Syllabus

Course Requirements and Evaluation

For this course, you will write two 900-1200 word essays (3-4 typed pages) and submit eight 300-350 word journals (1-1½ pages). You will also have a midterm and a final exam. In addition, you will be expected to participate in class discussions, in person and/or online. Your grade for the course will be calculated as follows:

Two formal essays 50% (25% each)

The final exam 25%

The midterm 15%

Atten, Partic, and Journals 10%

100%

A= 90 and higher; B=80-89; C=70-79; D=60-69; F=59 and under

Course Policies:

Attendance and Participation: Regular attendance is crucial to classroom learning, particularly in this class. Arriving late and leaving early are disruptive and students who do so will not receive credit for attendance. You are expected to attend and to participate in all classes. Absences and/or coming to class late or unprepared will have a negative consequence on your final grade.
Late Papers: Papers are due promptly at the beginning of the class identified in the syllabus or they will be considered late. If you will not be in class, your paper or journal must be in my mailbox (HUM 102) by class time. Extensions for unusual circumstances must be arranged at least 48 hours in advance of the due date. Unexcused late formal essays will be penalized up to one full letter grade per class period of lateness, and papers later than one week will not be accepted. Note: You must complete both of the formal papers in order to be eligible to pass the course.
Documented Excuses: Documented excuses include emergency room visits, doctors’ written instructions to stay home from school and work, funerals, and court dates. Regular doctors’ appointments do not constitute excused absences.
Make-up Exams: You are expected to take all exams on the date they are scheduled. If you are unable to meet this requirement for some very good reason, please contact me at least 48 hours in advance about the possibility of making other arrangements. Unexcused, missed exams will be penalized and may not be made up.
Email: Email is the best way to get in touch with me. I check my email several times a day (including weekends). I will reply to a message from any account (aol, hotmail, etc), but please be aware that privacy laws require that I discuss grades only via a school account. Assignments are not accepted by email except by special arrangement. Never send attachments unless you have received prior approval.
Email Language: My language fluency is, in decreasing order of competence, as follows: English, Biblical Hebrew, French, Spanish, Yiddish, German and Italian. Please note that I do not speak IM. If you want a coherent response, please write in complete words when you email me. Complete sentences with capitalization, punctuation, and standard grammar are even better!
Academic honesty: Thou shalt not plagiarize thy Bible and Literature papers! Plagiarism and other kinds of academic dishonesty will be dealt with as prescribed in the College’s Academic Integrity Policy (See the College Catalog). Using the words and/or ideas of others without proper MLA documentation will result in a lowered grade, failure of the assignment, and/or failure of the course. Students must sign a form indicating they have read and understand the policy.
Getting Help: To insure that you get quality, uninterrupted personal attention, please schedule an appointment for office hours by email or in class. I check my e-mail regularly (e-mails are preferable to phone calls) and can often answer questions or provide help that way. In addition, one-on-one tutoring from faculty is available at the Writing Center in the ground floor of the library or online through Smarthinking (accessible through your myaacc account). You are already paying for these services with your tuition—there is no additional fee. You will be able to get help on such matters as organization, grammar, punctuation, and research documentation. Tutors will not proofread or approve your papers for you.
Reading Drafts: I will gladly look over a draft of any paper if you schedule an appointment for office hours. By email, I can only commit to reading an introductory paragraph (including thesis) and the topic sentences of your body paragraphs. Be sure to copy and paste this material into the body of your email message from your preferred account. Do not send attachments.
Disability accommodations: Students with documented disabilities are eligible for course modifications. See Disabled Student Services in Academic Advising to request these accommodations. Any other student who suspects he/she may have a problem that hinders learning is also advised to confer with DSS immediately. Accommodations are never applied retroactively; therefore, it is the student’s responsibility to have accommodations in place early in the semester.
Tape Recorders: Any student is welcome to tape record classes if he/she feels that will promote learning and retention.
Course Withdrawals: If you stop coming to class, you will not automatically be withdrawn and will receive an “F” for the course. Forms to withdraw are available from the office of Records and Registration. Students should never withdraw from any course without consulting the instructor and/or an Academic Advisor. In this course, potentially 50% of your semester grade is determined in the last 3 weeks of classes. Sometimes students panic prematurely and withdraw when they could have been successful. Discuss your situation with the instructor before making the decision to withdraw!
Formatting: all out-of-class assignments should be word-processed, spell-checked, and double-spaced. Use 1-inch margins and a 10 or 12 point font. Include a word count on both formal essays (can be written in by hand; using MS Word, go to Tools and then Word Count). Document any outside sources according to the MLA (Modern Language Association) format. Fasten all work with a staple or paper clip. Improperly formatted work can be returned unread and given a zero.
Classroom Policies: It is against AACC policy to consume food or beverages in the classroom. Please be courteous and turn off cell phones and beepers before entering the classroom, as well. Students whose beepers or cell phones disrupt the learning environment will not receive credit for attendance that day.
Mindset for Success: In this course, we will be reading and discussing texts that express a variety of opinions, ideas, and experiences. It is possible that some people will feel uncomfortable with some of the course material. While students might not agree with everything they read, everyone is expected to engage in academic discourse in a mature, open-minded and respectful manner.
Syllabus Changes: The syllabus may be changed over the course of the semester to better fit the needs of the class. All changes due to inclement weather and/or unforeseen events will be announced via your school email account. It is your responsibility to check this account regularly.

