Thursday, December 4, 2008

AGENDA 12/4

Formulating your thesis for your researched argument paper

Work Day:
Continue prewriting for researched arg paper ("down draft" due Weds - a sample will be given in class tomorrow)
Work on 2 rhetorical terms entries (typed, due Weds), one from "The World House" and one from "What Really Ails America":
suggested devices for "The World House": personification, catalogue, antithesis, metaphor, repetition, anecdote
suggested devices for "What Really Ails America": catalogue, anecdote, statistics, analogy, repetition, allusion, refrain
Read first quarter of indie reading book

HW: Working Bibliography due Monday. First quarter of indie reading book due Monday. (Stand Up seminar on "What Really Ails America" and "The World House" continues Monday. "Down draft" of researched argument paper due Wednesday, as well as 2 rhetorical terms entries.

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