Make up blog:

So, you didn't get to do the Ghettopoly blog or the Letter to the Editor, huh? Now you see the quarter is over.

Here is an ALTERNATE assignment. If you did either you can participate but you won't receive credit on this assignment.

Read the attached article. In your initial response, either agree or disagree with the author's claim. Be sure to include a refutation in this response.

Then, respond to TWO other postings, agreeing or disagreeing with student postings.

Article: http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/102007/10202007/326305
Grading is

100- Three total posts, good postings following persuasive outlining, no spelling or grammar errors
90 - Three good posts, with spelling and grammar errors
80 - two posts, no spelling or grammar errors.
70 - one post or two posts with spelling or grammar errors

October 26 and 31

I. Say nice things to Mr. Davis about me.
II. How to write our own ESSENTIAL QUESTION
A. An essential question is the question all of your research hopes to answer.

B. Start by listing all of the question you hope to answer in your research.
Problem: I throw 70+ mph fastball
What are the mechanics of a 90 mph fastball?
What is the training required and suggested to throw a 90 mph fastball?
What have some of the best pitchers in the history of baseball done physically and psychologically to be successful?
How can I use these skills to be successful?
How can I use these skills to get a scholarship to college?
C. Underline key words or phrases.
What are the mechanics of a 90 mph fastball?
What is the training required and suggested to throw a 90 mph fastball?
What have some of the best pitchers in the history of baseball done physically and psychologically to be successful?
How can I use these skills to be successful?How can I use these skills to get a scholarhip to college?
D. Start by combining two questions,
What are the mechanics and training required to throw a 90 mph fastball?
E. then three, then get all of your questions together to make one big question. This will serve as section one of your paper until the week before the paper's due.
What do the best pitchers in the history of the game suggest the mechanics and training of a 90 mph fastball is?

What do the best pitchers in the history of the game suggest the mechanics, physical and mental training of a 90 mph fastball are?

What do the best pitchers in the history of the game suggest the mechanics, physical and mental training, and how to be successful with a 90 mph fastball are?

Essential Question:
What do the best pitchers in the history of the game suggest the mechanics, physical and mental training, and how to be successful of a 90 mph fastball are and how can I use these skills to get a scholarship in college?


III. Reliable sources: If the website doesn't have an author and is not a .edu, .org., or .gov site, it is probably not reliable.

What you need to know:

Sources must be experts.

Sources must be cited.

You must set up a personal interview as one of your sources

(find an expert, and a safe expert, set up an email or phone interview ASAP).

10/29 and 10/30

We will be in the library talking to counselors today. Remember that we are going to be starting our research paper this week. Do you have a topic? Does it meet the criteria posted last week?

If you have any questions, email, post a response, come see me.

Take the Plagiarism Quiz

http://www.lisp.wayne.edu/services/plagquiz.html

"Hard Core Rappers, and Ghettopoly"

I think that Chang and "hard core rappers'' are both at fault. Both should know that kids always want to do what other people are doing, and yet they make drugs, sex, and breaking the law look cool. No parent wants there kids playing a game that has a crack rock as a play piece. No one wants to see people shooting each other on a rap video. So i think both are to blame.
Mandy Worthen, B5

10/23 and 10/24: Civil Disobedience Research!

I hope all of you had a great and safe homecoming. I saw many of you at the dance and err...well...uh... you are "interesting" dancers....

Anyhow:
I. Civil Disobedience: Defined: Protesting rules or laws that a person or group disagrees with because they are unethical, unjust, or wrong. The protest is usually, breaking the rule or law in question (only that law). Protesters willingly accept the punishment for this crime (see Henry David Thoreau 412 or Martin Luther King, Jr. 180)
II. Research Project
A. Work Cited entry: Remember to use www.citationmachine.net to format it correctly. Quick Rules: Use MLA. Select the correct format (Web Page or Online Encyclopedia?). You must have two. They are listed alphabetically at the end of your document.

B. Parenthetical Citation: Every time you use information that came from ANY source, you must give credit to that source. After you use a quote, paraphrase, or summary from a source, give credit at the end of the last sentence using that information.

example. MLK was a good guy. He preached for compassion and non-violent resistance (Author's last name).

The "good guy" part was mine. The second part came from a different source.

So, what do you do if there is no author? Use whatever comes first in your work cited, usually the "title of page."

C. Computer lab, write two paragraphs. 1. Briefly outline the events for which they are most famous. 2. Relate their philosophies, etc., to Civil Disobedience.

III. NEW RESEARCH: Choose a topic:

Identify a problem at any one of the following levels:
Global
National
State
City/County
Family/Friend
Self

HOMEWORK: finish the civil disobedience research project, list topics for each level that you may be interested in, do the online blog (see next post)

Hard Core Rap blog: alternate homework assignment

Do you agree with Pitts' assertion that we shouldn't blame Chang, the developer of a board game called "Ghettopoly," but we should blame hard core rappers and the record labels that produce them? How influential do you feel the lyrics and images of music and videos are on their audiences? Who exactly are the audiences of these messages and does that complicate things?


Grades:
1.) Write one well thought out, grammatically "sufficient" post, where you pose questions or make comments that would lead to a response. You MUST identify yourself by name and block (example, Ryan Holt, B8).
2.) Write one response to someone else's post where you challenge, question, or agree with their response.
Any responses that feature vulgar, obscene, or otherwise not worthy of being shown to the principal will result in an automatic zero on this assignment and may even result in a referral.

Post by next Wednesday for full credit. Otherwise you have to turn in the 150 word response next class.

