January 2019
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Groups / Introduction by group questions / Participation / Syllabus / Quip / D2L / Norton / Icebreakers / Teambuilding / Draw Topics (best friend, dream house, drean job, dream vacation, next big purchase, enjoyable activity)
Peer Reading Pitt Falls: 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.
Classes Begin
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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 /InQuisitive Student Set ID is: 136231
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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Three questions about syllabus.
Purpose of Norton Reader?
Review rhetorical elements not covered last class.
Why I Write (2) - Orwell / (Atlantic, Prezi, Quizlet)- Orwell / Group Discussion
Begin Semantic Field--Declaration of Independence
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Read and analyze: Declaration of Independence / How are it’s paragraphs organized? Can you determine any semantic fields?
Last Day to Add/Drop - 20th
Last Day to Add/Drop -
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Martin Luther King Day
HS Snowday
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Why I Write (2) - Orwell / (Atlantic, Prezi, Quizlet)- Orwell / Group Discussion
Is the Declaration of Independence an example of good writing? (1, semantic field)
Key Concepts: semantic field, repetition, paragraph organization, pertinent vs. importan
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Is the Declaration of Independence an example of good writing? (1, semantic field)
Thesis Statement: From question to thesis
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.
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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)
Inquisitive Enrollment?
Review: Questions about the Thesis Statement
Inquisitive Enrollment?
Review: Questions about the Thesis Statement
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))
Samples of Quip Narration: feedback
Samples of Quip Narration: feedback
Our Narrative vs. Literacy Narrative (83)
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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–If you haven’t finished editing the narrative paragraphs written in your group, then do so.
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Discuss the literacy narrative: “Always Living in Spanish: Recovering the Familiar, through Language” by Marjorie Agosín. (Norton 79) / Isolation / exile / resistance / translation / language-cultural frame
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Work on your Thesis Statement for the Research Paper–due Friday.
Answer the questions in Quip about the literacy narrative: “Always Living in Spanish: Recovering the Familiar, through Language” by Marjorie Agosín.
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Class Cancellation
Thesis Statement still due in D2L
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