Description & Argument

Some of the following may vary according to class, so make sure that you are looking at your particular hour. In the upcoming week, your first argumentative assignment will be choosing teacher or employee of the year and using specific examples to justify your claim. Start thinking about your nominee.

1: You turned in your Modest Proposal Multiple Choice passages. Then, we worked in groups to construct an image-filled description of the cafeteria. I found the additions of zeugma, juxtaposition, personification, alliteration, and other devices to create the mood of the description, something this mode of discourse requires. Next, we looked into three parts of argument: claim, evidence, and warrant. If you need a highlight package or want to look at what we read in class, go here: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/mwollaeger/cdw.htm. In order to work on identifying claim, evidence, and warrant, we read Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." Euphemisms aside, this Carpe Diem poem features an argument and utilizes much imagery to do provide evidence. For Friday's class, we will be discussing Miss Lucy Grealy in a free form discussion. Then, we will continue with argumentation by replying to Marvell's speaker -- using our own claims, evidence, and warrants, of course! Logs are due by 3:45 p.m. on Friday.

7: Read everything above for first hour. In addition, you started in partners the response of the addressee to Marvell's speaker in "To His Coy Mistress." In poetry form, you will create her response by utilizing a claim, evidence, and warrant. We will finish this in class on Friday.

2: You turned in your Modest Proposal Multiple Choice passages. Then, we worked in groups to construct an image-filled description of the cafeteria. I found the additions of zeugma, juxtaposition, personification, alliteration, and other devices to create the mood of the description, something this mode of discourse requires. Next, we looked into two of the three parts of argument: claim and evidence. If you need a highlight package or want to look at what we read in class, go here: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/mwollaeger/cdw.htm. Don't forget that logs are due by 3:45 p.m. on Friday.

4: Read second hour above for the highlights of what we did today. We only made it through claims today and will resume argument tomorrow.