Week: Jan 23- Feb 3

Activity 11

Labeling Components of Argument

Re-read Tannen’s argument, and label these possible elements in the

left-hand margin as you reread:

• Most compelling arguments (the points that either surprised you

the most or made the most sense to you)

• Most compelling examples (the ones you find most consistent

with or most different from your own experiences as well as

those you might want to use in your own writing)

• Author’s explanations of the importance of those examples

• Note in the right margin your reactions to what the author is

saying.

• Personal connections that support or refute the author’s points

• Reflections on the quality of the evidence or examples (taking

note, for example, how the author is using ethos, pathos, and/or

logos)

• Questions about the author’s ideas or assumptions

• Challenges to the author’s inferences or conclusions

Activity 7

Deborah Tannen

linguistic strategy LANGUAGE based approach or plan

inherent innate, intrinsic

ambiguity uncertainty

to do someone’s bidding to do what someone requests

prerogative privilege, right

rapport connection, bond

protocol procedure

underhanded sneaky

David Brooks

rambunctious very active, noisy

plummet drop

lewd vulgar

eminent well-known

social engineering using social policies based on social science to deal

with social problems

homogeneous all the same

cretin idiot, stupid

person

Judith Butler

negate deny cancel

expunge wipe out

eradicate eliminate

comply obey

gender norms sex-linked behaviors

coercion intimidation

Activity 4 - Quickwrite

Activity 2 - Paragraph on Butler video

Activity 1

Choose two of the five quickwrite topics below, and write your

responses in your Language, Gender, Identity, and Culture Reflection

Journal:

Grammar - 2

Underline the adjectives and the adjective phrases in the following

sentences. Circle the noun or pronoun that they modify.

1. I am different from a lot of other black men.

I am different from other black men.

2. The men in the barbershop wore the latest two-hundred-dollar

sneakers.

3. They were self-assured.

4. They talked with the deep resonance that reverberates in my

hungry ears.

5. The men in the barbershop exemplified the stigmatized yet

romanticized black male profile.

6. I mean, the barbers are only courteous.

7. I don’t converse much with the barbers and their customers

about their racial and gender performances.

Rhetorical Purpose: Why does Young use these adjectives and

adjective phrases to modify his nouns?