Agenda, February 1

• Due Now: Cause and Effect Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Now: Compare and Contrast Outline
• Due Thursday: Division and Classification Packet 
• Due Wednesday: Cause and Effect Outline. Pick one of your Cause and Effect brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. Instead of an introduction, write your claim / purpose. You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. Please label each body paragraph as a cause or effect. Write a fully developed conclusion that makes your "So what?" clear. Please don't write a summary conclusion. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Coming Wednesday: Establishing sources review
• Due Monday, February 8: Optional Synthesis Revision. You probably need more evidence.

Agenda

1. Check your Short Takes citations
2. How do you write cause and effect?
3. Cause and effect brainstorm
4. In conclusion ...
5. Whole class discussion

Agenda, January 27

• Due Now: Compare and Contrast Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Now: TEP Paragraph about any strategy in any essay in the Process Analysis or Compare and Contrast Packet.
• Due Now: Multiple Choice Practice
• Due Monday: Cause and Effect Packet 
• Due Monday: Compare and Contrast Outline. Pick one of your Compare and Contrast brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. You will need a multi-paragraph introduction (beware of the single paragraph intro that's simply split into two paragraphs). You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. In place of a conclusion, write a one sentence "So what?" statement. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Due Monday, February 8: Optional Synthesis Revision. You probably need more evidence.

Agenda

1. Multiple Choice Answers
2. Whole Class Watches Different Wars
3. Whole Class Quotes "The Raven"

Agenda, January 27

• Due Now: Compare and Contrast Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Tomorrow: TEP Paragraph about any strategy in any essay in the Process Analysis or Compare and Contrast Packet.
•  Due Tomorrow: Multiple Choice Practice
• Due Monday: Compare and Contrast Outline. Pick one of your Compare and Contrast brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. You will need a multi-paragraph introduction (beware of the single paragraph intro that's simply split into two paragraphs). You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. In place of a conclusion, write a one sentence "So what?" statement. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Due Monday, February 8: Optional Synthesis Revision. You probably need more evidence.

Agenda

1. Compare and Contrast Brainstorm
2. Whole Class Plays House
3. Whole Class Watches Different Wars

Agenda, January 26

• Due Now: Optional narrative revision. If you're done with your narrative, return it to me.
• Due Now: Compare and Contrast Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Now: Process Analysis Outline. Pick one of your Process Analysis brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. You will need a multi-paragraph introduction (beware of the single paragraph intro that's simply split into two paragraphs). You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. In place of a conclusion, write a one sentence "So what?" statement. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Due Thursday: TEP Paragraph about any strategy in any essay in the Process Analysis or Compare and Contrast Packet.
• Due Monday: Compare and Contrast Outline. Same expectations as the Process Analysis Outline.

Agenda

1. Multiple Choice Practice Section
2. Compare and Contrast Strategies
3. Compare and Contrast Brainstorm
4. Whole Class Disco

Agenda, January 22

• Due Now: Process Analysis Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Tuesday: Optional narrative revision. If you're done with your narrative, return it to me.
• Due Tuesday: Compare and Contrast Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Tuesday: Process Analysis Outline. Pick one of your Process Analysis brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. You will need a multi-paragraph introduction (beware of the single paragraph intro that's simply split into two paragraphs). You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. In place of a conclusion, write a one sentence "So what?" statement. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Do Now: Keep working on multiple choice section.

Agenda

1. Multiple Choice Answers
2. An "Independent" discussion
3. A "Woman's" Discussion

Agenda, January 21

• Due Now: Process Analysis Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Tuesday: Optional narrative revision. If you're done with your narrative, return it to me.
• Due Tuesday: Compare and Contrast Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Tuesday: Process Analysis Outline. Pick one of your Process Analysis brainstorms and develop it into a formal outline. You will need a multi-paragraph introduction (beware of the single paragraph intro that's simply split into two paragraphs). You need a minimum of four body paragraphs, though you may have more. For the body paragraphs, write a complete topic sentence followed by two bullet-pointed supporting details. In place of a conclusion, write a one sentence "So what?" statement. Your audience is the student body of OCHS. Typed. Single-spaced okay.
• Do by Friday: Keep working on multiple choice section.

