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Midterm Grade Calculation / Grade - Thesis (5%), Prelim(5%), Essay 1(10%), Midterm (15%) / Look ahead–Taking notes (p. 527-538) / Sample Outline
Divide the class and use the video to write a paragraph from a different person´s point-of-view / How does this change the voice, perspective, and stance. Should you alter the “person”? Try persona (cat, grandmother, etc.)
Look back: Run-on Sentences
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Read: “Developing Habits of Mind” (NR 45-52)
Read: Taking notes (p. 527-538)
Quip: Add the group paragraphs from class.
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Read: “Audience” (NR 57-60)
Read: “Fields of Study” (NR 291-320)
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Return Midterm Tests
Continue Rothko Notetaking Project
Midterm Grades Due by 4 PM
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Work on the Rothko Notetaking Projects in your group. Prepare to write a thesis statement for the research and upload it to Quip.
Take notes on your own research project. Advance your outline.
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Read “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing” (Norton 526-538)
Read “Synthesizing Ideas” (Norton p. 519-525)
Write and upload a thesis statement for the research and upload it to Quip.
Take notes on your own research project. Advance your outline.
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Finish– Rothko Exercise
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Read “Generating Ideas and Text” (Norton 331-339)
Take notes on your own research project. Advance your outline.
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Use the theme “traveler,” pick three mapping graphics, and brainstorm and fill out the map. Upload the map to Quip.
Start Reading “Arguing” (397-417): Claim, reason, evidence, signal phrase, viewpoints, fallacy.
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Understanding Argumentation / Discuss: “Arguing” (397-417) [Claims, Reason, Underlying Reason, Evidence, Facts, Statistics, Authorities, Anecdotes, Scenarios, Case Studies, Textual evidence, Visual Evidence, Refutations, Fallacies] Fallacies]
Groups: Map out the argumentative structure of “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by Joanna Mackay (Norton 163)
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Groups: Map out the argumentative structure of “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by Joanna Mackay (Norton 163)
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Use argumentative structure and build a diagram for one of these themes: (1) computer dependency, (2) banning cigarette smoking. Upload to Quip as a graphic (the snipping tool helps). As you peer edit, try to find a flaw or fallacy in your groups argumentative structure.
Add this to your group’s argumentative analysis on Miro Board.
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Contribute at least 30 min. to developing your group’s analysis of the argumentative structure of the article, “Women’s Reality”
Prepare your Annotated Bibliography
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Reminder InQuisitive: Subject Verb Agreement (1,2,3) / Pronoun Agreement (1,2,3) / More / Verb Tense and Writing About Literature (1,2)
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InQuizitive: Subject-Verb Agreement Errors, Pronouns in the Wrong Case, Pronouns That Don’t Agree with Their Antecedents, Pronouns with Unclear Reference, Verb Tense and Verb Form Errors.
Prepare your Annotated Bibliography
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Leave your response to these questions in your personal folder in Quip:
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How does this text fit the type of article this magazine looks for (“evoke the splendor and heartache of being”) ?
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Explain how and why the author uses “person” in the article.
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Rough Draft Upcoming.
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Write a short story that imitates or inverts the basic elements of plot found in “A Dark Brown Dog”. Upload to Quip. This should be at least an innocent parody, something more than a simulacrum.
Read “Classifying and Dividing”, Norton (418-423).
Work on your Rough Draft
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Work on your Rough Draft
Finish Reading: “Classifying and Dividing”, Norton (418-423).
Work on your Rough Draft
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Classification & Dividing = organization / need for clear categories
Subject Verb Agreement (1,2,3) / Pronoun Agreement (1,2,3) / More / Verb Tense and Writing About Literature (1,2)
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Read “Analyzing Texts”, Norton (94-128).
Work on your Rough Draft
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Essay 2 Assignment: Collect and read 10 news articles online about a type of music, gun violence, or about the Hispanic cultures' contributions in the US. Analyze and classify these articles. Use your classification and knowledge gained in the readings as the basis for Essay 2
“Problem Solving” by Albert Upton / Example "Said" or "Measurement" vs. "Hunt" / Another look at classification / Synthesis
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Read Poe Identify and be prepared to discuss its: Narrator, Narratee, Audience, Direct and Indirect Discourse, and Plot.
Work on the Rough Draft
Veterans Day
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Write either an acrostic poem or a parody of the Tell Tale Heart. Upload to Quip.
Work on the Rough Draft
Are your Quip assignments up-to-date?
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Share some of the Poe Acrostics on Quip
Practice: Group debate as Brainstorming for an Argumentative Paper: Arming Our Teachers /Group Competition (2pt Challenge-1pt Steal-1s min) / From debate to argumentative structure. Be wary of the Ad Hominem–(”If my doctor really believed that, she wouldn’t be so fat.”) - (If they win this debate, it’s because they truly believe in the position they’ve defended” / detached objectivity, prosecutorial misconduct, and defense of heinous crimes.
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Think about today’s debate in class. Clarify your own position, then upload a graphic that outlines your basic argument and evidence to Quip.
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Quip Feedback: Argument Diagrams for Arming Our Teachers
Subject Verb Agreement (1,2,3) / Pronoun Agreement (1,2,3) / More / Verb Tense and Writing About Literature (1,2)
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Post a copy of your group’s One Draft vs Multi Draft essay on Quip
InQuisitive:
Read "The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe. Then, draw an outline of the plot. Bring to class
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Read and discuss One Draft vs. Multi-draft
Review: Sources and MLA In-text quotation.
Plot analysis of "The Cask of Amontillado” * / Brainstorm alternative plots in group. (See homework)
Rough Draft
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Quip: Brainstorm alternative plots in group. Write contemporary parody together on Quip.
InQuisitive:
Documenting MLA, Finding Sources, Evaluating Sources, Incorporating Quotations, Punctuating Quotations, Integrating Sources, Synthesizing Ideas.
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Research Day
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