In-class notes
Aug. 30th
It (Homer) doesn’t really have any immigrants
They know it’s not their issue
Nothing was actually going to change in the town
“by definition they’re criminals”
biased research
some of the crazy reports were true - cologne
the crime rate in Germany was the same
“alarmist language”
proper statistics in the wrong context
Sept. 6th
Project 1:
1000 words
pick a community: band member, woman in high level STEM, key club, puppy foster mom
personal narrative, uses “I,” starts in the middle of the events, set the scene
one model text
Genre- category
Sept. 18th
topic 1 puppy foster mom with application of picture of pearl’s adoption
topic 2 being a woman in high level stem classes/ find professor/ interview jamie, female stem professor/ get more women in stem/
Sept. 26th
Today I met with Mat at The Sweet Shop for my conference on Project 1. During this meeting I read my piece aloud to him. I was very nervous to do this given that I had only even read it in my head while sitting in my dorm room. Reading the words aloud really helped me to pick up on problems that I had noticed before. This is definitely a trick that I am going to utilize before summiting any papers in the future. Additionally, Mat gave me confidence in my strange writing style/genres that I was unsure of using in this project. I am now more clear on how to complete this assignment by focusing my writing on myself and my experiences. I am going to do this by removing the how-to list I had in my piece and replace it with a paragraph that describes my average day when I have puppies. He also gave me more ideas of how I can approach the future projects by continuing what I have already done with Project 1. I am now going to focus Project 2 on the fostering system, as well, with emphasis on the process and how it can affect people to have animals in their lives.
Oct. 2nd
“The bulk of your research paper will be your own "on-the-ground" research of your community, and detailed analyses of the texts/genres you find there.”
“What important texts exist in this community I am drawn toward, what genres do they belong to, and how are they functioning within the community?”
Oct. 9th
plagiarism: yes, yes, no- yikes yes
Oct. 11th
Tyler’s text - SNL sketch of a political campaign parody clip on youtube
Feel the Bern for Her & Racists for trump similarities
Narrated
Logos and fonts
Serious tones
Looking at camera
Slogans
Annotated Bibliographies
Oct. 16th
My log
Today we started class by writing a “WILDCARD!!!!!!!” notecard. Then Mat read us the poem “I Will Not Die According to My Time Sheet” by Alain Ginsberg found at http://www.onmetatron.org/poetry/alain-ginsberg-three-poems/ . Next, Darian read her log from the previous class. Mat then mentioned that we should start taking notes on the mini-presentations because it will be beneficial for project 3. He pulled up the page http://matwenzel.wixsite.com/2135/single-post/2017/06/26/How-to-discuss from his blog to give us guidelines for what to say during the discussion for the presentations.
Autumn then began with her presentation on the issue of abortion rates in Iceland of babies that are predicted to have Down Syndrome. She showed a Facebook video of a pro-life teenage girl discussing the issue which may be rewatched at https://www.facebook.com/studentsforlife/videos/10154766697567927/. The focus of the video was a misleading title of a news article posted by CBS “Inside the Country Where Down Syndrome is Disappearing.” Then Mat threatened to call on random students to get involved with the discussion on Autumn’s presentation, but we did a good job discussing a very controversial topic and he didn’t have to call on anyone. People mainly commented on the misleading and possible missing information from the video. No matter our personal views, the majority of the class agreed that the video did a good job of picking apart the title of the article.
Next, Alex gave his presentation on a music video for the song “Good Company” by Jake Owen found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJlGtyzIRm8. He talked about how the video is atypical for a country song because it includes a small island in the Bahamas. Alex has a personal connection to this video because the artist is from his home town and Alex has also been to the island featured in the video (Grand Cay). Alex gave us background on the poverty level in this area which gave us more understanding for an otherwise confusing video. Again, our discussion was good and Mat didn’t have to call anyone out.
signal phrases: adds, argues, points out, says, thinks, writes, suggests, claims
“Basically, X is saying ____.”
okay to disagree with quotes
Oct. 18th
Subject
Occasion - rhetorical situation
Audience
Purpose
Speaker
Tone
Pathos - emotional appeals
Ethos - credibility or authority
Logos - “logic” arguments based on “facts” and figures
Commercials:
1.
horrible lighting - dark, monotone
“ok, last time”
drugs cook the brain
looking up to speaker
crossed arms
in a home
stern voice
VIII.egg cooking is super loud
2.
serious, kinda creepy tone
whispering and screaming
dark colors
famous actress - young, relatable
specific drug - heroine
affects family and friends too
3.
on a boat
bright colors
eye contact
lots of fun
a relationship
happy music
marriage equality
Oct. 25th
Sweet Shop Conference:
two questions are actually very similar, but directed towards different people
I should analyze the pictures and posts that I already included from Facebook
Add the individual links for each post
Oct. 30th
Leading the Discussion
Blog post of outline
Nov. 1st
Class Cancelled! work on Project 2
Nov. 6th
Project 2 Rubric
2,000 words
10 sources - 7 academic
Guiding questions on Mat’s blog
One fluid, interesting project
my rubric:
analyzing genre
analyze text in community
analyze research
persuasive effectiveness
includes on the ground research
details
relevance to topic
word count
writing quality (spelling, grammar)
correctly formatted paper
including interview
fluidity
A Projects don’t just meet requirements - have synergy, subversive
Nov. 8th
Project 2 rubric on Mat’s site
make cartoon of puppy mill vs shelters
PROJECT 3:
within community message - we are helping animals/motivation to keep volunteering
community to public message - pets make you happy/adopt a shelter animal
message to others about my community - adopting shelter animals saves their lives and lessens the demand for puppy mill dogs
how to list; webpage; cartoon/social media against puppy mills
Nov. 13th
Past Classes blog-go to past classes link on Mat’s blog
evaluate blogs effectiveness of design/project 3
Multigenre project- advertisements for products, photos of families, warning labels, certificate, book of hair color options, hours of operation,
Nov. 15th
Pitch- due after thanksgiving
1 minute speech about what I am going to present on; like an elevator ride
Nov. 27th
present pitch - all is good
Dec. 4th
presented Project 3
got a 100!!!
