Monday December 15: More practice identifying rhetorical modes. HOMEWORK: Continue reviewing; use the Semester 1 final exam study guide.
Tuesday December 16: Logical fallacies review. HOMEWORK: Continue reviewing; use the Semester 1 final exam study guide.
Wednesday December 17: Vocabulary review. HOMEWORK: Continue reviewing; use the Semester 1 final exam study guide.
Thursday December 18: HALF DAY. EXAMS FOR PERIODS 1, 2, AND 3. HOMEWORK: Review for the exam.
Friday December 19 HALF DAY. EXAMS FOR PERIODS 4, 5, AND 6. HOMEWORK: Enjoy your Winter Break!
Monday, December 8: Billy Graham's Remarks on 9/11. Preview of the encomium progymnasmata. HOMEWORK: Begin reviewing the Semester 1 final exam study guide.
Tuesday, December 9: Begin working on the encomium in class. HOMEWORK: None
Wednesday, December 10: Finish encomium HOMEWORK: CB for JFK's Remarks at Amherst College due Monday, 12/15
Thursday, December 11: Present encomium in small groups. HOMEWORK: CB for JFK's Remarks at Amherst College due Monday, 12/15
Friday, December 12: Review or modes; analyzing a writer's use of modes. HOMEWORK: CB for JFK's Remarks at Amherst College due Monday, 12/15
Monday, December 1: Conceptual Inquiry work time. HOMEWORK: Continue to work on Conceptual Inquiry
Tuesday, December 2: Conceptual Inquiry work time. HOMEWORK: Continue to work on Conceptual Inquiry
Wednesday, December 3: Fallacy Files! Work time on CB for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (for this CB entry only, you need 2 quotations instead of four). HOMEWORK: Finish CB if not finished in class
Thursday, December 4: Ceremonial rhetoric: funeral orations of Lincoln and Kennedy. HOMEWORK: Read G. W. Bush's remarks on 9/11 in course reader pp 81-82. Submit your Conceptual Inquiry due 7:40 a.m. tomorrow
Friday, December 5: Viewing 9/11 remarks: praising virtue and condemning vice. HOMEWORK: None
Monday, November 24: Two Gettysburg Addresses: Edward Everett's and Abraham Lincoln's. HOMEWORK: Reminder: work day on planned inquiry revisions tomorrow (personal computers are okay in class)
Tuesday, November 25: Senior Thesis work day: planned inquiry revisions. HOMEWORK: No homework, but a reminder: Monday-Tuesday, December 1-2, are Senior Thesis work days (personal computers are okay in class)
Wednesday, November 26 - Friday, November 28: R&R/ THANKSGIVING BREAK!
Monday, November 17: Review of Statement of Fact in MLK's Letter. HOMEWORK: Read background handout on the Scopes Trial of 1925.
Tuesday, November 18: Impromptu debate (tech day for Drama B). HOMEWORK: None
Wednesday, November 19: Confirmation in the Mencken piece on the Scopes Trial. HOMEWORK: Finish identifying confirmation in Mencken if not finished in class.
Thursday, November 20: More on the Scopes Trial. Confirmation and refutation in the trial transcript and the Mencken piece pp69-77 in the reader. HOMEWORK: None
Friday, November 21: Style in the Gettysburg Address. HOMEWORK: Begin working on your Conceptual Inquiry due December 3.
Monday, November 10: Debate! HOMEWORK: Prepare for the last precept November 12.
Tuesday, November 11: No school in honor of Veteran's Day.
Wednesday, November 12: Exploration of curricular texts and pairing curricular and thesis texts. HOMEWORK: Bring your personal computer tomorrow.
Thursday, November 13: Overview of technical guidelines for submitting thesis deliverables via Google docs. HOMEWORK: Work on your Planned Inquiry due Monday, November 17 7:40 a.m. Bring your notes and reader tomorrow for the review quiz.
Friday, November 14: Open note review quiz! HOMEWORK: Work on your Planned Inquiry due Monday, November 17 7:40 a.m.
Monday, November 3: Overview of copia. Establish presentation schedule for copia, and begin composition process. HOMEWORK: CB entry for JQA XV due Wednesday.
Tuesday, November 4: Mystery Mini-Speeches! HOMEWORK: CB entry for JQA XV due tomorrow.
Wednesday, November 5: Review of style analysis. Revision workshop. HOMEWORK: Prepare for the last precept (November 12).
Thursday, November 6: Copia presentations. HOMEWORK: Prepare for the last precept (November 12).
Friday, November 7: Copia presentations. HOMEWORK: Prepare for the last precept (November 12).
Monday, October 27 HALF DAY: Argument and fallacies review. HOMEWORK: Prepare for Precept #3 (Wednesday, October 29)
Tuesday, October 28: No school (student-led conferences)
Wednesday, October 29: Reading and discussion of the enthymeme (handout). HOMEWORK: None
Thursday, October 30: Review enthymeme exercises. Washington's neutrality proclamation (course reader). HOMEWORK: Begin CB entry for John Quincy Adams's Lecture XV (handout); CB due Wednesday, November 5
Friday, October 31: Argument and refutation exercise. HOMEWORK: Continue working on CB for JQA XV due Wednesday, November 5
Monday, October 20: Review style. Invent new examples of tropes and schemes. HOMEWORK: Work on your precept annotations and thesis reading journal in preparation for our third precept on Wednesday, October 29.
Tuesday, October 21: Period 3: Read and annotate the essay provided in preparation for writing a style analysis. HOMEWORK: Work on your precept annotations and thesis reading journal in preparation for our third precept on Wednesday, October 29.
Wednesday, October 22: Periods 5 & 6: Read and annotate the essay provided in preparation for writing a style analysis. HOMEWORK: Work on your precept annotations and thesis reading journal in preparation for our third precept on Wednesday, October 29.
Thursday, October 23: Period 3: in-class style analysis writing. HOMEWORK: Work on your precept annotations and thesis reading journal in preparation for our third precept on Wednesday, October 29.
Friday, October 24: Periods 5 & 6: in-class style analysis writing. HOMEWORK: Work on your precept annotations and thesis reading journal in preparation for our third precept on Wednesday, October 29.