Calendar
October 2018
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Daniel Felsenfeld Questions – Genre and Music Literacy
Divide the class and use the video to write a paragraph from each different person. / Now try persona (cat, grandmother, etc.)
Audience:
Aiming at the right audience: Describing your new significant other (1,2,3)
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Break into partners.  The first one will write a paragraph to a friend using the 1st person, an intimate or personal voice, and an ironic and biased stance about the following topic: “How to Impress a Professor.”  Next, the second one will rewrite this same paragraph using the 3rd person , a formal and serious voice, and informative and unbiased stance (to an audience of students, teachers, and parents).
Upload to your group’s folder on Quip.
Read “S-5 Subject-Verb Agreement” Norton (HB 24-28)
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Feedback on 1st & 3rd person paragraphs.
Example of 1st mixed with 2nd : You Say You Want a Resolution? (1) / When is this appropriate?
Academic Writing and the 1st Person
RO Sentences: More Practice
Subject Verb Agreement (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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Study for the Midterm.
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Midterm
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And Columbus Day? Día de la raza (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela) / Día de las gentes indígenas
Return Midterms / Annotated Bibliography
Citation, Indirect and Direct Discourse, “Common Knowledge”, and Plagiarism (Def., MU, TRIO, Library, Norton, NIU (2), Rutgers)
Subject Verb Agreement (1,2,3) / Pronoun Agreement (1,2,3) / More / Verb Tense and Writing About Literature (1,2)
Columbus Day
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InQuizitive: Pronouns in the Wrong Case,Pronouns That Don't Agree with Their Antecedents, Pronouns with Unclear Reference, Subject-Verb Agreement Errors, Verb Tense and Verb Form Errors
Work on Annotated Bibliography
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Finish the review of Pronoun Agreement
Identify the target audience (1,2,3)
Analysis of Essay’s Argument
Assertions vs. Suppositions
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Read: “Arguing” (355-373)
Read “A Woman’s Reality” and come to class prepared to find its argumentative structure.
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Tweets and Stance (1)
Understanding Argumentation / Discuss “Arguing” (355-373) [Claims, Reason, Underlying Reason, Evidence, Facts, Statistics, Authorities, Anecdotes, Scenarios, Case Studies, Textual evidence, Visual Evidence, Refutations, Fallacies]
Discuss “Women’s Reality” / Analysis of “Women’s Reality”–Signals to Structure (1,2)
Midterm Grades Due 4:00 pm
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Use argumentative structure and build a diagram for one of these themes: (1) computer dependency, (2) banning cigarette smoking.  Upload to Quip as a graphic (the snipping tool helps).  Try to find a flaw or fallacy in your groups argumentative structure.
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Feedback Argument Graph on Quip
Review: Analysis of “Women’s Reality”–Signals to Structure (1,2)
Assertions vs. Suppositions
Argumentative Fallacies / Group Competition (2pt Challenge-1pt Steal-1s min)
Registration Begins
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Finish the argumentative structure diagram on Quip.  Try to find a flaw or fallacy in a group member’s argumentative structure.
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Feedback Quip
Citation, Indirect and Direct Discourse, “Common Knowledge”, and Plagiarism (Def., MU, TRIO, Library, Norton, NIU (1,2), Rutgers)
Note Taking: Cards (1,2,3) / Zotero, Mendeley, Papers (Mac), Scrivener (PC,Mac,Ipad),Evernote, OneNote, Google Keep (Web, Ipad), Xmind, LiquidText, Keep
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Read “Generating Text and Ideas” (Norton 289-297)
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Generating Text and Ideas / Follow along in Norton 289-297 / Generating texts for each genre (see Norton 273-275) /
Brainstorming -Memoir: Who or what has been most important in your life?
Group debate as Brainstorming for an Argumentative Paper: Arming Our Teachers / From debate to argumentative structure.
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Read Norton 289-297 / Use the theme “traveler,” pick three mapping graphics, and brainstorm and fill out the map.  Upload the map to Quip.
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Review Quip.
Use the topics “candy bar”, “learning a foreign language”, and “identity theft” to practice the cubing method. Practice in groups, 3 min per side. / Isn’t cubing the same as who, what, where, why, how? / Other cubes for other disciplines?
The writing process
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As a group, read and take notes using  these Rothko handouts and 3x5 note cards or sharing on Google Keep– 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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Expository Writing
Icebreaker (1,2,3,4)
Taking notes exercise: Rothko–from notes to thesis, organizational diagram, and outline.
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Read “Finding Sources” in the Norton Reader (445-468)
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Finish taking notes exercise: Rothko
Review: “Finding Sources” (445-468) / Primary-Secondary Source / Scholarly-Popular Source / Keywords-Keyword Searching (Tagcrowd, Yippy/ZapMeta) / References / Periodicals-Databases / Evaluating Sources  (Practice exercise) / Field Research
Last Day to Withdraw
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Read “A Dark Brown Dog”
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Basic Analysis: Plot and Parody / Plot of “A Dark Brown Dog”
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Write a short story that imitates or inverts the basic elements of plot found in “A Dark Brown Dog.”  Upload to Quip.  This will be at least a parody.
Work on your Annotated Bibliography
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Pre-Columbian Symposium




Halloween
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Evaluating Sources  (Practice exercise)

Annotated
Bibliography
Last Day to Withdraw from a Course
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Work on your Rough Draft
Read Poe  Identify and be prepared to discuss its: Narrator, Narratee, Audience, Direct and Indirect Discourse, and Plot.
Aug/Sept / Oct / Nov / Dec