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Syllabus / Norton / Icebreakers / InQuisitive / Assignments and PDF Format (1,2) (Word, PDF Creator, Xodo) / Breakout Rooms in Zoom / Create Group Folder in Quip for members in Breakout Group
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Admin: Exit Feedback, Syllabus Questions?
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: Rhetoric Devices: Purpose [persuasive, argumentative, informative, and aesthetic], audience, genre, stance, medium, pattern-design-structure, evidence, semantic field
Mindup, Snipping Tool (WIN + Shift + S), and Quip / Draw Personal Identify Mindmap (best friend, dream house, dream job, dream vacation, next big purchase, enjoyable activity) / Save in Quip Personal Folder
Why I Write (2) - Orwell / (Atlantic, Prezi, Quizlet)- Orwell / Group Discussion
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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)
Recommended Reading: Chapter 2 (10-32 )
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Admin: group participation, Xodo Online
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Discuss: “Our Declaration”
Thesis Statement: From question to thesis
What is a narrative?
Read: “Narrating” NR 462-470 / Discuss / sequencing, transitions, pertinent vs. important, uses for a narrative
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Last Day to Apply for Graduation, Credit-By-Exam, and Pass/Fail.
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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Discuss: “Narrating” NR 462-470 / Discuss / sequencing, transitions, pertinent vs. important, uses for a narrative
Quip Feedback: A look at the Accident Narrative.
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))
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.
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.
Read Literacy Narrative (75-97)
Write A Thesis Statement for your Research Paper
Read: “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan (Norton 697-703)
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Our Narrative vs. Literacy Narrative (83) / Discuss the literacy narrative “Mother Tongue” (Norton 697-703)
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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.
Write A Thesis Statement for your Research Paper
Read Profiles (Norton 233--245) and consider the place of narration and description in the literary genre called “Profile”.
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Work on your thesis statement.
Write a Rough Draft for Essay 1
InQuizitive:
1. How to Use InQuizitive
2. Editing the Errors That Matter
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Dialogue (indirect vs. direct discourse)
Description Exercise: Portrait-Self Portrait / Pair-Pair / Outside Writer
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Group Description Paragraph: Review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions/editing.
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Finish Essay 1
Inquisitive:
1. Comma Splices
2. Omitted Commas
3. Unnecessary Commas
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Essay 1
Preliminary Bib / MLA / Zotero / Sample Preliminary Bibliography
Key Concepts: Ekphrastic Description
Ekphrastic Description: Urn (2) / “Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Keats
Last Day to submit Incomplete Grades
Start your research in the Library
Write an ekphrastic description for Vermeer’s Milkmaid and place it on Quip. If you are still working on your Essay, make sure this is done by Saturday.
Then, read: “Cezanne's Ports” and look at “Three for the Mona Lisa”
Monday
Homework
Wednesday
Homework
Friday
Homework
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Admin: Quip and Thesis Feedback / Date extension
Explanation / More Phrases and Clauses / Practice: Fragments / Connective Words
Feedback: Expository Thesis Statement
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Last Day to complete Credit-By-Exam
Review the paragraphs written by your group members and provide constructive suggestions / editing
Read: Nash
Work on the Preliminary Bibliography
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Special Visit: Librarian Holly Jackson
No Exit Ticket
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Work on the Preliminary Bibliography
Read “Stance”, Norton (66-68)
Read “S-5 Subject-Verb Agreement” Norton (HB 24-28)
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Preliminary Bibliography
No class
CILH Conference
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CILH Conference
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Continue your research in the Library
InQuizitive: Fused (Run-on) Sentences / Mixed constructions / Sentence Fragments
Make sure you have finished the readings assigned last Wednesday
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InQuisitive-Only 4 students?
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Study for Midterm
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Midterm
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Admin: Student Make-up Delay on Returning Midterm
Academic Writing and the First Person
Divide the class and use the video to write a paragraph from a different person´s point-of-view / How does this change the voice, perspective, and stance. Should you alter the “person”? Try persona (cat, grandmother, etc.)
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Read: “Developing Habits of Mind” (NR 45-52)
Read: “Audience” (NR 57-60)
Read: “Fields of Study” (NR 291-320)
Quip: Add the group paragraphs from class.
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St. Patrick's Day
Look back: Run-on Sentences
Midterm Returned-Questions? / Exit Ticket Feedback
Discuss the “Developing Habits of the Mind” and “Fields of Study”
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Read “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing” (Norton 526-538)
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Admin: Essays returned / 10 Students on InQuisitive / Grade - Thesis (5), Prelim(5), Essay 1(10), Midterm (15)
Aiming at the right audience: Describing your new significant other (1,2,3) / Your stance? Your tone?
Read and summarize as a group: Academic Writing and the First Person?
Mid-Semester Grades due by 4 pm,
Read “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing” paying specific attention to “taking notes” (Section 51, p. 526-538 Norton Reader)
Read “Reading in Academic Contexts” (Norton 10-52)
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Take notes on Rothko
Read “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing” (Norton 526-538)
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Q & A about the Rothko assignment
Continue working on the readings, the note card organization, and the thesis statement recovery.
No exit ticket today.
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Make sure your group has come up with a thesis statement for the Rothko project. This needs to be added to the documents in your group´s Quip folder.
Finish your Outline
Continue to take notes for your Research paper.
Read “Synthesizing Ideas” (Norton p. 519-525)
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15 min–Finish the Rothko Exercise
Discuss “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing” (Norton 526-538)
Discuss “Synthesizing Ideas” (Norton p. 519-525)
Outline
Read “Generating Ideas and Text” (Norton 331-339)
Work on your research paper!!
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Use the theme “traveler,” pick three mapping graphics, and brainstorm and fill out the map. Upload the map to Quip.
Start Reading “Arguing” (397-417): Claim, reason, evidence, signal phrase, viewpoints, fallacy.
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Evaluating Sources : Practice exercise
Look back: Run-on Sentences
Review: Nash's Metaphors of Paragraph Structure (Step, stack, chain, balance) Jelly Bean / A Confederacy of Dunces / Genesis / American Tabloid / A Farewell to Arms / Tale of Two Cities / Pick-u p / Notes from the Underground
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Read: this article in The Sun Magazine
Leave your respone in your personal folder in Quip:
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How does this text fit the type of article this magazine looks for (“evoke the splendor and heartache of being”) ?
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Explain how and why the author uses “person” in the article.
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Finish Reading “Arguing” (397-417): Claim, reason, evidence, signal phrase, viewpoints, fallacy.
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