Thursday's Notices

If you were in fourth hour, we spent the majority of the time chatting about the fallacies in the Republican debate and how MC works on the AP Lang exam. Bring back your MC packet for tomorrow as we start our first passage.

As for all of the other classes, 2 quick announcements for you:

1. The Lucy Logs will have a day extension through December 5 - if needed. All logs need to be turned in by 2:40 p.m. on that day to me. You are welcome to turn this in early.

2. I will be sharing the Democratic debate with third, fourth, and seventh hour classes either today (ideally) or tomorrow. If you would like extra credit, you can identify and analyze a maximum of 10 fallacies that are in the debate. Do not exceed these 10 fallacy identification as the copy is for an entire class to use. Make sure that you have a thorough explanation as well. Any fallacies identified by Wednesday, December 6, at 2:30 p.m. will be considered for the extra credit. 

See everyone tomorrow for fallacies and/or MC passages!

At Least We Are All Working on Fallacies

1: After finishing up vocab experts for this round, we spent the rest of the hour with fallacies - the packet, Direct TV commercials (once again, not a paid spokesman), creating and performing slippery slopes to entertain us (who knew that not preparing for the Scholar Quiz team would eventually lead you to a Jason Bourne existence?). At the end of the hour, you were assigned the Republican debate transcript in which you will identify fallacies and explain the fallacies. This is a shared document that all have received, and I have clarified the assignment for any absentees. Complete your assigned section for Friday's class.

3: The entire hour revolved around the Republican debate fallacies, so we will have to play with slippery slopes next class. Plus, we will begin our look at the AP Lang MC portion.

7: After reviewing a few more fallacies, we shared your slippery slope fallacies via an animated dramatic spectacle. Then, you worked in groups to identify fallacies in the Republican debate transcript. This is a shared document that features instructions for any absentees. If you have not shared your debate fallacies in class, be ready to do so on Friday.

Sloping

1: We returned to vocabulary, and you did very well after a week and a half hiatus to complete are presentations and discussions. Then, we read/watched Earl Spencer's eulogy for Diana and indicated rhetorical strategies (asyndeton, telegraphic sentence, pathos, diction, tone, and other impacting methods) to review our three month focus on rhetorical analysis. At the end of the hour, you received the fallacy packet, and worked with a partner to learn about one fallacy and create 2 original examples for class tomorrow.

3: After our vocab quiz, we spent the rest of the hour with fallacies. For homework, you are to compose a minimum 15 step slippery slope. I hope you are creative as fourth hour exceeded my expectation of random slippery slope results. In addition, you need to start identifying fallacies for your section of the Republican debate transcript, which was shared to you earlier today. For each fallacy that you find, make a comment identifying the type of fallacy and why it is a fallacy. You will have 15-20 minutes to work on this during class tomorrow. However, you should begin the process prior to class.

4: After finishing the fallacy types, we had our fourth hour drama department act out slippery slopes. We had evidence finding the Zodiac killer, hors d'oeuvres with a Vanderbilt, M&M's & Mr. Pibb for dinner, calling a teacher "Mom," car crashes, tater tot choking, ferrets, laxatives in the Christmas cookies, and Santa on the can. Yep, this was an entertaining day in class. For homework, you are to take your section of the Republican debate transcript, which was shared with you earlier today. For each fallacy that you find, make a comment identifying the type of fallacy and why it is a fallacy. You will need to have your section ready to go for Thursday. Absentees, you will be  in charge of pages 42-53 of the transcript, and you will both need to participate.

Diana/Fallacies

The blogs this week will be based in brevity, so if you have any questions, do not hesitate to e-mail or ask in person for further details. The blog previous to this one, "Discussing Diana," has links to the video and transcripts for the Diana readings today if you were absent or if you would like to watch/read again. 

1: You received your Keats prompt back and then we jumped into Queen Elizabeth II's speech regarding the death of Princess Diana.

3: We reviewed vocab and then made our way through the fallacy packet, which we will finish up tomorrow. Before the sound faded into cessation, we watched the Direct TV slippery slope commercials, which you  may view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ80SVOHKoo.

4: We worked with fallacies all hour in the packet and watched the video link from third hour regarding slippery slopes. For homework, construct a minimum 15 step slippery slope and feel free to bring in humor, creativity, and egregious examples.

7: We started with a vocab quiz for unit 15 and then spent the rest of the class reviewing rhetorical strategies via the two Diana speeches.

Discussing Diana

1 & 7: We finished our presentation discussions! Seventh hour reviewed for their vocab quiz, which will be the Monday we return.

3 & 4: Third hour finished up vocab, and fourth hour completed the quiz for unit 15. Both hours read the transcripts and watched the videos of the words spoken following Princess Diana's sudden death. Look at this old blog for links for transcripts and videos, which all of you should have knowledge of: http://fznaplang.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-end-of-rhetorical-analysis.html.

I hope you have a plethora of thanks to give this week - even if you are just thanking Lucy Grealy.

Rhetorical Analysis Comes to a Close

For the past three months, we have concentrated the majority of our efforts on rhetorical analysis, and now the time has come to move onward and upward to fallacies, multiple choice, and argument. Before you throw your party, we have one more review to do, so it is another opportunity to bring up all those strategies and work on active verb choice and specific purposes. (F.Y.I. Rhetorical analysis will always be around, so you still need all that knowledge for the rest of the class.)

1: The presentations are complete! We are in the midst of our follow-up discussion, which will resume and complete during tomorrow's class. Also on the docket are the Keats prompts (someone in the class scored a 9) and vocabulary.

3 & 4: The presentation discussions are complete! Third hour has their Keats prompts - which included a 9, the first non-presentation 9 awarded this year. And, we added four more vocab words to the vernacular. Fourth hour, you reviewed vocab today, which means your quiz is tomorrow.

7:

Survey - Do This By November 21

In case you did not have the chance to take the technology survey, you still have approximately 24 hours to do so: https://sites.google.com/a/fz.k12.mo.us/bright-bytes-survey/. Start by going under "High Schools" and then selecting North High.