Waching daily Oct 28 2018

hello class my name is Jose Flores and I will be your professor for this semester.

The class is English 2351 mexican-american literature; it is a

sophomore literature class and at times it is called a genre course or a forms

of literature class . This is a distance learning class where you will need to

apply yourself as you would in a lecture class,and you need to plan to work as

much as your would work in a lecture class

what is it twice twice a week for a couple of hours plus all of the

assignments that you need you would need to do at home the best way to

communicate with me will be first of all to email me and tell me what you want to

do do you want to talk do you want to come and see me in my office should we

set a place where we can meet I'm usually between the Highland Mall campus

a Chelsea campus and the Riverside campus until my office is available

again at the Rio Grande campus I wanted to talk to you a little bit about the

course this semester mainly the page you're looking at at this point and that

is your entry point to the class everything I'm going to do every lesson

you're going to read any help you're going to get will be here on the buttons

to the left there will be announcements that I will post and when I do post

announcements they will be there for you to read and I will leave them post it so

that if we ever need to refer to them again they will be there

announcements are important I may actually tell you that I won't be around

for a week or that some pages have changed in the assignments so make sure

that as you go to your blackboard maybe once a day that you check for

announcements so let's talk a little bit about where you will start which is

start here and this will be part of your orientation make sure that you click

each one of these folders call them folders and under each folder you're

going to find a lot of important information for example here are college

policies and resources Austin College is committed to Student Success students

with disabilities for example can call these numbers there's information about

financial aid and student services standards of conduct or here so you

don't really have to go and read the handbook this is these links will do a

more effective and efficient job for you as we start here then I think this first

part is very important this thing that we call orientation folder this student

information sheet 0:03 if you click it it'll open and you will send it to me

the student information sheet will tell me your name will tell me phone numbers

will tell me where you met the prerequisite for this class if you don't

turn in this student information sheet listen carefully if you don't turn in

this student information sheet by the end of the first week you will be

dropped from the class on this you have contacted me and we know what's going on

so that's going to be very very important all of the other files are

also very important for example under faculty and other essential course

information you're going to find my syllabus you're going to find the course

description and the learning outcomes the goals of the class you will begin to

see in the syllabus what we will do week by week in the actual study guide

so let's open that up alright this is the course description alright let's

move over to let's go over here again and it's open up syllabus here see this

is where you will find what you will do in week 1 week 2 week 3 what you're

going to read what we'll be studying and all of that now this is a sort of master

plan of what we'll be doing the specific specific things that we'll do in each

week will then be under learning modules all right we're going to have basically

four learning modules this last one I will call it a module but actually there

are no tests here there's a few quizzes but it's mainly a reader's response

analysis in a project dealing with poetry

but this is where you're going to get again as stated in the syllabus what

we're gonna be doing for week 1 2 3 4 5 6 and so on

so let's look into one of these I under every module introduction in Mexican

American literature and culture right you see that week 1 we're actually doing

what we're doing right now and that is that we are getting acquainted and I'm

giving you a brief orientation and how to move about in black blackboard it'll

tell you generally what we're gonna do for that week all right

if you click it then you will see what you have to watch what you have to read

for example for this first first seven days you will be reading Sandra Cisneros

my name actually it won't be reading it you'll be seeing it in a video and you

will be writing a brief paper about your name and I will give you specific

instructions on what to do under assignments here under assignments you

will submit you will actually write and you will submit the the assignment the

writing assignment that I'm asking you to complete I told you that you would

have to listen to Sandra Cisneros right here you have the video all you have to

do is click it and open it and if you're having technical difficulties

let's clear them up right away so as you go through these weeks and if

you look at the activities I think it's important to pace yourselves now there

are deadlines for the work but let's say that you were totally out as far as week

two is concerned well then you're going to have to double up week two and week

three before it's time to end the week or to end the module and do this second

quiz that covers material from here it may appear just a bit vague but once you

start looking at everything I'm including under each of these modules I

think it will be very clear so if you have questions if you want to contact me

email me if something that I'm doing even right now is not clear email me and

we can talk about it have a good semester buy your books and let's stay

in touch