Agenda, May 29

Not due today: Optional Works Cited Page for feedback only.  
Due 6/1: Typed draft of Justice Essay for peer review.    

1. Subjective and Objective Truth
2. Do I Contradict Myself?
3. Essay Questions
4. Those about to test, we salute you!
5. Presentation Highlights
6. Choose your own adventure

Agenda, May 27

On Thursday: Report directly to the Presentation Room! Fill the room from the back.

Due Friday: Period 4, class will be back to normal. Whew!       
Due 5/27, by 8 pm: If you are using an electronic presentation such as Keynote or Powerpoint, you need to e-mail / share your file with me. Share your doc so that I can edit it.          
Due 5/28: Typed Speech o' Justice Paragraph    
Due 5/28: Speech o' Justice 
Not due on 5/29: Optional Works Cited Page for feedback only.
Due 6/1: Typed draft of Justice Essay for peer review.    

1. Speech o' Justice Questions
2. Essay Questions
3. Phones go in; laptops come out
4. Let the SBA Party commence!
5. SBAC Relief: A new perspective on a magic trick.

Speech o' Justice Presentation Order

Here's what's coming tomorrow. Before I go to bed tonight, I'll post a comment that includes all the presentations I've received:

1. Reach Out Worldwide
2. Thirst Project
3. Greenpeace
4. Oregon Humane Society
5. American Diabetes Assoc
6. Kiva
7. Make a Wish
8. Itafari Foundation
9. Sparrow
10. Wild Aid
11. Variety
12. ASPCA

Agenda, May 26

Due Tomorrow: Bring ear buds or headphones, if you have them.
Due Now: Per 5 Permission Slips.      
Due Now: Typed Justice Essay Outline       
Due 5/27, by 8 pm: If you are using an electronic presentation such as Keynote or Powerpoint, you need to e-mail / share your file with me. Share your doc so that I can edit it.        
Due 5/28: Typed Speech o' Justice Paragraph  
Due 5/28: Speech o' Justice  

1. Speech o' Justice Questions
2. Essay Questions
3. Phones go in; laptops come out
4. Let the SBA Party commence!
5. SBAC Relief: This should cool you down.

Due Tomorrow: Bring ear buds or headphones, if you have them.
 
Due Now: Per 5 Permission Slips.      
Not due: Read "The Age of the Essay," by Paul Graham.          
Not due: Read "The Insufficiency of Honesty," by Stephen L. Carter        
Pay particular attention to both the way these authors structure their arguments and the types of evidence they use.        
Do this weekend: Go see Charlotte's Web! Wed - Sat, 7:30 pm, all tickets $8.00      
Due 5/26: Typed Justice Essay Outline     
Due 5/27, by 8 pm: If you are using an electronic presentation such as Keynote or Powerpoint, you need to e-mail / share your file with me.        
Due 5/28: Typed Speech o' Justice Paragraph
Due 5/28: Speech o' Justice  

1. Speech o' Justice Questions
2. Essay Questions
3. Phones go in; laptops come out
4. Let the SBA Party commence!
5. SBAC Relief: What does the elevator say?

Agenda, May 21

Due Tomorrow: Bring ear buds or headphones, if you have them.
Due Tomorrow: Per 5 Permission Slips.    
Not due: Read "The Age of the Essay," by Paul Graham.        
Not due: Read "The Insufficiency of Honesty," by Stephen L. Carter      
Pay particular attention to both the way these authors structure their arguments and the types of evidence they use.      
Do this weekend: Go see Charlotte's Web! Wed - Sat, 7:30 pm, all tickets $8.00    
Due 5/26: Typed Justice Essay Outline   
Due 5/27, by 8 pm: If you are using an electronic presentation such as Keynote or Powerpoint, you need to e-mail / share your file with me.      
Due 5/28: Speech o' Justice

1. The Imitation Game 
2. Speech o' Justice Questions
3. Essay Questions
4. SBAC Relief: before or after? Men or Women?
5. Phones go in; laptops come out
6. Let the SBA Party commence!

