DAY 01 - CYCLE 02 - SEMESTER 02: 01-11-12

HANDOUTS FROM TODAY:  

Classroom behavior assessment: Do classrooms favor boys? A personal investigation leading up to an essay we will read this weekend.

Reading guide to Katha Politt's essay "Why Boys Don't Play With Dolls" on page 283 of your book.

IN CLASS TODAY:

1. Overview of the introduction to Seagull Reader and study guide.
2. Practice rhetorical analysis of an advertisement's enthymemes
1. Because smart people read the Economist
2. Because you want to be smart
3. THEREFORE, you should read the Economist

CLASS NOTES:
None available on line, though you should have jotted a few down.

HOMEWORK

1.       BRING YOUR VOCABULARY BOOK – we’ll do a review exercise tomorrow.

2.       Complete the handout regarding class dynamics. You had today and will have tomorrow/Friday to work on it. Really give it some thought, as it will make our conversations better over the course of the next several days.

3.       Read Katha Politt’s essay “Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls” which appears on page 253 of your Seagull Reader and do the corresponding reading guide passed out in class. Forget your book? No problem: http://www.uta.edu/faculty/fuston/Fall%2003/Boys%20and%20dolls.pdf

Finally, and strictly FYI, is a GI Joe a doll? How about Wolverine?  Turns out, this is more loaded question than you thought. Have a listen! http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/dec/22/mutant-rights/