Wednesday Night Calendar
(This calendar is subject to change)

Week 1 (1/26) Class Introductions
Hand out: Assignment #1

Week 2 (2/2)
Reading: "Argument" <http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/argument.html>,  "A Critical Method for Understanding the JFK assassination" <http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/critical_thinking/Critical_method.html>, and "Types of Evidence Useful for Understanding the JFK Assassination" <http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/critical_thinking/Types_of_ev_useful_for_under.html>
In-class: Defining Rhetoric and Argument

Week 3 (2/9)
Reading: "Reading to Write" <http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/readingwriting.html>, "A Fieldguide to Critical Thinking" <http://www.csicop.org/si/9012/critical-thinking.html>, "40 Years of Doubt: Conspiracy Theories Still Grip Public" <http://www.ravenndragon.net/montgomery/40years.html>, and "Conspiracies So Vast" <http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/02/01/conspiracies_so_vast?mode=PF>
In-class:
Due: Assignment #1
Hand out Assignment #2
Week 4 (2/16)
Reading: "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" <http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/conspiracy_theory/the_paranoid_mentality/The_paranoid_style.html> and Wikipedia Report on JFK Assassination <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_assassination>
In-class:
Due: Assignment #2 Draft 1/Rough Draft Workshop

Week 5 (2/23)
Reading: "Evaluating Print Sources" <http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/evidence.html>, "Dealy Plaza Revisited" (Read the WHOLE site), and
<http://www.texasmonthly.com/ranch/jfk/> and "Ghosts of November" handout
In-class:
Due: Assignment #2

Week 6 (3/2)
Reading: "Responding to Written Texts" <http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/processes/response/>, "1963: 11 Seconds in Dallas" <http://www.ravenndragon.net/montgomery/11seconds.pdf>, "Hidden in Plain View" <http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/scearce.htm>, "Holland De Ja Vue" <http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2007/12/holland-dj-vu_27.html>, "Zapruder Film Likely to Restart Debate <http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/misc._documents/Lardner_on_new_Z_film.html>
In-class:
Hand out Assignments #3 and  4

Week 7 (3/9)
Reading:
In-class:
Hand out Assignment #5

Week 8 (3/16) Spring Break--No Classes

Week 9 (3/23)
Reading:
In-class:
Due: First Draft for Assignment #4

Week 10 (3/30)
Reading:
In-class:

Week 11 (4/6)
Reading:
In-class:

Week 12 (4/13)
Reading:
In-class:

Week 13 (4/20)
Reading:
In-class:
Due: Assignment #3

Week 14 (4/27)
Reading:
In-class:
Due: First Draft Assignment #5

Week 15 (5/4) Movie Night
Due: Second Draft Assignment #5

Week 16 (5/11) Final Exam