Date

Topic

Assignment Due on this day

Day One

Gateway to Writing Arguments & Plagiarism

- Bring Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readings (WA)

- Bring an argument you have found in a newspaper that argues a point or issue

Day Two

Implicit/Explicit Arguments & Claims

- Students will have read pages 1-15 in Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readings (WA) in preparation for class.

Day Three

Logos - Supporting Your Claims with Reasons to Create an Enthymeme

- Completed ‘Claims Chart’ from previous day

- Read Ch 4 in WA (p. 75-84)

Day Four

Warrants & the Toulmin Schema

- Students will have created seven (7) enthymemes from previous day’s chart work.

- Students will have read data set readings for unit and completed the sections on the ‘Toulmin Schema’ sheet entitled ‘Enthymemes’, ‘Claims’, and ‘Stated Reasons’.

- Students will have read Ch. 5 in WA, p 87-92 on ‘Warrants’ (having stopped after the first full paragraph on 92)

Day Five

Grounds

- Students are to now complete warrants for their seven (7) enthymemes on ‘Claims Chart’

- Students are to now complete the section entitled ‘Warrants’ for the data set readings on their ‘Toulmin Schema’ handout.

- Students are to have read pp.92-108 in Writing Arguments in preparation for class.

Day Six

Backing

- Students have completed the section entitled ‘Grounds’ for the data set readings on their ‘Toulmin Schema’ handout.

- Students will have read in WA: ”Petition to Waive the University Mathematics Requirement” (p.17-20) and “Debunking the 10 Worst Myths About America’s Teens’ (p.664-667). 

- Students will have produced the following for each essay, either in list or in paragraph form:

o        Claim

o        Stated reason

o        Warrant

o        Grounds

Day Seven

Assignment/Toulmin Schema Practice

- Students will read Ch 3 in WA, p. 52-58.

- Students will have completed their ‘Toulmin Schema’ handout from Day 3.

Day Eight

Toulmin Exam/Peer Workshop

- Students will have written an enthymeme in response to the issue questions designed to be the thesis of their paper and have produced a Toulmin Schema on their issue.

- Students will have studied completed ‘Toulmin Schema’ sheets for a test during the next class meeting.

Day Nine

Consolidating Toulmin & Idea Mapping Your Paper

- Students will have read Ch 3 in WA, p. 52-58.

- Students will have rewritten their enthymeme, as well as edited their personal ‘Toulmin Schema’ according to the peer feedback they received.

Day Ten

Outlining: Tying Organization to the Toulmin Schema

- Students will have reread WA p. 463-5: “Driving Global Warming”

Day Eleven

MLA & Peer Workshop

- Students will have completed their paper outline.

- Students will have written a rough draft of their assignment.  They will have brought two copies to class for Peer Workshop next period.

- Students will have reviewed the MLA section in WA: p. 394-405.

Day Twelve

Revision Day

- Students must complete and edit the Unit Assignment.  With their two-page writing assignment, they must turn in their manila folder along with their completed ‘Microtheme Unit: Manila Folder Checklist’ on Day Thirteen.   

Day Thirteen

Final Paper Due &

Self-Evaluation

- Students will have their completed papers, and all essay-related work in their manila folder.