The document provides an agenda for a class that includes presenting terms for an exam and conducting peer revision of essays. It defines terms like gay, heterosexual privilege, and homophobia. Students are instructed to have three copies of their essay for peer revision and feedback in groups of three.

1. Class 15
EWRT 1B

2. AGENDA
O Presentation: Terms
O Peer Revision: You must
have three copies of your
essay. If you do not, you
may leave now to print or
copy them.

3. Terms for Exam 3
O Gay: Someone who is primarily or exclusively attracted to
members of the same sex. In certain contexts, this term is used to
refer only to those who identify as men.
O Heterosexual Privilege: Being able to kiss or hug your partner in
public without threat or punishment; adopting or foster-parenting
children; dating the person of your desire during your teen years;
receiving validation from your religious community; receiving
social acceptance.
O Homophobia: The irrational hatred and fear of lesbian and gay
people that is produced by institutionalized biases in a society or
culture.
O Institutional Oppression: Policies, laws, rules, norms and customs
enacted by organizations and social institutions that disadvantage
some social groups and advantage other social groups. These
institutions include religion, government, education, law, the
media, and health care system.

4. • Intersex: An anatomical variation from typical understandings of male and
female genetics. The physical manifestation, at birth, of genetic or
endocrinological differences from the cultural norm. Also, a group of
medical conditions that challenge standard sex designations, proving that
sex, like gender, is a social construct. At least one in 2,000 children is born
with some degree of ambiguity regarding their primary and/or secondary
sex characteristics. In these cases, medical personnel cannot easily label
the child “boy” or “girl.” Most of these children receive cosmetic surgery
so that the child’s genitalia conform to societal and familial expectations
of “normalcy,” even thought such surgeries are not medically necessary
and can damage the child’s reproductive organs. The number of children
born with some degree of intersexuality is difficult to estimate. Intersex
and transgender people share some overlapping experiences and
perspectives, but the terms are not synonymous, and the issues are not the
same. Though intersexed people are opposed to the word “hermaphrodite”
because it is misleading and stigmatizing, it continues to be widely used in
the medical profession.

5. • Male Privilege: Benefiting from the higher status of men and
attributes associated with men and masculinity within the larger
culture.
• Multiple Identities: The concept that a person’s identity does not rest
solely on one factor (e.g., sexual orientation, race, gender, etc.).
Therefore, no single element of one’s identity is necessarily dominant,
although certain identities can take precedence over others at certain
times.
• Dialect: the language of a particular district, class, or group of
persons. It encompasses the sounds, grammar, and diction employed
by a specific people as distinguished from other persons either
geographically or socially. Dialect, as a major technique of
characterization, is the use by persons in a narrative of distinct
varieties of language to indicate a person’s social or geographical
status, and is used by authors to give an illusion of reality to fictional
characters. It is sometimes used to differentiate between characters.

6. • Euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild, delicate, inoffensive, or vague
word or expression for one thought to be coarse, sordid, or otherwise
unpleasant, offensive, or blunt.
• Hyperbole: obvious and deliberate exaggeration or an extravagant
statement. It is a figure of speech not intended to be taken literally since
it is exaggeration for the sake of emphasis. Hyperbole is a common
poetic and dramatic device.
• Imagery: the forming of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things.
It is also the use of language to represent actions, persons, objects, and
ideas descriptively. This means encompassing the senses also, rather than
just forming a mental picture.
• Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to a
person, idea, or object to which it is not literally applicable. It is an
implied analogy or unstated comparison which imaginatively identifies
one thing with another.

7. Terms Exam 3
O Day: Class 17
O Format: matching, fill in the blank, multiple
choice, and definition writing.
O Number 25 to get 25.

8. Essay 3: Peer Revision
Day
Groups of three are best.

9. 1. Read for a first Impression
a. Each participant in the group will read
his or her essay aloud.
b. Follow along with the reader, briefly
noting paragraphs that are particularly
convincing as well as any that seem
unclear or unsupported.
c. Write a one-sentence summary of the
essay’s thesis.

10. 2. Evaluate the thesis statement and how
well it forecasts the argument.
a. Find the thesis statement, and highlight or
underline its key terms. (if you cannot find the
thesis statement, let the writer know).
b. Evaluate the thesis statement
c. Skim the essay again, highlighting or
underlining each key term as it is brought up.

11. 3. Indicate whether each reason is well
supported
a. Look closely at the sections where the reasons
are developed. Note whether each reason is
supported adequately with textual evidence
such as quotations, paraphrases, or
summaries.

12. 4. Evaluate the Argument as a Chain of Reasons
a. Summarize briefly for the writer your
understanding of how the reasons work
together to argue for the thesis.
b. Note where logical connections linking
the chain of reasons could be added,
strengthened, or made more explicit.

13. 5. Suggest how the organization could be
improved.
a. Consider the overall plan, perhaps by making
a scratch outline. Note any places where the
argument is hard to follow or where
transitions are missing or do not work well.

14. 6. Give the writer your final thoughts
a. What is the draft’s strongest part?
b. What part is in need of further work?
c. Put your name near your comments.

15. O Readers: when you finish,
return the draft and the
completed form to the writer.
O Writers: read the comments
and revise your essay
accordingly.

16. Homework
O Writing: Revise Essay 3: Submit
your essay electronically before our
next class by emailing a copy saved
in MS word to
palmorekim@fhda.edu
Studying: Vocab/terms for Exam
Reading: Hwang's M Butterfly
Reading: Helen Lock
"Transformation of the Trickster."
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