Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - Oct. 14-15-16

For Monday’s class, bring copies of the two contrasting passages you intend to write about for the Multi-Draft Essay.  Ideally, you’ll type them up and bring them to class in printed form.  Be sure your name is at the top -- I'll ask the Substitute to collect them as part of Monday’s class.

Also on Monday, I’ll ask the Sub to give you an AP Multiple-Choice reader’s quiz.  This will serve as rehearsal for the AP exam, so I’ll count it as a Participation credit, not as a “Right-or-Wrong” score – i.e., please relax and investigate the experience!  Take it with an open mind, and solve the intellectual puzzles as best you can.  We’ll talk about the results on Wednesday, Oct. 16.

On Tuesday, Oct. 15, it’s the next I-CE (#3).  Therefore, please get a good night’s sleep in advance! Review rhetorical analysis tips in Ch. 1 and 2 of The Language of Composition, including those most fundamental of Fundamentals, the Modes of Discourse -- Process Analysis, Compare and Contrast, and all the others.  Many of you would also do well to review the elements of a classical argument or essay -- introduction, examples, counterargument, call-to-action.  Also, it's always wise to  review rhetorical analysis prompts and student responses on A.P. Central.

For Wednesday’s class, Oct. 16, please read Tim O’Brien’s short story “On the Rainy River,” an excerpt from The Things They Carried (1990).  It’s a longer story, so you might do well to begin your reading over the weekend.  (LOC, pp. 961-973.)  Tim O'Brien hails from Worthington, Minnesota.  He was the class valedictorian at Macalester College, in St. Paul, in 1968.  "On the Rainy River" is set in northern Minnesota.