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FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 14 We will finish up your visual arguments. Please make sure a copy of your argument is available either on your wiki page or in Moodle, where I have provided a drop box. I do not grade this while you are presenting, so I must have a copy.

NO CLASS THURSDAY. FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 12 Your portfolios are due! Please ask questions through email if you have any. Don't forget: free folders by my office. Also we will begin presentations of your visual argument. I expect you to practice these. Look at the rubric: I grade you quite strictly. Please put your visual argument on your wiki page for me to look at later. Thanks!

FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 5 (shoeless day for those interested) Please bring as done as possible drafts of whatever you have for a mad editing session. Bring your handbook if you might need it. NOTE: your visual arguments are NOT due Thursday as there is no class. Instead they will be due Tuesday of next week. Sorry for the misinformation.

CONFERENCES THIS WEEK TUESDAY 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 4.00 Sarah Krumrie 4.15 Sarah Krumrie 4.30 Kylie Babcock 4.45 Kylie Babcock 5.00 5.15 Wayne 5.30 Wayne 5.45 6.00 Kaitlyn Schian 6.15 Kaitlyn 6.30 6.45

WEDNESDAY 1.30 Jake Champion 1.45 Jake Champion 2.00 Ashley Miller 2.15 Ashley Miller 2.30Shanden Delamater 2.45 Shanden Delamater 3.00 Rachel Lane 3.15 Rachel Lane 3.30 Kelsey Blades 3.45 Kelsey Blades 4.00 Andrea Aguilera 4.15 Andrea Aguilera 4.30 Missy 4.45 Missy 5.00 Jane vallejo 5.15 5.30 Megan Gasvoda 5.45 Megan Gasvoda

FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 31 This will be a workshop day. Please bring the latest version of all your writing for everyone to read and give you feedback. Keep an eye on your email. I will send you notice when I have completed responding to your drafts and will have them outside my office in a box.

FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 29 Please have your visual argument as done as possible, and have a way to access it on the classroom laptops. We will be having "Viewing Day" where you will give one another feedback on your collage. (a change in the calendar, by the way; workshop day will be Thursday).

FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 22 This will be the VERY LAST DAY I will accept revisions of Paper One (My Turn/This I Believe essays). I will also take revisions of your autoethnography analysis papers. Please bring old version with my comments on them to turn in as well.

FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 17 Please bring the latest draft of every paper you have written so far. We will be workshopping these, so it is to your benefit to bring these drafts. Your first draft of your last paper is due as well. I have (finally) posted the handout and some other hopefully helpful documents on the "handouts" page under the "Unit 4" handout.

FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 15 Please be ready to present. I will give your group about 5 minutes or so at the beginning of the hour to regroup. All five groups will go Tuesday. Drafts of your choice are due Thursday the 17th.

FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Your rough draft of your Segmented essay is due.

FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 8. Nothing specific is due. Your rough draft of your segmented essay is due on Thursday after break.

CLASS CANCELLED TODAY. I'M SICK. SO.. FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 24 Please bring all the items that were due today (Tuesday) to turn in Thursday. Since I don't think you need the entire class period to take your exam, we'll spend the beginning of class talking about "Marvin Gardens" and your autoethnography papers. Then you'll have your midterm exam (mostly like a Makeover) and that will be all.

FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 22 Please read "In Search of Marvin Gardens." Do Makeover 3 (on handouts page). Write a Rhetorical Analysis of either of the two segmented essays ("Beauty" or "Marvin Gardens").

FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 17 Please read Walker's "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self." Do a PW on Walker and do Makeover 2 (on the handouts page).

FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 15 Rough draft of your autoethnography analysis is due. Please remember to look at the handout to give you some guidance. I have also posted a student sample (handouts page) of this assignment in case you feel you still aren't sure what to do.

FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 10 Your next Rhetorical Analysis is due. You may choose any of the three readings: Pratt, Anzaldua, or Rich. Please remember to follow instructions on the handout: have a purpose, a thesis statement, and work to persuade that the piece achieves or does not achieve its purpose.

Also have all your research for your paper done. You don't have to have read it or done anything with it: just find it. Get more than you need. Print it all out. And keep track of your sources as you research. Bring your sources to class.

FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 8 Please read Plontnik's "The Pleasure of Surprise." Print it out and bring in to class. Be ready to finish Anzaldua and discuss Rich.

FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 3 Please read Rich's article if you haven't already. Do a parallel writing of it s well--try to pick a juicy section of text!

FOR TUESDAY, FEB. 1 We have gotten a little behind, so we will be working on Anzaldua's text Tuesday. If you would like to read ahead, the Adrienne Rich article "When We Dead Awaken" is due Thursday, so you could read that. Please have completed your search for an autoethnography, print it, and bring it to class Tuesday.

FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 27 Please read Gloria Anzaldua's "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." Keep in mind, this is an example of an autoethnography--the kind you'll be looking for and working with. Also do a PW on Anzaldua (no Spanish please). Be sure to re-read the handout for Unit 2 and bring a proposal for your project for Thursday.

FOR TUESDAY, JAN. 25 Your first draft of Paper 1 is due (see Handout for specifics). Also read Pratt's "Art of the Contact Zone" and annotate well. Also do a PW on Pratt. Cancel the vocabulary for now.

FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 20 Read ALL of the "This I Believe" essays on the handouts page. Choose the one you feel is most persuasive and be able to defend your position and reasons why. Do a Rhetorical Analysis (handout on "handouts" page) of any of the readings: the My Turn essay you read or any of the This I Believe essays. Do a PW on any chunk of text from any of the readings. Please be ready to tell everyone what you are going to write your first paper on!

FOR TUESDAY, JAN. 18 Please read and annotate for logos, pathos, and ethos: "Sis Boom Bah Humbug" and ONE of the "My Turn" essays from the "Handouts" page. Also be ready to talk about what your first paper will be about (see handout for Unit One).

FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 13 Please finish your wiki page. That is all.