Agenda, September 10

Due Dates:

• Now: A personal narrative about an experience in nature or an experience in the city (in MLA format)
• Now: "How To Read Essays You Must Analyze." 
• Now: "Why Don't We Complain?" by William F. Buckley, Jr. (Handout). Apply the strategies in "
  How To Read Essays You Must Analyze" to "Why Don't We Complain?"
• Now: Bring both your argument and your narrative.
• Now: "Budget Mix-Up .." (Handout). Practice your "How to Read" skills
• Tomorrow: Rhetorical Devices Quiz
• Monday: "Education," by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in The Language of Composition 

Agenda

1. To the Library
2. Hyperbole, Understatement, Litotes 
3. What is a reversal?
4. Narrative Peer Review
5. Narrative Revision Task
6. A "Mixed-up" discussion
7. Last minute questions about rhetorical strategies