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LASO Events Spring 2017

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The Latin American Student Organization (LASO) meets Mondays 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm at LSC-North Harris ACAD 223. We are looking for student leaders to begin chapters at LSC Greenspoint and LSC Victory Center.

Enroll in: Mexican American Literature, Mondays/Wednesdays, 9 am - 10:20 am, with Professor Diaz, El Librotraficante.  LSC-NH ACAD 222.

Saturday, Feb. 18: The Houston Hispanic Forum Career and Education Day (CED). George R. Brown Convention Center 9 am – 3pm. Free.

Thursday Feb. 23 – Saturday, Feb. 25, National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies Tejas Foco Regional Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station.

Thursday, March 2 6:30 pm - 7p,Free
Reading featuring writers from the  anthology "Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art," with Chicana icons Norma Cantu and Ines Hernandez at Nuestra Palabra Arts and Books Home of Pancho Clause 333 S. Jensen (Inside TBH, 3 blocks down from the oringal Ninfas.)

Wednesday, March 8, 9 am – 10 am Daniel Pena, Writer, Professor University of Houston, LSC-NH ACAD 222

Thursday, March 23,

Noon – 1pm: Lone Star College-North Harris WRC SSB-204

2pm – 3pm Greenspoint

Super Latina Power Hour: Poetry presentation by Leslie Contreras Schwartz author of the poetry collection Fuego.

Wednesday, March 8: 7pm - 9 pm, Free

Release party for h6-the latest issue of Dagoberto Gilb's literary magazine Huizache. Featuring nationally renowned writer Dagoberto Gilb (Before the End, After The Beginning) and Chicana legend poet Lorna Dee Cervantes

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

12:30 PM – 1:30 Victory Center 114

LASO Latino Poetry Jam with LASO

Hosted by writer, activist and professor Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante

El Día de Los Libros!
Hispanic Heritage in Houston
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
LSC-North Harris

LASO Latino Poetry Jam In Honor of

the Bayou City Book Festival:

Libros en Español night.

Hosted by writer, activist and professor Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante

http://www.lonestar.edu/book-festival 

Monday, April 10: LASO at the Movies: Showing of “Pride and Prejudice 9 am – 10:20 am, LSC-NH ACAD (TBA)

Pending Guest Speakers:

Michelle Tovar, Latino Outreach for the Houston Holocaust Muse

Michela Selly, Hispanic Archives at the Houston Library

Dr. Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, University of Houston

Author of the book: Black Bodies, Black Rights: The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil.        http://www.uh.edu/class/ccs/people/elizabeth/

Pending event:

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Journal Entries May Consist of the Following:

1. In-class quizzes
2. You may elaborate on in-class quizzes
3. Rough draft of letters to the editor
4. Letters to the editor that are published.
5. Extrapolations on class discussions
6. Hard concrete descriptions of objects, any objects, yes, any objects, okay, such as: the keys in your pocket, your left shoe, your tooth brush, the next manbag you see, formica.  Write one entry per object.   Or pick your own. 
7. Analyses of essays from our anthology not discussed in class.
8. Analysis of arguments from newspapers
9. Analyses of political arguments, commercials, products
10. Audience analysis of an event, a publication, or a broadcast, or something else.
11. Prove that everything is an argument: Describe how specific random objects are arguments, such as: the keys in your pocket, your left shoe, your tooth brush, the next manbag you see, formica.  Write one entry per object.   Or pick your own. 
12. I will also identify certain in-class exercises or notes as counting towards journal entries.
13. Analyze the intended audiences for billboards, tv commercials, radio ads, or other products surrounding you.

You can also pitch me a topic.

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Analysis Guide: A template

Identify the following components for the essay you are analyzing:

Title:                ___________________________________

Author:            ___________________________________

Type of argument:       Either 1.) To Convince or 2.) To explore.

Line of argument:  Either 1.) Logo 2.) Pathos 3.) Ethos

Intended audience: Gender, 10 year age span, education level, income.

Claim: ___________________________________

Reason: ___________________________________

Overview: ___________________________________

Combine these elements into complete sentences for your introduction, which can be 3 to 5 sentences.  However, you must mention each component. That is all you need.

Write your introduction on a separate sheet of paper. You next body paragraphs will be focused on the 3 quotations you identified that the author uses to prove the Claim and Reason.

Here is how the quotation should be set up. Use these words before the quotation.:

            In the middle of the essay, the author’s use of (pathos) is evident when she writes, “Quotation.”

            Write out your quotation.

a.     Why did this passage capture your attention?

b.     Circle one specific word that revealed the audience to you.  Write that word here: _______. How did that word reveal the audience to you?  Write out your response.

c.     How is that word an example of the line of argument that you identify?  Write your response.

d.     Which word reveals the claim or reason that you identified?  Write it here: ___________.   Why does that word reveal the claim or reason?

e.     Circle another word in that quotation that reveals the audience to you: _________.

f.      How did that word reveal the audience to you?  Write your response.

g.     How is that word an example of the line of argument that you identify?  Write your response.

h.     How does this quotation fit into the overall essay or short story?

Combine your above responses into complete sentences to create one paragraph of at least 8 lines of analysis.  If you fall short of 8 lines, look for the word or words that further reveal the audience, line of argument, the claim, reason, or even warrants at work.  You can also discuss how certain metaphors or analogies play a role in the argument. 

Follow the above steps, all of them, for your 2^nd Quotation and 3^rd quotation.

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