Aug 28: In class: Introductions  

Sept 2: NO CLASS

Sept 4: “Welcome to Another Writing Class,” by Rob Drummond / In class: Introduction to thinking and analyzing rhetorically

Sept 9: “More Than One Correct Way” / “The Language in Question” by Benjamin Garcia / In class: language politics and Denice Frohman’s “Accent” 

Sept 11: Rhetoric Matters, “Thinking and Analyzing Rhetorically” / In class: excerpts from Reading Rhetorical Theory by Atilla Hallsby / >>>Scaffolding Assignment #1 due: Literacy Audit

Sept 16: Excerpt from Huckleberry Finn / In class: Agency and Ideology, p. 97 Reading Rhetorical Theory 

Sept 18: Excerpt from “What to the Slave is the 4^th of July” / Excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk / In class: “The Rhetorical Situation” from Reading Rhetorical Theory

Sept 23: “How to Read Like a Writer,” by Mike Bunn

Sept 25: Sula / >>>Scaffolding Assignment #2 due: Literacy Sponsor Assignment

Sept 30: Sula / Introduction to the trickster trope

Oct 2: NO CLASS

Oct 7: Sula / >>>1^st Literacy Narrative Due

Oct 9: Sula / “Toni Morrison’s Sula: Formation of the Self in Terms of Love-Death Relationships with Others and with Oneself,” by Adriana Jiménez Rodríguez 

Oct 14: NO CLASS

Oct 16: Sula / >>>Scaffolding Assignment #3 due: Dialectical Notebook on Sula

Oct 21: Chapter 9: The Research Process (please find the sections for Chapter 9 in the “Contents” pulldown menu).

Oct 23: Poetry is Not a Luxury / “To See Again: Writing Fabulous Features” / In class: Emily Dickinson poem / >>>“Re-visioned” Literacy Narrative Due

Oct 28: Frankenstein / “Seeing (With, Through, and as) Monsters—An Introduction to the Special Issue” by Beyer, Bockwoldt, Hammar and Pötzsch

Oct 30: Frankenstein

Nov 4: Frankenstein / “Don’t Kill Frankenstein’ with Real Frankensteins at Large,” by Maureen Dowd

Nov 6: Frankenstein / >>>Scaffolding Assignment #4 due: Dialectical Notebook on Frankenstein

Nov 11: Great Expectations / “On the Touchy Subject of Class in America,” by Dwight Garner

Nov 13: Great Expectations

Nov 18: Great Expectations / Rhetoric Matters: Multimodal Reading and Visual Rhetoric

Nov 20: Great Expectations

Nov 25: Great Expectations / “The Dickens Universe: Gazing at the Heavens,” by Dominic Rainsford / >>>Scaffolding Assignment #5 due: Dialectical Notebook on Great Expectations

Nov 27: NO CLASS

Dec 2: Excerpt from Moby Dick / “What’s the Deal with Men?” by John Paul Brammer / Phrasebank 

Dec 4: Excerpt from Moby Dick / Rhetoric Matters: Sources and Research 

>>>Final paper due!

Dec 9: Excerpt from Don Quixote

Dec 11: Excerpt from Don Quixote

Dec 18: Movie: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

>>>”Revisioning” of final paper due!