Friday, November 11, 2016
Last Day of Class Prep
Next week begins our rhetorical appeals presentations! Hence, today was our last day of prep work. Make sure that you fulfill your duties to the team and read through the fallacy packet for Monday!
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Prep Continues
Today's classes focused mainly on presentation preparations.
*You also received a fallacy packet today, which you will need to read for Monday's class. Remember, you do not have to memorize the packet, but having a working knowledge of the fallacies. I recommend annotating or highlighting definitions and anything you would like to recall for next week.
*You also received a fallacy packet today, which you will need to read for Monday's class. Remember, you do not have to memorize the packet, but having a working knowledge of the fallacies. I recommend annotating or highlighting definitions and anything you would like to recall for next week.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Presentation Work Day
The full hour was dedicated to prep work for your group rhetorical appeals presentation. Tomorrow will be partially group time and partially fallacy time. Plus, seventh hour has a vocab quiz to take.
Monday, November 7, 2016
Pathos, Pathos, Pathos
1: We looked at advertisements and a video to discuss pathos, audience, and the techniques utilized to create feeling and reaction from words and visualizations. Here is the link for the video if you would like to watch it again: http://www.today.com/video/jay-leno-takes-an-american-hero-for-the-ride-of-a-lifetime-798135875776. For our ending moments, you were assigned the group rhetorical strategy presentation, which will require logos, ethos, and pathos. On Wednesday, groups will sign up for day of presentation, which will run each class period next week (including 2 on the block day). In the meanwhile, you should be doing something over the next couple days to prepare for the presentation.
3: You completed the vocab quiz for unit 16. We then gathered on the floor to look at pathos in advertising, relying on a few old Nike ads and how they sold an idea of female empowerment instead of just shoes. For our ending moments, you were assigned the group rhetorical strategy presentation, which will require logos, ethos, and pathos. On Wednesday, groups will sign up for day of presentation, which will run each class period next week (including 2 on the block day). In the meanwhile, you should be doing something over the next couple days to prepare for the presentation.
7: We expedited the vocabulary review so that we could cram all the pathos we need into the remaining of the class: a photograph and its emotional reactions without a caption and with a caption; advertisements eliciting humor, melancholy, empathy, and a slew of emotions; a video creating more than one feeling using music, interview, images, and other techniques. The link for the video is above in the first hour recap. For our ending moments, you were assigned the group rhetorical strategy presentation, which will require logos, ethos, and pathos. On Wednesday, groups will sign up for day of presentation, which will run each class period next week (including 2 on the block day). In the meanwhile, you should be doing something over the next couple days to prepare for the presentation.
3: You completed the vocab quiz for unit 16. We then gathered on the floor to look at pathos in advertising, relying on a few old Nike ads and how they sold an idea of female empowerment instead of just shoes. For our ending moments, you were assigned the group rhetorical strategy presentation, which will require logos, ethos, and pathos. On Wednesday, groups will sign up for day of presentation, which will run each class period next week (including 2 on the block day). In the meanwhile, you should be doing something over the next couple days to prepare for the presentation.
7: We expedited the vocabulary review so that we could cram all the pathos we need into the remaining of the class: a photograph and its emotional reactions without a caption and with a caption; advertisements eliciting humor, melancholy, empathy, and a slew of emotions; a video creating more than one feeling using music, interview, images, and other techniques. The link for the video is above in the first hour recap. For our ending moments, you were assigned the group rhetorical strategy presentation, which will require logos, ethos, and pathos. On Wednesday, groups will sign up for day of presentation, which will run each class period next week (including 2 on the block day). In the meanwhile, you should be doing something over the next couple days to prepare for the presentation.
Friday, November 4, 2016
Building to Pathos
First and third hours had a deadline of 3:45 p.m. for their bird prompts today.
1: We finished up our team close read, constructing an introduction and conclusion for the Wuthering Heights prompt. If absent, you will need to turn in your body paragraph to receive completion credit. At the end of the hour, we looked at the following picture, identifying the content of the photograph and the feelings of the audience. http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/graphics/kevincarter.jpg. After our initial reactions, I read the caption regarding the photographer, which changes the pathos to anger, disappointment, and a slew of other reactions that change our focus from the impoverished, dying child to the photographer. Hence, words create power and impact the audience's focus and what they will feel, believe, and do.
We will continue with more pathos on Monday, and you will learn more about the group presentation.
3: After a vocabulary review for Monday's quiz, we spent the day on pathos. We looked at the following picture, identifying the content of the photograph and the feelings of the audience. http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/graphics/kevincarter.jpg. After our initial reactions, I read the caption regarding the photographer, which changes the pathos to anger, disappointment, and a slew of other reactions that change our focus from the impoverished, dying child to the photographer. Hence, words create power and impact the audience's focus and what they will feel, believe, and do. Then, we looked at advertisements and how a picture and a few carefully selected words create humor, sadness, empathy, or guilt. Last, we watched the following video featuring Jay Leno and a soldier, a perfect example of how varying pathos may be used to impact the audience. http://www.today.com/video/jay-leno-takes-an-american-hero-for-the-ride-of-a-lifetime-798135875776. Note how pathos is used via music, interviews, point of view, and other strategies throughout the video.
After Monday's quiz, you will have your official group presentation assignment.
7: First, we continued with vocabulary experts. Then, you finished up the team close read, constructing an introduction and conclusion. If absent, you will need to turn in your body paragraph to receive credit for the assignment.
1: We finished up our team close read, constructing an introduction and conclusion for the Wuthering Heights prompt. If absent, you will need to turn in your body paragraph to receive completion credit. At the end of the hour, we looked at the following picture, identifying the content of the photograph and the feelings of the audience. http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/graphics/kevincarter.jpg. After our initial reactions, I read the caption regarding the photographer, which changes the pathos to anger, disappointment, and a slew of other reactions that change our focus from the impoverished, dying child to the photographer. Hence, words create power and impact the audience's focus and what they will feel, believe, and do.
We will continue with more pathos on Monday, and you will learn more about the group presentation.
3: After a vocabulary review for Monday's quiz, we spent the day on pathos. We looked at the following picture, identifying the content of the photograph and the feelings of the audience. http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/graphics/kevincarter.jpg. After our initial reactions, I read the caption regarding the photographer, which changes the pathos to anger, disappointment, and a slew of other reactions that change our focus from the impoverished, dying child to the photographer. Hence, words create power and impact the audience's focus and what they will feel, believe, and do. Then, we looked at advertisements and how a picture and a few carefully selected words create humor, sadness, empathy, or guilt. Last, we watched the following video featuring Jay Leno and a soldier, a perfect example of how varying pathos may be used to impact the audience. http://www.today.com/video/jay-leno-takes-an-american-hero-for-the-ride-of-a-lifetime-798135875776. Note how pathos is used via music, interviews, point of view, and other strategies throughout the video.
After Monday's quiz, you will have your official group presentation assignment.
7: First, we continued with vocabulary experts. Then, you finished up the team close read, constructing an introduction and conclusion. If absent, you will need to turn in your body paragraph to receive credit for the assignment.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Heathcliff
Wow to first and seventh hour with their original, thorough team close reads of Mr. Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights! Throughout each section, you constructed characterization via dialogue, personification, enumeration, and the first person perspective of Mr. Lockwood, the nosy tenant wanting the scoop on his mysterious, black-eyed landlord. Ah, Heathcliff. Perfect excuse to plant a picture of Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff.
Hey, AP Langers, you are a week into the Lucy assignment, which means if you are reading and logging a chapter a day, you are nearing your seventh chapter. If you have not checked out a book, you should do so immediately.
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As for the Bird prompt, due dates differ according to your class. However, the rule are still the same: handwritten or typed in hard copy by the deadline. If you are in school at any point on that day, the essay is still due in hard copy by that time. If you are absent for the entirety of the day, you will e-mail/share/photograph your completed work and then bring in a hard copy for me the next day.
