Quizzes (in-class) & Homework                                         25%  (drop lowest)

Midterm                                                                                15%   

Essay (3 plus AtoZ)                                                            50% (only essays can be turned in late for per day penalty)

Final                                                                                     10%

ENGLISH 1102

Essays (3) + Plag Exercise                                                  25% (only these 3 essays can be turned in late for per day penalty)
Research Paper                                                                  25%
Quizzes & Participation & Homework                                20%
Presentation & Annotated Bib & Topic Proposal                20%
Final                                                                                  10%

ENGLISH 2122 (British Lit)

Quizzes and homework (I drop the lowest grade of these)                                           20%
Midterm                                                                                                                                20%
Final (Response Essay)                                                                                                       15%
Response Essay (1-2 pages)                                                                                               20% (only these 2 essays can be turned in late for per day penalty)
Creative Media Project on 1 Victorian Author & Response paragraph                        25%

ENGLISH 2191 (Dystopian Lit: The Hunger Games)

Quizzes (17-20)                                30% (drop lowest)
Paragraphs (6)                                 20% (drop lowest)
Presentation                                     25%
Paper                                                  25% (only assignment that can be turned in late for per day penalty)

Letter grade equivalents for numerical scores

         90%/900 points or higher: A

         80%/800 points to 899 points: B

         70%/700 points to 799 points: C

         60%/600 points to 699 points: D

         Below 59%/599 points: F

I am especially pleased to award high grades to those papers that demonstrate (in order) strong organization (ie attention to thesis and follow-through examples), creativity (ie original thought, interesting examples, superb use of language like metaphor/simile, allusion, title, et al, grammar (subject-verb agreement, complete sentences not fragments or run-on, proper citations, et al, and finally a command of stylistic conventions (like voice/style, sentence variation, awareness of audience).

Each essay assignment will come with multiple topic choices for you to choose and a rubric/checklist. What is a rubric? Good question. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubric_(academic) for more information.