Date

Day

Topic/readings

Assignments and tasks

Location

9/15

Mon

Mass media reviews.

Read Chapter 11, especially 391-97.

1. Bring a publication you read that reviews music, books, movies or other forms of entertainment.  (E.g. Rolling Stone, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly.)
2. Look particularly for a well developed review, not the one or two paragraph reviews. 

9/17

Wed.

Doing some research.

SkimChapter 16.

1. Post a good piece of advice you found in chapter 16 to the class weblog.
2. Find a surface web, a deep web, and a print source relevant to your next two reviews.  Concepts will be explained in class. 

IACC 116

9/19

Fri.

Read 409-417. 

Bring a draft of your review (5 points per page; up to 20 points). Peer Review the reviews.

9/22

Mon

Academic reviews.

Print-off these notes about reviewing music. We will read the notes about reviewing music in class and listen to music.

Review Due.  Please share your review with the class.  You can use one of these methods:

1.     Post it to your personal weblog (if you have started one).

2. Send it as an email attachment to the whole class (use the Blackboard email function).
3. Post it to the discussion board in Blackboard.
4. Post it to the class weblog.
5. Send it to the Spectrum and tell us when it will be published. 

9/24

Wed.

Bring the CD you are reviewing.  Bring personal music player if you have one. We will listen to more music and talk about how the criteria can be applied.

1. Bring notes for your review: you should have notes on the expressive, sensuous, and musical elements of the CD you are reviewing.
2. Find a website relevant to your review assignment, and post a filter-style entry in the weblog (filter = commentary + link).

9/26

Fri.

Work day, no class.  Do a filter-entry on the class weblog for an essay or website relevant to your review assignment. 

9/29

Mon

 Re-read 409-417.  Be very clear about the differences between description and evaluation.  (413).

 Bring a draft of your academic review (5 points per page up to 25 points).

Peer review the academic review in class.

10/1

Wed.

Read Chapter 9. 307-318, Read page 328 to learn about the casebook assignment.    

Academic review due.

Send yourself a copy via email or bring a copy on a disk.  You will have one other person help you edit your review; you can make changes, print-it-off. 

When you have finished editing your academic review, read the "Commentary Essay" assignment closely, and post answers to the following questions in the Blackboard discussion board:

1.     What topic(s) interest you?

2.     How would you begin to research your topic?

3.     What aspects of the assignment are unclear?

IACC 116

10/3

Fri.

Read student paper in Call to Write, 615-25.  Post to the class weblog one "tip" you can generate from reading this essay.

1. Begin the process of assembling a casebook (328).  Find a team to work with; topics don't have to be identical, but should be related. 
2. I will help you form a "group" within the Blackboard site.
3. Begin research on sources from the library, the surface web, and the deep web.
4. By the end of the class, or sometime this weekend, you should post a short description of your topic within your group's discussion board.  Group members should comment on each other's topics. 

IACC 116

10/6

Mon

Read Chapter 2. Think about what strategies you already use.  Are all of the strategies clear to you?

1. Bring three or four copies of a short (5 to 10 paragraphs) item you will use in your casebook. 
2. be prepared to provide a rhetorical analysis of it for your group (see 61-62).
3. ask your group for help/feedback in reading or using the article. 
4. Distribute a longer article at the end of class; your group will read it for next class. 

10/8

Wed.

Read the material your group members have given you to read. 

1. Provide a rhetorical analysis of the essay you have brought from your group. (see 61-62).
2. Ask your group for help/feedback in reading or using the article.

10/10

Fri.

Post to the class weblog one strategy you use, or might use, to read difficult material.

1. Synthesize what we have learned this week about reading difficult material, doing rhetorical analysis, about positioning the reading you do. 
2. Continue working on the casebook; sketch an outline for your commentary essay if you are ready to do so. 

IACC 116

10/13

Mon

Print off and bring to class the essay "Celebrities Counter the War."

Casebook due.   

Be prepared to talk briefly about your project.  We will read the "Celebrities" essay in class and review the features of the commentary genre. 

10/15

Wed.

Re-read chapter 9; pay particular attention to the section of the chapter about writing commentaries.

Bring a draft of your commentary essay (5 points per page, up to 25 points).  Do a peer review of the essay; focus on content.

10/17

Fri.

Read chapter 14.  Post to the weblog one piece of advice from this chapter you found useful. 

Bring a revised draft of you commentary.  Do a peer review of the essay: focus on form, style, and mechanics. 

10/20

Mon

Print off and bring to class Deb Marquart's essay, "The Most Famous Person from North Dakota".

Commentary due.

We will read Marquart's essay in class and listen to her music. 

We will brainstorm "writing with music."