Preparing for the Fall term 2006
Here is a brief listing of the elements of grading I plan to use in the Fall. The notations l, s, r, w refer to the dominant skill emphasized in the exercises; in cases with all four, the submitted work is the culmination of work in all four areas, although in these cases reading and especially writing will be the most obvious skills demonstrated.
Elements of Grading, FVC 101 F 06 Achtermann
Oral presentations from Faigley (10%)
presentations on paragraphs (5%) (s)
presentations on effective style (5%) (s)
Class participation (15%)
discussion (5%) (s, l)
notes on instructor talks (5%) (l, w)
notes on discussion (5%) (l, w)
In-class writing exercises: (25%)
blog/obituary (5%) (w)
paragraph (5%) (w)
reworked paragraph (5%) (w, r)
first draft + reworked draft of essay on Balzac and Tolkien (5%) (w, r)
revision of essay of Balzac and Tolkien (5%) (w, r)
Quizzes: (15%)
quiz on Narrative (5%)
quiz on "One" in NEF (5%)
quiz on NEF (5%)
Study Guide for "On Fairy-Stories" (5%) (l, r, w)
Comparative essay on Balzac and Tolkien (15%) (l, s, r, w)
Rhetorical Analysis of Narrative or NEF or both (15%) (l, s, r, w)
The course texts upon which these structures are based are as follows:
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass... Preface by William Lloyd Garrison, Introductory letter by Wendell Phillips. (1845). New York, Dover: 2001.
Faigley, Lester. The Penguin Handbook. 2nd ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006.
LeGuin, Ursula. Always Coming Home. Berkeley, U California P, 2001.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel. (1949). Afterword by Erich Fromm. New York: Plume (Harcourt Brace): 1981.
Orwell, George. Why I Write. New York, Penguin: 2005.
Tolkien, J R R. The Tolkien Reader. Foreword by Peter S. Beagle. New York: Ballantine, 1966.
I use the entirety of the Douglass text, including the preface and letter, the appendix, and the parody. I will also use the entirety of Orwell NEF. Orwell Why I Write is a collection of short pieces: "Why I Write," "The Lion and the Unicorn," "A Hanging," and "Politics and the English Language". All of these offer a strong support to a reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four. I will, however, be using chiefly "Why" and "Politics". I will use two texts in the anthology The Tolkien Reader, namely "Leaf by Niggle", a short story which I will compare with the Balzac pieces the students are to have read for the summer (see http://cybersybils.com/Balzac.html for that text). I will make less use of LeGuin this semester than I might like, but will probably employ short pieces to break up the tedium, and some of the "autobiographic" materials as comparison to Douglass.
I use much of Faigley; in the Fall term I plan to use the following pages: 2-132, 231-241, 254-346; I will touch upon 351-395 (MLA) lightly; 513 -578; 827-831. I plan to emphasize research and the related scholastic tools in the Spring term; in the Fall my emphasis is on the basic tasks of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and related skills such as note-taking, highlighting, study guide construction, organization of writing tasks, and time-management.
I hope that you will follow my basic outline of readings from Faigley and supplement as I have done with the above texts using whatever supplemental texts you have selected. In the perfect world I envision, everyone will use the superb texts I have chosen, but in this vale of shadows you are welcome to do as you think best.
The following schedule is more or less what I plan to present to the students. It is the barest outline. In the next posting I will provide some more detailed suggestions in way of a teachers's guide. For reasons I hope to make clear to you all in another venue I have not been able to proceed further, although such process is eminently (and immanently) desirable.
Working (Student) Schedule: Foundations of Verbal Communication I & II, 2006-07
Fall 2006: FVC 101
September
wk 1: 5 ix 06 Tu Introductions
Six Questions, Blog Introduction or Pen Pal Letter and Obituary, the course syllabus.
Assignment for next class session: read Faigley 2-6; Tolkien 100-120 ("Leaf by Niggle"; for comparison with Balzac’s "Unknown Masterpiece").
7 ix 06 Th Introductions, continued; the rhetorical situation; the three purposes for verbal communication identified in Faigley (20,21).
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 7-21.
wk 2: 12 ix 06 Tu: Words, Images, and Graphics; Marking Texts
Handout on marking texts (underlining, preparing marginal notes, etc.); sample text marking.
