For February 1:

Read chapters 1-3 in George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By  and write a one page response noting the main point of the piece and anything you found anything particularly interesting or surprising, or that you disagree with.

For February 6:

Read Claudia Rankine’s The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning and respond to prompt under “conversations” tab of this site.

For February 8:

Read Wendell Berry’s “In Defense of the Small Farm” and respond to the prompt, and/or to a peer’s post.

For February 15:

Read Barbara Ehrenreich’s Maid to Order and respond to the prompt, and/or to a peer’s post.

For February 22:

Read Kirill Medvedev’s essay and poems and respond to the prompt, and/or to a peer’s post.

For February 27:

Read “Responding to Other Students’ Writing” and respond to the prompt, and/or to a peer’s post.

Read the first drafts of paper one from your peer review groups. Please print, mark, and bring to class.

For March 1:

Read Mandelstam poems (introduction optional) and comment on the blog. Work on revision, final draft is due Friday.

For March 13:

Read “On Reading and Thinking Critically.” Using the annotation techniques described, perform a second, close reading of the text you will be using for your rhetorical analysis paper. Post on the blog about your experience with this.