Finding Your Voice: Advocacy and Change
Class schedule
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Theme |
Date |
Class Activities |
Due |
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Identifying Your Passion |
Wed., Oct. 1 |
Program and people introductions; Voice intro; Role play: seminaring and value identification (based on "Six Ways We Choose Our Values" handout given in class); context-setting signup |
Nothing! |
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Wed., Oct. 8 |
Coles seminar; Voice workshop – spine, jaw, breathing; Covenants; Photographing students and faculty |
Autobiography due (including 3 sources); Seminar paper and two written seminar question on Coles (2 pages); Read Linklater pp. 1--56 Read letters to editor (in reader) and write ½ page of notes; Community service typed formal proposal (12-credit students only) |
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Sat., Oct. 11 |
Library research workshop; Individual student-faculty conferences; Share political songs; Seminar on Elbow & Ms. Letters (from reader); Peer editing workshop |
Bring lyrics to existing political song with lyric sheet; Letter to faculty (1 page, typed); Read "Writing with Power" in reader and two typed seminar questions; Community service contract signed by student and field supervisor (12-credit students only) |
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Becoming Expressive |
Wed., Oct. 15 |
Liberal arts forum |
300 word DRAFT letter to editor; publication plan; Poemcrazy response paper and two written seminar questions (2 pages) |
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Wed., Oct. 22 |
Voice workshop – chest resonance; Seminar on Poemcrazy and Linklater reading; Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read their Work (CD) |
300-word letter to editor FINAL Poetry DRAFT Read Linklater pp. 57--103 |
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Sat., Oct. 25 |
Song writing workshop; Write lyrics to existing melody; Gettysburg Address discussion; Internet workshop – dissent in context |
Peer edited poem; Read Gettysburg Address |
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Voice And Public |
Wed., Oct. 29 |
Noonan seminar; Workshop: writing with sources; Voice workshop – head resonance |
Poetry FINAL Cheer DRAFT; Peggy Noonan handout + 2 typed seminar questions Read Linklater pp. 105--167 |
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Sat., Nov. 1 |
Seminar: Community and the Politics of Place; Voice workshop – consonants; Peer performance critique guidelines; Great speeches video excerpt |
Response paper and two written seminar questions, Community and Politics of Place (2 pages); Cheer FINAL |
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Wed., Nov. 5 |
Peer edit original song; Guest speaker: Howard Schwartz on political speeches; Seminar – Reader |
DuBois and Teddy Roosevelt (in Reader) + 1 typed seminar question per reading; Original song DRAFT with cassette recording |
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Achieving Eloquence |
Wed. Nov. 12 |
Peer edit speech Guest speaker: Jose Gomez – Politics of Dissent; |
Original Song FINAL; 1,000 word speech DRAFT A |
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Wed. Nov. 19 |
Performance critique: sing for peer group; Voice workshop – speech structure; Seminar: Alinsky and 12 Steps |
Peer edited speech; Reader assignments: Saul Alinsky and 12 Steps + 1 typed seminar question per reading |
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Sat., Nov. 22 |
Seminar: Linklater (entire book); quantitative reasoning workshop; performance critique of speech; great speeches video |
Response paper and two written response questions, Linklater (2 pages); Speech DRAFT B (including quantitative data) |
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Nov. 24-30 |
BREAK WEEK |
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Synthesizing Your Skills |
Wed. Dec. 3 |
Evaluation writing workshop; Rehearse final projects |
Speech FINAL; Make final project choices (4 out of 6 projects from this quarter. Must include political speech and original song) |
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Sat., Dec. 6 |
Final projects |
Portfolios; Final papers due for 12-credit students |
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Wed. Dec. 10 |
Final projects Potluck Debrief |