Welcome to Spring 2024 + Week 1

This page contains some course content for both COM 115 and ENG 102 for Spring Semester, 2024. Primarily for students / parental units to access.

D2L IS THE PRIMARY GRADE BOOK AND STUDENT COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL MY  DUAL CREDIT CLASSES. LOGIN THERE FIRST AND FOLLOW ASSIGNMENT DIRECTIONS. Speech folks need to upload a picture for their D2L profile. Seniors have already done this. 

Review your course Syllabus.

English 102 will cover plagiarism on day 1 or 2 of the course. Plagiarism will warrant a zero for all future assignments for both courses. This includes “unintentional plagiarism” as defined in the JALC Student Handbook. 

You only have until the end of the school day on Monday 01/08 to change your schedule. If you do NOT think you can maintain the work required for this course or if you / parental units will be highly dissatisfied with a “B” or “C” in this course, consider dropping. “A’s” are never guaranteed in Dual Credit classes. 

Week 1:

COM 115 – Take PRPSA, read chapters 1&2 in text book, and prepare for introductory speeches.

ENG 102 – work with annotated bibliographies, take notes, prepare for an in-class essay in which you write using content only from annotated bibs. created by former students.

Weeks 17-18: End of the Semester

ENG 101

• Revisions of all essays were due Sunday 12/03 by midnight. Revisions = extra credit in college classes.
• Folks who were absent last week need to make up the last quiz over Macbeth.
• Seminar & view film versions of Macbeth. Prep for in-class essay over evil, responsibility, or which character changed the most over the course of the play.

COM 115

• Impromptu Speeches Monday: Final Exam Preferences.
• Schedule any do-over speeches for revisions. All revised written work was due Sunday 12/03 at midnight.
• Prep for Impromptu & Special Occasion Speeches.
• Special Occasion Speeches: Monday 12/11.
• Final Exam: Impromptu Speeches (100 points) & Cumulative Final (50 points) 12/19.