Grading

Your grade for the course will be determined from the following:

Quizzes	15%
Online Discussion	15%
Gilgamesh Essay	20%
Clouds Essay	20%
Final Exam	30%

Quizzes

We’ll have short, timed online quizzes to help gauge our relationship with the material in the readings most days. Quizzes cover the textbook reading, plus Gilgamesh and Clouds when assigned. If you did the assigned readings, you should be prepared for the quiz.

Missed quizzes are not made up. If you miss a quiz, you’ll get a zero for that quiz. Therefore, please make sure you are prepared each week and take the quiz.

Online Discussion

Each week during our online meeting time students gather in the online discussion area for that week and post reactions to the issues and ideas brought up in the week's readings and videos. Your posts should include a question and should respond to other students in the discussion as well.

Interpretive Essays

You’ll write two interpretive essays. Details are on the Essays page.

• One on the portrayal of society or religion in The Epic of Gilgamesh; and
• One on Clouds and its relationship with actual events in classical Athens.

Optional Draft. You can submit a draft of the paper to me up to a week before it’s due; I’ll give you some general feedback (but not a grade). Because I accept drafts, I do not allow students to submit revised versions of their final paper after the due date. To make sure I see it soonest, please email me your optional draft rather than uploading it to BlackBoard.

Exam

The exam will be “take-home” essay exams, posted on a certain date and due the following Sunday. We’ll discuss the content and structure of the exam beforehand, and a review sheet will be provided.

Note that the policy on plagiarism will be strictly observed for the essays and for the exams.