Final work time on the DWA Reflection. Due Monday, printed out.
Please make sure you go the library and pick up a copy of Night by Elie Wiesel. We will start reading on Monday.
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Work time on DWA Reflection. Remember, it is due Monday, and needs to be printed out, with the rubric stapled on top.
Today we received our scores on the DWA. You must login to Skyward to view your grade percentage (letter grade equivalent), but need to login to Turnitin.com to see your score breakdown. Please ignore any reference to percentages on Turnintin.com--this is not the score you received in Skyward. You can find the rubric score breakdown by clicking on the lower right hand corner, on the little icon that looks like a grid.
You have a DWA reflection assignment that you must complete this week. Instructions are below. DWA Reflection Assignment (click here first) DWA Rubric (Mrs. Hopkins gave you a yellow printout of this in class) Essay Scale Percentage Conversion (this is how your scale score in Turnitin.com was converted to a letter grade for Skyward) This assignment is due on Monday, February 1, at the beginning of class. Please go over the instructions carefully. It is a MANDATORY assignment, no matter your grade. It must be typed and printed out. You will receive a printed rubric with your score on it tomorrow. Ethos is the ethical appeal. It's how a speaker or author establishes herself as credible in the minds of the audience. It's how you know whether to believe or trust someone. This is partially done through tone and vocabulary. It's also about experience and authority--does this person know what she's talking about? Do they have education and/or experience? Do they use credible sources (and cite them)?
Logos is the logical appeal. It's using logic, rational thinking and critical reasoning to persuade. Logos includes the use of facts and statistics. It also uses cause and effect and other forms of reasoning. It aims to persuade them intellectually. Pathos is the emotional appeal. It appeals to the audience's emotions and beliefs. It uses emotional stories, personal connections, phrases and words that stir up emotion. (In video presentation, music and images can also be used to appeal to the emotions.) Today, you are going to read a longer autobiographical essay, "Shunned." It's the story of a young woman's unplanned pregnancy in the 1960s, and her subsequent social shunning. When you are done reading, do a quick rhetorical analysis of the story by answering the questions below. 1. How does the author use ethos to establish her credibility with the audience? Give a specific example from the text. 2. What is the main idea of the essay? What larger point is the author trying to make? 3. How does the author use logos to enforce the main idea? Give at least one specific example from the text. 4. How does the author use pathos to enforce the main idea? Give at least one specific example from the text. 5. What appeal does the author use most effectively? Why is it the most effective? Submit to your NEW Turinitin.com account. New class codes for second semester are on the Turnitin.com tab. CLICK HERE TO READ "SHUNNED." Today we came up with different classroom layouts!
Monday, 1/18: No school in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Tuesday, 1/19: Explanation of vocabulary final: cumulative 8 weeks, completely objective (matching and multiple choice. You are allowed to have one page, front and back, of handwritten notes. Wednesday, 1/20: Finals, Periods 1, 2, 3 Thursday, 1/21: Finals, Periods 4, 5, 6 Friday, 1/22: Completed, in class, a reflection on the first semester of LA10 (please see document below). Due at end of class period. Please make sure you talk to Mrs. Hopkins before the end of the day about anything pertaining to your 1st semester grades!
Please come see Mrs. Hopkins if you have questions about these two days.
I am glad you are here. You matter to me. We are going to follow up yesterday's discussion on the death penalty by reading two contrasting essays on this same subject. Please grab a reading packet from the front table. Also, please note that the packet contains some supplemental reading material not included in the essay links below: "The Penalty of Death" by H.L. Mencken "The Unquiet Death of Robert Harris" by Michael Kroll I have provided you some additional background information on Mencken in the front of the packet, as well as a summary of the crime, trial, and execution of Robert Harris. A short bio of the author can be found with the text of the essay. Please begin reading these two essays silently to yourself, making note of rhetorical devices used to serve the author's purpose. Please complete a SOAPSTone for each essay. Week 8 Vocabulary list can be found on the drop down vocab menu. This will be included on the vocabulary final next week.
Today we began class by writing continuously for ten minutes on the following questions:
We came up with four reasons for the existence of the death penalty:
Today we read "The Man in the Water." We read the author biography first (at the end of the article/essay). It is important to know that he is known for his opinion-based writing. Read the article, then finish reading "Titanic," and then write a comparison of the two articles and how they each approach a disaster through the use of rhetoric.
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