Writing Expectations:

Since this is a 200-level course, the assumption is that you have mastered the skills of English 111/112, 115/116, or 121. You should feel comfortable with the vocabulary and practice of literary analysis (including the analysis of poetry), and you should be able to express yourself clearly and grammatically in writing (as outlined in the Maryland C-Standard).
All formal writing should take the form of the academic expository essay: concise introduction and conclusion, thesis statement, thesis-driven topic sentences, and primary support (direct quotations). Research is permissible but discouraged. Any researched material must come from reliable, academic, college-level sources that view the Bible as literature (NOT homogenized summaries such as SparksNotes or theologically-based treatises such as sermons.) Any research must be documented according to MLA style. Plot summary is unacceptable and will not receive a passing grade.
Re-writes will not be accepted, so get feedback before you hand your final paper in.

Study Guides:

Because this is a survey course that seeks to cover a large amount of material in a short period of time, it can be difficult for students to distill and digest all of the information that makes up class discussions. Therefore, at the beginning of each class period, study guides will be distributed to students who are present when class begins. (The occasional late penitent can also be accommodated.) Students who miss class can come to office hours for a study guide if they have a documented excuse; such students will still need to make arrangements to obtain class notes. Study guides are intended as companions to class discussions, helping students to focus on important elements in the text and to interpret the reading they have done for homework. Guides cannot replace coming to class, taking copious notes, recording class if you choose, and doing the reading itself ahead of time.

Online Supplements and Extra Credit:

This course will utilize the ANGEL online learning system to enhance class discussion, provide resources to facilitate student success, and offer extra credit opportunities.

Login to ANGEL through myaacc (under My Courses) or directly through the ANGEL website: https://angel.aacc.edu/. Your login is your AACC email handle and your password is the first four letters of your last name followed by the last four letters of your SS#. Click on the course and then go to Content to access course resources. A syllabus has been uploaded under Syllabus and Resources, and you can also easily contact classmates through the Communicate tab.

Content-based resources fall into two groups: Links (AACC Writing Center, Purdue OWL, Pearson Composition Study Site, and the Bedford St. Martin’s Glossary of Literary Terms, My Jewish Learning, and the American Academy of Poets) and Discussion Boards (Introductions, Composition/Grammar Q&A, Poetry Journals Q&A, and To Be Continued…). Links are intended to provide supplemental information or assistance; Discussion Boards are participatory forums to allow you to exchange information with others members of the class community and to earn extra credit. Full descriptions are available online.

