Schedule of Workthis is merely an outline and is subject to change as the course progresses.

Week 1 1/17 & 1/19 In-class Goals/Concepts

*Introductions *Icebreakers *Understanding goals for course *Setting up Weebly pages/blogs *Defining argument * Rhetorical appeals *Pillars of argument *Active reading *Rhetorical Analysis *The Rhetorical Situation *Start food unit with readings (each group choose reading & bring it in on Thursday with close-reading notes) *How much do you know about what you eat? *Short rhetorical analysis due 1/31 *Share rhetorical analyses *Logical Fallacies *Deductive Reasoning *Rogerian vs. Toulmin *Topic generation *Taking a stand *Strong thesis *Structure * Using evidence * Plagiarism *Assign argument type to each group for mini-lessons *Class-time for working *Watch Food Inc. *Discuss Food Inc. *Practice annotating a film as a source * Group lessons on Definition, Causal, Evaluation, Analogy, & Ethical arguments *Choose the type of food argument you will make *brainstorm ideas in class, start drafting *Food paper drafts due this week *Share drafts of food paper in sharing workshop * Discuss finding & annotating sources for food papers * Thurs.: peer review *Group feedback workshop on papers share & reflect *Turn in drafts up to this point on 3/1 *Reflect on course goals at mid-term *Before leaving for Spring Break, you should know what problem your group is proposing a solution for (local, campus issue) and begin researching

Readings for this week

(should be read before class listed)* Goals for course (handout) PA Introduction & Chapter 1 (only pp. 3-19) PA Chapter 2 Thinking & Reading Critically & Chapter 4 Writing a Rhetorical Analysis + reading from food list for rhetorical analysis PA Chapter 5 (to p. 124) & Chapter 6 (pp. 145-156)

2 1/24 1/26

3 1/31 2/2

4 2/7 2/9 5 2/14 2/16

Chapters 12-17 (excluding 15), depending on your group Chapter 7 Planning, Drafting, & Revising an Argumentative Essay (up to p. 211)

6 2/21 2/23

PA Chapter 11 Plagiarism & Chapter 9 Summarizing, Paraphrasing

7 2/28 3/1 8 3/6 3/8

Chapter 15: Proposal Arguments Chapter 10: Documenting Sources in MLA & Appendix B Documenting Sources in APA

3/12 3/14 9 3/20 3/22

Spring
*Plan for proposal arguments to be
discussed with the classgroup workshop *Annotations of sources should be available to discuss/share *Begin working on visual argument to accompany proposals * Share group proposal & visual arguments *Discuss multimodality *Discuss sample multigenre projects

Break
Chapter 3: Decoding Visual Arguments

10 3/27 3/29

Multimodality by Jewitt (article will be provided) & sample multigenre projects

11 4/3 4/5 12 4/10 4/12 13 4/ 17 4/19 14 4/24 4/26 16 5/1- 5/5

*Title match activity. *Share ideas for final argumentative MGRP *Making unique claims in each genre *Focus on research * Endnotes and attributing sources in multigenre projects *Continue sharing/working on multigenre projects *Work on portfolio *Workshop reflective narratives *Share multigenre pages with the class and seek final peer feedback

Sources for your final argumentative project Peer group members multigenre drafts Peer group members reflective narrative drafts

*Share final version of multigenre arguments *Final portfolio due 4/26

Finals week is Tuesday- Saturday, May 1-5.

* PA refers to our text Practical Argument.