Initial Perceptions of Masking and Invisibility: In this paper you will write about your initial perceptions of masking and invisibility. You will also explain what you think this course is going to be about. There is no page limit for this paper. It will count 15% of your final grade.
Definitional Paper: In this paper, you will give your own definition of masking and invisibility but it must be based on a text or movie from the class. You will support your definition with specific references to the text or movie. The paper will be 2-3 pages long double-spaced. It will count 10% of your grade.
Rhetorical Analysis: This paper will analyze a movie or reading of your choice from the semester thus far. The rhetorical analysis will uncover the strategies and causes of masking and invisibility and expose the underlying narrative within the text. This paper will be 2-3 pages long double-spaced. This paper is worth 10% of your final grade.
Comparative Paper: You will compare and contrast the role of masking and invisibility in two movies or readings of your choice. They can both be from the class or one can be from class and another can be a selection that you pick. Your paper will be 3-4 pages in length. This will count 15% of your final grade.
Final Paper: Your final paper will refer back to your initial perceptions paper and your definitional paper. You will compare what you thought back then about masking and invisibility and what you think now. Use specific references from the text and feel free to quote your own work. The length will be 3-4 pages. This paper is 15% of your grade.
Every time a reading is assigned you will post a one page double-spaced response on the class website. Your response can talk about anything you think was important from the reading. Be sure your thoughts are clear. Your response will be due at a set time. Three hours after your response is due you will make another posting responding to someone else’s post. Your reply needs to be at least half a page double-spaced. This is your homework grade and it will count 15%.
Each week we will have a quiz over the reading we are examining. They’ll either be on a Wednesday or Friday depending on when the reading was assigned (never on a Monday). These quizzes will be brief and simple. If you read and have some understanding of what you read then you won’t have any problem with these. This is your quiz grade and it counts 10%.
In addition to your posting to the reading, you will come up with something to discuss in class. This can be a question on something that confused you or it can simply be a topic you wanted to address and find out other students’ opinion on it. Everyone will be required to do this. If you don’t share that day then you will turn your discussion topic in that day on a piece of paper. This is your participation grade and it is worth 10% of your final grade.
With every paper, there will be peer reviews. You will analyze another students’ paper and turn it in. This is part of your homework grade.
