Spring 2018 Semester Schedule

Week One: M W F

“Different Voices, Different Rooms”

No Class:

In Class: Personality Styles, Syllabus

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical: Ch 1 -“Why Rhetorical Analysis”, p 4 - 6; - “Ethos from the Message” p 10 - 11; - (Read only) Questions 2 &5, p 19-20

Jan 8,10,12 In Class: Notes

Week Two: M W F

Personal Essay/ Memoir

No Class: MLK Jr Day

Reading Due Becoming Rhetorical, Ch 2 “Exigence” & “The Communicators,” p 6-8 - Ch 3, “Analyzing Textual Rhetoric,” p 50 - 54 BbLearn: The Glass Castle

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical: XXX Brainstorming BbLearn: Rest of Week 2 Reading -New York Times tips In Class: Knowledge, Experience, Themes

Jan 15,17,19

Week Three: M W F

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical, Ch 1 “Appealing to Audience - Logos” p 14, 18 - 21 -Ch 8 “Booming Business of Explanations,” p 186 - 187, 189

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical, Ch 6 -“Identify Stakeholders,” 131 -”Describe the Problem,” p 133 - 135 - Ch 3 “Writing Summaries” p 58 - 59 In Class: Double entry journal method

Jan 22,24,26

Week Four: M W F

In Class: Reading catch-up

NO CLASS - Meet w group

NO CLASS - Research Reading Due: BbLearn, Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow

Jan 29,31, Feb 2

Week Five: M W F

Letter/ Direct Address/ Apologia

Reading Due BbLearn: Excerpt Becoming Rhetorical Ch 4 “4a Thinking Rhetorically” p 69 - 70 -”Formal layer” 74 - 80

Reading Due: BbLearn, Journalism Handbook -Becoming Rhetorical, Ch 6, “How Modalities Interact,” p 101 - 107

Due: Video Presentations in class

Feb 5,7,9

Week Six: M W F

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 1 “Appealing to Audience - Pathos” p 21 -Ch 7, “Arguments as Inquiry” p 147 -Ch 9 “Definitions within Communities” p 206 - 210

Reading Due: BbLearn, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” -BbLearn, “Narrative Empathy”

Reading Due: BbLearn, Citizen

Feb 12,14,16

Week Seven: M W F

No Class - President’s Day

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical, Ch 9 “Arguments about Classification” p 216, 219,

Reading Due BbLearn: Ishmael,pgs 21 - 54

Feb 19,21,23

Reading Due Becoming Rhetorical Ch 4 “Visual Rhetoric,” pgs. 24 - 30

In Class: Small Prompt: Going down the rabbit hole

Week Eight: M W F

Research Paper Library Week

Meet in Library Lobby

Meet in Library Second Floor Classroom

Meet in Library Second Floor Classroom

Feb 26,28, Mar 2

Week Nine: M W F

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 10 “Evaluating” p XX

In Class: Annotated Bibliography Lesson

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 12 “Research” p XX

Mar 5,7,9

Week Ten: M W F

No Class - Spring Break

Mar 12,14,16

Week Eleven: M W F

Conferences

Catch up day

Reading Due: BbLearn pdf, Becoming Rhetorical Ch 7, p 2 (H1) - 6 (not Assignment/ Discussion sections)

Mar 19,21,23

Week Twelve: M W F

Reading Due:BbLearn pdf, Becoming Rhetorical Ch 8 “Explaining” p 3 - 5, 7 - 9

Reading Due:BbLearn pdf, Becoming Rhetorical Ch 9 “Defining” p 1-5,

Reading Due:BbLearn pdf, Becoming Rhetorical Ch 9 “Defining” p 7 (Arguments about…) - 10

Mar 26,28,30

Week Thirteen: M W F

In Class: Source Types Library Follow-up In Class: Using Images

Apr 2,4,6

l l l l Week Fourteen: M W F

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 12, bottom of 6 - top of 7; bottom of 15 to top of 17

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 12, p 9 - 13; bottom of p 18

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 13, p 1 - 3 In Class: Information on Presentations

Apr 9,11,13

Writing Due: 4 double column journal entries (6 total), selected image

Week Fifteen: M W F

Writing Due: Research Paper First Draft (Body only) bring two hard copies

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 13, bottom of 3 - top of 5

Apr 16,18,20

Week Sixteen: M W F

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 13, p 11 - 14

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 13, p 17 - 20

Apr 23,25,27

Reading Due: Becoming Rhetorical Ch 13, p 27 - top of 29; bottom of 29 - 30

Week Seventeen: M W F

Apr 30, May 2,4