August 2021
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Homework
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Homework
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Syllabus / Norton / Icebreakers / InQuisitive / Assignments and PDF Format (1,2) (Word, PDF Creator, Xodo) / Breakout Groups / Create Group Folder in Quip for members in Breakout Group / Team building / Draw Topics (best friend, dream house, dream job, dream vacation, next big purchase, enjoyable activity)
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Groups and seating / Syllabus Questions? / Homework?
Groups–Definition of rhetoric, main points of reading.
General Discussion of Reading Critically: (5th vs 4th) Rhetorical Context [rhetoric, rhetorical situation (1) and rhetorical contex], Purpose [persuasive, argumentative, informative, and aesthetic], audience, genre, stance, medium, pattern-design-structure, evidence, semantic field
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Finish: Rhetoric Devices: Purpose [persuasive, argumentative, informative, and aesthetic], audience, genre, stance, medium, pattern-design-structure, evidence, semantic field
Mindup, Snipping Tool (WIN + Shift + S), and Quip / Draw Personal Identify Mindmap (best friend, dream house, dream job, dream vacation, next big purchase, enjoyable activity) / Save in Quip Personal Folder
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Read and analyze: Declaration of Independence / Can you determine any semantic fields? / How are it’s paragraphs organized? (Outline of ideas and argument)
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General Discussion: D2L, Review: How is our book structured?, Friday reading and thesis statement
Thesis Statement: From question to thesis
Last Day to ADD/DROP
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Semantic Field Analysis: Simple Frequency and Word Clouds / Nouns in the Declaration of Independence / OneLook and “rule” / Visuwords and “legislate” / Semantic Fields / Analysis
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What is a syllogism?
What is a narrative?
Read: “Narrating” NR 462-470 / Discuss / sequencing, transitions, pertinent vs. important, uses for a narrative
Genre for narratives or recurrent literary form (autobiography, biography (1), life story, short-story, novel [ bildungsroman, Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations, Little Women, Harry Potter, House on Mango Street], non-ficiton oral history or photo history (1,2))
Peer Reading Pitfalls: imitating the instructor and acting like an editor.
Types of Reading: read as a "common reader", read to "know the writer"(values, assumptions, opinions and their effect on the text, the writing process and thesis clarity, unknowns), read to "diagnose key problems", and read to "improve paper" (by comparing it to models).
Peer Interaction: summarize, stop and predict, ask questions, label problems, and make suggestions.
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Then, read this fragment from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This fragment serves as a model narrative.
Finally, reflect on the narrative model and review the paragraphs written by your group members.
Try to give feedback related to spelling, grammar, pertinent details, audience, purpose, style (engaging, concise, etc.), and organization of ideas.
Work on Thesis Statement
September 2021
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Labor Day
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Last Day to Declare Credit by Exam
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Peer Reading Pitfalls: imitating the instructor and acting like an editor.
Types of Reading: read as a "common reader", read to "know the writer"(values, assumptions, opinions and their effect on the text, the writing process and thesis clarity, unknowns), read to "diagnose key problems", and read to "improve paper" (by comparing it to models).
Peer Interaction: summarize, stop and predict, ask questions, label problems, and make suggestions.
Essay 1: Topic “Profile in Courage” - See Profiles in Courage by JFK* (Turn-in using D2L Dropbox) / Criticism ( 1,2) / Hero, Anti-hero, or What is courage? For advanced essayists ( 1) / Alternative: Profile in Creativity
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Review the paragraphs written by your group members. Try to give feedback related to spelling, grammar, pertinent details, audience, purpose, style (engaging, concise, etc.), and organization of ideas.
Read Profiles (Norton 233--245) and consider the place of narration and description in the literary genre called “Profile”.
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Write a Rough Draft for Essay 1
InQuizitive:
1. How to Use InQuizitive
2. Editing the Errors That Matter
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Start revising Essay 1
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Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer
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Group Description Paragraph: Review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions/editing.
Final Draft: Essay 1
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Essay 1
Key Concepts: Ekphrastic Description
Incomplete Grades Due
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Inquisitive:
1. Comma Splices
2. Omitted Commas
3. Unnecessary Commas
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Review the ekphrastic paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions / editing
Work on the Preliminary Bibliography
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Read “Stance”, Norton (66-68)
Read “S-5 Subject-Verb Agreement” Norton (HB 24-28)
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Continue your research in the Library
InQuizitive: Fused (Run-on) Sentences / Mixed constructions / Sentence Fragments
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Key concepts: Person, Voice, Point of View / Stance (1,2, 3, 4) / How is stance related to person, voice, and point of view? Persona (1)?
Academic Writing and the First Person
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Midterm
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