Book Clubbing, Day 1: April 27, 2017

Focus: What current American issues are you starting to understand better or differently?

1. Warming up with a little demo of using rhetorical appeals in your one-minutes speeches

2. Offering you a real-life example of one of your first semester syllabi. Remember that you may earn up to 30 points per syllabus:

• 20 points for a thoughtful, meaningful syllabus that is ready to go before class begins.
• 10 points for clear and thorough discussion notes on the syllabus.
• Click HERE to see a 1st semester sample with student discussion notes and my feedback.

3. Book Clubbing, Day 1

4. Wrapping up with your success ticket

HW:
1. If you need to add to your documentary tracking sheet, please do so tonight; I will be collecting them in class tomorrow. If you're going to be absent tomorrow, please turn yours in TODAY.

2. Practice your one-minute speech for TOMORROW. If you're absent tomorrow, prepare to deliver your speech on Tuesday. Click here if you need to see the speech topics.

2. Assigned book club reading and syllabus for Tuesday, May 2.