Schedule

WEEK 1

8/27 T: CLASS CANCELLED
HW: Set up gmail / accept Blog invite & post your blog.
8/29 Th: CLASS CANCELLED

WEEK 2

9/3 T: Class officially begins; syllabus; definitions: composition & rhetoric

9/5 Th: Rhetorical Triangle: Exercises / Grammar Quiz
WEEK 3

9/10 T: Advertisements - Rhetorical Analysis

9/12 Th: Speech - Rhetorical Analysis; Discuss Presentation (5%) / Grammar Quiz
HW: Work on presentation

WEEK 4

9/17 T: Presentations

9/ 19 Th: Presentation (cont.)

WEEK 5

9/24 T: Finish Presentations / Discuss Response  / Begin Short Film SOFT

9/26 Th: Discussion - Film / Grammar Quiz #3
HW: Practice Response

WEEK 6

10/1 T: Begin Long Film

10/3 Th: Film Discussion / Prompt (Film Response 15%) / Discuss Workshops
HW: Film Response Draft

WEEK 7

10/8 T: Grammar Quiz #4 / Draft Workshop

10/10 Th: Draft Workshop
HW: Film Response due on Tuesday

WEEK 8

10/15 T: Poem - Read & Discuss

10/17 Th: Poem - Group Analysis

WEEK 9

10/22 T: Continue Group Analysis / Discuss Prompt

HW: Thesis statement

10/24 Th: Thesis Statement Workshop
HW:

WEEK 10

10/29 T: Present Extra Credit / Discuss in-text citations / Grammar Quiz #5 / Draft Workshop

10/31 Th: Draft Workshop
HW: Work on Lit Review Essay & bring to class one article that focuses on the social, political, environmental, or cultural.

WEEK 11

11/5 T:  - Grammar Quiz #6 / Discuss articles & Letter for Change/Open Letter
HW: Draft Letter for Change


11/7 Th: Lit Review Due Today; Letter Workshop
HW: Draft letter; Read "Topics to Questions" and post you topic + questions on the blog.

WEEK 12

11/12 T: Letter Due Today; Meet in Hamilton Library, room 156A for Library Workshop
HW: Read "From Questions to Problems"

11/14 Th: 11/14 Th: Discuss Argumentative Paper -  Research Worksheet.


WEEK 13

11/19 T: Library Workshop, Meet in Hamilton 156A (Formulating a Research Question)
HW: Read "Making Claims"/ Post thesis statement on blog by Tuesday at Midnight. Comment on at least TWO of your peers' thesis statements by Wednesday at 5pm.

11/21 Th: Thesis presentations

WEEK 14

11/26 T: Thesis presentations cont. / Outlines

11/28 Th:  NO CLASS

WEEK 15

12/3 T: Cover Letter/Resume

12/5 Th: Draft Workshop

WEEK 16

12/10 T: Draft Workshop

12/12 Th: Draft Workshop / Cover Letter/Resume Due. Research Paper due on Exam Day