Journals:

Journal assignments are designed to help you apply the concepts we discuss in class to the contemporary literature the Bible has inspired. They will also serve to provide you with a relatively low-stakes format in which to receive feedback on your writing so as to maximize your grades on the formal essays. Please note that journals are more structured and therefore less difficult than formal essays. Therefore, you should not assume that journal grades will translate to equivalent grades on formal essays.

The basis for each journal will be on one or more handouts distributed in class, as labeled on the syllabus (only one journal can be handed in for each class period). If you miss a class, you may come to office hours to pick up the handouts but you may not write a journal entry on that subject since the main purpose of this activity is to apply what we have discussed in class.

You will have at least 13 journal opportunities and must complete 8 of these assignments. Your response must be a full page (300-350 words), word-processed and double-spaced, appropriately organized, and edited for spelling and grammar. Because journals are less formal than essays, it is acceptable to use “I.” Journals should take the following format:

Paragraph 1: Biblical allusions—how does the author either use the biblical content to reflect on a contemporary problem by modernizing the subject or offer a new perspective on the biblical content by filling in gaps?
Paragraph 2: Biblical structure/techniques—how does the author employ or diverge from biblical structures, styles, and/or literary devices? (Note: saying “the Bible is prose and the poem is poetry” is not a sufficiently perceptive observation.)
Paragraph 3: Personal reaction—how does our class discussion shape your reading of this contemporary text? What do you like and/or dislike about this text and why?

Journals are due the class period after the assignment was distributed and must not be submitted by email except by prior arrangement in extenuating circumstances. If you cannot be in class to submit your journal in person, it must be in my mailbox (HUM 102) by class time. Late journals will not be accepted.

Your paper will receive a numerical score and be annotated with standard editing abbreviations (found in the back of any standard writing handbook) and basic content-related comments. If you need further clarification about why a particular grade was assigned, you should come to office hours. It is your responsibility to look up every annotation so as to avoid repeating mistakes in subsequent writing assignments (especially the high stakes formal essays). Grammar resources include the Little, Brown Handbook (used in ENG 112, 121, and 116 courses) along with the Discussion Board and Links available through ANGEL (Composition/Grammar Q&A, AACC Writing Center, Purdue OWL, Pearson Composition Study Site, and the Bedford St. Martin’s Glossary of Literary Terms).

Journals will be graded on the following scale:

95: thorough, thoughtful, and insightful content; logical organization; sophisticated prose style; no mistakes in spelling, grammar, or mechanics
85: good content; effective organization; flowing prose style; a few mistakes in spelling, grammar or mechanics
75: adequate content that demonstrates comprehension of the text; acceptable organization; clear prose style; moderate number of mistakes in spelling, grammar, or mechanics (mistakes cannot interfere with content)
65: response demonstrates some understanding of the text, but insufficient depth; lack of organization; prose is difficult to understand, especially because of errors in spelling, grammar, or mechanics
55: text was apparently read but response doesn’t answer an assigned question, and/or response contains an overwhelming number of writing errors
0: not submitted or submitted late

Return schedule for graded work:

Journals will be returned within one week.
Formal essays will be returned within two weeks.
Midterm exams will be returned the next class period.
Late work goes to the bottom of the grading pile and is returned when I am finished grading all on-time work in my five sections.

Course Schedule:

Unit I: Pentateuch/ Torah

Tu 8/23 Introduction, Close Readings, and ANGEL demo

(handouts: Timeline, Literary Techniques)

Th 8/25 Genesis 1-15

Sign and Return Academic Integrity Form

(journal: “Adam”; handout: “Does God Have a Big Toe?”)

