English 13 Kahlet
Week 1
Monday
August 11
Wednesday
August 13
Friday
August 15
Welcome to English 13
 Outcomes and rubrics
Monty Python Argument Clinic
Nine Greek Words Pathos, Ethos and Logos, Kronos,
Krisis, Kairos, Forensic, Epideictic,
Pathos, Ethos, Logos
Sign up for PB Works
Monty Python Argument Clinic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R
DjCqjzbvJY
Quiz
Mr. Collins' Proposal from Pride
and Prejudice by Jane Austen
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/
ppv1n19.html
video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t
Wx7AF8B0R8
Mr. Darcy's Proposal from Pride
and Prejudice by Jane Austen
http://www.myprideandprejudice.co
m/2009/07/mr-darcys-proposal/
video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R
NR9UA6cwMI
Week 2
Monday
August 18
Wednesday
August 20
The Borzoi College Reader: Zissner, Simplicity, 15.
http://cgiss.boisestate.edu/~billc/Writing/zinsser.html
Rozak: "Ideas Come First," 57, Rozak, “The Master
Ideas,” 205.
http://www.shkaminski.com/Classes/Readings/Roszak
05.htm
(Only these two selections)
Analytic Circle 1
Analytic Circle continued.
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Friday
August 22
Fallacy Reports
From Why People Believe Weird Things
Week 3
Monday
August 25
Wednesday
August 27
Fallacy Reports
From Why People Believe Weird Things
Friday
August 29
Week 4
Monday
September 1
Michael Shermer on Expectations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=M8LNEq1EeEw
Introducing summaries.CQ Researcher aliens con[1]
mark up.docx Summarizing Academic
Articles.docIntroducing summaries.CQ Researcher
aliens con[1] mark up.docx Summarizing Academic
Articles.doc
Continued work on summaries.
Labor Day Holiday
Wednesday
September 3
Style: Lesson 1
Summaries due. Peer Review.
MLA format
Friday
September 5
Structures of Reasoning: The Language of Reasoning
CT Chapter 2 “Identifying Reasons and
Conclusions:.
You'll be given a short essay and asked to identify
the reasons and conclusions.
There will be a chapter quiz on each
chapter of Fisher. The midterm will
contain questions similar to the
chapter quizzes.
Miles: “Essay in Reason” 12,
http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el_1
96202_miles.pdf
Week 5
Monday
September 8
Analytic Circles
The Borzoi College Reader Be sure you read the
essays before you come to class.
William Golding,:“Thinking as a Hobby”
http://elearning.ustb.edu.cn/UploadFile//2011123109
5626817.PDF
Robinson,” On Various Kinds of Thinking,”
27. http://www.cwu.edu/~garrisop/essays_for_quiz_
one.pdf Scroll down. Third essay in group.
Wednesday
September10
Analytic Circles Continued
1
Summaries due.
Instructor Review
Analytic Circle 2
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Friday
September
12
Week 6
Monday
September
15
Wednesday
September
17
Weird Things: Chapter 6. Abducted: Encounters
with Aliens.
Style: Lesson 2
CT: Chapter 4 Understanding
Reasoning: Assumptions, Context and a Thinking
Map Analytic Circles:
Friday
September
19
Week 7
Monday
September
22
Group Presentations: assigned chapters from Weird
Things
Wednesday
September
24
Analytic Circles
John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty” On Liberty Questions
492 http://www.bartleby.com/130/4.html
Grudin, “Ideology and Moral Philology,” 41.(PB
works)
Lakoff and Johnson, “Concepts We Live By,”
61.http://uspace.shef.ac.uk/servlet/JiveServlet/previe
wBody/67168-102-1129224/lakoff%20johnson%20metaphor.pdf
Friday
September
26
Analytic Circles continued.
Week 8
Monday
September
29
CT Chapter 6: “The Acceptability of Reasons,
Including Their Credibility”
Style: Lesson 3
Wednesday
October 1
Friday
October 3
Week 9
Monday
October 6
Library Session on Credibility/Databases
.Group Presentations: assigned chapters from Weird
Things
CT Chapter 5 Clarifying and Interpreting Expressions
and Ideas Assumptions
Pre-writing workshop: Issues in the California
Community College System (final paper)
Chapter 7: Judging the Credibility of Sources
Style: Lesson 4
2
Response paper 1 : Identify the
assumptions in the Roswell articles.