Period 5 Groups o' Justice

1.     Make a Wish

a.     Sydney

b.     Miranda

c.      Breana

d.     Andrea

2.     ASPCA

a.     Maddy

b.     Mack

c.      Jackson

d.     Rory

3.     Itafari Foundation

a.     Nick

b.     Mark

c.      Madeline

d.     Alexis

4.     Sparrow

a.     Whitney

b.     Lauren

c.      Jenna

d.     Jessica

5.     Born Free Foundation

a.     Nate

b.     Katie

c.      Coby

d.     Conor

6.     Variety

a.     Lexie

b.     Isabel

c.      Morgan

Period 4 Groups o' Justice

1.     Reach Out Worldwide

a.     Kyle

b.     Garrett

c.      Luda

d.     Pavel

2.     Thirst Project

a.     Ethan

b.     Holli

c.      Maurie

d.     Amanda

3.     Human Rights Campaign Foundation

a.     Catie

b.     Sequoia

c.      Zoe

d.     Andrew

4.     Oregon Humane Society

a.     Brian

b.     Brittany

c.      Nicole

d.     Nick

5.     American Diabetes Assoc

a.     Van

b.     Stephanie

c.      Brianna

6.     Kiva

a.     David

b.     Alissa

c.      Nikole

d.     Emma

Agenda, May 20

Due Tomorrow: Bring ear buds or headphones, if you have them.
   
Not due: Read "The Age of the Essay," by Paul Graham.      
Not due: Read "The Insufficiency of Honesty," by Stephen L. Carter    
Pay particular attention to both the way these authors structure their arguments and the types of evidence they use.    
Do this weekend: Go see Charlotte's Web! Wed - Sat, 7:30 pm, all tickets $8.00  
Due 5/26: Typed Justice Essay Outline 
Due 5/27, by 8 pm: If you are using an electronic presentation such as Keynote or Powerpoint, you need to e-mail / share your file with me.    
Due 5/28: Speech o' Justice

1. Speech o' Justice Questions
2. Essay Questions
3. Phones go in; laptops come out
4. Let the SBA Party commence!

If you missed class on Friday, click here to watch the video before you begin the Performance Task.

Agenda, May 19

Due Tomorrow: Bring ear buds or headphones, if you have them.
 
Not due: Read "The Age of the Essay," by Paul Graham.    
Not due: Read "The Insufficiency of Honesty," by Stephen L. Carter  
Pay particular attention to both the way these authors structure their arguments and the types of evidence they use.  
Do this weekend: Go see Charlotte's Web! Wed - Sat, 7:30 pm, all tickets $8.00
Due 5/26: Typed Justice Essay Outline  
Due 5/28: Speech o' Justice

1. Speech o' Justice Questions
2. Essay Questions
3. Phones go in; laptops come out
4. Let the SBA Party commence!

If you missed class on Friday, click here to watch the video before you begin the Performance Task.

Agenda, May 18

Not due: Read "The Age of the Essay," by Paul Graham.  
Not due: Read "The Insufficiency of Honesty," by Stephen L. Carter
Pay particular attention to both the way these authors structure their arguments and the types of evidence they use.
Due 5/26: Typed Justice Essay Outline
Due 5/28: Speech o' Justice

1. Speech o' Justice Questions
2. Essay Questions
3. Phones go in; laptops come out
4. Let the SBA Party commence!

If you missed class on Friday, click here to watch the video before you begin the Performance Task. 

The Justice Test

Below, you will find 22 hypothetical situations. Your job is to think about them and figure if each one is just or unjust. Once you know whether it is just or unjust, you need to figure out why. If you can explain why, you will have one small piece of your personal definition of justice nailed down.

As we discovered in class, it's okay if your personal definition of justice isn't 100% consistent. It's also okay to realize that something is unjust and still do it anyway. Most people, if not all, are willing to tolerate some amount of injustice in our lives.

1.     Our school’s dress code (and the enforcement thereof).

2.     Illegally downloading copyrighted music.

3.     Throwing loud, raucous parties that last late into the night.

4.     Establishing 21 as the legal age to purchase and consume alcohol.

5.     Expecting all students – regardless of race, social class, gender, and intellectual ability – to pass the same standardized test.