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 22-36; Orwell, "Why" 1-10.
14 ix 06 Th: Discuss whether Orwell’s essay "Why I Write" could be presented non-verbally. Reflective writing exercise responding to the questions: Why do you engage in the artistic work you do? In what way is your motivation for your artwork like Orwell’s motivation to write? When your work is not the best, why do you think that is?
Assignment for next class session: Prepare yourself for the comparative essay by relaxing and breathing deeply.
wk 3: 19 ix 06 Tu: Writing Essay Examinations; Planning and Drafting; Comparative essay on "The Unknown Masterpiece" and "Leaf By Niggle"
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 38-62; Tolkien 33 (as example of topic and thesis).
21 ix 06 Th Composing Paragraphs: Examples from Orwell’s "The Lion and the Unicorn" and "Politics and the English Language".
Faigley enumerates seven types of paragraphs; you will prepare a brief oral presentation on one type of paragraph (as assigned) and also compose an example of the paragraph style as part of the larger essay on Balzac and Tolkien. These will be presented in class next time.
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 63-86.
wk 4: 26 ix Tu Redrafting Comparative essay using Faigley’s instructions (75-93). Submit reworked draft.
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 87-92.
28 ix 06 Th Reviewing other students’s work (using Faigley 93-102). Submit revisions.
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 93-102.
October
Beginning the 10th of October, we will experience a series of oral presentations on material from Faigley 514-578. Assignments are to be made in the first week of October. Each student will be responsible for the material in one section in Faigley; the presentations will be scored on the basic of informational accuracy, clarity of organization, projection and enunciation, and so on. I distribute rubrics for the presentations when I make the assignments.
wk 5: 3 x 06 Tu: Critical Reading and Viewing; Fallacies
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 104-116; Orwell, "Why" 102-120.
5 x 06 Th: submit final draft of comparative essay; Analysis
Questions for rhetorical analysis applied to Orwell, "Why I Write" and "Politics and the English Language".
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 117-132.
wk 6: 10 x 06 Tu: Close Reading of a Text: Tolkien’s "On Fairy-Stories"; How to create study guides; Listen, prepare notes on talks.
Assignment for next class session: Tolkien 33-57 (OFS, sections 1 and 2).
12 x 06 Th: Close Reading of a Text: The Value and Function of Fiction; Listen, prepare notes on talks.
Assignment for next class session: Tolkien 57-75 (OFS, sections 3 and 4).
wk 7: 17 x 06 Tu: Close Reading of a Text: Benefits of Art; Listen, prepare notes on talks.
Assignment for next class session: Tolkien 75-90 (OFS, sections 5 and 6).
19 x 06 Th: Close Reading of a Text: Authorship and Imagination of Secondary Worlds; Listen, prepare notes on talks. Submit study guide on "On Fairy Stories" for review.
Assignment for next class session: LeGuin xi, 3-5, 263-304.
wk 8: 24 x 06 Tu: Close Reading of a Text: Fictional and Factual Autobiography: discuss; prepare notes on discussion.
Assignment for next class session: Douglass chapters 1-8.
26 x 06 Th
Assignment for next class session: Douglass chapters 9-11, Appendix; A Parody.
wk 9: 31 x 06 Tu: Quiz on Narrative. The link between imagination, art, and sub-creation: Douglass and Orwell.
November
2 xi 06 Th: Close Reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 1-42.
wk 10: 7 xi 06 Tu: Close Reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 42-92.
9 xi 06 Th: Quiz on first section of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 93-141.
wk 11: 14 xi 06 Tu
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 141-200.
16 xi 06 Th
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 201-279.
wk 12: no classes, Thanksgiving Break (21 and 23 xi 06)
wk 13: 28 xi 06 Tu Quiz on Nineteen Eighty-Four. Writing an effective Rhetorical Analysis: Topic and thesis construction.
30 xi 06 Th Writing an effective rhetorical analysis: outlining.
December
wk 14: 5 xii 06 Tu Writing an effective rhetorical analysis: drafting.
7 xii 06 Th Writing an effective rhetorical analysis: revision.
wk 15: 12 xii 06 Tu Writing and effective rhetorical analysis: final polish.