All response papers in MLA format
3 plus pages.
.
Response paper 2: Identify the
expressions which need clarification
in the Roswell argument and using
the OED, clarify them. Clarify the
meaning of key terms. Do not copy
definitions directly from a dictionary
and present them as your own.
Analytic Circle 3
Response paper 3: Examine each
reason in the two Roswell articles
and explain whether or not it is
acceptable.
Response paper 4 Evaluate each
author of the Roswell articles for
credibility.
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Wednesday
October 8
Analytic Circles: Borzoi: A. Huxley: “Propaganda
Analytic Circle 4
Under a Dictatorship,”72, In Brave New World Revisited,
Sections 4 and 5 http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/
Bosmajian, “The Language of Oppression,151,
http://faculty.mdc.edu/dmcguirk/ENC1101%20Virtua
l/ENC1101bosmajian.htm
Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,”
158. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell4
6.htm
Friday
October 10
Week 10
Monday
October 13
Analytic Circles, continued.
CT Chapter 8 “Evaluating Inferences: Deductive
Validly and Other Grounds”
Style: Lesson 5
Response paper 5: Evaluate the
inferences in each Roswell article,
Wednesday
October 15
Analytic Circles Borzoi: Staples, “Just Walk on
Analytic Circle 5
By”;http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/rsprigg
s/files/staples%20just%20walk%20on%20by%20text.pdf
Allport, “Prejudice and the Individual,” 325.
Friday
October 17
Analytic Circles continued
Week 11
Monday
October 20
CT Chapter 9 “Evaluating Inferences: Assumptions
and Other Relevant Arguments”
Wednesday
October 22
Friday
October 24
Week 12
Monday
October 27
Wednesday
October 29
Friday
October 31
Creating your own argument: Aristotelean and
Toulmin Models
Response paper 6: Evaluate the
assumptions/other relevant
arguments in the two Roswell
articles
Outline of 5 page argument paper
due.
CT Chapter 10 “Reasoning About Causal
Explanations”
Review of Style lessons.
Peer Review draft of 5 page
argument paper due.
Johnathan Swift, A Modest Proposal, 80. Structure of Analytic Circle 6
a classical argument:
http://www2.winthrop.edu/wcenter/handoutsandlinks/
classica.htm
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Week 13
Monday
November 3
Wednesday
November 5
Friday
November 7
Week 14
Monday
November
10
CT Chapter 11: “Decision Making: Options,
Consequences, Values, Risks.”
Wednesday
November
12
Analytic Circle: Martin Luther King, “Letter from
Birmingham Jail”:
654.http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/frequentdoc
s/birmingham.pdf
Analytic circle, continued.
Analytic Circe 7 (evidence
researcher)
Research reports: Identifying arguable issues in the
California Community College System
Analytic Circle 8 (summarizer)
Friday
November
14
Week 15
Monday
November
17
Wednesday
November
19
Friday
November
21
Week 16
Monday
November
24
Wednesday
November 6
Thursday/
Friday
November
27
November
28
Week 17
Monday
December 1
Wednesday
December 13
Friday
Introduce Capstone Paper:
Instructor Review draft of 5 page
argument due.
Midterm Exam Review
Midterm Exam: Critical Thinking by Fisher
Research reports: Identifying arguable issues in the
California Community College System
Research reports: Identifying arguable issues in the
California Community College System
Workshop on claims and reasons for CCC paper.
Review of Style lessons.
Workshop on claims and reasons for CCC paper.
Thanksgiving Holiday
Peer Review Draft CCCC argument
Workshop
Final Draft CCCC argument, No late papers.
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December 15
Week 18
Final Examination as scheduled : Mark up quiz; Fisher process.
Grade Calculation
Response Papers
20 pts
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Quizzes 10
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
2QRs/AC
10 pts.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Other Class
Participation
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Annotations
10 points
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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15.
Final Grade:
Midterm:
Final:
Note: to get full credit for annotations, you must be able to identify the main claim and reasons of the article.
You can demonstrate this by writing a one sentence summary at the beginning of each article.
You can earn up to 5 extra credit points for additional annotations. For 2QRs, simply turn in your class work;
you do not have to re-type them.
On Time
Peer Review
Instructor
Review
Summary 1
5 pts
Summary 2
5 pts
Paper 1 15
pts
Paper 2 20
pts
5
Revision
Final: