Agenda: Week 3

Week 3: Monday, 9/7 – Friday, 9/11

(Monday: Labor Day–no classes)

By end-of-day Wednesday, 9/9

READING:

• Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
• Listen to “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
  • Note: there are different version of this text’s title

WRITING:

Quick Comments

• Look at your peers’ posts from Wednesday–you’ll find them in Week 2 Work under student work and are the ones labeled “Micro-Activity #3: Brainstorming Discourse Communities .” Are there any DC problems/issues that connect with yours? Or have any peers listed issues related to their DC that you have not considered? Write comments on two of your peers’ observations (approx. 25 words) either adding on to what they’ve said or helping them fine-tune what they are discussing.

Micro-Activity #4: Responding to Douglass

• Write a post in which you do the following (Note there are two parts to this activity):
  • Part 1: Having read and listened to Douglass’s speech, what do you believe he is arguing? Pick two quotations from the text that help support your understanding, and then do the following for each quote:
    • Quote the passage/lines using proper MLA citation formatting (be sure to quote accurately).
    • Paraphrase the quote (put it in your own words).
    • Respond to the quote and explain how this quote supports your interpretation of the text.

                         In your response, use the following format:

• • • Quote 1:
    • Paraphrase:
    • Response:
  •  
    • Quote 2:
    • Paraphrase:
    • Response:

• • Part 2: Find two moments where Douglass’s writing strategy gets your attention, and think about how you might use these strategies as models for your own writing. (Remember: for Unit 1: Investigating a Discourse Community you will be writing your own speech or letter.)

                         In your response, use the following format:

• • • Quote 1:
    • Identify the writing strategy you see Douglass using:
    • Explain why you find this useful, persuasive, or effective in some way:

• • • Quote 2:
    • Identify the writing strategy you see Douglass using:
    • Explain why you find this useful, persuasive, or effective in some way:

• Before publishing your post, make sure you do the following:
  • Title it “Micro-Activity # 4: Responding to Douglass”
  • Pick the category “Week 3 Work”