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Agenda, November 13

Due Now: "Politics and the English Language," by George Orwell in The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bibliography.
Due Monday: MLK Synthesis Paper
Due Monday: The Grapes of Wrath, Chapters 1 and 2   

1. To the library!
2. Essay Questions?
3. Fix it
4. The Big Question

Agenda, November 12

Due Wednesday 11/12 (or sooner): Optional Revision of Injustice Narrative. Paper clip your new draft on top of your previous drafts. Highlight the changes to your new draft. Highlight the changes before you come to class. If you choose not to revise your essay, please return it to me to put into your file.  
Due Now: "Politics and the English Language," by George Orwell in The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bibliography.
 Due Monday: MLK Synthesis Paper  
"I Have a Dream"  
"Learning to Read and Write"  
"The End of Men"

1. Bibliography Clarifications and Questions
2. Purpose, Opinion, and Big Question
3. Colon Pre-test
4. Colon Notes
5. Take the student survey!

How to Help Your Guy With a Bibliography Without Committing Plagiarism

When a classmate asks you for help with his or her Bibliography, you should ...

1. never share your Bibliography or Works Cited with a classmate.
2. never give a classmate a complete citation.
3. remind him or her that the Bibliography Notes page exists. This page contains all the advice, models, and source information a person could ask for.
4. give him or her the following information only, in this order: 

• The title of the essay
• The title of the anthology / source
• The author of the essay
• The page numbers of the essay

Remember, if you let a classmate copy your work - either intentionally or inadvertently - you are also guilty of plagiarism. The penalty for both the borrower and the lender is a 0 on the assignment and a referral.

Agenda, November 7

Due Wednesday 11/12 (or sooner): Optional Revision of Injustice Narrative. Paper clip your new draft on top of your previous drafts. Highlight the changes to your new draft. Highlight the changes before you come to class. If you choose not to revise your essay, please return it to me to put into your file.
Due Wednesday: "Politics and the English Language," by George Orwell in The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bibliography.
"I Have a Dream"
"Learning to Read and Write"
"The End of Men"

1. A couple of notes about Synthesis Paragraphs
2. Bibliography notes
3. Work time
4. Take the student survey!

Agenda, November 6

Due Tomorrow: Bring a hard copy of a political ad for a candidate or a ballot measure. The ad could come from the web, from a magazine or newspaper, or from your mailbox.      
Due Wednesday 11/12 (or sooner): Optional Revision of Injustice Narrative. Paper clip your new draft on top of your previous drafts. Highlight the changes to your new draft. Highlight the changes before you come to class. If you choose not to revise your essay, please return it to me to put into your file.

1. Ten minutes of brainstorming
2. Two things you might not know about google
3. Research time

Agenda, November 5

Due Now: "Rhetorical Analysis of Visual Texts" (pages 21-23, including the Activity) AND "Close Reading a Visual Text" (pages 65-68, including the Activity) in The Language of Composition    
Due Now: Bring a hard copy of a political ad for a candidate or a ballot measure. The ad could come from the web, from a magazine or newspaper, or from your mailbox.    
Due Wednesday 11/12 (or sooner): Optional Revision of Injustice Narrative. Paper clip your new draft on top of your previous drafts. Highlight the changes to your new draft. Highlight the changes before you come to class. If you choose not to revise your essay, please return it to me to put into your file.

1. How does this all fit together? What's her purpose? How does the ending fit?
2. How do you analyze visual rhetoric?
3. Let's get political

MLK Synthesis Essay

Due Monday, November 17^th

Task: Considering several of the pieces we have read in this unit, evaluate the progress Americans have made towards realizing the dream expressed in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous speech. Consider not only the lives of African Americans before and after the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, but also the scope of King’s dream: is his dream big enough? Is his dream even worth pursuing? Support your thesis with direct quotations from multiple texts (a minimum of three sources from class, plus one additional source from independent research), properly formatted in MLA style.

Typed. Double Spaced. Twelve point. No blank lines between paragraphs, except to indicate a major shift in tone or setting. Include the appropriate header on every page. Four – seven pages. Don’t forget a title.

Required:

·      Include at least one sentence that employs a colon, used to create a specific effect. Underline your sentence with a colon  .

·      A minimum of two synthesis paragraphs

·      A minimum of three classroom sources

·      A minimum of one additional source from independent research

·      Properly formatted Works Cited Page

Suggested: End with a plan of action for the future. Employ anaphora in your conclusion.

Audience: 1) The editor of a nationally published magazine. 2) The well-educated readers of that magazine. 3) Yourself.

Purpose: 1) To explore contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “Dream.” 2) To evaluate the current state of race and gender relations in America or the world at large. 3) To suggest a plan of action for the future.

How to approach this paper:

·      Develop an opinion on this subject.

·      Gather evidence (from our texts and from research) to support your opinion. This is an argument; therefore, personal experience is valid evidence and first person is an acceptable POV.

·      Create clear, defensible topic sentences.

·      Draft paragraphs with two quotations or examples to support your topic sentences.

·      Draft paragraphs with an eye towards ethos, pathos, and logos.

·      Proofread to ensure your quotations are properly formatted and cited.

·      Create your Works Cited page.

Agenda, Election Day!

Due Now: "The Female Body," by Margaret Atwood. Use whatever notetaking strategy works best for you. Be prepared to write one question per section on the board.  
Due Wednesday: "Rhetorical Analysis of Visual Texts" (pages 21-23, including the Activity) AND "Close Reading a Visual Text" (pages 65-68, including the Activity) in The Language of Composition  
Due Wednesday: Bring a hard copy of a political ad for a candidate or a ballot measure. The ad could come from the web, from a magazine or newspaper, or from your mailbox.  
Due Monday (or sooner): Optional Revision of Injustice Narrative. Paper clip your new draft on top of your previous drafts. Highlight the changes to your new draft. Highlight the changes before you come to class. If you choose not to revise your essay, please return it to me to put into your file.

1. Says/Does/Because
2. Everybody solves Section 6
3. How does it work as a whole?
4. King's Dream Synthesis

Agenda, November 3

Due Now: Optional Revision of Object Essay. 
Due Now: "The Female Body," by Margaret Atwood. Use whatever notetaking strategy works best for you. Be prepared to write one question per section on the board. Due Wednesday: "Rhetorical Analysis of Visual Texts" (pages 21-23, including the Activity) AND "Close Reading a Visual Text" (pages 65-68, including the Activity) in The Language of Composition
Due Wednesday: Bring a hard copy of a political ad for a candidate or a ballot measure. The ad could come from the web, from a magazine or newspaper, or from your mailbox.
Due Monday (or sooner): Optional Revision of Injustice Narrative. Paper clip your new draft on top of your previous drafts. Highlight the changes to your new draft. Highlight the changes before you come to class. If you choose not to revise your essay, please return it to me to put into your file.   

1. MLK's got style
2. You have a dream
3. Questions about "The Female Body"