Agenda, December 15

• Due Now: "In Praise of Chain Stores," by Virginia Postrel, from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bibliography. 
• Due Now: Revision of your essay about a time when you didn't have enough money. Cut at least 50 words from your original draft. New word count: 700-800 words. MLA format. Staple your new draft on top of your previous draft. Put your word count under the date in your header.
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question. 

  Today's Agenda

1. Structural Rhetorical Analysis
2. Argument o' the Week
3. "A Christmas Carol," by Tom Lehrer. Add it to your Bib!

Agenda, December 14

• Due Now: "In Praise of Chain Stores," by Virginia Postrel, from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bibliography. 
• Due Friday: Revision of your essay about a time when you didn't have enough money. Cut at least 50 words from your original draft. New word count: 700-800 words. You may need to add content and then cut back down. The goal is economy of language. MLA format. Staple your new draft on top of your previous draft. Put your word count under the date in your header.
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question. 

  Today's Agenda

1. "In Praise of ...," open discussion
2. "... Chain Stores," small groups
3. Structural Rhetorical Analysis

Agenda, December 13

• Due Now: Write about a time when you didn't have enough money. This could be about something large or small, essential or trivial. 750-850 words. MLA format. This is a public document. Put your word count under the date in your header.
• Due Thursday: "In Praise of Chain Stores," by Virginia Postrel, from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bibliography. 
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question. 

  Today's Agenda

1. Peer Review, Part 1
2. Cutting Words, Part 1
3. Peer Review and Cutting Words, Part 2

Agenda, December 12

• Due Wednesday: Write about a time when you didn't have enough money. This could be about something large or small, essential or trivial. 750-850 words. MLA format. This is a public document. Put your word count under the date in your header.
• Due Thursday: "In Praise of Chain Stores," by Virginia Postrel, from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bibliography. 
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question. 

  Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. Captialists of the World, form small groups
3. Two difficult sentences
4. Dialectical journals
5. Whole class discussion

Agenda, December 11

• Due Now: Make three improvements on your synthesis paper. Highlight changes on your new draft. Paper clip the new draft on top of the old draft. If you didn't turn in a synthesis paper last tri., anything you give me will be an improvement.
• Due Now: Completed Bibliography. Remind yourself How to Help Your Friend Without Committing Plagiarism. Almost anything you need to know can be found on the Bibliography Notes 2017 page.
• Due Wednesday: Write about a time when you didn't have enough money. This could be about something large or small, essential or trivial. 750-850 words. MLA format. This is a public document. Put your word count under the date in your header.
• Due Thursday: "In Praise of Chain Stores," by Virginia Postrel, from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bibliography. 
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question. 

  Today's Agenda

1. What and Why
2. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
3. Timed Write Feedback
4. Capitalists of the World, Unite!
5. Captialists of the World, form small groups

Agenda, December 8

• Due Monday, December 11: Make three improvements on your synthesis paper. Highlight changes on your new draft. Paper clip the new draft on top of the old draft. If you didn't turn in a synthesis paper last tri., anything you give me will be an improvement.
• Due Monday, December 11: Completed Bibliography. Remind yourself How to Help Your Friend Without Committing Plagiarism. Almost anything you need to know can be found on the Bibliography Notes 2017 page.
• Due Wednesday, December 13: Write about a time when you didn't have enough money. This could be about something large or small, essential or trivial. 750-850 words. MLA format. This is a public document. Put your word count under the date in your header.
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question.
• Do Friday, or Saturday: Go see The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge! 

  Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. Argument o' the Week
3. Capitalists of the World, Unite!

An agenda that will live in infamy ...

• Due Monday, December 11: Make three improvements on your synthesis paper. Highlight changes on your new draft. Paper clip the new draft on top of the old draft. If you didn't turn in a synthesis paper last tri., anything you give me will be an improvement.
• Due Monday, December 11: Completed Bibliography. Remind yourself How to Help Your Friend Without Committing Plagiarism. Almost anything you need to know can be found on the Bibliography Notes 2017 page.
• Due Wednesday, December 13: Write about a time when you didn't have enough money. This could be about something large or small, essential or trivial. 750-850 words. MLA format. This is a public document. Put your word count under the date in your header.
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question.
• Do Thursday, Friday, or Saturday: Go see The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge! 

  Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bibliography for Monday.
3. Dialectical Journals
4. Capitalists of the World, Unite!

Agenda, December 6

• Due Monday, December 11: Make three improvements on your synthesis paper. Highlight changes on your new draft. Paper clip the new draft on top of the old draft. If you didn't turn in a synthesis paper last tri., anything you give me will be an improvement.
• Due Monday, December 11: Completed Bibliography. Remind yourself How to Help Your Friend Without Committing Plagiarism. Almost anything you need to know can be found on the Bibliography Notes 2017 page.
• Due Wednesday, December 13: Write about a time when you didn't have enough money. This could be about something large or small, essential or trivial. 750-850 words. MLA format. This is a public document. Put your word count under the date in your header.
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question.
• Do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday: Go see The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge! 

  Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bibliography for Monday.
3. Dialectical Journals

Agenda, December 5

• Due Monday, December 11: Make three improvements on your synthesis paper. Highlight changes on your new draft. Paper clip the new draft on top of the old draft. If you didn't turn in a synthesis paper last tri., anything you give me will be an improvement.
• Due Monday, December 11: Completed Bibliography. Remind yourself How to Help Your Friend Without Committing Plagiarism. Almost anything you need to know can be found on the Bibliography Notes 2017 page.
• Due Wednesday, December 13: Write about a time when you didn't have enough money. This could be about something large or small, essential or trivial. 750-850 words. MLA format. This is a public document. 
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question.
• Do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday: Go see The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge! 

  Today's Agenda

1. Money Brainstorm
2. Multiple Choice Magic
3. "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bibliography for Monday.

Agenda, December 4

• Due Now: Bring your Grapes of Wrath to class. 
• Due Monday, December 11: Make three improvements on your synthesis paper. Highlight changes on your new draft. Paper clip the new draft on top of the old draft. If you didn't turn in a synthesis paper last tri., anything you give me will be an improvement.
• Due Monday, December 11: Completed Bibliography. Remind yourself How to Help Your Friend Without Committing Plagiarism. Almost anything you need to know can be found on the Bibliography Notes 2017 page.
• Due Wednesday, December 13: Write about a time when you didn't have enough money. This could be about something large or small, essential or trivial. 750-850 words. MLA format. This is a public document. 
• Due The Day After Winter Break: 10 entries in your curiosity journal. Each entry should include a question, an occasion (what sparked the question), and the beginnings of an answer. Sometimes the occasion will precede the question.

  Today's Agenda

1. The Return of the Synthesis
2. "Become a Mad Scientist" / Peel your Grapes
3. Bibliography Correction / Work Time