INSTRUCTOR
Owen M. Williamson, MA
In case of absence, or if class is
ever cancelled due to circumstances beyond Instructor control, students are
still expected to complete and submit all assignments shown on this Calendar
page if possible.
Week
6:
Sept. 27- Oct. 1, 2010
Monday:
Collect time management surveys and reflections.
Optional Extra Credit: Prepare or Beware:
Getting ready for exams. Sept 27 (Mon.)
3:00-4:30p.m.Call
747-5302 to reserve your place.
Optional Extra credit: The Effects of Drug and
Alcohol on your Well-being. Sept 29 (Wed.),
2:30-4:00p.m.
Call 747-5302 to reserve your place.
Public speaking activity—declamation. [Applies to theme / discipline] [Public speaking]
Read Borders chapter 5: Academic Resources. (pps. 102-117) [Academic success strategies]
Collect time management surveys and reflections. [Academic success strategies] [Critical thinking]
Activity/assignment on student learning styles and their relation to college course work. [Learning styles/self assessment]
Wednesday:
Reading strategies.
Activity/assignment addressing financing your education.
Discuss results of Your Morals test.
Why it is important to join a study group.
How academic support programs (e.g., tutoring, counseling, etc.) will help me achieve my goals. Tutoring is NOT a punishment!
Public speaking activity—declamation. [Applies to theme / discipline]
[Public speaking]
Friday:
BASICS screening.
Tentative: The rhetoric of diversity: The genius of the great religious traditions. . [Applies to theme / discipline] [Critical thinking]
Public speaking activity—declamation. [Applies to theme / discipline]
[Public speaking]
Monday:
1.
Read
Kennedy
(click for link),
103-5 (example).
2. Do
the Your Morals test. Print out
results and be ready to discuss them.
Wednesday:
1. Read
Borders
chapter 5: Academic Resources.
Friday:
1. Do Progymnasma 6. [Applies to theme / discipline]
2. Work on Final Project. [Applies to theme / discipline]
3.
reports. [Academic success strategies—note taking] [Critical thinking]
Progymnasma
6: Confirmation.
Defend a story.
Click on the link
above for Progymnasma 6 and follow the BYU website directions for the format
of the assignment. However, instead of an ancient
legend please choose any well-known ancient or modern story about your theme (in all
cases, be sure to cite the source of the story you are defending!).
See the example in Kennedy 103-5.
Directions:
1. Praise the teller of the story, and
suggest why he/she made up or wrote down this story.
2. Give a summary of the story itself.
3. Confirm the story as being:
*manifest and obvious
*probable and likely
*possible (could have happened in the real world)
*logical and reasonable
*fitting and right, and
*profitable.
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