Tentative Daily Schedule: 

Dr. Fields reviews syllabus.

Christopher Plummer movie.

Plummer Movie Response 1 due Monday, June 10. 

Plummer Movie Response Due.

Forbidden Planet movie.

NOTE: Forbidden Movie Response 2 due Wednesday, June 12.

Helen Mirren Movie.

Mirren Movie Response 3 due Monday, June 17. 

Week 3: June 17-20:

Mirren Movie Response Due. Mazursky’s Tempest.

Mazursky Movie Response 4 due Monday, June 24.

Week 4: June 24-27:

Mazursky Movie Response Due.

Find three scholarly articles, print entire articles, highlight for a key quote in each. Scholarly Response is due Monday, July 1.

Week 5: July 1-5:

Scholarly Response due.

Drafting the five-paragraph essay.

WORKS CITED model.

EXTRA CREDIT presentations for FIVE points added to five-paragraph essay.

Five-paragraph essay due Thursday, July 5.

Required books: only these books and no others: 

The Arden Shakespeare: The Tempest. Revised Edition: Bloomsbury. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-4081-3347-7. 

The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises. W.W. Norton and Company. Third Edition. ISBN 978-0-393-60264-7.

 Apply knowledge of rhetoric to written communication.

Engage in a writing process of invention, drafting, and revision.

Write thesis-based arguments with strong support and specific details.

Find, evaluate, and synthesize credible scholarly sources.

Use sources appropriately and follow a designated style guide.

Demonstrate proficient use of Standard Written English. 

Movie responses: 40 percent of semester grade (10 percent each) :

Each movie response is one paragraph of about 300 words. You start with an overall idea that is your answer to our perennial question: What is Shakespeare teaching us about modern people? 

For the first and second movie responses, you quote three times from our play (with parenthetical act, scene, and line); for the third and fourth movie responses, you quote three times to the best of your recollection from the dialogue. 

Here is your sequence leading up to each quote: Describe the situation with specific details (avoid summary as much as possible). Be dynamically visual and auditory (what we see and hear). Then provide an insight or thought based on the quote, but the thought comes first. The quote is last. 

The insight or thought is the supporting point and ends on a colon just before the relevant quote. Think of it as a moral or lesson for all of us and express it as universally as possible. 

Scholarly Response: 30 percent of the grade (10 percent for each quote):

You need to find three articles in scholarly journals. By using key search words, you can find the articles on our Moffett-supported databases.

You are quoting ONCE from each article. Do not start with the quote. For each quote, start with the author, title of the article, and the name of the journal and the main idea in your words. This idea is also a supporting point. The quote follows the supporting point. You do this process three times in the same paragraph.

The paragraph needs an overall idea. This overall idea is an answer to our usual question: What is Shakespeare saying about modern people?

Without quoting from the play, describe something from one of our movies. You can paraphrase the movie’s dialogue.

To find scholarly articles, start with Academic Search Complete on the Moffett Library databases. Then click on the choose option just above the search box and add other databases. 

Write a five-paragraph essay about The Tempest, informed by your responses (including for the movies). You already have the basis for the second, third, and fourth paragraphs—they are revisions of two movie responses and your scholarly response with three quotes from three sources.

FIRST PARAGRAPH:

The first paragraph is an introductory paragraph. It answers our usual prompt question: What is Shakespeare teaching us about modern people? Introduce the character or characters who illustrate the overall idea of your essay. What scenes in the play drive home your thought? What scenes from two of our movies help you make your point?

SECOND PARAGRAPH (revision of movie response):

Revise one of your movie responses. If you need to make your description more specific and visual or clarify your supporting points, here is your opportunity not only to improve your movie response but also to tailor it more closely to your five-paragraph’s argument. Make sure your overall idea supports what you are doing in your first paragraph. 

THIRD PARAGRAPH (revision of another movie response):

Revise another movie response. As with paragraph two, if you need to make your description in this response more specific and visual or clarify your supporting points, here is your opportunity not only to improve your movie response but also to tailor it more closely to what you are trying to say throughout the five-paragraph essay.  

FOURTH PARAGRAPH:

Revise your scholarly response

FIFTH PARAGRAPH:

Here revisit your overall idea from the introduction. Tease out something you mentioned in paragraph three or four—something you described from a movie. Go into depth in light of something your scholarly source said or implied in paragraph five.

Four undocumented absences means 10 percent off the overall semester grade. The professor will accept documentation in the form of cellphone pictures (by email attachment) of clinic sign-in sheets, court dates, prescription labels, repair receipts, and work schedules; he will accept emails from family members, lawyers, and supervisors. Many times students are helping family members or friends in crisis, which is legitimate. Each case is different. The key is keeping Dr. Fields in the loop, communicating and working with him by email, and coming to an agreement on how to document the absences—especially if you have allowed three undocumented absences to occur. The fourth brings down the penalty.  

Students must submit their work on due dates in person: not by surrogate, not under my door, not left on a desk, and not by email attachment. The late penalty is 10 points out of 100.

Note: You may not submit a paper for a grade in this class that already has been (or will be) submitted for a grade in another course, unless you obtain the explicit written permission of me and the other instructor involved in advance.

Plagiarism is the use of someone else's thoughts, words, ideas, or lines of argument in your own work without appropriate documentation (a parenthetical citation at the end and a listing in "Works Cited")-whether you use that material in a quote, paraphrase, or summary. It is a theft of intellectual property and will not be tolerated, whether intentional or not.

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