true propaganda

            Week 1 

           INTRODUCTIONS 

Introductions; syllabus; course terms; Review website; discuss the nature of power in the Information Age. 

Reading strategies

Intro to Writing Center

In-class Discussion :

Buy textbooks

I AM the choices I make.

Making decisions. Knowing yourself. 

"Where I Stand" exercise.

Democracy/Adulthood/College

Bring textbooks to class.  (10 points)

"The Critical Attitude"

Analyze Hilfiger ad.

Read:

Campbell (94), Walker (280)

Write:  Blog:  Sign in to BLOG by accepting my invitation (e-mailed to you) and post a response to the prompt. 

Also, type several paragraphs providing your own and responding to my analysis of the Hilfiger ad.  Print out one copy of analysis and turn it in to me by Wednesday. (I will use this to recommend Writing Center tutorials)

Explain WASPS

Continue Hilfiger analysis

Look at War Bonds ad

Notetaking in class and while reading.

Discussion:  What is my "bliss" and am I following it?  If not, why not?

How much of ME is my own identity and how much is what I allow others to shape?  

Read:

Walker (280)

Assign Essay 1

12-Step Program

Replacing the Five-Paragraph Prison with new structures.

Narrative organization.

Lecture: narrative, metaphor, using one's own experience to understand and illustrate ideas.  Telling by Showing.

The Idea of Beauty. How does Walker’s essay work to define the abstract concept of Beauty? 

Read:

White (344), Jefferson (338)

Write:

12-Step Program, begin work on Essay 1, Post to BLOG

Democracy=Freedom?

Defining

War Bonds ad

Discuss readings.

Escaping the Five-Paragraph Prison

12-Step Program

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Read: Malcom X (16)

Write: In your journals, explain how Malcolm X finds freedom while in prison. 

Begin work on Essay 1 (Steps 1-4)

Freedom through reading/writing

The complex thesis (Don't simplify, complexify)

Read: Turkle (453)

Write: Keep working on Essay 1.1

Free to Be Me (when I log on)

Surfing the Internet/Developing MySpace pages

The Paragraph

Form Media Groups/Explain Media Project

Receive Media Project Packet

Week 4  

GOT FREEDOM?

2/9

Write: Develop a thesis statement and working outline.  Make three copies for Peer Review in class.

Go to Writing Center this week.

Thesis workshop

Explore the nature of peer workshop.

Lecture on writing concisely.

Subordination and Coordination review.

Media Groups meet to consider story focus

Write: Complete Essay 1.1 (1st draft of Essay 1); bring three copies to class.

Read: Media excerpt (handout)

Essay 1.1 due, bring 3 copies to class.

Peer workshop.

Assign reflective essay

Discuss summarization expectations

 Strategies for Revising, Editing, Proofreading.

Write:

Complete Revisions, Editing, and Proofreading of Essay 1, and then write reflective essay.

Meet in 18-108

Essay 1.2 due (with Reflective Essay) due in manila folder

Bilingual, Bi-Identities

Discuss  Language, Political Correctness

The Problem of Gender-Specific Language

Read: Naylor (61)

Discuss Summarizing (for the purposes of academic writing)

Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing

Assign Essay 2

Read:  Rodriguez (9)

and

One-paragraph summaries of Naylor's and Rodrigruez's essays. 

Write:

Check in with Blog for latest prompt

Discuss “Borders” and Pratt’s “Contact Zone”

Sample paragraphs

Sick Day (Class was cancelled)

Read: Anzaldua

Blog: 

Substantial BLOG participation REQUIRED

(note that prompts are waiting for you to respond to with seriousness and fully developed paragraphs.

Continue Naylor/Rodriguez discussion

Read:  Tan (link to page)

Hierarchies, exercise

Discuss Tan

Read:  Orwell (72)

Write:

Begin developing a response to the Essay 2 assignment using prewriting. Begin by analyzing how each essay you were assigned develops the relationship between power, identity, and language, noting general assertions and supporting points.

Blog: Continue the conversation

Discuss "Politics and the English Language"

Charting a course toward analysis.

Passive and Active Voice, wordiness, diction, Introduction to MLA style.

Sentence focus, noun phrase appositives.

Read: Reread/review each of the readings in the Language, Power, and Identity section.

Write: Make a chart as discussed in class. For each essay, create a column in which you provide brief summaries and quotations from the text that show how the writers develop their ideas on language, power, and identity.

Small-group discussion of Language, Identity, Power issues.

Establishing Questions at Issue (and answering them).

Quoting, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing

Analysis, the Paragraph, the complex thesis

Noun phrase appositives.

Discuss charts; devise questions

Introduce Outline handout

Read: Handout on outlining.  

Write: Develop a sentence outline for Essay 2 following the guidelines for Question, Thesis, and Development.  Make three copies for peer workshop.

Write: Develop Essay 2.1 from outline.  You should have a good draft by Wednesday.

Essay 2 Sentence Outline Peer Workshop

Bring three copies.

WASPS

Make reference to hierarchies.

flex day (no class)

Peer Workshop.  Establish peer groups for additional critique.

Write: Keep writing your papers. Observe formatting guidelines for MLA style at the following link: OWL. We will discuss MLA style later, but you should try to use this documentation style for this essay.

Read: If you won't be in class on Monday, view PBS Frontline documentary "The Persuaders" by clicking on this link and watching the documentary film on-line.  This will take about 90 MINUTES. 

Write:  Complete Essay 2.2 essay, and prepare essay and all drafts and prewriting for submission in a manila folder.

Read: Check out the Daily Propaganda, a propaganda newsletter. Complete "The Persuaders" on-line.

Write: Blog about the documentary's argument.

Read: TBA

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Discuss "Propaganda"/Emotional vs. Rational Appeals

The Logical Argument: Claim & Reason

WASPS

Form groups for Propaganda Project

Assign Propaganda Project and Essay #3

Group work: Definiton of Propaganda, the key elements

Assign group topics

View video with "Propaganda Schoolroom"

More on Education vs. Propaganda/where are the facts?

How to make a blog

Read: Handouts.  Each group will have been assigned a propaganda topic and given a reading explaining it on Monday. Be sure to have read it (and understood it) by Wed.

Write: Each group will need to make a blog for itself and send me and everyone in your group the link. by Tuesday night.

Groups will have time to discuss their topics and then look for examples on-line while in class.  You will be looking for political, commercial, AND news media examples.  You will be able to find streaming video of most major newscasts, youtube versions of most TV ads, and more youtube clips of most major politicians (Obama, Bush, Palin, Arnold, etc.)

Bring your yellow reporting forms to turn in to me.

Research: Continue your search for examples.  Listen to the Radio, watch TV, read newspapers, search on-line.  Become both sensitive the world of propaganda AND on the lookout for facts when you can find them.

Write: Post to your group's blog some of your findings and any relevant links.

Sample analysis of a piece of propaganda.

Discuss the question of intent: Who is responsible for all of this corrupt information?

Groups meet to share findings.

Research: Continue to research

Write: Develop an analysis of an example of the technique your group will be presenting to the class.  Post this to your group's blog and prepare one copy for me. Respond to these questions for you analysis. Post your analysis to the group blog.

Groups meet to share analysis.  (Bring a copy of your analysis to class for you and your group to discuss.)

WASPS

Discuss Presentation software

Make Presentation slides using Googledocs.

Creating presentations using presentation software (Powerpoint, Keynote, or Googledocs)

Groups collaborate to make a few slides in class.

Introduce 1984. Discuss "How to read a novel." Discuss How Sparknotes will fail you, perhaps literally.  Bring your copies of the novel to class.

Groups make plan for Spring Break work.

Read:  1984 pp. 1-100

Prepare for Group Presentation

309-323 1984

Discuss 1984

Read:

191-236 1984

Write: 

Meet in classroom.

Read: Read 1984 1-30 and use split-page notetaking method to keep track of the reading.

Meet with someone in Writing Center about paper this week.

Read: Keep reading 1984

Familiarize yourself with e-portfolios.  Link here for a FAQ.  Make some decisions

Visit computer lab

Work on e-portfolios

When you come, be sure that all of your written work for this class is available to your electronically, either on CD, memory stick, e-mail, Googledocs, or other device.

Conclude 1984 discussion. Was Orwell a prophet?  What is next for us?

Essay 4.1 due for Peer Workshop (Bring three copies)

More Essay 4 discussion