Weeks+4-5+Rhetoric+and+the+Art+of+Narrative

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Narrative Description
 * [|Arms and the Man] by Kathy Dobie

Required Reading:
 * [|How to Do a Close Reading]
 * [|The Rhetorical Triangle]
 * [|The Canons of Rhetoric]
 * [|How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis]
 * Rhetorical Analysis
 * [|Rhetorical Analysis Worksheet]
 * [|Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis]


 * [|E.B. White “Once More to the Lake]
 * V. Woolf’s “[|Death of a Moth].”
 * [|a more contemporary essay by the same name by Annie Dillard].
 * Alexander Petrunkevitvch’s “[|The Spider and the Wasp].”


 * [|Father Guido Sarducci “5 minute University”]
 * Eric Sheninger [|Standardization Will Destroy Education]
 * [|Her Crime was Loving Schools] Nick Kristof
 * [|Do Schools Kill Creativity?] 2006 TED.com talk by Sir Ken Robinson
 * [|RSA Animate Changing Educational Paradigms](Sir Ken Robinson illustrated)
 * Alfie Kohn [|"Degrading to De-Grading"]
 * [|Loyola Law School Grade Inflation] Colbert Report
 * [|Why We Still Need Standardized Testing] Baeder
 * [|Stop the War Against Standardized Tests] Walberg
 * [|Best in Class] by Margaret Talbot
 * [|Paulo Freire Bio]
 * [|The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Summary]
 * Freire's [|"Banking" Concept of Education Online Text]

> Honors an author, editor, or producer of a print or nonprint work that contributes to honesty and clarity in public language.
 * [|George Orwell “A Hanging”]
 * [] This link provides background information for the essay
 * [] Biographical information on Orwell. Read up on 1.2 Burma to understand the essay.
 * [|George Orwell "Politics and the English Language"](classification and division)
 * [|Orwell on Writing : Clarity is the Remedy NPR Commentary]
 * [|"If It's Orwellian, it's Probably Not"] NY Times
 * [|Doublespeak Awards] Est.1974, given by NCTE Public Language Award Committee;ironic tribute to public speakers who perpetuate grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered language.

Supplemental reading/viewing:
 * Annie Dillard
 * [|Annie Dillard]
 * [|Annie Dillard — Life and Work]
 * [|Dillard, Annie: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek]
 * [|The Myticism of Dillard's //Pilgrim at Tinker Creek//]
 * [|Pilgrim at Tinker Creek — An Introduction]


 * [|Bulwer-Lytton "Dark and Stormy Night" Fiction Contest]
 * [|The Sad, Sad State of College English]


 * //Ferris Bueller//[|"Voodoo Economics. . .Anyone?"] Clip
 * //[|Dead Poets Society Perspective Clip]//
 * //[|Dead Poets Society What Will Your Verse Be?]// Clip
 * Taylor Mali [|"I'll Fight You for the Library"]
 * [|Waiting for Superman (charter school doc) NPR interview]
 * [|Math Class Needs a Makeover] TED talk
 * [|Bring on the Learning]Ken Robinson 2010 TED talk
 * [|George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"]