Updated Schedule for this Week

Like we discussed in class, presentations will continue on Wednesday and Thursday.  On Friday, we will be discussing how to create a strong thesis for your Analysis papers.  If you have begun the paper, please bring it to class for feedback.  First Drafts of your Analysis papers are due in class for peer review on February 28 (the day we come back from the break).  Do not be unprepared!

Have a great break!

New Link to Preface

Hi all!  Some people are having trouble with the previous link to Jaron Lanier's preface.  Try this one!  You should be able to cut and paste, then print it.

http://max256.bearstrong.net/2010/05/01/i-want-to-say-you-have-to-be-somebody-before-you-can-share-yourself/

Preface to "You are Not a Gadget"

Please print out a hard copy of this for tomorrow's discussion.  Here is the link:

http://books.google.com/books?id=9i1WgopfVToC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=jaron+lanier+preface+to+you+are+not+a+gadget&source=bl&ots=UqBPT9IN78&sig=pO6qZJ1qAP2ilAUyJwlVV85PoD0&hl=en&ei=phdUTaqMIIL6lwet3c3HCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

New Reminder

Have an annotated hard copy of "E-Playgrounds" AND, as previously assigned, a one page paper (typed) discussing your findings through DIDLS of the article.

New Due Dates and Various Reminders

As per our discussion in class today, due dates for the Independent Reading Presentations and first draft of the Independent Reading Analysis Paper have shifted!

Presentations will now be Monday and Tuesday, February 14 and 15.
First draft of the Analysis Paper due in class Thursday, February 17, for peer review.

We will turn our attention (AGAIN) to "E-Playgrounds Can Get Vicious" tomorrow, Tuesday, after we finish looking at #5 of the DIDLS practice.  Please have an annotated hard copy in class tomorrow.  There may be a writing assignment involved :)

Various Important Stuff

Attendance was sparse today, due to weather, I'm guessing.  We began discussing your responses to the DIDLS practice worksheet you completed over the break.  We will continue this on FRIDAY, so please be sure to have your DIDLS responses with you on that day.

I also assigned HW today--it will also be due on FRIDAY, not Thursday, like I originally said.  Please revisit the NY Times article, "E-playgrounds Can Get Vicious."  The link can be found on one of the blog posts.  Print out a copy and and annotate it using DIDLS.  Write a one-page typed response (double spaced, of course), discussing the various rhetorical strategies (diction, imagery, language, details and sytax) the writer uses to achieve a particular tone.  Be sure to name that tone!

Be sure to be working on your Independent Reading and Presentations, too!

Beginning next week, we will start to go over the format for the Rhetorical Analysis essay.