Agenda, September 30

• Due Now: TEP Paragraph on "Sinners ..." Typed. Double spaced. MLA format. 
• Do this weekend: Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy? Why is he important?    
  

Agenda:

1. A special visitor
2. Dialogue Performances
3. Argument o' the Week

Agenda, September 29

• Due Now: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (handout). Write all over it.
• Due Friday: TEP Paragraph on "Sinners ..." Typed. Double spaced. MLA format.   
  

Agenda:

1. Technical details about your new best friend, the TEP Paragraph
2. Edwards' authority
3. Moving forward in time

Agenda, September 28

• Due Now: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (handout). Write all over it.
• Due Now: If you haven't already completed step 10 of "How to Read," please do so.
• Due Friday: TEP Paragraph on "Sinners ..." Typed. Double spaced. MLA format.   
  

Agenda:

1. Hand over "How to Read," please.
2. Divide and Conquer "Sinners ..."
3. Search and Destroy "Sinners ..."
4. Your new best friend, the TEP Paragraph

Agenda, September 27

• Due Now: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (handout). Write all over it.
• Due Wednesday: If you haven't already completed step 10 of "How to Read," please do so.  
  

Agenda:

1. Debate highlights?
2. Listening to sinners
3. What questions did we answer?
4. Little questions about sinners

Agenda, September 26

• Due Monday: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (handout). Write all over it. 
• Just for Kicks: Collect examples of logical fallacies from tonight's presidential debate.   
  

Agenda:

1. Scene Analysis: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
2. Big questions about sinners
3. Listening to sinners

Agenda, September 23

• Due Now: Read "How to Read Essays You Must Analyze" (handout). Apply the strategies described in the essay to the essay itself: write all over it. 
• Due Monday: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (handout). Write all over it. 

Agenda:

1. Illogical Presentations
2. Scene Analysis: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
3. Scene Analysis: Rhetorical Devices

Agenda, September 22

• Due Now: Find examples of your logical fallacies in The Crucible.
• Due Friday: Read "How to Read Essays You Must Analyze" (handout). Apply the strategies described in the essay to the essay itself: write all over it. 
• Due Monday: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (handout). Write all over it. 

Agenda:

1. How to read archaic text.
2. An Illogical Slideshow
3. Scene Analysis: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
4. Scene Analysis: Rhetorical Devices

Agenda, September 21

Due Dates:

• Due Now: Read two poems by Anne Bradstreet (handout). Take any notes you find useful. Feel free to find out a fact or two about Bradstreet. 
• Due Thursday: Find examples of your logical fallacies in The Crucible.
• Due Friday: Read "How to Read Essays You Must Analyze" (handout). Apply the strategies described in the essay to the essay itself: write all over it. 

Agenda:

1. Vocabulary Lesson #1B
2. Romantic Compare and Contrast
3. Scene Analysis: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
4. Scene Analysis: Rhetorical Devices

Agenda, September 20

Due Dates:

• Due Now: Read two poems by Anne Bradstreet (handout). Take any notes you find useful. Feel free to find out a fact or two about Bradstreet. 
• Due Thursday: Find examples of your logical fallacies in The Crucible. 

Agenda:

1. Logical Fallacies Wrap Up / Valid vs. Effective
2. Portfolio Maintenance
3. 10 thoughts about Anne Bradstreet
4. Whole Class Disco
5. Vocabulary Lesson #1
6. Writing Time
7. Scene Analysis: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
8. Scene Analysis: Rhetorical Devices

Agenda, September 19

Due Dates:

• Late: Share a google doc with me that includes your best example of each of the rhetorical strategies we've practiced this week (except hypophora and rhet. q.). That's a total of 15 examples. Make sure your examples are clearly and correctly labeled.
• Due Now: Come to class prepared to teach a small group of classmates about three logical fallacies. See below for details.  Have notes that I can peruse to assess your preparation.
• Due Tomorrow: Read two poems by Anne Bradstreet (handout). Take any notes you find useful. Feel free to find out a fact or two about Bradstreet. 
• Due Thursday: Find examples of your logical fallacies in The Crucible. 