10/12 & 10/15

I. Patrick Henry: Small groups present-a-paragraph
II. Last second Review
III. TEST on chapter 2!!!
IV> Optional/Extra Credit homework: annotate Tecumseh's argument (handout) for persuasive elements.

10/10 -10/11 Patrick Henry

I. Check final drafts. Remember to have two copies!!!
II. Persuasive Vocab Quiz #2
III. Patrick Henry, page 186.
A. Speaker: Patrick Henry, Patriot, lawyer
B. Audience: Convention, federalists and anti-federalists (look at the picture on 186!!!)
C. Details, complete worksheet (following.

SPEECH AT THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION P 186.
Paragraph 1:
Paraphrase:
Quote his statement of credibility:

Type of Appeals =
1. Example =.
Loaded Words =
Paragraph 2:
Paraphrase:
Type of Appeals =
1. Example =.
Allusion =
Speech Technique used =
1. Example =
Paragraph 3:
Paraphrase:
Type of Appeals =
Example =.
Loaded Words =
Allusion =
Speech Technique used =
1. Example =
Paragraph 4:
Paraphrase:
Type of Appeals =
1. Example =.
Speech Technique used =
1. Example =
Paragraph 5:
Paraphrase:
Type of Appeals =
1. Example =.
Quote the Claim =
Speech Technique used =
1. Example =
Paragraph 6:
Paraphrase:
Type of Appeals =
Example =.
Which Persuasive device is the first two sentences?
Paragraph 7:
Paraphrase:
Type of Appeals =
1. Example =.
Quote his call to action:

HW: Do questions 1-9 on page 193. Study for chapter 2 test (declaration, crisis, preamble, speech at convention, speech in convention, persuasive vocab 1 and 2). You will have to answer questions on the texts, apply knowlege of rhetorical terms and devices, and read a speech to find and apply vocabulary.

10/9

I. Ben Franklin
A. Speaker: Ben Franklin; what does he do in the first paragraph to establish his credibility?
B. Audience: President, Constitutional Delegates
C. Details
Issue: Constitution
Claim: I agree to this constitution with all it's faults
Evidence:
Locate logical, ethical, or emotional appeals throughout.
Call to action:
"Make manifest our unanimity by..." What's the rest?

HW: Final Draft of letter to principal!!!

My SAMPLE paper

Dear Mr. Davis,
I have been searching for the pool on the third floor for six years now. We need access to the pool.
The first reason we need access to the pool is to make it fair. Up until now, only seniors have had access, or have seen the pool area. That is less than one quarter of the school’s population who can use this area. If we allowed the entire student body access to this area, the entire school will be more happy.
Another reason we need access to the pool is that you can use it as an award or to reward student performance and behavior. According to the website, 2cool4school, 86% of students feel that their school is more likely to punish than award them in the next week (Phoney). Giving students a place where they are recognized and awarded for following the code of conduct and getting good grades is a great idea!
Please construct an escalator, elevator, or even stairs that would give us access to the third floor pool.

Thank you very much,

Ima Goodstudent




Phoney, Baloney. “Good students, great rewards.” 2cool4school. October 34/2007. October, 2007. http://yourspace.com/phoney/goodstoodentsgotocollage

10-3-10-4 Logical Fallacies

I. review vocabulary:
Persuasive Vocab #2: Block B5: Identify and fill in this page of notes, based only on the examples provided

A.) Logical Fallacy: literally, “false logic.” These errors in reasoning are often intended to be persuasive, and sometimes are, but these amount to nothing more than “tricks” Logical Fallacies may work, but only on the “weak-minded”
a. Examples: Ad Hominem, Bandwagon, Red Herring, Circular Reasoning, Generalization, Post Hoc

i. Ad Hominem: literally “To the man.” The writer attacks the opponents character rather than the opponents argument.
1. Example: “Dr. Bloom can’t be a competent marriage counselor because she’s been divorced”
ii. Bandwagon: The writer tries to validate a point by intimating that “everyone else believes this.
1. Example: “everyone who demands real taste smokes Phooey cigarettes”
iii. Red Herring: The writer introduces an irrelevant point to divert the readers’ attention.
1. Example: your parent may be criticizing you for your low grades on interims To escape the charges, you remind your mother that her smoking will kill her.

iv. Circular Reasoning: Writers base the second half of their argument on what has already happened in the first half:
1. Example: “There aren’t enough parking spaces for students on campus because there are too many cars.”

v. Generalization: Often called “hasty generalization: The writer bases the argument on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence
1. Example: “Spotsy High students demand a paintball team.”
vi. Post Hoc: Literally, “after this”: Writers assume that because on event follows another in time the first event cause the second.
1. Example: “Student drank Milk as a child, then student failed all SOL reading tests. The student’s milk consumption at an early age caused the poor performance on reading based tests”

II. review homework: page 169 Questions.
III. Editorial Worksheet: complete by end of class. Use a current editorial or column from a newspaper, fill in the required information.

Name:
Short answer: Why did you choose this article?







For each of the terms below, find an example from your editorial, then either paraphrase or list the direct quote on this sheet.

Issue:

Claim:

Evidence: locate logical, ethical, or emotional appeals











Concession/Refutation:


Call To Action:


Logical Fallacies: locate and list the type



Works Cited: Do MLA citation for at least one source ( two sources B5) below:

Go to page R32, find the correct type of source. Then create a works cited entry below.



Answer on Back
10. Short Answer: Do you agree or disagree with this article? Explain.

11. Short Answer: Why do you think this author was or was not persuasive? Did they seem to know the elements of persuasion as we are learning them?

IV> HW: Read pages 191-192, answer questions 1-4.

Final Draft of you letter to the principal is due On Wednesday the 10th, or Thursday the 11th.