Rhetoric and the Achievement
of Woman's Rights
English 484, Section 2
Fall 1999

Professor: Alisse Theodore
Email Address: alisse@umich.edu

Schedule of Assignments

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Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date listed. Please note that this schedule of assignments is subject to change. Changes will be announced in class and posted on the course website, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alisse/ENGL484.html. You are responsible for all changes announced in class.

DateDayTopics for Discussion and Assignments Due
September 9ThursdayFirst day of class.
Welcome and introductions.
History, Theory, and Criticism.
September 14TuesdayRhetoric, Rhetorical Situation, Invention.
Hauser, pages 1-12, 30-43, 56-70.
Steubenville petition (handout).
Course Information, Schedule of Assignments.
September 16ThursdayLogos.
Hauser, pages 71-90.
Quiz #1
September 21TuesdayEthos and Pathos.
Hauser, pages 91-119.
"Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society" (handout).
Quiz #2.
September 23ThursdayStyle.
IAW and Ad Herennium (handouts).
Quiz #3.
"Declaration of Sentiments" (Campbell, pages 33-39).
"Declaration of Independence".
September 28Tuesday"Introduction" (Campbell, pages ix-xxviii)
Stanton, 1848 (Campbell, pages 41-70).
Mott, 1849 (Campbell, pages 42-97).
September 30ThursdayTruth, 1851 (Logan, pages 17-27).
Have you stopped by to chat during office hours yet?
October 5TuesdayRose (Campbell, pages 103-122).
Nichols (Campbell, pages 123-144).
October 7ThursdayFoundations of the Movement.
Rhetorical Analysis #1 due.
October 12TuesdayConvention Debate, 1860 (Campbell, pages 187-234).
October 14ThursdayStanton, 1861 (Campbell, pages 235-250).
October 19TuesdayTruth, 1867 (Campbell, pages 251-257 and Logan, pages 28-29).
Stanton, 1867 (Campbell, pages 259-277).
October 21ThursdayUniversal Suffrage?
Mid-semester evaluation of the course.
October 26TuesdayAnthony,1872-73 (Campbell, pages 279-316).
October 28ThursdayConstitutional Rights and "the Doldrums" of the Movement.
Rhetorical Analysis #2 due.
November 2TuesdayWillard, 1890 (Campbell, pages 317-338).
Stanton, 1892 (Campbell, pages 370-384).
November 4ThursdayFundamental Arguments of the Movement.
November 7-8Sunday and Monday**Special Note** PBS is running Ken Burns's Not for Ourselves Alone:
The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
November 9TuesdayWells, 1892 (Campbell, pages 389-419).
Terrell, 1893 (Campbell, pages 386-389).
Wells, 1893 (Logan, pages 80-99).
November 11ThursdayRhetorical Situations; Who Gets to Speak?
November 16TuesdayHarper, 1893 (Logan, pages 43-46).
Williams, 1893 (Logan, pages 106-119).
Rhetorical Analysis #3 due.
November 18ThursdayMatthews, 1895 (Logan, pages 126-148).
Matthews, 1897 (Logan, pages 149-155).
November 23TuesdayTerrell, 1906 (Campbell, 421-432).
What are your plans for the paper?
November 25ThursdayNo class: Thanksgiving recess.
November 30TuesdayCatt, 1902 (Campbell, pages 461-482).
Shaw, 1915 (Campbell, pages 433-460).
December 2ThursdayCatt, 1917 (Campbell, pages 503-532).
Thesis and plans for your paper due.
December 7TuesdayStanton, 1848 (Campbell, pages 41-70).
December 9ThursdayLast day of class.
Eastman, 1920 (Campbell, pages 533-539).
Paper #2 due.

A.T.'99

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