Agenda, June (?!?!) 1

Due Tomorrow: Final Draft

1. T-Shirt Money. Still.
2. Make me give you your Works Cited. Sheesh.
3. Things I don't want to forget to say: 1) No need to cite the dictionary. 2) Don't quote the dictionary definition if you're not going to parse the definition. 3) Don't submit a paper without your last name and the page number in the header. 4) The only thing I'm counting is pages: seven is the minimum. 5) Period. Yet, ...
4. Passive Voice
5. Justice in Orwell

Agenda, May 31

Due Now: T-shirt money
Due Now: Completed draft of Justice Essay
Due Now: "Shooting an Elephant"

1. Works Cited
2. Establishing sources
3. Peer review: Is it a research paper? Does it define justice? Is it well written (structure, diction, rhetorical devices, conventions)? Is it effective (hit 'em with a "Yeah, but ..." or two)
4. Justice in "Shooting an Elephant"

Due Friday: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, in 50 Essays
Due Friday: T-shirt Money

1. T-Shirt Money
2. Essay Questions?
3. One Question Quiz
4. "Shooting"

Agenda, May 26

Due Friday: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, in 50 Essays
Due Friday: T-shirt Money

1. T-Shirt Money
2. Essay Questions?
3. Work Day - if you need a break, I need someone to go hang Lit Mag posters

Agenda, May 25

Due Now: "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson, in 50 Essays
Due Now: Works Cited page for the research you have completed so far. Grade will be based on the accuracy of your citations and the thoroughness of your research.
Due Friday: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, in 50 Essays
Coming tomorrow: Laptops for work day. You're welcome. 

1. T-shirt time
2. Essay Questions?
3. "Lie" to Me

Agenda, May 24

Due Now: "The Female Body"
Due Now: "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson, in 50 Essays
Due Wednesday: Works Cited page for the research you have completed so far. Grade will be based on the accuracy of your citations and the thoroughness of your research. 

1. Justice Outlines in Groups
2. Atwood's Lists
3. Atwood's Comparisons
4. "The Ways We Lie"

Agenda, May 23

Due Now: "The Female Body"
Due Now: Justice Outline
Due Tomorrow: "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson, in 50 Essays
Due Wednesday: Works Cited page for the research you have completed so far. Grade will be based on the accuracy of your citations and the thoroughness of your research.

1. Justice Outline Peer Review
2. "The Female Body"

And the winner is ...

... everybody, really. Your work was excellent. The presentations were rhetorically delicious. You had them eating out the palm of your hand.

... well, me, more specifically. I can't think of a better way to spend my teaching time than listening to you all argue quite convincingly for a charity of your choice.

... oh fine. The winner is the Blanchet House. Congratulations!

The Female Body

I have too many copies of "The Female Body" on my desk right now, so I know somebody didn't grab one in class. When I went to google (other search engines I use couldn't find it) and typed in "the female body by margaret atwood" (no quotes), the 8th link was a .pdf from Stanford. I tried to post the link here, but it wouldn't work; however, I was able to download the link from google.

Good luck.

Agenda, May 20

Due Monday: "The Female Body" by Margaret Atwood (be sure to get the handout from me)
Due Monday: Justice Outline


Speeches!

Agenda, May 19

Due Now: "The Age of the Essay"
Due Tomorrow: Speech o' Justice. Don't forget the written explanation of your contribution.
Due Monday: Outline of Justice Essay
Due Wednesday: Works Cited Page

1. Speech Questions?
2. Essay Questions?
3. The Age of the Essay
4. The Longest Sentence

Agenda, May 18

Due Thursday: "The Age of the Essay" (handout - be sure to ask at the beginning of class)
Due Friday: Speech o' Justice
Due Monday: Justice Essay Outline

1. What did you find yesterday?
2. Library time

Agenda, May 17

Due Thursday: "The Age of the Essay" (handout - be sure to ask at the beginning of class)
Due Friday: Speech o' Justice
Due Monday: Justice Essay Outline

1. Search Term Brainstorm
2. Works Cited Advice
3. To the Library!

Justice Essay Assignment and Due Dates

What is Justice?

Craft a research paper of 7-10 pages that provides your personal answer to the question “What is justice?” You may base your answer on your personal reading, as well as events in the news and in your own life. Feel free to scavenge from previous essays (remember, however, that this is a research paper. This paper needs to demonstrate the ability to conduct original, college level research. Gale resources are for more reliable and age appropriate than general web sources, though you may use both sources).

You may consider other questions, such as who deserves justice? Who abdicates their right to justice? Who decides who deserves justice?

This paper requires parenthetical citations and a Works Cited page in MLA format.

