Unit 3 Drafted: The Strategies Paper

 

Monday, Oct. 19^th

 

-Call Roll

-Daily Class Overview

-Power Point on Rhetorical Strategies from Amanda on SDSU Wiki (Located under Unit 3) Perhaps stop at Film analysis part.

-Hand out Rhetorical Strategies terms for students to keep

-Show Emma Watson’s HeForShe speech at the UN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjW9PZBRfk

-Discuss her strategies as a class

 

Wednesday, Oct. 21^st

 

-Call Roll

-Daily Class Overview

-Show Leonardo DiCaprio UN Speech, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyLSr_VCcg persuasive ads, etc.

-Group Work: Read short text Parry’s “The Art of Branding”

-Discuss strategies at play: Apply PACES

 

HW: Re-read Ch. 7 in Essentials of Argument. Ask students to pay special attention to fallacies portion.

 

Friday, Oct. 23^rd

 

-Call Roll

-Daily Class Overview

-Review Chapter and fallacies with Fallacy Handout adapted from Hari (Lead in with ethical and persuasive graph, also adapted from Hari)

-Fallacies videos: https://lizboltzranfeld.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/great-videos-for-teaching-logical-fallacies/

-Group Work: Do Fallacy Worksheet (Second page of handout) *You have the suggested answers on a separate sheet

-Discuss answers as a class

 

HW: Read Essay from Essentials of Argument on pg. 164, “The Latest From The Feminist ‘Front’” by Rush Limbaugh

 

Monday, Oct. 26^th

 

-Call Roll

-Show video: another persuasive ad or speech (potentially with fallacies)

-Discuss strategies or fallacies at play

-Group Work: Identify strategies or fallacies in Limbaugh’s essay. Consider the effect on the intended audience, unintended audience

 

HW: Read Nicholas Carr “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

 

Wednesday, Oct. 28^th

 

-Call Roll

-Daily Class Overview

-Introduce Carr: Show blog page, Wikipedia page, and Video Interview (located on the Wiki under Unit 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tqRMbg7MPc

-Class Discussion: General reactions to text? Do you agree or disagree? Why? Who you think his audience is? Where is it published? When was it published? Rhetorical situation of the text? In comparison to boyd and Thompson?

-Group Work: Charting his text (if there is time)

 

HW: Re-read Carr. Ask students to pay special attention to strategies at play

 

Friday, Oct. 30^th

 

-Call Roll

-Daily Class Overview

-Group Work: Apply PACES, take extra time on strategies

-Evaluate overall effectiveness of article, of strategies?

-Review Prompt and Rubric (Rough Draft due next Friday for Peer Review #3)

 

Monday Nov. 2^nd

 

TBD: Drafting and/or Conferencing

 

Wednesday Nov. 4^th

 

TBD: Drafting and/or Conferencing

 

HW:

1. Work on Rough Draft

2. Print out Peer Review Sheet

 

Friday Nov. 6^th

 

-Call Roll

-Daily Class Overview

-Peer Review Workshop #3

-Create Revision Plan

 

HW:

1. Work on Revision Draft

2. Bring Revision Plan to class

3. Bring Hard Copy of Revision for Revision Workshop #3

 

Monday, Nov. 9^th

 

-Call Roll

-Daily Class Overview

-Revision Workshop #3

 

HW:

1. Turn in final draft on Turnitin by Friday at 11:59pm.

 

Wednesday, Nov. 11^th

 

NO CLASS—VETERAN’S DAY

 

Friday, Nov. 13^th

 

FINAL DRAFT DUE ON TURNITIN BY 11:59PM