Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Today’s Agenda:

Part 1)

1)   Get out your homework. Let’s go over it.

2)   What did we have to say?

3)   Journal: What does it mean that Husson has become a University? From your cultural perspective, what is a college, and what is a university? How will this change impact your life? Will it?  15 mins.

4)   Group Work:

a.     Groups of Three: Timer, Scribe, Taskmaster

b.     In your groups, you are each going to share your writing with one another, take notes on each other’s writing. Compile a group statement

c.     Once you are done, I want you to individually consider the following

Husson Becomes a University

Fireworks to Mark Husson Name Change

A New Maine University

After you read these, I want you to discuss how any information you are finding in here can help you better define your group statement.

Class consensus

Part 2)

 What is Rhetoric?

1) Rhetoric: What is it? What does it mean?

     “Rhetoric,” comes from one of the oldest academic disciplines, dating back to Aristotle.  Rhetoric   as a discipline is itself a way of doing critical thinking. 

2) Critical thinking asks us to consider the relationships between audience, speaker, and message.

 3)One way to use this kind of critical thinking is to analyze an audience and figure out what kind of communication will convey a message clearly to that audience. 

 

 

Homework:

Write a short letter to someone specific explaining to them what the point of university education is. Then, write the same letter to a TOTALLY different audiance.

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