You must complete and submit six five reading responses during the quarter,
subject to the following rules:
- No one can submit a response for Dickens' Great
Expectations (see below)
- Two of the responses must be on Eliot's Middlemarch
- Your responses will be due
on the day the reading assignment is due.
- No late responses will be
accepted.
In total, the submitted responses constitute up to 40% of the course grade.
General Procedure
Short response papers (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 pages) are due on the dates specified on the
course schedule. Papers must be word-processed and handed in at the beginning of
class (no email submissions accepted).
Response papers may explore any aspect of the text
that strikes you as interesting or puzzling, contrast the current week's
text with one read earlier in the quarter, choose a passage of the text to
close-read, or raise questions that you would like to develop in a final
paper or to discuss in class. Because these papers are designed as warm-up
for class discussion, they must examine the text assigned for the day on
which they are due (rather than the previous week's); for the same reason,
extensions will not be given on response papers under any circumstances.
The response is not a paper so you
should not concern yourself with introductions and conclusions. You
should, however, make every attempt to provide a coherent response and you
should proofread and edit your work for clarity. Each response will be graded using the following simple
scale
1 - (60% credit): inadequate; the response was submitted on time but
fails to meet the terms of the assignment
2 - (80% credit): adequate; the response was submitted on time and
meets the terms of the assignment
3 - (100% credit): superior; the response was submitted on time and
goes beyond the terms of the assignment
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