OFFICE VISITS

Choose a time below to come to my office. If none of these times work for you EMAIL me. Please be sure and check the other comments left by classmates. You cannot claim a time someone else already claimed. Remember we have NO class on Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY: April 8
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THURSDAY: April 9
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MONDAY: April 13
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Sometimes Questions are More Important than Answers" - Nancy Willard

On your blog list 20 questions about your small group topic that you have. These must be different questions than the questions your group devised on Wednesday.

After listing your questions visit 3 other blogs (these do not have to be members of your group) and leave a comment with 3 additional questions to those the blog author already asked.

Media Influence and Power

For Monday be sure you have read:

RA: pg. 334 and RA 417

Both of these are essays addressing the power and influence of the media. In a general post respond to the ideas presented in these essays and share your thoughts about media influence.

Money & Success and Individual Opportunity

For this week, read page 294 in ReReading America, "Serving in Florida" by Barbra Ehrenreich

Consider one, some or all of the following in shaping your blog post on this reading:

• The introduction to this reading states, "If you are considering dropping out of college and settling into a comfy minimum-wage job (or two) please read this excerpt first..." Why is this recommended reading to someone who might be in this position? How does this reading make you feel as a college student?


• Respond to question 7 on page 333 in RA


• Consider and Respond to the questions on p.306

Taking a Breath

In the spirit of our "Breather Assignment," take a look at the following:

"Money" RA p. 330
and "From Seven Floors Up" RA p.332

These selections are examples of artwork (poetry) that have come directly out of social and economic circumstance, and seek to, in some way, shed light on that human experience.

Think about these poems, reference them as you post answering the following questions:

How do politics impact art?
Consider your own magazine topic, can you think of artistic products connected to it?

Does Rhetoric Define Who We Are?

For Wednesday this week be sure you have done the following:

Read "I just Wanna be Average" and written a post on it - just write out any thoughts you have.

Post comments on two blogs you have not commented on before.

Chosen the text you will be examining for your Rhetorical Analysis.

Considering Rhetoric

As we make our way into the next unit of the semester we move from reading essays concerned with home and family to essays concerned with education in the United States. We also move into a closer examination of the rhetoric used in different discourse communities and will consider rhetorical strategies and choices in our own writing.

To that end, please read Michael Moore's "Idiot Nation" from Rereading America for Wednesday. This essay tends to net strong reactions from students, so come fired up and ready to discuss what is happening in this text next period.

You should also collect some of your thoughts in a post due by midnight.

For this week and this reading go ahead and post a general response to the text - write and respond however you want...just be sure and consider your own rhetoric.

**When commenting on each others' blogs this week comment on 2 blogs you have NOT previously commented on.