Tuesday 4

• Reading Assignment: Chapter 3 (23-36)
• Keep Checking for the LRO Password.
• Aims Chapter 3 23-36
• Prepare for Inclass discussion
• LRO Observation in class.
• Get a magazine AD
• 7. Send me an email if you haven't

3 paragraphs in email on:
What grade do you want? 
What do you most want to learn about. 
What are you willing to do for the grade. 

Thursday  6

• Discussion, in class. "In Defense of Capital Punishment."
• Assignement Letter from a Birmingham Jail. (pg. 113-125).
• Handout, Revising Prose, Chapter 1 (Read it)
• In class Observation
• Aims Chapter 4 (37-49)
• Interview Assignment
• Discussion of First Draft. Date Set for First Assignment
• Read NCH chapter one.
• Prepare your observations on the ad into three cohesive, written paragraphs. Bring to class on your disk.
• Prepare for discussion. Prepare to enter into the LRO (Learning record Online)
• Do not Send me via email.

Tuesday 11

• In Class Observation.
• Tues. Sept 11: Read Aims, Ch 4 (pp37-49); Kennedy's essay (286) and Chavez's essay (308) Discussion on immigration will be held in class next time.
• We will also will discuss the first writing assignment "Arguing to Inquire".
• Thurs. Sept 13: Read Aims Ch 4 (57-66). Read Mills' essay (320) and Silko's essay (331). Read NCH, Ch 2-3. Discussion: Immigration.
• Homework Interview. (LRO)
• Rhetoric Homepage
• Re read Michael Levin's "The Case for Torture" and supplimentary material including "A Dangerous Oversimplification" (pg. 41-51).
• http://lro.cwrl.utexas.edu/index.php?fuseaction=login

Thursday 13

• Thurs. Sept 20: Read: NCH, Ch 4,
• Aims Appendix A (pp. 748-766).
• Beginning In-Class writing.
• Discussion of First Essay Topic
• Assignment 3 LRO.
• Look Carefully over paged 17-19 Chapter 2
• Re read Michael Levin's "The Case for Torture" and supplimentary material including "A Dangerous Oversimplification" (pg. 41-51).
• Revising Prose Chapter 2
• (Optional) Watch the Movie the Seige. (Purely Optional)
• Find one piece of source material on Terrorism (Bring in for Tuseday) In LRO Thoughts.

Tuesday 18

• Read NCH, Chapter 13. Documentation 276-310. (MLA)
• Purely Optional Assignment (Watch the Seige)
• Find another piece of Source Material (Focus on another POV).
• Read Email.
• 3 paragraph Observation on Silko pg 331-336.

Thursday 20

• Read NCH, Chapter 5.
• Discussing the Claim
• Handout Revising Prose Chapter 3
• In-class Observation Writing (LRO)
• In Class Observation Read "Poem" Then go to Observation.

Tuesday 25

• In-Class Writing/Pre-writing (Begin to write some of your first draft. Explore the issue)

Do not worry about your Thesis statement yet. Simply explore into the issue using personal observations, feelings, emotions, and evidence from the sources you have already. Talk about what you've read and what you feel. For now, simply write. We will focus it later. You are inquiring into a subject. You are exploring. You don't have to have a Thesis statement yet.

• Turn to Page 330 and view the piece of Visual Rhetoric. Do an LRO Observation on the Photograph.
• Define the picture of the Wall as how it is used in terms of "Visual Rhetoric"
• Re-read 113-124 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" for Homework.

Thursday 27

Handout Revising Prose Chapter 4

• In-class Observation Writing (LRO)
• Continued In-class writing
• Tenative Trek to the Library.

Tuesday October 2

• First Draft Essay 1 due. (Tenative Date. Subject to Change.)
• Discussion of Chapter 6.

Thursday 4

• In-class Part-A2 (LRO)
• Or enter Observation, if you already have
• Optional Homework (Computer Conference) Attend and Write Observation 6 paragraphs on Conference
• Finish paper for Homework bring file in for Peer Critique Sessions
• Guidelines:

The first paper is "Inquiry into Terrorism" You must explore the topic in coherent sentences and paragraphs. My goal is to provide instructor/student conferences so you can learn your strengths and weaknesses and be prepared to improve on them in future essays. You must write this essay confidently. We will have our first peer critique in class to teach you to watch carefully for things in other's work as well as your own. The paper must be written in a twelve-point font and formatted to look like the paper on page 361-368 in your New Century Handbook or pages 270-279 of The Aims of Argument. (Word processed and double-spaced) As part of the early feedback process you are required to meet with me to learn revision guidelines and habits. The paper's minimum length should be four pages. Conferences are mandatory and will count as evidence towards your grade if you do not attend. You must find 4 four outside sources other than Brimelow, Chavez, Silko and Mills amd Michael Levin. (You must have four outside those five).

Tuesday 9

• In Class Peer Critique Session
• Continue to write paper.
• Sign up for Conferences with Teacher.
• email me file or bring file to conference (signup sheet provided at class)

Tuesday 11

• NO class. Mandatory Peer critique sessions. Most of day 10-4 p.m.
• Student/ Teacher/Mentor Conferences
• Completed First (Rough Drafts) must be brought for these conferences

Tuesday 16

• Peer Critique Sessions.

Thursday 18

1. Work on Paper.

Tuesday 23

• Work on Paper.

Thursday 25

First Draft Essay 1 due. (Tenative Date. Subject to Change.)

• Read NCH, Chapter 5
• Aims Chapter 5 pg. 69-106
• Handout Revising Prose Chapter 4
• Part B and Part B2 (LRO)

Tuesday 30

Thursday 1

• In-Class Peer Critique Session of Briefs
• In-Class Observation Writing
• If you haven't read Chapter 5 Make sure you have by Tuesday
• I will try to return your papers Tuesday
• Take briefs and begin to expand them
• IF you haven't read The section on Gay and Lesbian rights make sure you do.

Tuesday 6

In-Class writing

• Homework for Thursday, (Personal Observation on anything you want. A music CD, a movie, a television ad, a book. Whatever, but it is due to be written in class. on Thursday.
• Discussion of project
• The paper topic is "Should Gay and Lesbians have the same rights as heterosexuals" You must explore the topic in coherent sentences and paragraphs. My goal is to provide instructor/student conferences so you can learn your strengths and weaknesses and be prepared to improve on them in future essays. You must write this essay confidently. We will have peer critique sessions in class to teach you to watch carefully for things in other's work as well as your own. The paper must be written in a twelve-point font and formatted to look like the paper on page 361-368 in your New Century Handbook or pages 270-279 of The Aims of Argument. (Word processed and double-spaced)
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• As part of the early feedback process you are required to meet with me to learn revision guidelines and habits. The paper's minimum length should be four pages. This means you must write at least write four. The paper should be longer than four but four is the minimum. In order to write the paper you must read Chapter 13 starting on page 503 and all the essays in Chapter 13. These essays are your source material.

• This paper will be written both in and outside of class.

Thursday 8

• In-class Peer Critique

Tuesday 13

• Critique
• In-class Writing

Thursday 16

• In-Class writing and Critique.

Tuesday 20 Arguing to Convince paper due.

Thursday 22 Discussion of Webprojects (Description to follow)

Tuesday 27 In-class work on webprojects.

Thursday 29 in-class work on Projects

Tuesday 4 Web projects due. In class presentations

Thursday 6 (Last Day of Class, Argument for your grade).