Tu 8/31 Genesis 16-35

(journals: “The Opinion of Hagar,” “Lot’s Wife,” “Sarah’s Choice”)

Th 9/2 Genesis 36-50

(journal: “Jacob”)

Tu 9/7 Exodus

(journal: “Miriam’s Song”)

Th 9/9 Leviticus

(journal: “Yom Kippur 1984”)

Tu 9/14 Numbers

Th 9/16 Deuteronomy

(journal: “When That With Tragic Rapture Moses Stood”)

Unit II: Prophets/ Nevi’im

Tu 9/21 Joshua

(handout: “Division of the Promised Land”)

Th 9/23 Judges; paper A due

(handout: “Power”)

Tu 9/28 I Samuel

(journal: “Samuel”)

Th 9/30 II Samuel

Tu 10/5 I Kings

(handout: Midterm Study Guide)

Th 10/7 II Kings, Midterm Review (bring a written list of questions)

Tu 10/12 Midterm Exam

Th 10/14 Isaiah

Tu 10/19 Jeremiah

(journal: “Jerusalem”)

Th 10/21 Ezekiel

(journals: “The New Ezekiel,” “The Prophet”)

Tu 10/26 Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah

Th 10/28 Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Unit III: Collected Writings/ Ketuvim

Tu 11/2 Psalms

Th 11/4 Proverbs; paper B due

(journal: modern proverbs)

Tu 11/9 Job

Th 11/11 Song of Songs

(handout: from Beloved)

(journals: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God,” Rich’s Poem XI, “When I heard at the close of the day,” “First Poem for You”)

M 11/15 Last day to withdraw with a “W” grade. Schedule an appointment for office hours if you have questions about your status.

Tu 11/16 Ruth

(handout: from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café)

Th 11/18 Lamentations, Ecclesiastes

(journal: 9/11 poetry)

Tu 11/23 Esther, Daniel; paper C due

(journals: “Esther,” “Visions of Daniel”)

Th 11/25 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Tu 11/30 Ezra and Nehemiah, Chronicles I and II

Th 12/2 review for final exam—bring a written list of questions

(handout: “Do you know your Bible?”)

FINAL EXAM: Tues, December 7, 2:45-4:45pm, regular classroom

AACC is an equal opportunity, affirmative action, Title IX, ADA Title 504 compliant institution. Call Disability Support Services, 410-777-2306 or Maryland Relay 711, 72 hours in advance or e-mail dss@aacc.edu to request special accommodations. For information regarding Anne Arundel Community College's compliance and complaints concerning discrimination or harassment, call Karen Cook, Esq., AACC's federal compliance manager at 410-777-7370 or Maryland Relay 711.

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	Syllabus Course Requirements and Evaluation For this course, you will write two 900-1200 word essays (3-4 typed pages) and submit eight 300-350 word journals (1-1½ pages). You will also have a midterm and a final exam. In addition, you will be expected to participate in class discussions, in person and/or online. Your grade for the course will be calculated as follows: Two formal essays 50% (25% each) The final exam 25% The midterm 15% Atten, Partic, and Journals 10% 100% A= 90 and higher; B=80-89; C=70-79; D=60-69; F=59 and under Course Policies: Attendance and Participation: Regular attendance is crucial to classroom learning, particularly in this class. Arriving late and leaving early are disruptive and students who do so will not receive credit for attendance. You are expected to attend and to participate in all classes. Absences and/or coming to class late or unprepared will have a negative consequence on your final grade. Late Papers: Papers are due promptly at the beginning of the class identified in the syllabus or they will be considered late. If you will not be in class, your paper or journal must be in my mailbox (HUM 102) by class time. Extensions for unusual circumstances must be arranged at least 48 hours in advance of the due date. Unexcused late formal essays will be penalized up to one full letter grade per class period of lateness, and papers later than one week will not be accepted. Note: You must complete both of the formal papers in order to be eligible to pass the course. Documented Excuses: Documented excuses include emergency room visits, doctors’ written instructions to stay home from school and work, funerals, and court dates. Regular doctors’ appointments do not constitute excused absences. Make-up Exams: You are expected to take all exams on the date they are scheduled. If you are unable to meet this requirement for some very good reason, please contact me at least 48 hours in advance about the possibility of making other arrangements. Unexcused, missed exams will be penalized and may not be made up. Email: Email is the best way to get in touch with me. I check my email several times a day (including weekends). I will reply to a message from any account (aol, hotmail, etc), but *please be aware that privacy laws require that I discuss grades only via a school account.* Assignments are not accepted by email except by special arrangement. Never send attachments unless you have received prior approval. Email Language: My language fluency is, in decreasing order of competence, as follows: English, Biblical Hebrew, French, Spanish, Yiddish, German and Italian. Please note that I do not speak IM. If you want a coherent response, please write in complete words when you email me. Complete sentences with capitalization, punctuation, and standard grammar are even better! Academic honesty: *Thou shalt not plagiarize thy Bible and Literature papers!* Plagiarism and other kinds of academic dishonesty will be dealt with as prescribed in the College’s Academic Integrity Policy (See the College Catalog). Using the words and/or ideas of others without proper MLA documentation will result in a lowered grade, failure of the assignment, and/or failure of the course. Students must sign a form indicating they have read and understand the policy. Getting Help: To insure that you get quality, uninterrupted personal attention, please schedule an appointment for office hours by email or in class. I check my e-mail regularly (e-mails are preferable to phone calls) and can often answer questions or provide help that way. In addition, one-on-one tutoring from faculty is available at the Writing Center in the ground floor of the library or online through Smarthinking (accessible through your myaacc account). You are already paying for these services with your tuition—there is no additional fee. You will be able to get help on such matters as organization, grammar, punctuation, and research documentation. Tutors will not proofread or approve your papers for you. Reading Drafts: I will gladly look over a draft of any paper if you schedule an appointment for office hours. By email, I can only commit to reading an introductory paragraph (including thesis) and the topic sentences of your body paragraphs. Be sure to copy and paste this material into the body of your email message from your preferred account. *Do not send attachments.* Disability accommodations: Students with documented disabilities are eligible for course modifications. See Disabled Student Services in Academic Advising to request these accommodations. Any other student who suspects he/she may have a problem that hinders learning is also advised to confer with DSS immediately. Accommodations are never applied retroactively; therefore, it is the student’s responsibility to have accommodations in place early in the semester. Tape Recorders: Any student is welcome to tape record classes if he/she feels that will promote learning and retention. Course Withdrawals: If you stop coming to class, you will not automatically be withdrawn and will receive an “F” for the course. Forms to withdraw are available from the office of Records and Registration. Students should never withdraw from any course without consulting the instructor and/or an Academic Advisor. In this course, potentially 50% of your semester grade is determined in the last 3 weeks of classes. Sometimes students panic prematurely and withdraw when they could have been successful. Discuss your situation with the instructor before making the decision to withdraw! Formatting: all out-of-class assignments should be word-processed, spell-checked, and double-spaced. Use 1-inch margins and a 10 or 12 point font. Include a word count on both formal essays (can be written in by hand; using MS Word, go to Tools and then Word Count). Document any outside sources according to the MLA (Modern Language Association) format. Fasten all work with a staple or paper clip. *Improperly formatted work can be returned unread and given a zero.* Classroom Policies: It is against AACC policy to consume food or beverages in the classroom. Please be courteous and turn off cell phones and beepers before entering the classroom, as well. Students whose beepers or cell phones disrupt the learning environment will not receive credit for attendance that day. Mindset for Success: In this course, we will be reading and discussing texts that express a variety of opinions, ideas, and experiences. It is possible that some people will feel uncomfortable with some of the course material. While students might not agree with everything they read, everyone is expected to engage in academic discourse in a mature, open-minded and respectful manner. Syllabus Changes: The syllabus may be changed over the course of the semester to better fit the needs of the class. *All changes due to inclement weather and/or unforeseen events will be announced via your school email account. It is your responsibility to check this account regularly.* Writing Expectations: Since this is a 200-level course, the assumption is that you have *mastered* the skills of English 111/112, 115/116, or 121. You should feel comfortable with the vocabulary and practice of literary analysis (including the analysis of poetry), and you should be able to express yourself clearly and grammatically in writing (as outlined in the Maryland C-Standard). All formal writing should take the form of the academic expository essay: concise introduction and conclusion, thesis statement, thesis-driven topic sentences, and primary support (direct quotations). Research is permissible but discouraged. Any researched material must come from reliable, academic, college-level sources that view the Bible as literature (NOT homogenized summaries such as SparksNotes or theologically-based treatises such as sermons.) Any research must be documented according to MLA style. Plot summary is unacceptable and will not receive a passing grade. Re-writes will not be accepted, so get feedback *before* you hand your final paper in. Study Guides: Because this is a survey course that seeks to cover a large amount of material in a short period of time, it can be difficult for students to distill and digest all of the information that makes up class discussions. Therefore, at the beginning of each class period, study guides will be distributed to students who are present when class begins. (The occasional late penitent can also be accommodated.) Students who miss class can come to office hours for a study guide if they have a documented excuse; such students will still need to make arrangements to obtain class notes. Study guides are intended as companions to class discussions, helping students to focus on important elements in the text and to interpret the reading they have done for homework. Guides cannot replace coming to class, taking copious notes, recording class if you choose, and doing the reading itself ahead of time. Online Supplements and Extra Credit: This course will utilize the ANGEL online learning system to enhance class discussion, provide resources to facilitate student success, and offer extra credit opportunities. Login to ANGEL through myaacc (under My Courses) or directly through the ANGEL website: https://angel.aacc.edu/. Your login is your AACC email handle and your password is the first four letters of your last name followed by the last four letters of your SS#. Click on the course and then go to Content to access course resources. A syllabus has been uploaded under Syllabus and Resources, and you can also easily contact classmates through the Communicate tab. Content-based resources fall into two groups: Links (AACC Writing Center, Purdue OWL, Pearson Composition Study Site, and the Bedford St. Martin’s Glossary of Literary Terms, My Jewish Learning, and the American Academy of Poets) and Discussion Boards (Introductions, Composition/Grammar Q&A, Poetry Journals Q&A, and To Be Continued…). Links are intended to provide supplemental information or assistance; Discussion Boards are participatory forums to allow you to exchange information with others members of the class community and to earn extra credit. Full descriptions are available online. Journals: Journal assignments are designed to help you apply the concepts we discuss in class to the contemporary literature the Bible has inspired. They will also serve to provide you with a relatively low-stakes format in which to receive feedback on your writing so as to maximize your grades on the formal essays. Please note that journals are more structured and therefore less difficult than formal essays. Therefore, you should not assume that journal grades will translate to equivalent grades on formal essays. The basis for each journal will be on one or more handouts distributed in class, as labeled on the syllabus (only one journal can be handed in for each class period). If you miss a class, you may come to office hours to pick up the handouts but you may not write a journal entry on that subject since the main purpose of this activity is to apply what we have discussed in class. You will have at least 13 journal opportunities and must complete 8 of these assignments. Your response must be a full page (300-350 words), word-processed and double-spaced, appropriately organized, and