English 11.67
Calendar

Date
Class Activities
Assignments Due
T, 8-24
course intro: theme, course guidelines
writing exercise: response to film clips
Th, 8-26
writing exercise: analyze pathos in music
website; rhetoric; in-class writing
T, 8-31
writing exercise: create tale that matches music
assign groups; C.O.P.; Blackboard;
peer review session
Fdr 1A:
1st draft
(3 printed copies)
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
writing exercise: concision;
group exercises
: pathos in
Synge's Riders to the Sea
Th, 9-9
writing exercise: pathos (Riders to the Sea)
peer review session (in-class)
Fdr 1B: 1st draft (3 printed copies & saved on disk)
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.
bring: 1) Hand-book to English 10-12;
2) proof of
tutorial completion;
3) St. Martin's Handbook
T, 9-21
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)
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
peer review session
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
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
(syntax & sentence structure;
identifying audience & discourse communities;
rubrics for oral presentations

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

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

 


Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu