Week of 1/24-1/28

Enjoy ANOTHER Snow Day!  Watch the Vote Summer video on the Ning!  (What rhetorical appeals are being used??)

For Monday, 1/24:  Read "Love is a Fallacy" (take notes!) and "Message in what we Buy, but Nobody's Listening."

Monday:  Discuss articles.

Tuesday:  Study for exam.  Work on defining fallacies.

Wednesday: Exams periods 3 and 8.

Thursday:  Exams periods 2 and 9.

Friday:  Exams periods 5 and 6.

Fallacy definitions and examples due Feb. 2.
Ad Chart due Feb. 3.

Week of 1/19-1/21

Happy Snow Day!

Happy to see my smiling face on your day off??

Wednesday:  Bumper Stickers and analysis due.  Share and explain.  Share and discuss self-selected images.

Thursday:  Role of advertising.  Changing face of cigarette ads.  HW:  Read "Message in what we buy, but Nobody's Listening"  (handout) and "Love is a Fallacy"  (linked on the Ning).

Friday:  Discuss fallacies, ads, and upcoming project.  Ad chart due on Monday, 1/24.

Week of 1/10-1/14

Monday:  Holden parody due.  Political cartoon analysis:  Lab 438A.  Go to this site (rather than the one printed on your handout) and then follow the directions both on the site and on your handout.

Tuesday:  Visual Text:  War and Peace, Social commentary.  Political cartoon analysis due.

Wednesday:  Student selected images:  group analysis

Thursday:  Bumper sticker analysis.

Friday:  Underwater Sculpture, graffiti, and other unusual media/methods/modes of creating visual text

Prepare for your midterm!  Review chapters 1-3 in Language of Composition (which you will get on Tuesday); review all handouts, prompts, POWs.