February Schedule of Readings

Classes begin Holiday, Martin Luther King day Classes end Exams begin Exams end Winter Quarter ends

Monday, Jan 7 Monday, Jan 21 Sunday, March 16 Monday, March 17 Sunday, March 22 Sunday, March 22

Tuesday, 2/5

Review, “We Shall Overcome” and “Resistance to Civil Govt.”

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/lbjweshallovercome.htm

Thursday, 2/7

Read Chapter 4, 143-168

Tuesday 2/12

Debaters and Debating—Argumentative Fallacy in Contemporary Politics

Hot-Button Handouts:

“The Rise of the New American Underclass”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/81598

“Illegal Immigration and the English Language”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/04/illeagal_immigration_and_the_e.html

Thursday 2/14

Hot-Button Handouts:

“Gay Marriage, Not a Very Good Idea”

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/homosexuality/ho0013.html

“Save Marriage? It’s Too Late”

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004760

Tuesday 2/19

Reading Catch-up Day, Peer Review Day #2

Thursday 2/21

Rough Draft Deadline for Essay #2

Tuesday 2/26

Library Visitation Day

Thursday 2/28

Read 168-182 Argument Now

MAJOR DEADLINES, FURTHER READINGS TBA

Tuesday 2/26

Library Visitation Day

Thursday 2/28

Rough Draft Deadline for Term Paper