Agenda:

1. Let's get quizzical!
2. Come to an agreement
3. Spread some wisdom
4. Portfolio Maintenance
5. Scene Analysis: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
6. Scene Analysis: Rhetorical Devices

Agenda, September 16

Due Dates:

• Late: Share a google doc with me that includes your best example of each of the rhetorical strategies we've practiced this week (except hypophora and rhet. q.). That's a total of 15 examples. Make sure your examples are clearly and correctly labeled.
• Due Monday: Come to class prepared to teach a small group of classmates about three logical fallacies. See below for details.  Have notes that I can peruse to assess your preparation.
• Fair Warning: The quiz you were supposed to take on the first day of school might be coming tomorrow (by which I mean Monday).
• Due Tuesday: Read two poems by Anne Bradstreet (handout). Take any notes you find useful. Feel free to find out a fact or two about Bradstreet. 

Agenda:

1. Teach this poem
2. Why did these scenes matter?
3. Scene Analysis: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
4. Scene Analysis: Rhetorical Devices

Agenda, September 15

Due Dates:

• Now: Find two examples each of anadiplosis, epanalepsis, synechdoche, and metonymy.
• Now: Rehearse your lines!
• Friday before the beginning of class: Share a google doc with me that includes your best example of each of the rhetorical strategies we've practiced this week (except hypophora and rhet. q.). That's a total of 15 examples. Make sure your examples are clearly and correctly labeled.
• Due Monday: Come to class prepared to teach a small group of classmates about three logical fallacies. See below for details. 
• Fair Warning: The quiz you were supposed to take on the first day of school might be coming tomorrow. 

Agenda:

1. Rehearsal time
2. Performance time
3. Scene Analysis: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
4. Rhetorical Device Practice: anadiplosis, epanalepsis, synechdoche, metonomy

Logical Fallacies Teaching Assignment

On Thursday, you will come to class prepared to teach one cluster of logical fallacies to a small group of your classmates.

The content of your lesson should include:

• The definition of each fallacy in your cluster
• Examples of each fallacy in your cluster
• Explanations of when this type of argument is valid and/or effective
• Explanations of when this type of argument is invalid and/or ineffective
• A quick opportunity to practice identifying or writing logical fallacies

Your lesson should last between 5 and 10 minutes.

Preparation of this lesson is an individual activity.

Logical Fallacies

Cluster 1:

Begging the Question / Circular Reasoning

Slippery Slope

Appeal to Fear / Scare Tactics

Cluster 2:

Appeal to Ignorance

Ad Hominem / Poisoning the Well

Straw Man 

Cluster 3:

False Dilemma / Either-Or / False Dichotomy

Red Herring

Argument from Authority / False Authority

Cluster 4:

Ad Populum / Appeal to Popularity / Bandwagon

Post Hoc / Faulty Causality/ Non-Sequitur

Hasty Generalization

 

Agenda, September 14

Due Dates:

• Now: Find two examples each of anadiplosis, epanalepsis, synechdoche, and metonymy.
• Now: Rehearse your lines!
• Friday before the beginning of class: Share a google doc with me that includes your best example of each of the rhetorical strategies we've practiced this week (except hypophora and rhet. q.). That's a total of 15 examples. Make sure your examples are clearly and correctly labeled.

Agenda:

1. The Crucible Discussion Question #1.
2. Rehearsal time
3. Performance time
4. Rhetorical Device Practice: parallelism, chiasmus, zeugma, and antithesis.

Agenda, September 13

Due Dates:

• Now: Find two examples each of parallelism, chiasmus, zeugma, and antithesis.
• Wednesday: Find two examples each of anadiplosis, epanalepsis, synechdoche, and metonymy.
• Wednesday: Rehearse your lines!
• Friday before the beginning of class: Share a google doc with me that includes your best example of each of the rhetorical strategies we've practiced this week (except hypophora and rhet. q.). That's a total of 15 examples. Make sure your examples are clearly and correctly labeled.

