Week 15

Monday, December 3 through Wednesday, December 5

We will be holding conferences in leu of class (or we will not be holding class; you should come to your conference instead).  All conferences will be held in Ellis Hall 341.

You need to bring the following to your conference meeting

• Draft of your Reflective
• Revision plan
• list of your works you are including in your Selected Portfolio

Conferences:
Monday, December 3

1. 8:00 a.m.--Greg Ornella
2. 8:30 a.m.--Michael Bruggeman
3. 9:00 a.m.--Taylor Henning
4. 9:30 a.m.--Abby Seitz
5. 10:00 a.m.--Wesley Hemmelgarn
6. 10:30 a.m.--George Zuspan
7. 11:00 a.m.--JD Walter
8. 11:30 a.m.--Aubrey White
9. 12:00 p.m.--Ally Zavoda

Tuesday, December 4

1. 10:00 a.m.--Peter Zeisler
2. 10:30 a.m.--Allison Sharp
3. 11:00 a.m.--Quinn Kender
4. 11:30 a.m.--Megan Lallathin
5. 1:30 p.m.--Ginal Kirby

Wednesday, December 5

1. 8:00 a.m.--Allison Shenk
2. 8:30 a.m.--Maia Wachter
3. 9:00 a.m.--Aaron Reed

Friday, December 7

Last day of class.  Nothing is due this day.

FINAL

We will not be meeting during the scheduled time.  Your Reflective Essay, Revised Essay, and Selected Portfolio are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, December 14.

Zipping your portfolio

Creating and zipping your portfolio folder on a Mac

·      In Finder, select File and New Folder. A new folder will appear on your desktop with a text box open beneath it.

·      Simply type the title for the folder (“YourName_Collected_Portfolio”)

·      Open the folder and create any number of new folders by selecting File and New Folder in Finder and name them. This will create new folders within the first. If you want folders inside those subsequent folders to further organize your material, open the desired folder and again select File and New Folder.

·      Drag and drop files into the desired folders.

When your portfolio is complete:

·      In Finder, select the first folder by clicking on it once.

·      Select File and select Compress. Compress with be followed by the folder’s name.

·      A Zipped file “Collected Portfolio.zip” will appear on your desktop next to the original.

Creating and zipping your portfolio folder on a PC

·      Create a new folder by right-clicking on your desktop and selecting "New Folder."

·      Rename the folder by right-clicking on it (“YourName_Collected Portfolio"

·      Open the folder and create new folders within it by right-clicking and selecting “New folder.”

·      Drag and Drop files or use copy/paste to fill folders with files.

When your portfolio is complete:

·       Right click on the main folder. 

·       Left click on "Send to."

·       Left click on "Compressed (Zipped) Folder."

Once you have organized and zipped your folder, attach it to an e-mail to send to the instructor. This same process can be repeated for your "Selected Portfolio." 

Office hours

My office hours will be cancelled for Monday, November 26.  I have to be mom to a couple of sick kids (mine).

Assignments: Week 14

Monday, November 26

READ:  Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa" ROW (p. 247-60)

DUE:  On your blog

1. define whiteness, marginalized, and heterotypical.  Use BOTH dictionary sites and other sites that clearly define the term.  Make up a Works Cited of the websites you reference.  Write a short response to the terms and definitions.  Try to link them to how you perceive the world. (this response should be at least 6 sentences long)
2. Do a dialectical notebook on Cixous (use at least 5 quotations)

Peter and Aaron leading discussion.  They will have a handout.

Wednesday, November 28   

Workshop/Peer work on Project #4--I am not sure how this will work yet.  I will update this section as soon as I know.

DUE:  Collected Works Portfolio (due by midnight)

Friday, November 30

READ: (last reading)

• Anzaldúa, "Tlilli, Tlapalli:  The Path of the Red and Black Ink" ROW (p.220-25)
• Lunsford, "Toward a Mestiza Rhetoric" ROW (p. 226-46)

DUE:  Reading response to Alzaldúa.  Include

• summary
• synthesis
• dialectical notebook (include at least 4 quotations)
• your thoughts on both articles (at least 6 sentences; be thoughtful)

Quinn and Greg leading discussion.  They will have a handout.

