A little jovial current event happened at the L.A. Zoo recently: the birth of a baby gorilla! Here is a video detailing Angela's arrival and why it is significant for a critically endangered species, a species that cares for its young just as humans do. Stay tuned at the end as the segment also gives you a way to help save the land and the lives of gorillas in the wild, and it involves recycling your technology. Baby Angela.
1: After vocab experts, we did our speed learning with this third round of tone words, followed by a review of argument and its claim, evidence, warrants, counterclaim, rebuttal, and conclusion. To make this an intriguing endeavor, we read "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and looked at his Carpe Diem speaker's argument components. To further review argument tomorrow, this poem will be referenced, so it would behoove any absentees to break down the poem for its argument.
3: Same as first hour, but we also discussed the phrasing of challenge, defend, and qualify, or the former phrasing involved in AP argument. Challenging calls the original prompt into question, defending adds support to the prompt, and qualifying can either land in the middle of looking at the prompt's accuracy and inaccuracy or adjust the argument to add another position.
4: We completed the Modest Proposal MC questions and then started off our new vocab unit.
7: After vocab experts and tone work, we completed another MC, this one timed at 12 minutes and requiring you to rely on close reading and process of elimination to add your accuracy. Then, we began brainstorming activities on abstract nouns with the emphasis on selecting the best examples from a plethora of subjects and ranging these examples appropriately and effectively. We will be continuing with MC and brainstorming to set up your first of two argumentative essays coming up.
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