Category: Rhet-Comp 102 / ENG 8A DC

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, February 23rd

Reading Day!! BOOK CLUB target #2 & accompanying notebook page by tomorrow 2/24.

8th Hour only – Quickwrite #20: power dynamics in your BOOK CLUB read. (2nd hour did this last Thursday. . . )

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • PAST DUE – Memory Book Short (2nd submission)
  • Next BOOK CLUB target Thursday 2/24 – read & create Notebook Page #2
  • Memory Book Short (3rd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 3/6

Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, February 22nd

Quickwrite #21: Indie short film “Umbrella” – your thoughts

STUDY:  Thinking about Marx and how economic theory operates, take a closer look with Crash Course Sociology

REVISIT – Quickwrite #21 – Rewatch “Umbrella” & add some thoughts on how class or economics play a role or are part of the theoretical commentary of this piece.

VIDEO EXTRA:  Chrystia Freeland “The Rise of the New Global Super-rich”  TEd talk – note that it’s from 2013 but still relevant in so many ways.

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • PAST DUE – Memory Book Short (2nd submission)
  • Next BOOK CLUB target Thursday 2/24 – read & create Notebook Page #2
  • Memory Book Short (3rd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 3/6

Rhetoric & Comp – Thursday, February 17th

Indie Read w/ padlet update/check-in.

Quickwrite #20: POWER – In your BOOK CLUB read, who holds the power?  Expand & explain.

BOOK CLUB: Target #1 – discuss and share notebook pages & thoughts on today’s quickwrite

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • Memory Book Short (2nd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 2/20
  • Next BOOK CLUB target Thursday 2/24 – read & create Notebook Page #2

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, February 16th

Quickwrite #19: Choose one of the two following quotes.  Then spend 3 minutes in your notebook developing your own thoughts.

“There is no good and evil.  There is only power, and those too weak to seek it.” – Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

“Can’t seem to shake these vultures / off my tail / Power made by power being taken / so I keep on running to protect my situation” – John Mayer “Vultures” from Continuum

STUDY:  Critical Lit Theory – Sociological Lenses of Feminism, Marxism, Post-Colonialism through the video clips below

Reading Time!!

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • Read to target #1 & create a notepage – due for class Thursday 2/17 – TOMORROW!!
  • Memory Book Short (the next one) is due no later than end of day Sunday 2/20

Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, February 15th

Read Aloud – Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Pena & Christian Robinson

STUDY: Intro to Critical Lit. Theory – Sociological Lenses (slides 1-8: find them on GClassroom stream today)

Reading Time!!

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • Read to target #1 & create a notepage – due for class Thursday 2/17
  • Memory Book Short (the next one) is due no later than end of day Sunday 2/20

Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, February 14th

Read Aloud: Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krause Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld

NOTES/WATCH: “The Danger of a Single Story” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Reading Time!!

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • Read to target #1 & create a notepage – due for class Thursday 2/17
  • Memory Book Short (the next one) is due no later than end of day Sunday 2/20

Rhetoric & Comp – Friday, February 11th

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ check-in on padlet (add a new post-it update).

STUDY/WATCH: Intro. to Lit. Criticism/Theory – Methodology

TO DO: Check out the 2 page handout on GClassroom titled “Reading with Critical Theories.”

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • Read to target #1 & create a notepage – due for class Thursday 2/17
  • Memory Book Short (the next one) is due no later than end of day Sunday 2/20