Reminders about presentations

Reminder:

The powerpoint (Google Slides) is supposed to be a visual aid. Do not type your entire project on the slides.  You should memorize (or use a few note cards) your presentation for class.

Note card assignment

Of the last three terms/vocab quizzes, IF you have below a 10 on 2 or more you must do the following assignment.:

Create a flashcard for EVERY term and vocab word.  The TERMS will be due Thursday the 17th and the VOCAB will be due Monday the 4th.

It is up to you to know what your grades are and complete the assignment if need be.

Johnson

Johnson questions for class discussion today 12/10

Fallacies

Make sure to go through this Introduction to Fallacies more in dept than we did in class today.

Johnson HW - due Thursday

Steven Johnson – “Games” p 196-201

Terms: induction, rhetorical question, cumulative sentence, periodic sentence, compound sentence, compound-complex sentence, inverted syntax, anaphora, analogy, 2nd and 3rd person point of view

Vocab: hypothetical, belligerent, patronizing, derisive, satiric, skeptical, contention, cynical, invoke, ostensible, honed

Complete a SOAPSTone

Journal  -  Read a book. How many times have you heard this in your life? Many people argue that children watch too much tv and play too many video games. Is it possible to read too many books? Answer (with development and in one page or more) the question about books. Can they be just as dangerous as tv and/or video games? Why or Why not?

Schlosser HW

Schlosser Homework: For Monday read Eric Schlosser’s “Kid Kustomers” and do all of the following:

• SOAPSTone
• Journal Response: Many readers will be disturbed by the notions that children often recognize brand logos before their own names and that dream research is used in child-focused marketing.  Why do you think this is?  Do you find these things disturbing?  Why or why not?
• Vocabulary (new and review): phenomenon, consumerism, cognitive, neurological, assertive, cynical, lobby (verb), critical, pedantic
• Terms (new and review): parallel syntax, expert testimony, complex sentence, quantitative data

Fallacies and advertising project

You will be analyzing several advertisements and their use of rhetorical devices such as the three appeals. You will need to download the directions for the project.

Ads also tend to be fallacious in nature so, make sure you familiarize yourself with these fallacies.   

Winn HW

Homework, due Tuesday, December 1

Read Marie Winn’s “Television: The Plug-In Drug”

1. SOAPSTone
2. Vocabulary: temporal, prescience, reservation, affirmation, passivity

Review salutary, ambivalence, claim

Term: Concession, syntax

Journal: Full-page response: How does some specific genre of TV affect American society (individuals, family, or society in general)?  You might choose to focus on any of the following genres or you can come up with one not listed:  

Reality TV (either of the voyeur type or the skilled competitions)

24 hour news cycle

TV Drama

Sports

Sitcoms

King R/S ?'s

R/S questions are due for Friday.

Not school related, but...

I have a friend who fosters dogs and she is currently looking for a home for this little cuddle bug.  If your family is interested, let me know and I'll put you in touch with her.

King HW - Due Thursday Nov 19

Read “Letter from  Birmingham Jail”, King, Jr

Vocab:  feigned, detached, grudging, cynicism, allusive, evocation

Terms: rhetorical question, imperative sentence, compound-complex sentence, apostrophe

SOAPSTone

Journal:

Part one: Describe what King does in the two sentences that make up his second-to-last paragraph (par 49) How do these two variations on an apology sum up his approach to argument in this essay?

Part two: Pick a law people might break because they think it is wrong. If you might do so too, write a journal in which you defend your actions. If you would not, write a journal in which you argue against those who would. Consider the reasons King cites for his violations of the law.

Orwell

Orweel rhetoric/style questions are due tomorrow.

Orwell HW - due Thursday

George Orwell “Shooting an Elephant”, due Thursday, November 12

1. Terms and Vocabulary (besides the assigned terms, look up any others you are unfamiliar with in the text.)

Vocabulary: Ambivalence     10. Polemical (review) Antipathy           11. Didactic (review) Indifference       12. trivial Imperialism Lugubrious Candid Reflective Salutary Epiphany

Terms: Warrant Claim Periodic Sentence Qualifier Rebuttal Extended metaphor

2. Be sure to complete SOAPSTone

3. For your journal: Write an essay in which you discuss the nature of Orwell’s epiphany.   Compare how Orwell and two other writers have presented narrative experience that leads a protagonist to enlightenment.  Refer specifically to the text of each piece and include those features of style and rhetoric that you consider important.  This journal will be longer than other journals you’ve written.  Note that you are drafting an essay response.

Woolf Questions

Woolf Questions for Thursday.

Woolf HW - Due Friday

Read: Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth”

1. In your journal, respond to the imagery and rich prose, and to Woolf’s treatment of death.  Also, pick two of the questions on 451 to respond to in your journal.  So, your journal is three parted.

2. Do SOAPSTone

3. Define the following terms:

Synaesthesia

Synecdoche

Alliteration

Concrete vs. abstract

Subjective vs. objective

Literal vs. figurative

4. Define the following vocabulary:

Absolve

Antagonist

Intervene

Exquisite

Cumbered

Circumspection

Polished Piece

A few updates/reminders.  Please check out the MLA handout for how to properly format your paper.  Remember that this is an IMPROVEMENT on your original essay. You need to extend your piece a bit and you should be able to complete 3 pages (double spaced).

Also, if you are citing quotes from Eighner/Elizabeth and/or adding other sources, please check this handout out on sourcing protocol.

