For our next class, read

• Knoblauch’s Discursive Ideologies, pp. 1 – 102

Activity: Ancient Rhetorics Concepts Refresher

Discussion: Knoblauch’s Discursive Ideologies

For January 28, everyone should read the following selections. Team A should prepare Rhetorical Trading Cards, and Team B should prepare our Lesson Plan:

• Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 3 Ch X & XI (PDF)
• Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” (excerpts, PDF)
• Vico’s “On the Study Methods of Our Time” (excerpts, PDF)
• Rousseau’s Emile, or On Education (excerpts, PDF)

Discussion: Enlightenment Rhetorics

Lesson Plan: Team B

For February 4, everyone should read the following selections. Team B should prepare Rhetorical Trading Cards, and Team A should prepare our Lesson Plan:

• Campbell, Philosophy of Rhetoric, X  (PDF) & Philosophy of Rhetoric, VII (PDF)
• Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres, XXXI (PDF)
• Bain, English Composition & Rhetoric (PDF)
• Hill, Principles of Rhetoric(PDF)
  Secondary Criticism
  
• Miller, excerpt from The Formation of College English (PDF)
• Crowley, excerpt from Methodical Memory (PDF)

Discussion: Enlightenment Rhetorics @ School

Lesson Plan: Team A

For February 11, everyone should read the following selections. Team A should prepare Rhetorical Trading Cards, and Team B should prepare our Lesson Plan:

• Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” & “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery“
• Wells, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases“
• Grimke, “Letter to Theodore Weld“
• Stewart, “Lecture Delivered to Franklin Hall“
  Secondary Criticism
• Gilyard & Banks, On African-American Rhetoric, pp 1 – 70
• Logan’s “Ida B. Wells’s ‘Lynch Laws’“

Discussion: The 19th C Exra-Curriculum

Lesson Plan: Team B

For February 25, everyone should read the following selections. Team B should prepare Rhetorical Trading Cards, and Team A should prepare our Lesson Plan:

• Nietzsche, “Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense“
• Burke, “Ritual Drama as ‘Hub’” (e.g., the Parlor)
• Burke, “Terministic Screens“
• Burke, “Identification & Consubstantiation“
• Weaver, “The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric” & “Ultimate Terms in Contemporary Rhetoric“
• Perelman, from The New Rhetoric
  Secondary Reading
• Clark, “Kenneth Burke, Identification, and Rhetorical Criticism in the Writing Classroom“

DUE: Genealogy Project Annotated Bibliography, Pt 1

Discussion: Inventing the Modern Subject

Due: Genealogy Project Annotated Bib Pt 1

Lesson Plan: Team A

For March 11, everyone should read the following selections. Team A should prepare Rhetorical Trading Cards, and Team B should prepare our Lesson Plan:

• Scott, “Rhetoric as Epistemic“
• Bitzer, “The Rhetorical Situation“
• Vatz, “Myth of the Rhetorical Situation“
• Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses“
  Secondary Reading
• Knoblauch, “Expressivist Rhetoric” (Ch 5) & “Sociological Rhetoric” (Ch 6)

Discussion: Rhetorical Situations

For March 18, everyone should read the following selections. Team B should prepare Rhetorical Trading Cards, and Team A should prepare our Lesson Plan:

• Foucault, “The Discourse on Language” & “Scientia Sexualis” (from The History of Sexuality, Vol 1)
• Cixous, “Laugh of the Medusa“
• Gates, “The Blackness of Blackness“
• Anzaldúa, from Borderlands, La Frontera
  Secondary Reading
• Knoblauch, “Deconstructive Rhetoric” (Ch 7)
• Biesecker, “Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric“

DUE: Genealogy Project Annotated Bibliography, Pt 2

Discussion: Postmodern Rhetorics

Lesson Plan: Postmodern Rhet Lesson Plan

Due: Genealogy Project Annotated Bibliography, Pt 2

For March 28, everyone should read the following selections. Team A should prepare Rhetorical Trading Cards, and Team B should prepare our Lesson Plan:

• Butler, “Imitation & Gender Insubordination“
• Powell et al, “Our Story Begins Here” (link)
• Powell, “Rhetorics of Survivance“
• Lyons, “Rhetorical Sovereignty“
• Gilyard, “African American Rhetoric“
• Lorde, “The Master’s Tools …“
• Pough, “I Bring Wreck …“
  Secondary Readings
• Olson, “On the Margins of Rhetoric“

Discussion: Cultural Rhetorics

Lesson Plan: Team B/Group Too

For March 28, everyone should read the following selections. Team B should prepare Rhetorical Trading Cards, and Team A should prepare our Lesson Plan:

• Ahmed, “Orientations“
  
• Ahmed, “Feminist Killjoys“
• Warner,”What’s Wrong with Normal?“
  
• Rand, “An Inflammatory Fag …“
• Halberstam, “Introduction: Low Theory“

DUE: Draft 1 of Genealogy Project for peer and instructor feedback

Due: Complete the poll to vote on readings from Rethinking Ethos.

Discussion: Queer Rhetorics

Lesson Plan: Week 13 – Team Ayeeee

Due: Genealogy Project Draft 1

For April 8, everyone should read the following selections from Re-thinking Ethos. Team B should prepare our Lesson Plan:

• Ryan, Myers, Jones, “Introduction”
• Waite, “The Unavailable Means of Persuasion”
• Gaillet, “Ethos as a Social Act”
• Pennington, “Powerlessness Repurposed”
• Conley, “Strategically Negotiating Essence”
• Applegarth, “Working with and Working For”

Discussion: Rethinking Ethos

Lesson Plan: Team B/Group Too

Due: Peer Review #1 of Genealogy Project

For April 14, doctoral students should read Boyle’s Posthuman Rhetorics and prepare classroom activities and talking points to help us all understand Boyle’s understanding of “posthuman” and “rhetoric” — and how those ideas might impact our teaching of writing and rhetoric.

Remember, part of the class will not have read Boyle’s book, so as you prepare to teach this text, you will want to be sure to do a few things:

1. Define key concepts: what does it mean to be “posthuman”? what is “affect”? etc.
2. In defining concepts, consider their histories and how they connect: e.g., where does the idea of posthumanism come from? affect? How do they connect to/grow out of rhetorical and critical theories we’ve read?  (You might make a handout that links it to other key rhetoricians and texts. The benefit here is that it is something tangible we can all hold and refer to as the discussion unfolds.)
3. Connect posthuman concepts to classroom practice: how might some of the ideas in Boyle’s text impact teaching in English 1100, 2201, or other undergraduate courses focused on rhetoric?

These moves will help make concepts from the book available to those who haven’t read it, and may also encourage them to add the book to their reading list for summer! 🙂

Discussion: Posthuman Rhetorics

For April 22, everyone should prepare 10 minute presentations of their Genealogy Projects.

Activity: Genealogy Project Presentations

For April 29, final drafts of your genealogy projects are due for evaluation and response

Due: Genealogy Projects by 5:00 pm

Have a great summer break!