Agenda:

1. Rhetorical Device Practice: parallelism, chiasmus, zeugma, and antithesis.
2. The Crucible Discussion Question #1.
3. Rehearsal time

Agenda, September 12

Due Dates:

• Now: Find two examples each of understatement, litotes, and hyperbole. We'll also discuss hypophora and rhetorical question, but you don't need examples. If you all copy the first two examples you find, it will be a dull day indeed.
• Tomorrow: Find two examples each of parallelism, chiasmus, zeugma, and antithesis.
• Wednesday: Find two examples each of anadiplosis, epanalepsis, synechdoche, and metonymy.

Agenda:

1. Rhetorical Device Practice: hypophora, rhetorical question, understatement, litotes, and hyperbole.
2. Which scenes deserve extra attention? Emotionally powerful? Dramatically or thematically pivotal? Bafflingly complex?
3. The Crucible Discussion Question #1.

Agenda, September 9

Due Dates:

• Now: Find two examples each of asyndeton, polysyndeton, anaphora, and epistrophe. If you all copy the first two examples you find, it will be a dull day indeed.
• Monday: Find two examples each of understatement, litotes, and hyperbole. We'll also discuss hypophora and rhetorical question, but you don't need examples. If you all copy the first two examples you find, it will be a dull day indeed.
• Tuesday: Find two examples each of parallelism, chiasmus, zeugma, and antithesis.  

Agenda:

1. Rhetorical Device Practice: asyndenton, polysyndeton, anaphora, epistrophe
2. The Crucible: Arthur Miller wants us to ...
3. Which scenes deserve extra attention? Emotionally powerful? Dramatically or thematically pivotal? Bafflingly complex?
4. The Crucible Discussion Question #1.
5. Revisit essential scenes

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Agenda, September 8

Late:

• "What Does it Mean to be an American?" Essay
• 8 fancy t-charts
• The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

Due Dates:

• Now: Organize the words you looked up by act. If you didn't look up any words, don't waste time pretending you did. Don't worry about the definitions; just bring a list of words by act.
• Tomorrow: Find two examples each of asyndeton, polysyndeton, anaphora, and epistrophe. If you all copy the first two examples you find, it will be a dull day indeed.
• Monday: Find two examples each of understatement, litotes, and hyperbole. We'll also discuss hypophora and rhetorical question, but you don't need examples. If you all copy the first two examples you find, it will be a dull day indeed.

Agenda:

1. Rhetorical Device Sort
2. The Crucible: What is Miller's claim / argument?
3. Which scenes deserve extra attention? Emotionally powerful? Dramatically or thematically pivotal? Bafflingly complex?
4. The Crucible Discussion Question #1.
5. Revisit essential scenes
6. Vocab Venn Diagrams

If you're the type of person who likes to work ahead ...

We'll have the same homework assignment regarding rhetorical devices for four days in a row. The assignment will read as follows:

Find two examples each of [today's assigned rhetorical devices]. If you all copy the first two examples you find it’ll be a dull day indeed.

Here is the order of the devices we'll be discussing:

Friday, 9/9:

Asyndeton

Polysyndeton

Anaphora

Epistrophe

Monday, 9/12:

Hyperbole

Understatement

Litotes

Hypophora (no examples required)

Rhetorical Question (no examples required)

Tuesday, 9/13:

Parallelism

Antithesis

Chiasmus

Zeugma

Wednesday, 9/14:

Anadiplosis

Epanalepsis

Synecdoche

Metonymy

Agenda, September 7

Due Now:

• "What Does it Mean to be an American?" Essay
• 8 fancy t-charts
• The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

Due Dates:

• Thursday: Organize the words you looked up by act. If you didn't look up any words, don't waste time pretending you did. Don't worry about the definitions; just bring a list of words by act.
• Friday: Find two examples each of asyndeton, polysyndeton, anaphora, and epistrophe. If you all copy the first two examples you find, it will be a dull day indeed.

Agenda:

1. Share your claim
2. Melania and Michelle, together again. Why is this video important?
3. Index cards and syllabus
4. Editorials and ethos, pathos, and logos.
5. The Crucible: What is Miller's claim / argument?
6. Which scenes deserve extra attention? Emotionally powerful? Dramatically or thematically pivotal? Bafflingly complex?