Course Syllabus

Professor: Mrs. Maria M. Soto

Email: yomygio2@hotmail.com

Required Books:

 (2000). Literature Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes,Upper Saddle River,  NJ: Prentice Hall.

Course Goal:

This course is intented to provide reading skills necessary to be a confident and independent reader, and to help  improve your comprehension of written English in order to compete successfully in an academic program.

Skills :

• increasing vocabulary

• identifying main ideas

• reading critically

••summarizing

• making inferences

 Activities:

• discussion

• quizzes and homeworks

*on line activities

*reading

Grading scale: 100-90% A

B 89-80

C 79-70

D-69-60

F 59-0

 

Remember plagiarism is not allowed. A student who plagiarizes  faces penalties that may include receiving an F on an assignment or in the course.

 

Syllabus based  on a model of http://www.uiowa.edu/~c103189a/syllabus.html