This will be the format for your weekly schedule all year long. Checking the blog is your responsibility; you don't have an excuse if you lose a handout, if you aren't in class, or if you don't remember what I assigned for homework.
Monday: 8/23
IC (In Class): Introductions, go over syllabus and expectations, explain blog.
HW (Homework): Review the class syllabus and read and sign the Academic Integrity Contract.
Handouts:
Course Syllabus
Tuesday: 8/24
IC (In Class): Hand in your signed Academic Integrity Contract. Introduction to rhetoric: definitions, history, the rhetorical situation. Activity: analyze college solicitation letters to determine persona. Discussion of the three elements of persona. (PIGSAC)
Handouts:
Introduction to Rhetoric Activity
Rhetoric: Definitions and Early History
The Rhetorical Situation
Wednesday: 8/25 - Happy Birthday Cameron!
IC (In Class): Introduction to Verb List for analyzing author's purpose. Review of the rhetorical situation. Activity: introduction to PIGSAC approach to rhetorical analysis. Crafting a synthesis sentence - demonstration. Rhetorical analysis of visual text.
HW (Homework): Write a synthesis sentence based on your rhetorical analysis of the American Red Cross Poster from 2004.
Handouts:
American Red Cross Poster, 2004 - Paper handout will be distributed in class.
Verbs to Use in Analyzing Aim/Purpose/Intention
Excerpt from Congressional Record, Address by Senator Ellison D. Smith, South Carolina, April 9, 1924
Thursday: 8/26
IC (In Class): Hand in your original synthesis sentence. Introduction and exploration of the Five Canons of Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Analysis Framework.
HW (Homework): Read Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.
Handouts:
Five Canons of Rhetoric
Rhetorical Analysis Framework - Paper handout will be distributed in class.
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address - Paper handout will be distributed in class.
Friday: 8/27
IC (In Class): In class essay: rhetorical analysis of President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Due at the end of class.
HW (Homework): Read "On Natural Death" by Lewis Thomas.
Handouts:
"On Natural Death" - Lewis Thomas (Paper handout will be distributed in class.)
