The Unexpected Example

You be surprised all of the "stuff" that resides in your brain. You have examples of history, current events, science, math, literature, pop culture, music, art, and more that the average high school student probably does not have in their ethos file. With that in mind, the more original examples that you can incorporate into your essay, the better chance that you will captivate the graders and earn a higher evidence and sophistication score. Next week, all classes will be mining their brains for this ethos and trying to accomplish the coalescing of multiple subjects into one solidified argument. And, as we have spent so much time this quarter prepping for exemplification and argumentation, it's time to put that into writing! You will have many writing assignments to exemplify and argue in the next 2 weeks, so be prepared to do your best.

1 & 3: Vocab experts, tone work, rangefinders on C,D,Q, which furthered the components of specific exemplification, sub-claims and organization of argument, and the necessity of having an example first thing in the hook to set up evidence and the claim.

4: Same as third hour, but you are scoring the rangefinders for the C,D,Q for homework for Monday's class.

7: After reviewing vocab and tone, we spent time talking about arguments in a timed scenario and brainstorming examples for abstract nouns. The brainstorming allowed us to discuss the best examples, the range of the examples, and what examples we may want to avoid for a mature argument. In class, our abstract nouns were achievement, absurdity, and dishonor. Our agreed examples for achievement included Elon Musk as our hook, Abraham and Ada Lovelace for our body paragraph examples, and Jefferson/Founding Fathers for rebuttal. For absurdity, the class choices were flat earthers, Aztec traditions, Irish Potato Famine, and Dem/Rep Politics. 'To keep you practicing your brainstorming, you will time yourself 3 minutes for each of the following words, brainstorming as many examples as possible and then choosing your 4 best examples. The words for the weekend are empathy, faith, and guilt.