Brainstorming!

As I have heard from a few of you, our brainstorming activities for abstract nouns is a challenge and a fun experience as you are able to mine your brain for all of its knowledge and share some of your own ethos with the rest of the class. Yes, all of this brainstorming, exemplification, and argument are leading to writing timed prompts, so be ready, my Langers, to put all of your knowledge and skills to the test.

Before the agenda takes over the blog today, I would like to announce that the next vocab/tone quiz will not be a quiz but a quest and a performance grade as it covers all of those tone words thus far. This will be the last overall quiz/quest over tone words as we will be looking them as individual rounds and not accumulating ones.

1: Vocab/tone around the circle plus graded Modest Proposal MC followed by the differences between non-timed and timed arguments and then ending with brainstorming of abstract nouns. For each abstract noun, we timed or 3 minutes with the last 30 seconds designated for selecting your 4 best choices. We made it through achievement (Hierarchy of Needs, Space Race, The Olympics, MLK,Jr.) and Absurdity (Blood Lake, Reality T.V., Alice in Wonderland, Zeus and "his relationships"). For homework, time yourself regarding dishonor, empathy, faith, and guilt and be ready to share examples.

3: Almost identical to first hour, with the exception that we had a chance to do the brainstorm for dishonor in class, making empathy, faith, and guilt your timed brainstorming abstract nouns for over night.

4: Vocab/tone around the circle plus the CDQ rangefinders, which gave us lessons in how to organize an argument essay and the importance of exemplification and explanation, and then ending with the differences between non-timed and timed prompts.

7: First, our vocab and tone quest followed by sharing our last three brainstorming for abstract nouns, and hopefully beginning our team abstract noun essays.