Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Seating Chart / 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 syllabus and bring 3 questions to class.
Paste the “This is me” bubble graph in Quip and create your personal folder.
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Admin: Sharepoint attachments, cut/paste for Quip, personal folder
Miroboard Intro / 3 Questions about syllabus
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 Discussion of Reading Critically. Add//Purpose [persuasive/argumentative, informative, analytic, comparative]
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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)
February 2022
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Personal Day
No class
Last Day to DROP /ADD Classes
No class
Last Day to DROP /ADD Classes
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Thesis Statement: From question to thesis
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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Snow Day
See email for assignment.
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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.
Discuss Narrating / sequencing, transitions, pertinent vs. important, uses for a narrative
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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
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Feedback: Accident 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))
Thesis statement practice (1,2,3,4) / Students can use peer readers in Quip before uploading the Thesis to D2L in PDF format on Friday. / Another Look at the Thesis
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Write and revise your Research Paper’s Thesis Statement.
Read Abstracts (Norton 185-87)
Find and read an article for the Informative Abstract due next Friday.
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Thesis statement practice (1,2,3,4) / Students can use peer readers in Quip before uploading the Thesis to D2L in PDF format on Friday. / Another Look at the Thesis
Thesis Statement
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Return to the Narrative writing assignment and edit your peers one more time using the Paramedic Method.
InQuizitive:
1. How to Use InQuizitive
2. Editing the Errors That Matter
Find and read an academic article about your research topic. Please, limit your search to articles found in the Mansfield U library. Then, start writing the rough draft for the first Short Writing Assignment.
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Start revising the draft of Short Writing Assignment 1
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Person: Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer
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Finish final draft of Short Writing Assignment 1
Suggested Homework:
Group Description Paragraph: Review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions/editing.
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Short Writing Assignment 1
Last Day to Submit Incomplete Grade
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Inquisitive:
1. Comma Splices
2. Omitted Commas
3. Unnecessary Commas
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Key Concepts: Ekphrastic Description
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Write an ekphrastic description for Vermeer’s Milkmaid and place it on Quip. Then, read: “Cezanne's Ports” and look at “Three for the Mona Lisa”
Last Day to Complete 'Credit by Exam'
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Discuss ekphrastic models and expository thesis statemenet
Grammar Cyber-attack on Quip) / Parts of Speech Wheel / Use Xodo, complete the Parts of Speech activity, and send as an Email attachment.
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InQuizitive: Fused (Run-on) Sentences / Mixed constructions / Sentence Fragments
Work on the Preliminary Bibliography
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Preliminary Bibliography
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Read “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing 51 in the Norton Field Guide” (p. 526-538)
Take notes on one of your Preliminary Bibliography sources.
Did you do your last InQuizitive assignment?