14 xii 06 Th: Rhetorical analysis due at beginning of class session.
Elements of Grading, FVC 101 F 06 Achtermann
Oral presentations from Faigley (10%)
presentations on paragraphs (5%) (s)
presentations on effective style (5%) (s)
Class participation (15%)
discussion (5%) (s, l)
notes on instructor talks (5%) (l, w)
notes on discussion (5%) (l, w)
In-class writing exercises: (25%)
blog/obituary (5%) (w)
paragraph (5%) (w)
reworked paragraph (5%) (w, r)
first draft + reworked draft of essay on Balzac and Tolkien (5%) (w, r)
revision of essay of Balzac and Tolkien (5%) (w, r)
Quizzes: (15%)
quiz on Narrative (5%)
quiz on "One" in NEF (5%)
quiz on NEF (5%)
Study Guide for "On Fairy-Stories" (5%) (l, r, w)
Comparative essay on Balzac and Tolkien (15%) (l, s, r, w)
Rhetorical Analysis of Narrative or NEF or both (15%) (l, s, r, w)
The course texts upon which these structures are based are as follows:
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass... Preface by William Lloyd Garrison, Introductory letter by Wendell Phillips. (1845). New York, Dover: 2001.
Faigley, Lester. The Penguin Handbook. 2nd ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006.
LeGuin, Ursula. Always Coming Home. Berkeley, U California P, 2001.
Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel. (1949). Afterword by Erich Fromm. New York: Plume (Harcourt Brace): 1981.
Orwell, George. Why I Write. New York, Penguin: 2005.
Tolkien, J R R. The Tolkien Reader. Foreword by Peter S. Beagle. New York: Ballantine, 1966.
I use the entirety of the Douglass text, including the preface and letter, the appendix, and the parody. I will also use the entirety of Orwell NEF. Orwell Why I Write is a collection of short pieces: "Why I Write," "The Lion and the Unicorn," "A Hanging," and "Politics and the English Language". All of these offer a strong support to a reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four. I will, however, be using chiefly "Why" and "Politics". I will use two texts in the anthology The Tolkien Reader, namely "Leaf by Niggle", a short story which I will compare with the Balzac pieces the students are to have read for the summer (see http://cybersybils.com/Balzac.html for that text). I will make less use of LeGuin this semester than I might like, but will probably employ short pieces to break up the tedium, and some of the "autobiographic" materials as comparison to Douglass.
I use much of Faigley; in the Fall term I plan to use the following pages: 2-132, 231-241, 254-346; I will touch upon 351-395 (MLA) lightly; 513 -578; 827-831. I plan to emphasize research and the related scholastic tools in the Spring term; in the Fall my emphasis is on the basic tasks of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and related skills such as note-taking, highlighting, study guide construction, organization of writing tasks, and time-management.
I hope that you will follow my basic outline of readings from Faigley and supplement as I have done with the above texts using whatever supplemental texts you have selected. In the perfect world I envision, everyone will use the superb texts I have chosen, but in this vale of shadows you are welcome to do as you think best.
The following schedule is more or less what I plan to present to the students. It is the barest outline. In the next posting I will provide some more detailed suggestions in way of a teachers's guide. For reasons I hope to make clear to you all in another venue I have not been able to proceed further, although such process is eminently (and immanently) desirable.
Working (Student) Schedule: Foundations of Verbal Communication I & II, 2006-07
Fall 2006: FVC 101
September
wk 1: 5 ix 06 Tu Introductions
Six Questions, Blog Introduction or Pen Pal Letter and Obituary, the course syllabus.
Assignment for next class session: read Faigley 2-6; Tolkien 100-120 ("Leaf by Niggle"; for comparison with Balzac’s "Unknown Masterpiece").
7 ix 06 Th Introductions, continued; the rhetorical situation; the three purposes for verbal communication identified in Faigley (20,21).
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 7-21.
wk 2: 12 ix 06 Tu: Words, Images, and Graphics; Marking Texts
Handout on marking texts (underlining, preparing marginal notes, etc.); sample text marking.
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 22-36; Orwell, "Why" 1-10.
