January 2018
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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MLK Day
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Purchase your books
Read the syllabus thoroughly and come up with three questions about it for next class
Read: “Reading Critically” NR 26-29
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Syllabus Questions / Quip / Norton Set
Why I Write (2) - Orwell / (Atlantic, Prezi, Quizlet)- Orwell / Group Discussion
Purpose of Norton Reader?
Review: “Reading Critically”`/ rhetoric, rhetorical situation (1) and rhetorical context (purpose [persuasive, argumentative, informative, and aesthetic], audience, genre, stance, argument, assertion, pattern-design-structure, evidence, semantic field)
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Finish Discussion on Reading Critically
Is the Declaration of Independence an example of good writing? (1, semantic field)
Key Concepts: semantic field, repetition, paragraph organization.
Thesis Statement: From question to thesis
Last Day to Add/Drop
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Read: “Narrating” NR 419-427
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Class Photos
Narrating Discussion: sequencing (chronological, reverse, flashback), transitions (words, sentences), detail (important vs. pertinent), essay structure (introduction, body, conclusion).
Genre for narratives or recurrent literary form (autobiography, biography (1), life story, short-story, novel [bildungsroman, J ane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations, Little Women, Harry Potter, House on Mango Street], non-ficiton oral history or photo history (1,2))
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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.
Application for Graduation
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InQuizitive: Introduction / Editing that matters (Commas) / Comma Splices (assignment)
Read: “Always Living in Spanish: Recovering the Familiar, through Language” by Marjorie Agosín. (Norton 79)
Peer editing–Read and edit the narrative paragraphs written in your group.
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Feedback: InQuizitive / Commas / Paramedic Method
Our Narrative vs. Literacy Narrative (83) / Discuss the literacy narrative: “Always Living in Spanish: Recovering the Familiar, through Language” by Marjorie Agosín. (Norton 79)
Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer (purpose and viewpoint)
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Make a copy of the questions for Reading 1 and add it to your folder in Quip. Then answer the questions using.
Revise and add the description exercise done in class to Quip. Then, review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions/editing.
Challenge: Can your group create a newspaper version of the description that merges the information gained from each writing viewpoint (outside-inside)? What is your stance and purpose? Where does it fit into the newspaper? Have you included any quotations?
Work on your Thesis Statement for the Research Paper–due Friday.
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Writing an interesting article for the Newspaper? Genre (content [informative or opinion piece / sports, political, food, fashion, and advice columns], form [headline, byline, lead, explanation, and additional information], stance [viewpoint] / Rhetorical Situation (more details) / Dialogue (indirect vs. direct discourse)
Grammar Highlight: Fragments
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Revise and edit your group’s “personality profile” for the newspaper.
InQuizitive:Sentence Fragments
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Essay 1: Topic “Profile in Courage” - See Profiles in Courage by JFK (Turn-in using D2L Dropbox) / For advanced essayists (1)
How did InQuizitive go? / Last minute questions regarding the Thesis Statement?
Key Concepts: Ekphrastic Description
Ekphrastic Description: Urn (2) / “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Keats / Turner’s Slave Ship / Ruskin / Hazlitt
Closer look at Parts of Speech
Thesis Statement
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Then, read: “Cezanne's Ports” and look at “Three for the Mona Lisa”
Review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions / editing.
Homework for Monday Night: Read Profiles (Norton 224-234) and consider the place of narration and description in the literary genre called “Profile”.
