I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday. I read Just Mercy, In the Country We Love, and started Calypso by David Sedaris. I saw Wreck it Ralph with my family and enjoyed watching the results of my apparently horrible choices on Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the choose-your-own-adventure movie written by Charlie Booker. I also enjoyed finally getting caught up on my subscription of Wired magazine - and the grading, of course. The Rhetorical Historical papers were an absolute pleasure to read, and overall the introductions and conclusions were especially well-executed and impressive.
I know it's a tough sell to go from two weeks off to preparing for finals, but you'll make it! Here are some notes, and the agenda:
NOTES:
- No quiz this week.
- Please bring your Grapes of Wrath library book with you to turn in.
- Last day to turn in any late work for partial credit: Friday, January 11th at 11:59 p.m.
FORMAT OF THE FINAL:
I consider the research paper you just wrote to be more important than a final since it took a great deal of research, analysis, and drafting to earn a good score. The final will be worth approximately 10% of your grade. Part I will be a 50-question multiple choice quiz (50 points in the tests/quizzes category) and in Part II you'll write an outline response to an argument prompt (50 points in the writing category).
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Receive Study Guide and go over the format of the final. Fallacies notes and practice exercises in groups. Satire notes, videos, sample AP prompt. Review argument basics and receive practice prompt to outline.
THURSDAY: Journal warm-up. Last fallacies notes and group practice. Go over Adversity argument prompt answers. If time: induction and deduction in argument.
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Receive Study Guide and go over the format of the final. Fallacies notes and practice exercises in groups. Satire notes, videos, sample AP prompt. Review argument basics and receive practice prompt to outline.
Due: n/a
Homework:
Write a brief, outline response in phrases to the Adversity argument prompt, and bring it with you for Thursday.
Please bring your Grapes of Wrath book if you haven't already turned it in.
Write a brief, outline response in phrases to the Adversity argument prompt, and bring it with you for Thursday.
Please bring your Grapes of Wrath book if you haven't already turned it in.
Due:
Please bring Study Guide with you to class.
Write a brief outline response to the Adversity argument prompt.
Please bring your Grapes of Wrath book if you haven't already turned it in.
Please bring Study Guide with you to class.
Write a brief outline response to the Adversity argument prompt.
Please bring your Grapes of Wrath book if you haven't already turned it in.
Homework:
Continue filling out Study Guide with your class notes.
Read and annotate MLK's I Have a Dream speech, noting the rhetorical strategies. Also: what is he arguing for, specifically? Please bring the paper copy of the text of the speech with notes and questions for Monday.
Continue filling out Study Guide with your class notes.
Read and annotate MLK's I Have a Dream speech, noting the rhetorical strategies. Also: what is he arguing for, specifically? Please bring the paper copy of the text of the speech with notes and questions for Monday.
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