Module I: Getting Started in Am Lit II
Module 1: Getting Started in American Literature II
First Day!
Textbook: You will need your textbook immediately: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Eighth Shorter Edition, edited by Nina Baym, available in the Raymond Bookstore, but also online (takes about a week to get it that way). ISBN is 978-0-393-91885-4. You’ll need that number to be sure you get the right book. Don’t trust the stack you see, and double check what the bookstore people tell you just to be sure; there are other American Literature texts available, and you’ll want to save yourself the time and trouble of having to go back later to swap it.
Attendance
First, you need to understand that you’ll have assignments EVERY WEEK and that these assignments are the verification for your participation in the class. In other words, if you fail to turn in an assignment during the week it is due, you are counted absent. After the second absence, you will be mailed a notification of excessive absences, and you will have seven days to respond and make up work or be dropped with an F. The State Board of Community and Junior Colleges says you must be in attendance at least 80% of the course's classes to get credit for the course, so we must abide by the law.
Assignments
Assignments are turned in at the assignment links located in the module where the assignment instructions are posted—they MUST NOT be emailed to me unless, for some technical issue, I ask you to do that. (Google Documents do not open properly in Canvas, so use another program or save the document as a text file before uploading it.) The assignment may be a list of questions to answer and/or a paragraph or two to write, which should take only a few minutes to write and submit it if you have read the material. The assignments combined count 15% of the grade so, although it is great to have an A average going into the midterm exam, the midterm counts 50% of the first half of the semester and can dramatically change the average, up or down.
How to Submit Assignments
First, do the assignment and save it as a document on your computer so you will have a copy of it and so you want have to redo it if it does not come through the site for some reason. Then, just click on the assignment link in ASSIGNMENTS or in the Modules. You will see an answer window where you can upload the document using the BROWSE window. It’s easy to manipulate—to upload the document, click on BROWSE in the little window, select the document you want to send me, just like an email attachment. Then you SUBMIT, and the document will be attached. Then you SUBMIT again to send the assignment with the attached document to the grade book area.
Un-Proctored Quizzes
There are three short un-proctored quizzes, worth 20% of the grade in the course. Although they are taken from your own computer, you need to be fully prepared, because the Respondus "lock down" function will prohibit you from accessing any other screen or website or cutting and pasting from a file, etc., while you are in the test. Is is also timed, 30 minutes. (Unlike the un-proctored quizzes, the midterm and final exams are PROCTORED, so you must register for those at least three days ahead of time through the proctor registration link found in the Hinds Info and also in Module 4.)
(Preliminary Assignment (Required by MSVCC!!): Due Wednesday, January 15.
Send me an email from your hindscc.edu email. This is the email account that you must use for this and all other online courses. This is a REQUIREMENT for you to be considered present in class this first week. It tells us you are planning to participate in this course.
Also, and this is required, too: Read all the information and appropriate links in Module 1 because you will need to know much of this later. Specifically, be sure to understand about withdrawal and proctor testing. Finally, complete the ORIENTATION Survey due January 15 . Notice that this five-minutes' work is worth 10 points, so do not omit it.