Interesting articles related to transgender awareness

If transgender and transgender rhetorics interest you, you might be interested in the following articles:

Becoming Katie
Transgender Americans face high suicide risk
Startling Stats on Transgender Discrimination

Assignments: Weeks 12 and 13

Wednesday, November 14

READ:  Flynn

• "Composing as a Woman" ROW (p. 156)
• "Contextualizing 'Composing as a Woman'" ROW (p. 167)

DUE:

• Project #3 Peer review:  if emailing, send to your partner and CC me; if bring to class, bring 2 copies
• Reading response to Flynn (apparatus posted on Blackboard)
• 1 before you read activity
• summary
• synthesis (connect to at least 3 other articles)
• dialectical notebook (at least 4 quotations)
• QD3
• your thoughts (at least 4 sentences)

Friday, November 16

READ:

• Delpit, "The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse" ROW (p. 181)
• Smitherman, "'God Don't Never Change':  Black English from a Black Perspective" ROW (p. 189)

DUE:

• Project #3 progress report:  1 paragraph on your blog updating what you have done since peer review
• Reading response to Delpit or Smitherman (apparatuses on Blackboard)
• 1 before you read activity
• summary
• synthesis (connect to at least 3 other articles)
• dialectical notebook (at least 4 quotations)
• Delpit AE4/Smitherman QD7
• your thoughts

Wesley, George, and Michael leading discussion and will have a handout on the readings

Monday, November 19

READ:  Alexander, "Transgender Rhetorics:  (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body" ROW (p. 195-the bottom of 202; 210 "Critiques and conclusions" to the very top of 213)

DUE:

• Project #3 to SafeAssign: extension to Wed., 11/21 at 5 p.m.
• Reading response to Alexander


• synthesis (connect with as many articles as possible)
• dialectical notebook (at least 6-10 quotations)
• your thoughts (at least 5 sentences)
• post a video clip from YouTube that connects with what you think Alexander is trying to say.  Here is one that I thought of (it is about cross dressers and a different type of rhetoric):

Assignments: Week 11

Monday, November 5

READ:

• Guide to Primary Research for the Discourse Community Ethnography (on Blackboard in the Project #2 folder)
• Chapter 5 introduction, WAW (p. 578)
• Heilker and Yergeau, "Autism and Rhetoric" ROW (p. 261)

DUE:

• Project #3 Interview questions (these should be the questions you plan to ask during your interviews)
• Reading response to Heilker and Yergeau 
• summary
• synthesis (make at least 3 connections)
• dialectical notebook (use at least 6 quotations)
• your thoughts (at least 5 sentences)

Peter, Maia, and Taylor presenting Project #2

Wednesday, November 7

READ:  Villanueva, "Memoria is a Friend of Ours:  On the Discourse of Color" ROW (p. 169)
DUE:

• Project #3 progress report (elaborate on what you have done so far)
• Reading response to Villanueva (apparatus on Blackboard)
• 1 pre-reading activity
• summary
• synthesis (make at least 3 connections
• dialectical notebook (use at least 6 quotations)
• AE 3
• your thoughts (at least 5 sentences)

Greg, Gina, Abby, and Megan presenting Project #2

Ally and Abby leading discussion on Villanueva for 20 minutes.  They will have a handout.

Friday, November 9

READ:

• Branick, "Coaches Can Read, Too:  An Ethnographic Study of a Football Coaching Discourse Community," WAW (p. 557)
• Project 4 assignment (in syllabus packet and on Blackboard)

DUE:  Project #3 for peer review (turn in to SafeAssign Project #3) by 9 p.m. on SUNDAY, November 11

Ally, Allison, JD, and Aubrey presenting Project #2