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5/15/18 – Class potluck. Please bring food to share if you are able! Essay re-writes due.

5/10/18 – Essay 3 Final Draft due. Post to D2L and to your blog. Final presentations due.

5/3/18 – Essay 3 Draft 2 is due (5-6 pages). Post to your blog and bring 2 printed copies to class.

4/26/18 – Essay 3 Draft 1 is due (3-4 pages) posted to your blog; bring one printed copy to conference. Class cancelled for one-on-one conferences.

4/24/18 – Post an annotated bibliography with at least 2 sources for Essay 3 to your blog.

4/19/18 – Post your work/research for the class debate to your blog.

4/10/18 – Final draft of Essay 2 due by class time (printed and posted to your blog).

4/5/18 – Second draft of Essay 2 due by class-time (printed and posted to your blog).

3/29/18 – First draft of Essay 2 due by class-time (printed and posted to your blog).

3/27/18 – Choose what you are going to analyze for Essay 2/Essay Contest. I encourage you to begin writing your essay.

3/22/18 – Post 5 ideas for what you might like to analyze for Essay 2/Essay Contest to your blog.

3/8/18 – Read “Hidden Persuasion: Unconscious Branding Actually Works” and answer the following questions on your blog: Which brands (if any) are you loyal to and why or why not? What influences whether you purchase brand or off-brand products or which brand you choose to buy? Do you mostly ignore or pay attention to ads? Which ads do you find persuasive (if any)? Have you or someone you know ever been scammed? If so, what tactics did they use to scam you that were persuasive and/or unethical?

3/6/18 – 1. Read the following: Visual Rhetoric.

2. Analyze (one paragraph) a piece of visual rhetoric (for example, a piece of art, a photograph, an advertisement, or a political cartoon). Post your analysis to your blog.

3/1/18 – Read and respond on your blog to the following (similar to how we responded to John Berger’s Ways of Seeing in class: What is Caruso’s authority/how is it established? What is Caruso’s argument/what are her claims? What is her evidence? Do you agree or disagree; why or why not?): The Difference Between Poetry and Rhetoric.

2/27/18 – No homework and no class Thursday (for Rodeo Break). Have a great long weekend!

2/20/18 – Post your final draft of Essay 1 to your blog and to D2L. In D2L, once on our class page, click on “Content” on the sidebar to the left. Then, click on Assignments/Homework/Readings, and you will find it at the bottom of that page. It is also available under “Essays”: “Essay 1 Final Draft.”

2/13/18 – Post your second draft of Essay 1 (3-4 pages) to your blog and bring 2-3 printed copies to class (the third copy is if you’d like more feedback from me; the other 2 are for our Peer Review activity which we will do in class on Tuesday).

2/1/18 – Post your first draft of Essay 1 (1-2 pages) to your blog and bring 2 printed copies of your draft to class.

1/30/18 – Choose an essay to read and respond to (in the ways we discussed in class: Reading Like a Writer #1-4) from the following list: http://rafalreyzer.com/40-best-essays-of-all-time/.

1/25/18 –

1. Read and respond to “A Homemade Education” by Malcolm X and “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie (pay attention to how they build an argument using personal narratives).

2. Pick one of the following:

• Rewrite the story you told for homework due 1/23
• Rewrite the story you told to your partner in class today
• OR
• Write a story that you may want to use for Essay 1

1/23/18 – 1. Read the following excerpt from James Bonnet’s book Stealing Fire from the Gods: A Dynamic New Story Model for Writers and Filmmakers and post a blog response (you can respond using one or several of the ways to “Read Like a Writer” we discussed in class—write about your experience of it, analyze the text, write about how the author wrote the piece/their technique or style, and/or critique it): Stealing Fire From the Gods – James Bonnet 2. Write your experience from Thursday’s in-class writing/imitation of Lorde’s essay into a story and post to your blog.

1/18/18 – 1. Read Audre Lorde’s “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” 2. Answer questions in the following document: What Is Writing? Post your answers to your blog.