14 ix 06 Th: Discuss whether Orwell’s essay "Why I Write" could be presented non-verbally. Reflective writing exercise responding to the questions: Why do you engage in the artistic work you do? In what way is your motivation for your artwork like Orwell’s motivation to write? When your work is not the best, why do you think that is?
Assignment for next class session: Prepare yourself for the comparative essay by relaxing and breathing deeply.
wk 3: 19 ix 06 Tu: Writing Essay Examinations; Planning and Drafting; Comparative essay on "The Unknown Masterpiece" and "Leaf By Niggle"
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 38-62; Tolkien 33 (as example of topic and thesis).
21 ix 06 Th Composing Paragraphs: Examples from Orwell’s "The Lion and the Unicorn" and "Politics and the English Language".
Faigley enumerates seven types of paragraphs; you will prepare a brief oral presentation on one type of paragraph (as assigned) and also compose an example of the paragraph style as part of the larger essay on Balzac and Tolkien. These will be presented in class next time.
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 63-86.
wk 4: 26 ix Tu Redrafting Comparative essay using Faigley’s instructions (75-93). Submit reworked draft.
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 87-92.
28 ix 06 Th Reviewing other students’s work (using Faigley 93-102). Submit revisions.
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 93-102.
October
Beginning the 10th of October, we will experience a series of oral presentations on material from Faigley 514-578. Assignments are to be made in the first week of October. Each student will be responsible for the material in one section in Faigley; the presentations will be scored on the basic of informational accuracy, clarity of organization, projection and enunciation, and so on. I distribute rubrics for the presentations when I make the assignments.
wk 5: 3 x 06 Tu: Critical Reading and Viewing; Fallacies
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 104-116; Orwell, "Why" 102-120.
5 x 06 Th: submit final draft of comparative essay; Analysis
Questions for rhetorical analysis applied to Orwell, "Why I Write" and "Politics and the English Language".
Assignment for next class session: Faigley 117-132.
wk 6: 10 x 06 Tu: Close Reading of a Text: Tolkien’s "On Fairy-Stories"; How to create study guides; Listen, prepare notes on talks.
Assignment for next class session: Tolkien 33-57 (OFS, sections 1 and 2).
12 x 06 Th: Close Reading of a Text: The Value and Function of Fiction; Listen, prepare notes on talks.
Assignment for next class session: Tolkien 57-75 (OFS, sections 3 and 4).
wk 7: 17 x 06 Tu: Close Reading of a Text: Benefits of Art; Listen, prepare notes on talks.
Assignment for next class session: Tolkien 75-90 (OFS, sections 5 and 6).
19 x 06 Th: Close Reading of a Text: Authorship and Imagination of Secondary Worlds; Listen, prepare notes on talks. Submit study guide on "On Fairy Stories" for review.
Assignment for next class session: LeGuin xi, 3-5, 263-304.
wk 8: 24 x 06 Tu: Close Reading of a Text: Fictional and Factual Autobiography: discuss; prepare notes on discussion.
Assignment for next class session: Douglass chapters 1-8.
26 x 06 Th
Assignment for next class session: Douglass chapters 9-11, Appendix; A Parody.
wk 9: 31 x 06 Tu: Quiz on Narrative. The link between imagination, art, and sub-creation: Douglass and Orwell.
November
2 xi 06 Th: Close Reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 1-42.
wk 10: 7 xi 06 Tu: Close Reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 42-92.
9 xi 06 Th: Quiz on first section of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 93-141.
wk 11: 14 xi 06 Tu
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 141-200.
16 xi 06 Th
Assignment for next class session: Orwell NEF 201-279.
wk 12: no classes, Thanksgiving Break (21 and 23 xi 06)
wk 13: 28 xi 06 Tu Quiz on Nineteen Eighty-Four. Writing an effective Rhetorical Analysis: Topic and thesis construction.
30 xi 06 Th Writing an effective rhetorical analysis: outlining.
December
wk 14: 5 xii 06 Tu Writing an effective rhetorical analysis: drafting.
7 xii 06 Th Writing an effective rhetorical analysis: revision.
wk 15: 12 xii 06 Tu Writing and effective rhetorical analysis: final polish.
14 xii 06 Th: Rhetorical analysis due at beginning of class session.
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