Agenda for 27 February 2017

1. RP #3 due

2. Discuss Phillips article

3. Handout sample essay with primary source

Next class

                Work day for Essay #1

Friday, 29 February

                Rough draft of Essay #1 due

                Peer review

Tuesday, 7 March

                Finish novel

                Final discussion

                Questions will be provided

Thursday 9 March

                Essay #1 due, submitted to Turnitin.com by midnight

                Intro critical essay

Other info

                Need to do a timed writing, could be in-class rhetorical precis? Or argument essay? Or rhetorical                 analysis

                End of 9 weeks is Thursday, March 16 (A day)

Agenda for 23 February 2017

1. Review RP #2

2. Assign RP #3

                Due Monday, 2/27

3. Discuss Part 2, through section 7

4. Practice literary analysis

Next class                              

                RP #3 due

                Phillips article

Wednesday, 1 March

                Work day on Essay #1

Friday, 3 March

                Peer review of Essay #1

Agenda for 21 February 2017

1. Discuss Feder article

2. Practice literary analysis??

Next class

                RP #3

                Discuss through Section 2, Chapter 7

Agenda for 16 February 2017

1. Discuss Section 1

2. Discuss unifying idea

3. Discuss Feder article

                Questions:

1.       What do you think is Feder’s main point or argument in this essay? How does she prove this point?

2.       What major idea in the essay did you find most interesting? Why? Explain.

3.       What part of Feder’s essay do you not understand? (NOTE: “All of it” is not an acceptable answer.)

Next class

                Discuss Feder article

                Questions due

                RP #3 assigned

                Review RP #2

Agenda for 14 February 2017

1. RP #2 due

2. Options

                Debate

                Continue discussing close reading

3. Discuss Chapter 1 Section 1

                Continue with questions from last class

                Your questions

Next class

                Section 1 discussion

                Come with one unifying idea that you think you will want to explore in your Essay #1

                                Reasons why

                                Quotes that support

                2 discussions of your own

                Feder article

                                Questions will be due the next class

Agenda for 10 February

1. Informal discussion of questions

2. Intro Essay #1 literary analysis
Power point for literary analysis

Next class

                Feder article discussion

                Section 1 questions

                Rhetorical precis 2 due

Thursday

                Informal discussion on Section 1 questions and Feder article

Agenda for 6 February 2017

1. Context and debate for 1984

2. Rhetorical precis due

Next class

                I will not be here, bring your book for your assignment

                Discussion questions assigned

Friday,

                Have read through Section 1, Chapter 5

                Informal discussion based on questions assigned

Reading Schedule

                Expected to be read on this date (about 55 pages each section)

                2/10- Section 1, Chapter 5

                2/16-Section 1

                2/23- Section 2, Chapter 8

                3/1- Section 2

                3/7-Section 3

Other info,

                Discussion boards- now will be informal discussion points

                                Discussion board rubric still applies

Agenda for 2 February 2017

1. Finish women’s march article

2. Read and discuss Guardian article

3. Begin work on Rhetorical precis #1

                Must be in MLA format, typed

                Name, class, my name, date

                Double-spaced

                Due next class, during class

Next class

                Bring 1984

                Context info