english 1102 - spring 2008

Today, students continued their presentations on fallacies found in movies, etc. We then finished our discussion on the poem The Colonel. I love using this poem to introduce the analysis of characters and how characters can define themselves against other...

Objectives: We have now spent a whole month on analyzing arguments, claims, identifying types of proofs and types of claims, warrants, etc. We have also discussed our first theme of the year: Individual vs. Community. Students turned in their first focus...

Today, no class. Students were asked to go to the library to start researching on a controversial topic. They were asked to use the databases we have here at GSU and to bring an annotated bibliography of the article they will have read.

Tuesday was a research day, meaning that the class did not meet, yet students were supposed to go to the library to do some research on their own on a topic or issue they were interested in. Working in groups, they had to produce the results of their...

Objective: Today, I introduced the Rogerian Model. Students had an activity in class, on different topics. Working in pairs, they have to argue on the different topics and try to find a way to reconcile the diverging views with the Rogerian model. Application/Exercise:...

Objective: Today, we worked on the Types of Claims (Fact, Cause, Value, Definition, Policy). Using three pieces, "Richard Cory" "I am alone" and "A Worn Path" we talked about the claims of definition - Who is who? How are we perceived by others? How can...

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...

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...