31 March 2017

Agenda

  1. Logistics and Announcements
  2. Group challenge: Rhetoric of a Syllabus (Recap)
  3. Discussion: Alexander et al, “Why Rhetoric?”
  4. Group challenge: Rapid Sequential Storytelling
  5. Homework

 

1. Logistics and Announcements

  • Waitlist: still a question mark
  • Letters to Andrew
  • Consultations: tinyurl.com/DrLSpring17
  • Lesson plans always posted here on https://wp.wwu.edu/composingcomics
  • You may begin submitting projects for credit NEXT Friday
    • Andrew is aiming to have all prompts detailed on the course site by mid next week.
    • In the meantime, if you know what you want your first assignment to be, but are not sure on the prompt, email Andrew for clarification.

2. Group Challenge: Rhetoric of a Syllabus (Recap) 

In small groups, work together to develop a “comparative rhetorical analysis” of the two syllabus documents for this class.

How to do it:

  1. Look at each of the two documents in terms of its Rhetorical Situation
  2. Suggestion: make a spoke-and-axle mind map to quickly lay out this 5-part analysis
  3. Compare the differences and similarities between the two Rhetorical Situations
  4. Prepare a 2 minute presentation of your most important findings and evidence, include as well any difficulties or challenges your group faced in doing this analysis

3. Discussion: Losh, Alexander, Cannon, and Cannon, l “Why Rhetoric?”

  • First impressions: would you read the whole book?
  • Quick Rhetorical Situation: what is it? what’s it doing?
  • Key moments (Andrew’s: p38, p52)

 

4. Group Challenge: Rapid Sequential Storytelling

 

This activity is designed for small groups. Each group member should have 4 pictures that she or he brought from home. Those pictures should have some kind of implied (but not obvious) progression or sequence.

BTW: If you ever need public domain images for a school or professional project, here is a massive list of resources thanks to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

How to do it:

  1. Take your images and lay them out in your intended sequence
  2. Give each image a 1 or 2 word caption; write that caption on a scrap of paper and lay it with its matching image
  3. Take a photograph of your quick comic poem
  4. Pass your materials to another student
  5. That student will try to re-arrange your poem into a new sequence
  6. If desired, that student may add a new layer of captions to the images BUT MAY NOT LEAVE OUT ANY OF THE ORIGINAL IMAGES OR CAPTIONS
  7. Take a photograph of the revised comic poem
  8. Return all materials to original author

Student examples:

 

 

 

 

 

5. Homework

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