are the maximum without a final grade penalty. Thereafter, each absence is one letter grade for the semester. Upon your seventh absence you will be dropped from this class with an F. I will keep track of absences and expect you to do the same. Please arrive prior to 3:30 so we can begin on the dot.