1: We started with Vocab Quiz 16, our last vocab unit for a couple of weeks as we wrap up rhetorical analysis and move into multiple choice. After going over punctuation and citation reminders, you received your Keats prompt. As mentioned in class, the majority of you have improved with analysis, but you still need to pay attention to the details so that you have no mechanical distractions in your writing. Next, you received the Bird prompt, your next 48 hour take-home prompt. Your deadline for this assignment is Friday, November 4, at 3:45 p.m.
After all the above, we then did the team close read on The Wuthering Heights passage. Wowsa! For Friday, complete your individual body paragraph analyzing a strategy. We will finish the team essay that day and move into the persuasive appeals.
3: After finishing our last vocab words, we completed our analysis of the Skylark and the Nightingale, noting the tone, diction, and other devices selected by the authors. Following the poetry work, I reminded you on how you need to use punctuation and citations correctly in your essays to avoid distractions. Remember, you want your content to be center stage and not your mechanical errors. With you next take home prompt, pay attention to your details and make sure you do not have any distractions that could downgrade your final score. The Bird prompt was assigned today with a deadline of Friday, November 4, at 3:45 p.m.
7: Fortunately, our dual drills did not take too much of our class time today. After four more vocabulary words, we spent the rest of the hour on our team close read of Wuthering Heights. As mentioned above, you rose to the challenge of connecting the characterization of setting and Mr. Heathcliff via Mr. Lockwood's first person narration. For Friday, make sure to complete your individual body paragraph for the prompt. If absent, you will need tow rite a thesis statement and then choose one strategy to focus upon in a body paragraph.
Your deadline for the Bird prompt is tomorrow, Thursday, November 2, at 3:45 p.m.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
November Begins
Make sure that you are not falling behind in your Lucy books. Check out a memoir before or after school and start working on your log.
1: We started with our vocab review of Unit 16. Some of you were passing more than normal, so make sure you study your words this evening. We shared our analysis of "Ode to a Nightingale" and how it compares and contrasts with our other Romantic bird, the skylark. At the end of the hour, we began our prompt tips, which will continue forward into tomorrow. Then, comes your Keats prompt, your new Bird prompt, a team close read, and more.
3: We found vocab experts again! We are not 12 words into the cycle, which means we will finish that unit tomorrow. For the remainder of the class, we worked our way through "To a Skylark," which we will conclude tomorrow with our last 2 partnerships. "Ode to a Nightingale" will follow.
7: We added four more vocabulary words, discussed ways to improve our prompt writing, added the Keats prompt to our portfolios, received our new Bird prompt, a take home prompt that will have the same parameters as before: typed or handwritten, two days time for completion, due by 3:45 p.m. on Thursday. Remember, if you are here at any time on Thursday, the hard copy is still due. If you are absent the entire day, you will e-mail/share/photograph a copy of the essay and then turn in a hard copy the next day. We may start the team close read today? In any circumstance, we will be working on it tomorrow as well.
1: We started with our vocab review of Unit 16. Some of you were passing more than normal, so make sure you study your words this evening. We shared our analysis of "Ode to a Nightingale" and how it compares and contrasts with our other Romantic bird, the skylark. At the end of the hour, we began our prompt tips, which will continue forward into tomorrow. Then, comes your Keats prompt, your new Bird prompt, a team close read, and more.
3: We found vocab experts again! We are not 12 words into the cycle, which means we will finish that unit tomorrow. For the remainder of the class, we worked our way through "To a Skylark," which we will conclude tomorrow with our last 2 partnerships. "Ode to a Nightingale" will follow.
7: We added four more vocabulary words, discussed ways to improve our prompt writing, added the Keats prompt to our portfolios, received our new Bird prompt, a take home prompt that will have the same parameters as before: typed or handwritten, two days time for completion, due by 3:45 p.m. on Thursday. Remember, if you are here at any time on Thursday, the hard copy is still due. If you are absent the entire day, you will e-mail/share/photograph a copy of the essay and then turn in a hard copy the next day. We may start the team close read today? In any circumstance, we will be working on it tomorrow as well.
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