Day 1 of the Diary of the Dead Series: 

 

Ready for rhetoric!!

 

 

 

You should've ceased your life to read/study/contemplate the following:

Pages 79-89 in Good Reasons

 

Agenda:

Watch first half of movie.

Share any Zombie encounters we may or may not have had ourselves.

Review student responses.

Group Work comparing Shooting War and Diary of the Dead.

 

 

 

 

Responses: 

 

 

 

Let's count her out for this week...

 

 

 

 

Group Work:

Get into your groups and compare Diary of the Dead and Shooting War (bear in mind chapter 6 in Good Reasons). 

Answer these following questions:

Is there any difficulty in comparing these two "texts?"

Can we analyze them in the same way? 

Do these two "texts" have different arguments? 

Can we say that they have similar arguments? 

How does Romero's use of rhetoric differ from the authors of Shooting War?

 

 

 

Ok...let's review and digest...

(Oh snap...get it?)

 

Next Class:

Your responses for next class should answer one of the questions comparing Shooting War and Diary of the Dead.  Also be sure to read this article by Emerson!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day Two of the Diary of the Dead Series:

 

 

Agenda:

Watch second half of movie.

Discuss ways to thwart off Zombie attacks.

Discuss Responses.

Discussion of this article.

 

 

Responses:

 

 (This is not an appropriate response to being attacked by a thing looking to eat you.)

 

 

 

Discussion of Emerson's Article:

What does McDonald’s review of DOD say about the film? 

Is this a rhetorical analysis? 

How is it the same?  How does it differ? 

What sort of analysis is McDonald performing? 

What might McDonald change/keep doing to perform a stronger rhetorical analysis? 

Don't hesitate to look back at pages 69-89 in Good Reasons!

 

Next Class:

For next class, please avoid the living dead at all costs.  Secondly, please write an indiviual response to the questions above, and post it to the your roster page.