Worksheet on Deborah Tannen's Premises and Arguments in "Conversational Styles"
Worksheet on classroom dynamics for your other classes.
IN CLASS TODAY:
You took a quiz on the elements of rhetoric.We then started our discussion of Deborah Tannen's article, "Conversational Styles." I opened with the question, "How true is this essay?" After you debated about the essay in general for a while, I had you take a look at her specific premises and state your agreement or disagreement with them on a case-by-case basis, and then revisit the debate. I asked you to focus your comments on specific premises rather than the overall thrust of the essay and to seek an alternative view to your own; in other words, to conduct conversation like you're shopping for a new opinion.
I then passed out a worksheet so you can put her theories and your own to the test by oberving what happens in other classrooms. We'll discuss this tomorrow and see whose theories hold up under testing.
HOMEWORK:
- Read Katha Pollitt's "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls" in your Essays book. Complete the worksheets (links to both are at the top of this post):
- Worksheet on classroom dynamics for your other classes.
- Worksheet on Katha Pollitt's "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls."
- Bring your vocabulary book with you to class tomorrow.
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