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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: 120079
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)
Why I Write (2) - Orwell / (Atlantic, Prezi, Quizlet)- Orwell / Group Discussion
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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)
Is the Declaration of Independence an example of good writing? (semantic field (2))
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Read and analyze: Declaration of Independence / How are it’s paragraphs organized? Can you determine any semantic fields?
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Is the Declaration of Independence an example of good writing? (1, semantic field)
Key Concepts: semantic field, repetition, paragraph organization, pertinent vs. important
Thesis Statement: From question to thesis
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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.
Application for Graduation
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Class pics. / InQuisitive - Only Meghan has enrolled / Class or ID is: 120079
Review of narrative genre and discussion of paragraphs on Quip.
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
Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer (purpose and viewpoint)
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Work on your Thesis Statement for the Research Paper–due Friday.
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?
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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)
Portraits – Newspaper Version of Portraits
Portraits – Newspaper Version of Portraits
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
Read Profiles (Norton 224-234) and consider the place of narration and description in the literary genre called “Profile”.
Start brainstorming and mindmapping your ideas for Essay 1.
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Admin: Essay deadline extended.
Fragments / Practice / Parts of Speech / Connective Words / More Phrases and Clauses.
Key Concepts: Ekphrastic Description
Ekphrastic Description: Urn (2) / “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Keats / Turner’s Slave Ship / Ruskin / Hazlitt
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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.
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Last minute questions regarding Essay 1
Apply Paramedic Method to our Ekphrasic Descriptions. / (Practice)
Student Profile / Timeless Writing / Journalistic Writing and the Writer
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Read Profiles (Norton 224-234) and consider the place of narration and description in the literary genre called “Profile”. Then, revise and edit Essay 1. Does your essay satisfy these criteria?
Canada
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Essay 1
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Admin: All files turned in by email or in the D2L Dropbox need to be in PDF format. /Sample Preliminary Bibliography
Key Concepts: Discourse, Metaphor, Nash’s typology of paragraphs
Nash’s metaphors: Shark’s Swim example
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InQuizitive:Fused (Run-on) Sentences / Mixed constructions
Finish the Preliminary Bibliography
Credit by Exam Due
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RO Sentences: More Practice
Key Concepts: Discourse, Metaphor, Nash’s typology of paragraphs
Nash’s metaphors: Shark’s Swim example
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Finish the Preliminary Bibliography
Read “Stance”, Norton (64-67)
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Return to More phrases and clauses (focus infinitive, gerund, and participle phrases)
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)?
Preliminary Bibliography
ALADAA Due
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Read “Rebel Music” by Daniel Felsenfeld, Norton (640-643)
