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DESCRIPTION: Developmental Reading I is designed to develop basic reading proficiency to prepare students for college work. The focus is on vocabulary development and active reading strategies. The course is taken by referral or placement. Institutional credit (3 hours) is granted when exit criteria are met.

Required Texts and Materials: Bring each of these to every class session:

• Cortina, Joe, Elder, Janet, Opening Doors, 5th Ed.
• Ackmann, Martha, The Mercury 13
• A college level dictionary
• A folder with pockets to keep all assignments (optional)
• A 1-2", 3-Ring Binder with five section dividers for course portfolio

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply an active reading process by choosing appropriate strategies that develop vocabulary and enable both comprehension and critical analysis of ideas in texts.
2. Students will demonstrate the ability to construct meaning from text by making connections with their own knowledge and experience.
3. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply reading to learn strategies in various disciplines.

Grading/Evaluation:

*Course Syllabus subject to change

*Students should expect to spend a minimum of two hours outside of class preparation and study for each lecture hour.

Attendance:

• 3 absences are the maximum allowed for this class. See attached attendance policy.
• 2 late arrivals will be counted as one absence. Habitual tardiness will negatively impact course standing.
• For the entire text of attendance policy, see: Bb for this course & http://www.english.eku.edu/attendance_policy.doc
• The last day to withdraw from the course is October 26, 2007

Requirements:

• Reading: Students are required to read each assigned text and complete the assigned response activities, textbook exercises, and/or study activities.
• Conferences: Each student will have two conferences with their instructor. The first conference will occur before midterm grades have been submitted. The second conference will occur before final exams are taken.
• Selected Book: we will read The Mercury 13. Students will be required to complete various reading assignments and to participate with in-class discussions and activities.
• Class Activities: In class, students will complete either individual or group activities that practice processes to be completed on assigned readings. Products from these activities may be turned in for grades.
• Vocabulary Work: Vocabulary will come from assigned readings. (chapter reading, novel reading or reading selection assignments.) Merriam-Webster online http://www.m-w.com/.
• Quizzes: students will complete ten quizzes on reading processes described by the text and classroom discussion.
• Midterm and Exit Exam: Midterm will cover reading processes described by the text, vocabulary and writing summaries. The final exam for the class will be incorporated with the course exam given by the department.

Class policies:

• Cell phones, i-pods, PDA's or any other device that may interfere with class meetings are not permitted. If you carry these devices, they must remain "off" and stowed in a secure area. Daily participation points will not be credited if this policy is not observed. (See Academic Integrity Policy).
• Assignments are expected to be turned in during the class period they are due unless otherwise instructed. Late papers will be lowered one grade level and will not be accepted after 1 class meeting past the due date.
• All students will be required to develop and maintain a course portfolio (3-ring binder) that contains notes, novel assignments, quizzes, vocabulary work, ch review cards etc. The binder will be reviewed at the end of the semester. The contents of the binder will be graded periodically and will be submitted for final review at the end of the semester. If a student fails to submit the portfolio for final review, they will not met this class requirement and will receive a final grade of F for the class.
• All students will be required to develop, create, submit and maintain college appropriate records, reports and documents. Illegible work will be returned to students to be word processed or rewritten to receive credit.

Academic Integrity Policy:

Eastern Kentucky University faculty and students are bonded by principles of truth and honesty which are recognized as fundamental for a community of teachers and scholars. The University expects that students will honor and that faculty will honor and enforce these principles which contribute to a foundation upon which a quality education can be built. With this premise, the University affirms that it will not tolerate academic dishonesty.

• Plagiarism is the act of presenting ideas, words, or organization of a source (published or not) as if they were one's own, without acknowledgment of the source. Since university instructors assume material presented by students is their own unless otherwise indicated, all quoted material must be in quotation marks, and all paraphrases, quotations, significant ideas, and organization must be acknowledged by footnotes or by some other form of documentation acceptable to the instructor for the course. Plagiarism also includes presenting material which was composed or revised by any person other than the student who submits it, as well as the deliberate falsification of footnotes. The use of the term "material" refers to work in any form including written, oral, or electronic (as in the case of computer files).
• Cheating includes buying, stealing, or otherwise fraudulently obtaining copies of examinations or assignments for the purpose of improving one's academic standing. During examinations or in-class work, it includes receiving information from others and referring to unauthorized notes or other unauthorized information. In addition, copying from others, either during examinations or in the preparation of homework assignments, is a form of cheating.
• Computers should not be used to acquire or provide information in conflict with the academic honesty policy. Furthermore, the Code of Ethics for Computing and Communications makes it the responsibility of computer users to keep information, data, and programs in their computer accounts secure from others.
• Co-Responsibility  Anyone who knowingly assists in any form of academic dishonesty shall be considered as guilty as the student who accepts such assistance. Students should not allow their work to be copied or otherwise used by fellow students, nor should they sell or give unauthorized copies of examinations to other students. For the entire text of the academic honest policy, see: www.academicaffairs.eku.edu/integrity

June 2008