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August 2021
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Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
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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Purchase your books
Read: “Reading Critically” NR 20-27 (4th Ed)
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Groups and seating / Syllabus Questions? / Homework?
Teambuilding
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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Read Why I Write (2) - Orwell
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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
Cornell Note Template (1,2) / Liquid Text / Note Taking: Cards (1,2,3) / Zotero
Why I Write (2) - Orwell / (Atlantic, Prezi, Quizlet)- Orwell / Group Discussion
Begin Semantic Field (a, b, c, 1,2,3,4)--Declaration of Independence
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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)
Recommended Reading: Chapter 2 (10-32)
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General Discussion: D2L, Review: How is our book structured?, Friday reading and thesis statement
Semantic Field (a, b, c, 1,2,3,4) /share in groups /Declaration of Independence
Thesis Statement: From question to thesis
Last Day to ADD/DROP
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Read Chapter 1 (3-9) and “Our Declaration” by Danielle Allen (102-07)
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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
Discuss: “Our Declaration”
Finish: Thesis Statement: From question to thesis
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Read: “Narrating” NR 462-470
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What is a syllogism?
Friday reading? (1,2)
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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Write a narrative paragraph describing your last automobile accident and place it on Quip.
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
Calendar
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
Evaluate Thesis Statements
Thesis statement practice (1,2,3,4)
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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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Thesis Statement
Covid Symptoms (1,2) / Jim Welch
Literary Sample Writing (1, 2)
Another Look at the Thesis Statement / Finish Thesis statement practice (1,2,3,4)
Discuss: Profile
Discuss: Accident Narrative
Editing: Concise writing and the Paramedic Method (1,2)



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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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InQuisitive / D2L Feedback
Paramedic Method (1,2)  / Practice
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Start revising Essay 1
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Dialogue in narration vs quotations in research (indirect and direct discourse)
Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer
Glimpse at: Newspaper Article (1,2)
Grammar Highlight: Comma (1,2,3)
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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
Literary Sample
Preliminary Bib / MLA  / Zotero /  Sample Preliminary Bibliography
Grammar Highlight: Comma (1,2,3)
Key Concepts: Ekphrastic Description
Ekphrastic Description: Urn (2) / “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Keats
Incomplete Grades Due
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Inquisitive:
1. Comma Splices
2. Omitted Commas
3. Unnecessary Commas
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Discuss: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Keats
Explanation / More Phrases and Clauses / Practice: Fragments / Connective Words
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Write an ekphrastic description for Vermeer’s Milkmaid and place it on Quip.  If you are still working on your Essay, make sure this is done by Saturday.
Then, read: “Cezanne's Ports” and look at “Three for the Mona Lisa”
Refresher: Expository Thesis Statement
Credit by Exam Grades Due
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Admin: Quip Entries / Format / Personal Folders / Student Volunteer
Continue: Explanation /
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Review the ekphrastic paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions / editing
Read: Nash
Work on the Preliminary Bibliography
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Preliminary Bibliography
Friday Reading: The Journeyer
Continue: More Phrases and Clauses / Practice: Fragments / Connective Words / Parts of Speech / Run-on Sentences
Nash and Paragraph Structure
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)?
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Complete Parts of Speech
Read “Stance”, Norton (66-68)
Read “S-5 Subject-Verb Agreement” Norton (HB 24-28)
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Review: Parts of Speech
Correct: Parts of Speech
Practice: Fragments / Connective Words / / Run-on Sentences
Nash and Paragraph Structure
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Continue your research in the Library
InQuizitive: Fused (Run-on) Sentences / Mixed constructions / Sentence Fragments
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Shark’s Swim example
Reading Questions: Stance
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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Finish reading First Person if we did not finish in class.
Study for the Midterm–The study guide is on the Downloads page, too.
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Midterm
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