Schedule:

5/13: Justice “Test”

5/17: Lab time for research

5/18: Lab time for research

5/20: Speech O’ Justice!

5/23: Justice Essay Outline due

5/25: Works Cited page due. This will be graded. You will be able to revise it and resubmit it with your paper. The initial grade will not be replaced.

5/31: Typed first draft of essay due for Peer Review. Participation grade only.

6/2: Final Draft Due

Rest of tri: college essays

Agenda, May 16

Due Now: "The Insufficiency of Honesty"
Due Now: War Revisions
Due Monday, 5/23: Justice Essay Outlines

1. Justice Test Review
2. Justice Essay Questions
3. An "Honest" Discussion

Where do I start?

It seems like the directions for the Justice Essay must be paradoxical: how do I write a definition of justice that is useful to me as a human being and write a research paper at the same time?

The answer is the answer to all good writing: follow your heart.

• Like animals? Build your research questions around the way we treat our pets, our predators, our food.
• Like words? Consider issues of intellectual property or censorship. Who owns your art? Your thoughts?
• Are you a chemist? A biologist? I imagine there are ethical issues surrounding the development, testing, and sales of new medicines. Or the costs of medical procedures. Or insurance.
• Fond of the planet? Perhaps you could ask yourself, "What is our obligation to the environment?" I'm sure you could research our use of pesticides, fertilizers, and GMOs. Deforestation. Is renewable energy really environmentally friendly? Who says? How can you trust them?
• Are you a sports fanatic? How do you feel about PEDs?

Anywho. I think you get the point: follow your heart.

Speech O' Justice

Speech O’ Justice

Due: May 20, 2011

The Task:

Working alone or with a group of up to four people, create a presentation in which you encourage your peers to donate the proceeds from Kline’s Jar O’ Justice to a philanthropic organization of your choice. Presentations must be a minimum of two minutes and a maximum of three.

The Details:

Students who are working in a group may either present as a group or elect a representative to deliver the speech. All group members are expected to contribute equally to the presentation; at the time of the presentations all group members will submit a precise, written explanation of their contribution to the group’s efforts. All group members are required to attend the presentation, even those who are not speaking.

Students who are working alone will be graded solely on their presentation and will not be required to submit an explanation of their effort.

The Grade:

Your presentation will be graded on the quality of your argument (have you selected appropriate appeals? have you selected effective diction? have you researched your charity thoroughly enough?) and the quality of the presentation (enthusiastic? confident? well prepared? well delivered?)

Agenda, May 12

Due Tomorrow: Justice Test
Due Monday: War Revisions
Due Monday: "The Insufficiency of Honesty," by Stephen L. Carter, in 50 Essays. Do you remember how to read?

1. Celebrate good times. 
2. Come on. 
3. We are going to celebrate,
4. And have a good time.
5. Kline gets 20 minutes to bring everybody down.

You WILL Rock that Test!!!!!!

I was perusing the poster from AP Lit and, of all the encouragement and advice, this note from Ellen Pyne stood out:

Have fun!

You are smart. You are talented. You are ready.

See you Thursday.

Note that you need it, but here's the link to the TSQASQAC post:

http://aplang-o-rama.blogspot.com/2010/10/synthesis-paragraph-model.html

And here's the link for the TEP Paragraph:


http://aplang-o-rama.blogspot.com/2010/10/takin-off-training-wheels.html

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Agenda, May 10

Due Monday, 5/16: War Revision. Don't waste ink. See me first.

1. How ya' feelin'?
2. Speech O' Justice
3. The Training Wheels
4. Anything else?

Agenda, May 9

Due Now: Nothing
Due Tomorrow: Less ...
Due Monday, 5/16: War Revision

1. ... except if you're going to be absent tomorrow
2. Things you know how to do: interrupters, short sentences and fragments, the one sentence paragraph, narrative openings (for argument and synthesis only), analogies, anaphora
3. Timed Write Practice
4. Return War Essays
5. Requests for tomorrow?

Oh, Wikipedia, is there nothing you don't know?

You can find info about material fallacies, verbal fallacies, and deductive fallacies simply by click here.

You're not likely to need any of these terms on the exam, but it's pretty interesting stuff anyway.

Happy Weekend!

Agenda, May 3

If your War Essay isn't in my hands, it is currently a zero in the grade book.
Due Now, Tomorrow, Next: Expert Essay Presentations


1) Tales from the Survivors
2) Presentations:

• Kathleen 
• Philip
• Lauren
• Erin B
• Emileigh
• Whitney
• Missy
• Stevie

3)Tone Groups

Agenda, May 2

Due Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: Your presentations (see previous post)

1. Presentation Negotiation
2. Timed Write Wrap Up
3. Multiple Choice Answers and Questions