1. Discuss practice paragraphs Review the rhetorical situation
Goals:
Discuss practice paragraphs
Review the rhetorical situation
Begin work on Paper 1

2. Invention – find things to say (gather more than you can use)
For Thursday’s class, write a paragraph in which you explain how the officer in “An Episode of War” changes between the beginning of the story and the end of the story.
Invention – find things to say (gather more than you can use)
Status at the beginning of the story:
Factors contributing to the change:
Status at the end of the story:
near a battlefield
dividing coffee for the troops
“frowning and serious”
precise (coffee squares)
“the verge of a great triumph”
in charge
looked up to by his men
gets shot (wounded)
avoided by his men
no longer in charge
told what to do
“a baby”
at “the portals of death”
loses an arm
at home
missing an arm
surrounded by women
not a “whole” man
“shamefaced”
listless; nothing to do
doesn’t care about anything
Arrangement – select the best material & put it in a logical order

3. Invention – find things to say (gather more than you can use)
For Thursday’s class, write a paragraph in which you explain how the officer in “An Episode of War” changes between the beginning of the story and the end of the story.
Invention – find things to say (gather more than you can use)
Status at the beginning of the story:
Factors contributing to the change:
Status at the end of the story:
near a battlefield
dividing coffee for the troops
“frowning and serious”
precise (coffee squares)
“the verge of a great triumph”
in charge
looked up to by his men
gets shot (wounded)
avoided by his men
no longer in charge
told what to do
“a baby”
at “the portals of death”
loses an arm
at home
missing an arm
surrounded by women
not a “whole” man
“shamefaced”
listless; nothing to do
doesn’t care about anything
Arrangement – select the best material & put it in a logical order

4. Arrangement – select the best material & put it in a logical order
an image of a man in charge of men, a man “on the verge of a great triumph.”
Stephen Crane’s “An Episode of War” opens with
It ends with an image of a man in charge of nothing, not even of himself.
Whereas he used to be in the company of men, he is now in the company only of women; whereas he used to be in charge, he now has nothing to do.
This change is caused by a single bullet.
As a result of this bullet, the man loses his arm, loses his command, and even loses his purpose.
The officer changes, as the result of a single stray bullet, from a somebody to a nobody.
Status at the beginning of the story:
Factors contributing to the change:
Status at the end of the story:
near a battlefield
dividing coffee for the troops
“frowning and serious”
precise (coffee squares)
“the verge of a great triumph”
in charge
looked up to by his men
gets shot (wounded)
avoided by his men
no longer in charge
told what to do
“a baby”
at “the portals of death”
loses an arm
at home
missing an arm
surrounded by women
not a “whole” man
“shamefaced”
listless; nothing to do
doesn’t care about anything
For Thursday’s class, write a paragraph in which you explain how the officer in “An Episode of War” changes between the beginning of the story and the end of the story.
Arrangement – select the best material & put it in a logical order

5. Stephen Crane’s “An Episode of War” opens with
an image of a man in charge of men, a man “on the verge of a great triumph.”
Stephen Crane’s “An Episode of War” opens with
It ends with an image of a man in charge of nothing, not even of himself.
Whereas he used to be in the company of men, he is now in the company only of women; whereas he used to be in charge, he now has nothing to do.
This change is caused by a single bullet.
As a result of this bullet, the man loses his arm, loses his command, and even loses his purpose.
The officer changes, as the result of a single stray bullet, from a somebody to a nobody.
opens
ends
was is
somebody
nobody
a man … a man … a man
loses … loses … loses
For Thursday’s class, write a paragraph in which you explain how the officer in “An Episode of War” changes between the beginning of the story and the end of the story.

6. (chronology, balance, repetition)
Stephen Crane’s “An Episode of War” opens with
an image of a man in charge of men, a man “on the verge of a great triumph.”
It ends with an image of a man in charge of nothing, not even of himself.
Whereas he used to be in the company of men, he is now in the company only of women; whereas he used to be in charge, he now has nothing to do.
This change is caused by a single bullet.
As a result of this bullet, the man loses his arm, loses his command, and even loses his purpose.
The officer changes, as the result of a single stray bullet, from a somebody to a nobody.
opens
ends
was is
somebody
nobody
a man … a man … a man
loses … loses … loses
Answer the prompt.
(How does he change?)
Use textual evidence.
(quote key words)
Organize.
(chronology, balance, repetition)

7. CONTEXT (purposes, constraints)
Subject
Writer
Reader
Text

8. The Speech Communication Process
MES SAGE
CHAN NEL
FEED BACK
Interference
Situation
SPEAKER
AUDIENCE

9. With a partner, read your paragraph aloud.
Evaluate your work using the rubric categories.

10. Read aloud the Stephen Crane short story, “The Veteran.”
Assignment - Write a paper, no longer than one double-spaced page, and using MLA format, in which you contrast the "young Fleming" with the "old Fleming" in Stephen Crane's short story, "The Veteran."
Turning In Your Paper - You will turn in a hard copy of this paper at the beginning of class on Thursday, January 28.

11. QUESTIONS? Tuesday: discuss draft of Paper 1
1/26 HW: finish/revise draft
Thursday: turn in hard copy of Paper 1;
1/ read & discuss “The Furnished Room”
QUESTIONS?