Agenda, January 15

Due Now: Excerpt from "The Communist Manifesto" (bibliographical info coming soon).     
Due Tomorrow: Practice Multiple Choice Assignment (see post)

1. Readers of the World, Unite!
2. Rhetorical Strategies Search and Destroy
3. Talk like a TEP
   

Agenda, January 14

Due Now: "In the Strawberry Fields," by Eric Schlosser (from The Language of Composition)             
Due Now: Excerpt from "The Communist Manifesto" (bibliographical info coming soon).   
Due Thursday: Practice Multiple Choice Assignment (see post)

1. Ten minutes of reflective writing: What is Schlosser's purpose? How do you know? and How does this text speak to other texts we've read? Think all the way back to Grapes of Wrath.
2. A class full of "Strawberries"
3. Readers of the world, unite!
   

Multiple Choice Practice Assignment

1. Answer as many questions as you can in 12 minutes in class.
2. On your own, continue to answer the questions without assistance.
3. When you have finished, underline all the words that caused you difficulties. 
4. Look up these words. Write down their definitions in language you understand. You may type this or handwrite this.
5. For each question, complete the sentence "I am asked to ..."
6. With your new understanding, review your answers and make any changes necessary. Be sure to note your original answers.
7. You may work with friends, partners, siblings, plants, or pets on steps 3-6.
8. Come to class prepared to discuss your definitions, your answers, and your work on Thursday.

Agenda, January 13

Due Now: "In the Strawberry Fields," by Eric Schlosser (from The Language of Composition)        
Due Now: Vocab Styx. Make sure the sentence you post is punctuated correctly.       
Due Now: Revised Help Narrative. Highlight your changes. Clip new copy on top of old.        
Due Now: Excerpt from "The Communist Manifesto" (bibliographical info coming soon). 
Due Thursday: Practice Multiple Choice Assignment (see post)

1. Multiple Choice Practice
2. Vocab Review
3. Question 12
4. A class full of "Strawberries"
5. Readers of the world, unite!
   

Agenda, January 10

Due Now: "In the Strawberry Fields," by Eric Schlosser (from The Language of Composition)      
Due Monday: Vocab Styx. Make sure the sentence you post is punctuated correctly.     
Due Monday: Revised Help Narrative. Highlight your changes. Clip new copy on top of old.      
Due Monday: Excerpt from "The Communist Manifesto" (bibliographical info coming soon).

1. What do you know about Communism?
2. Argument o' the Week
3. Small bites of "Strawberries"
   

Agenda, January 9

Due Now: "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift (from The Language of Composition)     
Due Now: "In the Strawberry Fields," by Eric Schlosser (from The Language of Composition)    
Due Monday: Vocab Styx    
Due Monday: Revised Help Narrative. Highlight your changes. Clip new copy on top of old.    
Due Monday: Excerpt from "The Communist Manifesto" (bibliographical info coming soon).

1. Persona in Swift
2. Logos in Swift
3. Whole class on Swift
4. "Strawberries" in small bites
   

Agenda, January 8

Due Now: "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift (from The Language of Composition)   
Due Thursday, January 9: "In the Strawberry Fields," by Eric Schlosser (from The Language of Composition)  
Due Monday: Vocab Styx  
Due Monday: Revised Help Narrative. Highlight your changes. Clip new copy on top of old.  
Due Monday: Excerpt from "The Communist Manifesto" (bibliographical info coming soon).

1. How do you know it's a satire?
2. Pride goes before a fall
3. Write Long Sentences
4. Swift in Small Bites
   

Agenda, January 7

Due Now: "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift (from The Language of Composition)  
Due Now: Editorial Review #5  
Due Thursday, January 9: "In the Strawberry Fields," by Eric Schlosser (from The Language of Composition)
Due Monday: Vocab Styx
Due Monday: Revised Help Narrative. Highlight your changes. Clip new copy on top of old.
Due Monday: Excerpt from "The Communist Manifesto" (bibliographical info coming soon).

1. A Swift Response
2. Write Short Sentences
3. Write Long Sentences
4. Swift in Small Bites
   

For Your Bibliography

General Format for a song:

Artist (Last name first). “Song Title.” CD/Album Title. Record Label. Year. Type of Media.

A Christmas Carol. Tom Lehrer. An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer. Reprise/Warner Brothers Records. 1959. mp3.

Silent Night / 7 O’Clock News. Simon and Garfunkel. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme. Columbia Records. 1966. mp3.

Vocab Styx

Overkill

Words for Going too Far

Due Monday, January 13

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each word. Post one sentence as a comment below.

Required: The sentence you post must include a correctly punctuated colon.

Extra Credit (in the form of my eternal admiration): Post a sentence that includes an allusion to Greek mythology OR the 70s/80s era band Styx.

1.     ebullience

2.     effusive

3.     egregiously

4.     flagrant

5.     frenetic

6.     gratuitous

7.     superfluous