6.     Censorship of school newspapers and yearbooks.

7.     Censorship of violent and pornographic entertainment.

8.     Censorship of hate speech.

9.     Protecting the environment in the United States at the cost of jobs by preventing practices such as oil drilling, hydrolic fracking, and logging.

10.  Protecting the environment in the United States by using energy efficient devices such as electric cars and solar panels.

11.  Exporting the environmental damage caused by the production of car batteries and solar panels to third world countries.

12.  Eating babies.

13.  Eating bacon.

14.  Factory farming meat as opposed to raising free range livestock for meat.

15.  Publishing all government documents – including tax codes, warning signs, and driver’s exams – in English only.

16.  Providing the highest quality medical care only to those who can afford to pay for it.

17.  Providing health care to all citizens, which may reduce access to essential care for some.

18.  Paying professional athletes millions of dollars.

19.  Detonating a suicide bomb on a crowded city bus.

20.  Dropping bombs from military jets.

21.  Dropping bombs from a drone.

22.  Torturing a person to gain important military information.

Agenda, May 15

Read "The Age of the Essay," by Paul Graham.
Read "The Insufficiency of Honesty," by Stephen L. Carter
Pay particular attention to both the way these authors structure their arguments and the types of evidence they use.

1. Speech o' Justice Sign-ups
2. A look at the news
3. Justice Test

 

Speech o' Justice

Speech O’ Justice

Due: May 28

The Task:

Working 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 three minutes and a maximum of four.

The Details:

Students 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.

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?). Winning the vote will not be a factor in your grade.

What is Justice?

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). Classroom texts don’t count as research.

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:

5/15: Justice “Test”

5/18 - ?: SBA

5/26: Typed Outline Due

5/28: The Speech o’ Justice

5/29: Not due: Works Cited page for feedback purposes only

6/1: Typed first draft of essay due for Peer Review. Participation grade only.

6/3: Final draft of essay due.

Rest of tri: college essays

Agenda, May 14

1. So ... how was it?
2. The return of the portfolios!
3. Here's your future ...

Don't know why you're checking the blog, but just in case ...

Period 5 brought up the possibility of writing a satire for either the argument or the synthesis paper. It's a risky strategy but it's been done, and when it's successful it can easily result in a high score. The danger, of course, is that your reader might not notice it's a satire.

The solution? The TITLE. Remember, you can title any and all of your essays (the title, after all, is where your argument begins). Hence (see what I did there, Period 4?), titling your essay "Turn Up the Heat: A Satirical Look at Global Warming" or "A Modest Marketing Proposal" would help your reader know what to expect from the argument that follows.

By the by, I told a few people today to "have fun tomorrow," and I mean that sincerely. At this point, the Lang test is a game in its finest, purest sense. The folks at AP have set a challenge before you, like a nasty serve with a little english on it or a craftily placed pin on the 14th green or a key signature with four flats. Your job is to step up to the challenge with confidence and, I hope, a little joy at being asked to do something difficult.

So, and I mean this with all my heart, have fun tomorrow!

Agenda, May 12

Due Now: Bring a hard copy of your Bibliography; clean or corrected, it doesn't matter.  
Due Yesterday: War Essay Revision. Highlight changes in your new copy. Clip new copy on top of old copy.
Good luck, athleticians!

1. What have we done?
2. What have we read?
3. What do you need to know?

Agenda, May 11

Due Tomorrow: Bring a hard copy of your Bibliography; clean or corrected, it doesn't matter.
Due Now: War Essay Revision. Highlight changes in your new copy. Clip new copy on top of old copy. You'll only get one revision opportunity, so feel free to come talk to me during lunch or while I'm on bus duty. 

Good luck, bio-logicians!

1. The t-shirts, I hear, are about $8.50
2. SAT QOD
3. Periodic v. Cumulative Sentences
4. Fun with sentence forms

Agenda, May 8

Due Monday: War Essay Revision. Highlight changes in your new copy. Clip new copy on top of old copy. You'll only get one revision opportunity, so feel free to come talk to me during lunch or while I'm on bus duty.  
   Good luck, histrionic historians!

1. The t-shirts, I hear, are about $8.50
2. SAT QOD
3. Fun with syllogisms