Agenda for 31 January

1. Finish Atlantic article

2. Read Myth of well-behaved women’s march article

3. Work on precis

4. Review at end of class

Next class

                New article

                Work during class

                Will be due on Monday, 2/6

                Must be typed

                MLA format

Agenda for 27 January

1. Work on Atlantic article

2. Claims

3. Purpose

4. Audience

Next class

                One more practice

Thursday

                For real

Agenda for 25 January 2017

1. Work on Atlantic article

2. Review sample precis

Next class,

                New article

                Practice precis

Agenda for 23 January 2017

1. Read Atlantic article

2. Discuss context

3. Practice writing precis

4. Turn in by end of class

Next class

                Review previous precis

                New article

                Discuss context

                Practice writing precis

                Turn in by end of class

Agenda for 19 January 2017

1. Share student selected articles

                Talk through parts of precis

2. Read/discuss “The Rise of Victimhood Culture”

Need acknowledgment form ASAP

Discussion board response will hopefully be next week

Work on getting copy of 1984, will be beginning on February 6

Agenda for 12 January 2017

1. Continue discussing “Republicans condemn university masculinity program as ‘war on men’”

                Determine in pairs:

                                1. Essay’s thesis

                                2. Identify claims and evidence (statements that support the thesis)

                                                a.  identify short quotes

                                3. Identify author’s purpose

                                4. Identify audience

                                                a. author’s relationship with audience

                                                b. effect on the audience

2. Use computers to find another article of interest

                Write a rhetorical precis

                Article should be:

                                Current and have value

                                Should take at least 5 minutes to read

                                From a reliable source

Next class,

                Work on your identified article

                Write a precis

                Peer review with others in the class

                If you finish your first one, begin another one. Practice practice practice!

Agenda for 10 January 2017

1. Review syllabus

                Return signed form by Thursday, January 12

2. Dual enrollment applications due by Thursday, January 12

               

3. Censorship article

                Discussion

                Rhetorical precis