Class #15: Monday, March 28, 2016: Welcome Back from Spring Break (Catch-Up Class) MOVED BACK FROM LAST WEEK

Class Schedule: Evaluating Credibility: Discuss Reading & Class Activities

Annotated Bibliography Assignment: "Stop & Frisk" law in Philadelphia

Resources: WHYY NewsWorks Story 

Annotated Bibliography/Literature Review Assignment (Informal Writing #5): Following the tenets and structure of an annotated bibliography learned in class, we will each create our own. Remember: summarize, assess, reflect (what is it about? Is it useful? How (or why not)?

Five citations per student. Typed, please.

Police respond to allegations of bias in stop and frisk

Police respond to allegations of bias in stop and frisk: Philadelphia Police Department reforms are ongoing and so will some form of stop–and–frisk, Police Commissioner Richard Ross said Tuesday.

Class #14: Spring Break Catch Up Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Evaluating Source Credibility assignment: 


Apply the six key questions of source credibility to the article given in class.

1. Answers must be typed.

2. Must answer each of the six questions (on the blog, listed at the bottom of the "Evaluating Credibility" post) reviewed in class.

3. Write at least four sentences to answer each question. Provide one direct quotation from the article that answers each question.

Costal Rhet & Comp Canceled Monday, March 21st

Bad stomach bug hit me hard...no class tonight. We'll pick up with post-break activities come Wednesday.

Class #11: ASSIGNMENT: Informal Esay #4: Sex Crimes Lit Analysis

Notes from class: 

PROMPT: How does each short story exhibit the nature of "power" or "authority" as it pertains to sexual crime? What does that reveal about the connections between authority and victimization? In your paper, you should cite both stories and at one other source.

THESIS: Both Katherine Heiney and Nicole Acheampong reveal the role power plays in their portrayals of sexual assault. It is all too common today, that sexual victims fall prey to those with explicit or implicit authority or power over them.

STRATEGY:
1. write a divisive opening paragraph (P1)
2. Provide evidence of thesis from the short stories. Be sure to cite your evidence and connect it back to the thesis (P2 - P4)
3. Provide evidence from one or two sources you find on your own. Be sure to cite your evidence and connect it back to the thesis (P3 - P7)

Essay should be approximately four to eight paragraphs long.

PLEASE BE SURE TO HAVE A DRAFT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT IN CLASS MONDAY, so we can work with the drafts.