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):