Final polished copy is due MONDAY OCTOBER 26

Plato HW

Terms, and Vocab for Wednesday, Oct 21

Read Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” multiple times.

Term: Oxymoron

Allegory

Vocab:

Virtue Innate Hedonism Abstraction

Indulgence Asceticism Impediment              Divine

Paltry Keen Inversion Dazzled

In your reading journal, focus on the following things:

1. Vocabulary you need to know to understand the allegory.  Collect as many words from the reading that you need and gather their definitions.
2. Respond to question 4 on page 299.  There is no formal length requirement, but fully think through your answer. Anything less than a paragraph would be too short.
3. Explain in a paragraph why this is called an allegory.  You might identify the allegorical representations and the message.

Complete SOAPSTone, of course ☺

Project rubric

Click here for the project rubric. 

Voice

If you are so inclined, read this piece I wrote 5 years ago about the first time I was able to be a working journalist in the University of Michigan pressbox.

Alexie - 10/14

• New terms:
• zeugma: a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

• antithesis:
• a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
• a contrast or opposition between two things.
• a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins”

• induction: Inductive reasoning is often used in applications that involve prediction, forecasting, or behavior. Here is an example:

• Every tornado I have ever seen in the United States rotated counterclockwise, and I have seen dozens of them.
• We see a tornado in the distance, and we are in the United States.
• I conclude that the tornado we see right now must be rotating counterclockwise.
• So in inductive reasoning, you take premises that are or have proven to be continuously true, and you make a claim based on those premises.

• analogy: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
• anecdote: a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

• Over the next couple of weeks make sure you have these words: Vocab: alloy/unalloyed, nostalgia, adulation, prodigy, oddity, monotony, single-mindedness, sullen, ambivalence, empathy, pensive, sentimental, morose, dejected

Ericsson - The Ways We Lie

Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie”

SOAPSTone

Journal: Describe the consequences of a day in which you told no lies, one full page, minimum.

Terms: polysyndeton, asyndeton, cumulative sentence, colloquialism, Rhetorical Question

Vocabulary: omission, façade, lively, didactic, moralistic, provocative, sarcastic, acerbic, nonchalant, confrontational, informal, functional, deflection, groupthink, cliché, delusion

Terms Review: hyperbole, metaphor, personification, metonymy

General Review: run-on sentence, complex sentence

Eighner HW - Due Friday October 2nd.

Eighner: “On Dumpster Diving”

• Prior to reading: Write down at the top of your journal what words or ideas come to mind when you think of a dumpster diver.  Be candid, concise, and brief.  
• Read and annotate Lars Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving”
• SOAPSTone
• Journal: Write your journal after reading.  
• How does Eighner make you feel about your own material values?  How do you relate to Dumpster diving and to what he calls the “grab for the gaudy bauble.”
• Make sure you are using journals to practice your craft.  Concise diction is your goal.

Define and Review:

Terms: Refute/refutation, juxtaposition

Term Review: irony, ethos, pathos, logos, tone, (and any others you are still not comfortable with)

Vocabulary: assertion, romantic (in a literary sense), deplorable, practical, destitute, blight, despicable, elevated, satiric, didactic, querulous, authoritative, pragmatic, equity, indifference, consumer, undercut, gaudy, bauble, polemic, + at least 5 of your own from the text

Homework DUE FRIDAY

Rhetoric and Style questions for Frederick Douglass due tomorrow!

9 point rubric sliding scale (30pts)

This is the 9 point rubric we discussed in class. All impromptus will be worth 30 pts and this creates a sliding scale to adjust over the quarters.

Frederick Douglass HW

Douglass Homework:

Prior to reading the essay, write a one-page journal in which you explore your own literacy.  For this, you might recall your first memories with a book, comment on the struggle or ease of learning to read in your experience, or identify the role of reading or writing in your own families.

Read and annotate Frederick Douglass’s essay “Learning to Read and Write.”

Define the following terms: understatement, metonymy, anaphora, counterargument, synecdoche, connotation, denotation

Review: Irony, allusion, figurative language, complex sentence, qualify (as in an argument), chronological sequence

Define the following vocabulary: polemic, portrayal, oppressor, apt, deceptive, shrewd, reproach, indifference, condescending, grudging, depravity, abolitionist, irate, judicious, stratagem, commence, chattel, mere, prudence, vindication

McAvoy's Rant

For those absent today due to holiday -

Please watch this clip:

And then complete a SOAPSTone and the questions that go with the video. Do as much of the sheet as you can.  We will watch the video again tomorrow and I will give you about 10 more minutes to work on the sheet before our discussion.

Angelou HW

Homework - due Wednesday 9/16

Read and annotate Maya Angelou’s “Graduation”.  

SOAPSTone, brief but quality

Write a one-page journal response to question 4 on page 32

Define the following terms: parallel structure, pathetic fallacy, faulty reasoning, metaphor, imagery

     and vocabulary: pedantic, indifferent, detachment, subjective, objective, substantive,

      exposition

Next week: Quiz date TBA, AP style

For Parents who couldn't attend open house

If you were unable to attend open house, please feel free to go through the Google Slides Presentation - Open House and contact me if you have any questions.

Notes and video link

For those of you absent -

Here are your notes and  the video that we watched.  Watch the video shown above and then create your own SOAPSTone.  We will discuss the SOAPSTone in class on Monday.