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English
11.67
Calendar
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Date
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Class
Activities
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Assignments
Due
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T,
8-24
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course
intro: theme, course guidelines
writing exercise: response to film clips |
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Th,
8-26
|
writing
exercise: analyze pathos in music
website; rhetoric; in-class writing |
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T,
8-31
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writing
exercise: create tale that matches music
assign groups; C.O.P.; Blackboard; peer review session |
Fdr
1A:
1st draft (3 printed copies) |
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Th,
9-2
|
writing
exercise: poem
analysis; go over Fdr 1B;
group writing exercise: literature analysis; read John M. Synge's short Riders to the Sea |
Fdr
1A:
final copy |
|
T,
9-7
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Th,
9-9
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writing
exercise: pathos (Riders to the Sea)
peer review session (in-class) |
Fdr
1B: 1st draft (3 printed copies & saved on disk)
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T,
9-14
|
writing
exercise: Man of Aran (pathos in image);
group writing exercises: Man of Aran (pathos in word & music); complete information ethics tutorial for Thurs. |
Fdr
1B:
final copy |
|
Th,
9-16
|
writing
exercise: Man of Aran (scene analysis);
proper citation & plagiarism exercises; group writing exercises: proper citation, etc. |
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T,
9-21
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conferences
w/ Mr. M throughout late morning & early afternoon; peer
review session (class hrs, electronic out-of-class)
|
Unit
1 Project:
1st draft |
|
Th,
9-23
|
writing
exercise: concision; intro Unit 2 & Feeder 2A; group
writing exercise: outlining & organization; discussion
of student writing trends (if time)
|
Unit
1 Project:
final copy |
|
T,
9-28
|
writing
exercise: organization (paper-level);
discussion of student writing trends group writing exercise: culling high points from longer texts/sources (excerpt from Out of Ireland) |
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|
Th,
9-30
|
meet
in library for intruction session concerning electronic searches and
accessing library stacks (useful for Feeders 2A & 2B)
|
meet
in the Undergraduate Library,
room 124 |
|
T,
10-5
|
Feeder
2A:
1st draft |
|
|
Th,
10-7
|
writing exercise 1: dissecting editorials; writing exercise 2: effective organization |
Feeder
2A:
final copy |
|
T,
10-12
|
writing
exercise: effective introductions;
detail Feeder 2B guidelines; class exercises: matching current editorials w/ relevant, Feeder 2A summaries |
|
|
Th,
10-14
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FALL
BREAK
|
|
|
T,
10-19
|
assess
one another's peer editing;
writing exercise: tone (balancing pathos w/ logos); peer review session in class |
Feeder
2B:
1st draft |
Th,
10-21
|
writing
exercise: organization (topic sentences & paragraph structure; St.
Martin's 5c);
Toulmin's model (St. Martin's 11F); Unit 2 project and sample argument |
Feeder
2B:
final copy (due); bring St. Martin's Handbook |
|
T,
10-26
|
group
exercise: outlining & organization |
|
| Th, 10-28 |
presentation
rehearsal--videotaping
|
Unit
2 Project:
practice |
|
T,
11-2
|
presentations
delivered
|
Unit
2 Project:
oral presentations |
|
Th,
11-4
|
presentations
completed; writing exercise: image analysis; intro to Unit
3 foci (active voice, ethos & American cultural shapings of Irish
identity); assign image finding assignment
|
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T,
11-9
|
writing
exercise: discipline-specific description; ethos; go over Fdr
3A; practice analysis of image
|
send 3 images of Irish to Mr. M prior to class
|
|
Th,
11-11
|
mini-lecture
on active voice; writing
exercise:
active vs. passive voice; peer review
workshop
|
bring St.
Martin's Handbook; Feeder 3A:
1st draft |
|
T,
11-16
|
writing
exercise: image
analysis;
explain guidelines for linked assignments feeder 3B & Unit Project 3 |
Feeder
3A:
final copy |
Th,
11-18
|
writing
exercise: image analysis & active voice; students
review comments on all their work to date;
group exercise: outlining exercise |
|
T,
11-23
|
group
exercise: continued
writing exercise: concision & active voice ; class discussion of student projects; sign up for office visits |
|
Th,
11-25
|
Thanksgiving
|
no
class
|
T,
11-30
|
writing
exercise: paragraph organization 7 concision; class
discussion of student outlines; complete
review of class
ongoing office visits (Mon thru Thurs) |
Feeder
3B:
1st & only draft |
|
Th,
12-2
|
peer
review session outside of class (comments due by midnight); final
copy of
paper due Mon, Dec. 6
|
Unit
3 Project:
1st draft |
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Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu