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Contents 1 Unit 1 due, copyediting, preludes (Day 7, Sept 25) 2 Homework due 27 September 3 Reflection Letters, Portfolios (Day 8, Sept 27) 4 Homework due 2 Oct

Unit 1 due, copyediting, preludes (Day 7, Sept 25)

• Sign up for first individual conference with Steph; you must bring your portfolio for Unit 1 (the identity narrative/biographical introduction of your classmate) to the meeting!
• Read your classmate's introduction of you. Go to your blog, find your post from last week (about the short introductions), re-read it, and then post a freewrite comment to yourself about

a) changes/additions/subtractions/etc,

b) your reactions and thoughts about anything left the same (why?!) or different, and

c) what you learned about the writer of your introduction.

• For the CourseWiki, come up with one sentence that will serve as a prelude to the introduction your classmate wrote about you. Post this sentence on the CourseWiki's homepage and include the link to your Userpage.
• On your Userpage, create a Table of Contents.
• Time remaining? Start

a) thinking/jotting notes to yourself (an email? text file?) for your First Reflection Letter, or

b) organizing materials for your portfolio.

Homework due 27 September

Write first Reflection Letters. Bring one hard copy to turn in to Steph. Read The Clamor of Justification in the [[1]]. Bring the textbook and Penguin handbook to class.

Reflection Letters, Portfolios (Day 8, Sept 27)

• Turn in Reflection Letters. (Do you have your Portfolio ready for your meeting with Steph?)

NOTE! The portfolio should also include what your subject wrote about these introductions....

• Examples of feedback (NOT grading!)

Divide into two groups, one to read about Marco, and one to read about Christine.

Each group: list strengths of the piece. Identify ideas that seem confusing. What is the main narrative thread?

• Penguin Points Activity, Prelude to Penguin Jeopardy
• Rhetorical Situation Applied: The Clamor of Justification.

Homework due 2 Oct

1. Blog about the private/public questions involved with my asking Blendi, Marco, and Christine to allow themselves to be the material for our in-class example.
2. Make a sketch (an actual schematic drawing) of the rhetorical situation and each element of it that is covered in The Clamor of Justification. Bring four copies to class.
3. Reporters: please post the summary lists in response to our three questions - strengths, confusing ideas, and main narrative thread - on the Discussion Page associated with the User being introduced: For author Marco on Christine's Usertalk Page and for author Blendi, on Marco's Usertalk Page. (Remember, this is the "discussion tab" next to the front/first page.)
4. Extra Credit: send a message to Blendi and/or Marco about their introductions. Be sure to "sign" for credit!