Day 3 - Thursday
I. Housekeeping
- sign-in
- note cards for new students
II. Argument Parts Review
- review the eliciting questions; direct attention
to syllabus to note specific days upcoming for focus on specific
argument parts
III. Group work with homework arguments
- briefly review benefits of group work, using
peers as resources
Students are grouped according to myths chosen.
- Goal: to work together to formulate the most
solid argument possible, which they will present as a group, for
evaluation by other groups.
- Students will use each other to collect reasons,
bolster evidence, gain different perspectives on warrant (offer my
definition of compelling), etc. Students will also evaluate each
other's work, discarding weak reasons, unwarranted reasons,
etc.
- Each group will appoint a recorder, who will
write down the group's argument and present it to the
class.
IV. Reconvene
group by group presentations
Question: How would you alter your argument after
having hear the other arguments? Change your claim? The nature of
your reasons? In a discourse community, members responds to one
another.
Homework: Reading artists
accounts (Whistler, Cezanne, Matisse, Copland, Bernstein)
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