February 2017
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InQuizitive: Editing that matters (Commas) / Comma Splices
Read: “Always Living in Spanish: Recovering the Familiar, through Language” by Marjorie Agosín. (Norton 79)
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Feedback: InQuizitive / Commas
Review: Dialogue (indirect vs. direct discourse) / Writing an interesting article for the Newspaper
Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer
Place your Narrative Paragraph in your personal folder.
Revise and add the description exercise done in class.
Review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions/editing.
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Key Concepts: Ekphrastic Description
Ekphrastic Description: Urn (2) / “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Keats / Turner’s Slave Ship / Ruskin / Hazlitt
Review the Paramedic Method
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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Grammar Highlight: Fragments
Apply to our Ekphrasic Descriptions. Paramedic Method (practice), too.
InQuizitive:Sentence Fragments
Read Profiles (Norton 224-234) and consider the place of narration and description in the literary genre called “Profile”.
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Journalistic Writing and the Writer / Group Discussion.
Key Concepts: Discourse, Metaphor, Nash’s typology of paragraphs
Thesis Statement
Write a short article (a paragraph or two) that should be included in the Flashlight. Try to draw a idea map and adjective field beforehand. Upload to your group’s folder on Quip.
When editing, use the Editing Checklist and check for paragraph structure (Nash’s metaphors).
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Preliminary Bibliography from Thesis Statement (Turn-in using D2L Dropbox). Use MLA 8 (2016).
Nash’s metaphors: Shark’s Swim example
Connective Words / More Phrases and Clauses. / Too many clauses and phrases fused together.
InQuizitive:Fused (Run-on) Sentences
Read “Stance”, Norton (64-67)
Read “Rebel Music” by Daniel Felsenfeld, Norton (640-643)
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Daniel Felsenfeld Questions – Genre and Music Literacy
Key concepts: Person, Voice, Point of View / Stance (1,2) / How is stance related to person, voice, and point of view? Persona (1)?
Divide the class and use the video to write a paragraph from each different person. / Now try persona (cat, grandmother, etc.)
Essay 1
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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, rewrite this 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.
When group editing, use the Editing Checklist and check for paragraph structure (Nash’s metaphors).
Read “S-5 Subject-Verb Agreement” Norton (HB 24-28)
InQuizitive:Agreement –Pronouns in the Wrong Case / Pronouns That Don't Agree with Their Antecedents / Pronouns with Unclear Reference / Subject-Verb Agreement Errors
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Key concepts: Person, Voice, Point of View / Stance (1,2) / How is stance related to person, voice, and point of view? Persona (1)?
How does stance relate to audience and purpose? Tone?
Academic Writing and the 1st Person
Audience:
Read Heidi Pollock’s article “You Say You Want a Resolution?” (803), clearly identify the Person, Voice, and Point of View. Prepare to answer questions in class.
Consider the topic “teamwork”. Identify and map out your POV, Stance, and Persona. Then, write a paragraph or two about this topic from that framework. Upload to Quip.
Edit and provide constructive feedback to your peers.
January 2017
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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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3 Questions about the syllabus
Review: “Reading Critically”
Is the Declaration of Independence an example of good writing? (1, 2, semantic field)
Read: “Narrating” NR 419-427
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Class Photos
Finish analysis of Declaration of Independence.
Key Concepts: semantic field, repetition, paragraph organization.
Narrating Discussion: sequencing (chronological, reverse, flashback), transitions (words, sentences), detail (important vs. pertinent), essay structure (introduction, body, conclusion).
