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English 210

English 210 General Information

  • Noncredit
  • Non-transferable
  • TUITION FREE
  • Repeatable
  • Pass/No Pass
  • Not required for AA-T/AA/AS degrees
English 210 Jam is a short-term refresher course for students to practice college-level reading and writing.
Can be taken in the summer (4-5 weeks) or in one-semester with a short-term English 1.
 

Course and Student Expectations

Expect to spend time in and out of class:
  • Reading and writing about a range of texts, which could include a full-length work
  • Developing paragraphs and an essay
  • Practicing active reading habits to understand college-level texts
  • Building a strong foundation for English 1
Students who choose English 210
  • Are motivated to advance quickly
  • Want to refresh academic reading and writing skills typically taught in high school
  • Want a short-term class before moving directly into English 1

English 210 is a short-term class (4-5 weeks) designed to prepare students to move directly into college-level English 1. It includes in-class time to practice reading and writing skills, and focused support with reading and writing an essay.

This course is non-credit, and does not count toward an AA-T/AA/AS degree, and is non-transferable. It is graded Pass/Satisfactory Pass/No Pass and is often chosen by:

  • students are highly motivated and ready to advance quickly
  • students who would like to establish a stronger foundation in reading and writing before taking college English

The following is a short excerpt from the text The 57 Bus, by Dashka Slater

By four-thirty in the afternoon, the first mad rush of after-school passengers has come and gone. What's left are stragglers and stay-laters, swiping their bus passes as they climb on to the 57 bus and take seats among the coming-home workers, the shoppers and errand-doers, the other students from high schools and middle schools around the city. The bus is loud but not as loud as sometimes. A few clusters of kids are shouting and laughing and an older woman at the front keeps talking to the driver.

Dark is coming on. Daylight saving time ended yesterday, and now evening rushes into the lace where afternoon used to be. Everything is duskier, sleepier, wintrier now. Passengers look at their phones or stare through the scratched and grimy windows at the waning light.

Sasha sits near the back. For much of the journey, the teenager has been reading a paperback copy of Anna Karenina for a class in Russian literature. Today, like most days, Sasha wears a T-shirt, a black fleece jacket, a gray flat cap and a gauzy white skirt. In the final, senior, year at a small private high school, the teenager identifies as agender – neither male nor female. As the bus lumbers through town, Sasha puts down the book and drifts into sleep, skirt draped over the edge of the seat.

After reading "Superman and Me," answer the following questions in a body paragraph. Your paragraph should be in PIE format (Point/Illustration/Explanation) and cite two specific examples from the text:
  • Why are so many of the kids at Sherman Alexie's school resistant to learning?
  • Why does Alexie think reading will save their lives?