This semester (Spring 2008) I have decided to keep a blog of my teaching activities at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga, for the Spring Semester 2008. I am teaching two English 1102 classes - Reading Literature and Writing Argument (25 students in each class).
Objective: Still working with the magazines students brought, I introduced the concepts of Pathos, Logos, Ethos - Types of Proofs. We then applied this to the reading of "Hard Rock Returns to Prison". This enabled me to introduce Pathos, Logos, Ethos,...
Objective : Today, Magazine activity to introduce the Toulmin Model (Claim, Subclaim, Evidence, etc.) I use a Powerpoint Presentation to introduce Toulmin and then ask students to flip through the pages of the magazines they brought to identify the audience,...
Objectives: 1) Before teaching students how to write well, I like to tell them what not to write and what I consider is bad writing. I use a special exercise: a list of sentences taken from former papers. students need to identify the mechanical errors...
/idata%2F0507981%2F%2Fsyllabus-copie-1.JPG)
Day 1: Today, I got to meet my english 1102 students. I have decided to teach this class, using literature. Knowing that some students were not ready for this (and were probably going to drop this class), I did not do much, handed out and discussed the...
