Week of 12/21-12/23

Monday: Final Stiff discussion. Rhetorical role sheets due.
Tuesday: Intro to Process Analysis. "On Keeping a Notebook." Instruction activity.
Wednesday: "Girl." "Twas the Night before an AP student's Christmas."

Have a great holiday break!

Read Catcher in the Rye! Post a blog response on the ning: Is Catcher in the Rye worth all the fuss? That is, is it the classic many claim it to be? Why or why not? Due by midnight January 3.

"Girl" emulation due Tuesday, January 5.

Week of 12/14-12/18

Monday: Discussion of chapters 4-8 in Stiff
Tuesday: Intro to Classification; "The Ways We Lie"
Wednesday: Discuss "The Ways We Lie"
Thursday: Discuss "Mother Tongue"; Intro to Comparison/Contrast. Homework: Read "Lost in the Kitchen" and "Me Talk Pretty One Day" (change in schedule)
Friday: Discuss and compare/contrast essays

For Monday: Read chapters 9-12 in Stiff. Complete all rhetorical role sheets.

Week of 12/7-12/11

Monday: Discussion of Intro and chapters 1-3 in Stiff
Tuesday: Intro to rhetorical mode: Examples; "On Compassion"
Wednesday: "The Declaration of Independence"
Thursday: "Aren't I a Woman?"
Friday: Intro to rhetorical mode: Classification; "The Ways We Lie"

Due Friday: Final draft of description paper

For Monday: Read chapters 4-8 in Stiff and complete rhetorical roundtable roles

Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 4

Follow your calendar!

Monday: Intro to Stiff and rhetorical roundtable roles. Identify essay choice and rationale for reading it.

Tuesday: Read Intro to Description and "Jacket"

Wedenesday: Discuss "Jacket" and "Listening"

Thursday: Discuss "Death of the Moth"

Friday: Discuss "Death of a Moth" and "How I Wrote the Moth Essay and Why"

Read Intro and chapters 1-3 of Stiff for Monday, Dec. 7.