Welcome to Week 5 of our course. This week we will be returning to the short story form for a reading of Joyce Carole Oates’ chilling work “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Warning: It may give you nightmares. We will also be reading several works centered on […]
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Welcome to Week 4 of our course. BMCC is officially closed on Monday, September 25th for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. However, you must still complete the week’s activities. This week will complete a segment on Poetry. We’ll be exploring the themes and structure of Shakespearean and Italian sonnets, as […]
Welcome to Week 3 of our online course. This week will be exploring one of the great tragedies of Western literature, Oedipus the King. I look forward to hearing your responses as we examine the complex character of the doomed king and ponder timeless questions about the human condition. The […]
This week we will be reading a selection of short works from the 19th Century, which feature women protagonists: “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, along with the Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Wife.” These stories are accessed on the Commonlit website. […]
Welcome to Week 1 of ENG 201 Introduction to Literature. This is an intensive course that will be completed in seven weeks from Tuesday, September 5 – Tuesday, October 24. Be aware that you will be completing the same amount of work as you would in a regular 15-week semester, […]
This is a Zero Textbook Cost course, which uses OER (Open Educational Resources) in lieu of a textbook. All required materials can be accessed in the Weekly folders.
Please visit the Blackboard home page for your section and access the E-learning Orientation on the gray navigation panel. This is a mandatory assignment and should be completed by the end of the first week.
Click here to create an account with Commonlit. This is a zero textbook course (ZTC), and many of the assignments will come from this interactive website. Please create your student account right away so that you do not miss any assignments. Your class code is: LBPD6EQ
This course is a 7-week intensive, in-person course, which runs from Tuesday, September 5, through Tuesday, October 24. Be aware that you will be completing the equivalent of a 15-week course in seven short weeks. This is an asynchronous online course. There are no Zoom meetings nor in-person sessions. All […]
The High Cost of Plagiarism Plagiarism will be dealt with firmly. A student who plagiarizes will receive a permanent grade of zero (0) for the essay or discussion in question. All essays will be submitted through Turnitin, which features plagiarism detection capability. Suspected plagiarism, even if it passes the Turnitin […]
Essay Due Dates Paragraph Writing Assignment due: Sunday, September 17 (See Week 1 for details and submission link). Essay First Draft due: Sunday, October 1 (See Week 2 for details and submission link). Essay Final Draft due: Sunday, October 8 (See Week 4 for details and submission link). In order to […]
How to View Instructor Comments on Written Work It is very important that you review instructor comments on your graded essays. This way you can correct errors and do better on future essays. To see your grades, navigate back to your Blackboard course and follow these steps: Navigate to Essay […]
BMCC Grading System A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F 93 – 100 90 – 92 87 – 89 83 – 86 80 – 82 77 – 79 73 – 76 70 – 72 67 – 69 63 – 66 60 – 62
All quizzes (except for final) must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday of each week. Quiz 1: Thesis Statements – Due Sunday, 9/10 Quiz 2: Formatting – Due Sunday, 9/17 Quiz 3: Literary Terms – Due Sunday 9/24 Quiz 4: Ancient Greek Theater – Due Sunday 10/1 Quiz 5: […]
A Message from the Writing Center The Writing Center supports writing across the curriculum by working with students and faculty to maximize the effectiveness of writing projects and student awareness of best practices. We work with all students who have writing projects, including those from the Social Sciences, Critical Thinking […]
Help with Sentence Structure Run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments are the most common errors in essays. Please review the quick guide below for correcting these mistakes in sentence structure. For correcting run-on sentences and comma splices, review this PDF file. For correcting sentence fragments, click this link for a short video. Sentence […]