edited for spelling and grammar. Because journals are less formal than essays, it is acceptable to use “I.” Journals should take the following format: Paragraph 1: Biblical allusions—how does the author either use the biblical content to reflect on a contemporary problem by modernizing the subject or offer a new perspective on the biblical content by filling in gaps? Paragraph 2: Biblical structure/techniques—how does the author employ or diverge from biblical structures, styles, and/or literary devices? (Note: saying “the Bible is prose and the poem is poetry” is not a sufficiently perceptive observation.) Paragraph 3: Personal reaction—how does our class discussion shape your reading of this contemporary text? What do you like and/or dislike about this text and why? Journals are due the class period after the assignment was distributed and must not be submitted by email except by prior arrangement in extenuating circumstances. If you cannot be in class to submit your journal in person, it must be in my mailbox (HUM 102) by class time. Late journals will not be accepted. Your paper will receive a numerical score and be annotated with standard editing abbreviations (found in the back of any standard writing handbook) and basic content-related comments. If you need further clarification about why a particular grade was assigned, you should come to office hours. It is your responsibility to look up every annotation so as to avoid repeating mistakes in subsequent writing assignments (especially the high stakes formal essays). Grammar resources include the Little, Brown Handbook (used in ENG 112, 121, and 116 courses) along with the Discussion Board and Links available through ANGEL (Composition/Grammar Q&A, AACC Writing Center, Purdue OWL, Pearson Composition Study Site, and the Bedford St. Martin’s Glossary of Literary Terms). Journals will be graded on the following scale: 95: thorough, thoughtful, and insightful content; logical organization; sophisticated prose style; no mistakes in spelling, grammar, or mechanics 85: good content; effective organization; flowing prose style; a few mistakes in spelling, grammar or mechanics 75: adequate content that demonstrates comprehension of the text; acceptable organization; clear prose style; moderate number of mistakes in spelling, grammar, or mechanics (mistakes cannot interfere with content) 65: response demonstrates some understanding of the text, but insufficient depth; lack of organization; prose is difficult to understand, especially because of errors in spelling, grammar, or mechanics 55: text was apparently read but response doesn’t answer an assigned question, and/or response contains an overwhelming number of writing errors 0: not submitted or submitted late Return schedule for graded work: Journals will be returned within one week. Formal essays will be returned within two weeks. Midterm exams will be returned the next class period. Late work goes to the bottom of the grading pile and is returned when I am finished grading all on-time work in my five sections. Course Schedule: Unit I: Pentateuch/ Torah Tu 8/23 Introduction, Close Readings, and ANGEL demo (handouts: Timeline, Literary Techniques) Th 8/25 Genesis 1-15 Sign and Return Academic Integrity Form Login to ANGEL, browse Links and Discussion Boards, post your Introduction (journal: “Adam”; handout: “Does God Have a Big Toe?”) Tu 8/31 Genesis 16-35 (journals: “The Opinion of Hagar,” “Lot’s Wife,” “Sarah’s Choice”) Th 9/2 Genesis 36-50 (journal: “Jacob”) Tu 9/7 Exodus (journal: “Miriam’s Song”) Th 9/9 Leviticus (journal: “Yom Kippur 1984”) Tu 9/14 Numbers Th 9/16 Deuteronomy (journal: “When That With Tragic Rapture Moses Stood”) Unit II: Prophets/ Nevi’im Tu 9/21 Joshua (handout: “Division of the Promised Land”) Th 9/23 Judges; paper A due (handout: “Power”) Tu 9/28 I Samuel (journal: “Samuel”) Th 9/30 II Samuel Tu 10/5 I Kings (handout: Midterm Study Guide) Th 10/7 II Kings, Midterm Review (bring a written list of questions) Tu 10/12 Midterm Exam Th 10/14 Isaiah Tu 10/19 Jeremiah (journal: “Jerusalem”) Th 10/21 Ezekiel (journals: “The New Ezekiel,” “The Prophet”) Tu 10/26 Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah Th 10/28 Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi Unit III: Collected Writings/ Ketuvim Tu 11/2 Psalms Th 11/4 Proverbs; paper B due (journal: modern proverbs) Tu 11/9 Job Th 11/11 Song of Songs (handout: from Beloved) (journals: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God,” Rich’s Poem XI, “When I heard at the close of the day,” “First Poem for You”) M 11/15 Last day to withdraw with a “W” grade. Schedule an appointment for office hours if you have questions about your status. Tu 11/16 Ruth (handout: from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café) Th 11/18 Lamentations, Ecclesiastes (journal: 9/11 poetry) Tu 11/23 Esther, Daniel; paper C due (journals: “Esther,” “Visions of Daniel”) Th 11/25 HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Tu 11/30 Ezra and Nehemiah, Chronicles I and II Th 12/2 review for final exam—bring a written list of questions (handout: “Do you know your Bible?”) FINAL EXAM: Tues, December 7, 2:45-4:45pm, regular classroom AACC is an equal opportunity, affirmative action, Title IX, ADA Title 504 compliant institution. Call Disability Support Services, 410-777-2306 or Maryland Relay 711, 72 hours in advance or e-mail dss@aacc.edu to request special accommodations. For information regarding Anne Arundel Community College's compliance and complaints concerning discrimination or harassment, call Karen Cook, Esq., AACC's federal compliance manager at 410-777-7370 or Maryland Relay 711. Back to course