Agenda

1. Process Analysis Brainstorm
2. "Runner," as quick as can be
3. An "Independent" discussion

Agenda, January 20

• Due Now: Process Analysis Packet.Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Tuesday: Optional narrative revision. If you're done with your narrative, return it to me.
• Due Tuesday: Compare and Contrast Packet.Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Do by Friday: Keep working on multiple choice section.
• Do tomorrow: Look extra-photogenic

Agenda

1. Multiple Choice Practice
2. Process Analysis: What is it? How do you do it well?
3. Process Analysis Brainstorm
4. "Runner"

Agenda, January 19

• Due Now: Completed "Gospel" Packet
• Due Now: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research.
• Due Tomorrow: Process Analysis Packet.Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.
• Due Tuesday: Optional narrative revision. If you're done with your narrative, return it to me.

Agenda

1. "The Gospel of Wealth" urgent questions
2. Why did we have yesterday off anyway?

Agenda, January 15

• Due Now: "The Gospel of Wealth." Add it to your Bibliography. Cite it from The Language of Composition.
• Due Tuesday: Completed "Gospel" Packet
• Due Tuesday, January 19: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research.
• Due Wednesday: Process Analysis Packet. Add the essays (not the introductory material) to your Bibliography. They are from the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition.

Agenda

1. "The Gospel of Wealth"

Agenda, January 14

• Due Now: "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bibliography. Scribble all over it. 
• Due Now: "The Gospel of Wealth"
• Due Tuesday, January 19: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research.  

Agenda

1. Communist Answers
2. Marx: right and wrong
3. "The Gospel of Wealth"

Agenda, January 13

• Due Now: "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bibliography. Scribble all over it. 
• Due Now: Multiple Choice practice. Look up those words!
• Due Tomorrow: "The Gospel of Wealth"
• Due Tuesday, January 19: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research.  

Agenda

1. Two annoying things about citing Marx
2. Multiple Choice groups
3. Communist Questions
4. Communist Answers

Agenda, January 12

• Due Now: "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bibliography. Scribble all over it. 
• Due Wednesday: Keep working on Multiple Choice practice. Look up those words!
• Due Tuesday, January 19: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research.  

Agenda

1. Communist Questions
2. Communist Answers

Agenda, January 11

• Due Now: "On Compassion," by Barabara Lazear Ascher, from 50 Essays, 2nd Edition

• Due Now: "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bibliography. Scribble all over it. 
• Due Now: Optional revision of narrative. Speak to me about your word count before you revise. Clip new copy on top of previous drafts. Post new word count on first page of new draft. Highlight changes on new draft. 
• Due Wednesday: Keep working on Multiple Choice practice. Look up those words!
• Due Tuesday, January 19: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research.  

Agenda

1. Multiple Choice Practice Section
2. Wrapping up compassion
3. Communist Questions
4. Communist Answers

Agenda, January 8

• Due Now: "On Compassion," by Barabara Lazear Ascher, from 50 Essays, 2nd Edition

• Due Now: Complete and accurate Bibliography. Include "The Atlanta Exposition Address" and "On Compassion."
• Due Monday: "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bibliography. Scribble all over it. 
• Due Monday: Optional revision of narrative. Speak to me about your word count before you revise. Clip new copy on top of previous drafts. Post new word count on first page of new draft. Highlight changes on newdraft. 
• Due Tuesday, January 19: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research.  

Agenda

1. Does anybody need to give me their device poster today? 
2. A couple of Marx videos: Bio and Crash Course
3. A compassionate discussion

Agenda, January 7

• Due Now: "On Compassion," by Barabara Lazear Ascher, from 50 Essays, 2nd Edition

• Due Friday, January 8: Complete and accurate Bibliography. Include "The Atlanta Exposition Address" and "On Compassion."
• Coming Tomorrow: You'll get a handout that's due Monday. Make sure you have a reliable guy. (Do I need a new name for this?) 
• Due Monday, January 11: Optional revision of narrative. Speak to me about your word count before you revise. Clip new copy on top of previous drafts. Post new word count on first page of new draft. Highlight changes on new draft. 
• Due Tuesday, January 19: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research.  

Agenda

1. Does anybody need to take their device poster home tonight?
2. Multiple Choice Groups
3. Purpose in the "Atlanta Exposition"
4. A compassionate discussion

Agenda, January 6

• Due Thursday: "On Compassion," by Barabara Lazear Ascher, from 50 Essays, 2nd Edition

• Due Friday, January 8: Complete and accurate Bibliography. Include "The Atlanta Exposition Address" and "On Compassion."
• Due Monday, January 11: Optional revision of narrative. Speak to me about your word count before you revise. Clip new copy on top of previous drafts. Post new word count on first page of new draft. Highlight changes on new draft. 
• Due Tuesday, January 19: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research.  

Agenda

1. Multiple Choice Practice
2. 11 Devices Posters
3. Purpose in the "Atlanta Exposition"

Poor, Poor Synthesists

Poor Synthesis Essay

Due Tuesday, January 19th

Question: What, if anything, is society’s obligation to the poor? Using several of the pieces we have read in this unit, as well as your own personal experiences, reading, and research, explain how and why society at large ought (or ought not) to help those who can’t help themselves. Support your thesis with direct quotations from multiple texts (a minimum of three sources from class, plus one additional source from the Gale Databases and a second independently found online or print source), properly formatted in MLA style.
 
This paper will require you to define some key terms: society, obligation, and poor. We’ve read a variety of models of authors using a variety of techniques to define complex terms without relying on dictionary definitions.
 
Typed. Double Spaced. Twelve point. No blank lines between paragraphs, except to indicate a major shift in tone or setting. Four - seven pages. Don’t forget a title.
 
Required:
Three rhetorical strategies from The Virtual Salt, underlined and labeled (handwritten labels are acceptable, as are footnotes).
A minimum of three sources from class.
A minimum of one additional source from the Gale database.
A minimum of one other independently found source.
A minimum of two synthesis paragraph. Not all of your paragraphs need to be synthesis paragraphs.
Properly formatted Works Cited Page.
 
Suggested: Consider the tone you want to set from the outset. Narrative openings emphasize pathos. Openings filled with stats and facts emphasize logos. What is the most effective tone for you to employ?
 
Audience: 1) “Society.” 2) Yourself.
 
Purpose: 1) To suggest a plan of action for the future. 2) To convince “society” to embrace your plan.
 
How to approach this paper:
• Define your key terms.
• Develop an opinion on this subject.
• Gather evidence (from our texts and from research) to support your opinion. This is an argument; therefore, personal experience is valid evidence and first person is an acceptable POV.
• Consider counter arguments.
• Create clear, defensible topic sentences.
• Draft paragraphs with two quotations to support your topic sentences.
• Draft paragraphs with an eye towards ethos, pathos, and logos.
• Proofread to ensure your quotations are properly formatted and cited. For this essay, “you will need to include the author’s name in your parenthetical citation” (Kline 1).
• Create your Works Cited page.

Agenda, January 5

• Due Thursday: "On Compassion," by Barabara Lazear Ascher, from 50 Essays, 2nd Edition

• Due Friday, January 8: Complete and accurate Bibliography. Include "The Atlanta Exposition Address" and "On Compassion."
• Due Monday, January 11: Optional revision of narrative. Speak to me about your word count before you revise. Clip new copy on top of previous drafts. Post new word count on first page of new draft. Highlight changes on new draft. 
• Due Tuesday, January 19: Write a 4-7 page synthesis paper that answers the question "What, if anything, is society's obligation to the poor?" Build your essay around classroom readings and independent research. Details to follow.  

Agenda

1. How ya been? What did you read?
2. Mr. Lovell's Monday thoughts
3. Poor Synthesis Essay
4. "The Atlanta Exposition Address," by Booker T. Washington
5. Structural Rhetorical Analysis