Agenda, January 31

• Due Friday: Rhetorical Devices Presentations
• Due Monday: Poor, poor synthesis

  Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. If we don't ..., then we ...
3. Presentation work time

Presentation Directions

Step 1: Divvy up the devices. Be selfish! Fight for the devices you don’t understand.

Step 2: Prepare slides for each of your devices. For each device, you need:

·      a user friendly definition.

·      examples (plural)

·      an explanation of why you would use the device

·      a helpful image

Step 3: Put all the slides into a single presentation.

Step 4: Arrange them in a way that makes sense. Perhaps add a fancy transition or two.

Step 5: Rehearse your presentation. You decide who’s responsible for presenting.

Step 6: Share a doc that details who did what.

We’ll have laptops on Wednesday and Thursday. Presentations will be on Friday.

The Virtual Salt is an excellent source for definitions and explanations of why you might use these devices. I’d look elsewhere for examples.

A Handy List of Rhetorical Strategies

Reference to one thing as another Allusion Synecdoche Word play/puns Zeugma Overstatement/understatement Hyperbole Litotes Semantic Inversions Rhetorical question Hypophora Irony

Structures of balance Parallelism Antithesis Omission Asyndeton Repetition Anaphora Epistrophe Anadiplosis Epanalepsis Polysyndeton

Agenda, January 30

• Due Now: "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift (1729), from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bib, of course.
• Due Now:  Optional revision of money narrative. No revisions without a teacher conference. 
• Due Next Monday: Poor, poor synthesis

  Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. Two Bibliographical Oddities: The Manifesto and "'Average'."
3. MC practice
4. MC results
5. "Modest" syntax and vocabulary
6. A "Modest" discussion

Agenda, January 29

• Due Now: One synthesis paragraph from your essay. Typed. MLA.
• Due Now: "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift (1729), from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bib, of course.
• Due Now:  Optional revision of money narrative. No revisions without a teacher conference. 
• Due Next Monday: Poor, poor synthesis

  Today's Agenda

1. Can I? Should I? Do I have to?
2. As people work on Bibliographies, here's A Helpful Reminder
3. MCish practice
4. "Modest" syntax and vocabulary

Agenda, January 25

• Due Monday, 1/29: One synthesis paragraph from your essay. Typed. MLA.
• Due Monday, 1/29: "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift (1729), from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bib, of course.
• Due Monday, 1/29:  Optional revision of money narrative. No revisions without a teacher conference. 
• Due February 5: Poor, poor synthesis

  Today's Agenda

1. Do y'all know about these?
2. Time to use wisely

Google Search Tricks

USE:                                    IN ORDER TO:

“            “                        find an exact phrase

-word                                    eliminate word

~word                                    search synonyms

site:URL                        limit search only to that site

related:URL                        search for similar sites

Agenda, January 24

• Due Now: "How to Restore the American Dream," by Fareed Zakaria (2010), from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.
• Due Monday, 1/29: One synthesis paragraph from your essay. Typed. MLA.
• Due Monday, 1/29: "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift (1729), from 100 Great Essays. Add it to your Bib, of course.
• Due Monday, 1/29:  Optional revision of money narrative. No revisions without a teacher conference. 
• Due February 5: Poor, poor synthesis

  Today's Agenda

1. However ...
2. A "Restorative" Conversation

Agenda, January 23

• Due Now: "The Roots of Honor," by John Ruskin (1860),  from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.
• Late: Vocab Leavened. Post one sentence as a comment. 
• Due Now: "How to Restore the American Dream," by Fareed Zakaria (2010), from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.
• Due Monday, 1/29: One synthesis paragraph from your essay. Typed. MLA.
• Due Monday, 1/29:  Optional revision of money narrative. No revisions without a teacher conference. 
• Due February 5: Poor, poor synthesis

  Today's Agenda

1. MC Practice
2. "Roots," one paragraph at a time
3. A "Restorative" Conversation 

Agenda, January 22

• Due Now: "The Roots of Honor," by John Ruskin (1860),  from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.
• Due Now: Vocab Leavened. Post one sentence as a comment. 
• Due Now: "How to Restore the American Dream," by Fareed Zakaria (2010), from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.
• Due Monday, 1/29: One synthesis paragraph from your essay. Typed. MLA.
• Due February 5: Poor, poor synthesis

  Today's Agenda

1. Vocab Leavened
2. MC Practice
3. "Roots," one paragraph at a time 

Poor, Poor Synthesis Essay

Due Monday, February 5th

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 two additional college-level sources), 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. Quoting the dictionary is rarely necessary or effective. If you do quote the dictionary, you don’t need to cite it.

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. Include your word count on the first page of your essay.

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 two additional college-level sources.

·      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. Do not, however, rely on the phrases “I believe”, “I think”, or “I feel.”

·      Consider counter arguments.

·      Craft an outline.

·      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 19

• Due Now: "The Roots of Honor," by John Ruskin (1860),  from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.
• Due Monday, 1/22: Vocab Leavened. Post one sentence as a comment. 
• The sentence you post, however, must include the word “however.” 
• If “however” is an interrupter, surround it with commas; however, if you use it to connect two complete sentences, precede “however” with a semi-colon and follow it with a comma. 
• Bonus Challenge: Write all your sentences about bread or other baked goods.
• Due Monday: "..." by Fareed Zakaria (2010), from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.

  Today's Agenda

1. Argument o' the Week
2. "Honorable" vocab and syntax questions
3. SOAPSTone 

Agenda, January 18

• Due Now: "On Dumpster Diving," by Lars Eighner (1993), from 50 Essays, 3rd edition. Add it to your bib.
• Late: Vocab Styx. Typed. This assignment has a unique requirement: you must post one sentence that includes a properly punctuated colon to the blog.
• Due Now: "The Roots of Honor," by John Ruskin (1860),  from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.
• Due Monday, 1/22: Vocab Leavened. Post one sentence as a comment. The sentence you post, however, must include the word “however.” If “however” is an interrupter, surround it with commas; however, if you use it to connect two complete sentences, precede “however” with a semi-colon and follow it with a comma. Bonus Challenge: Write all your sentences about bread or other baked goods.
• If you know you will be absent tomorrow, get a copy of the essay due Monday. If you are unexpectedly absent tomorrow, be sure a friend delivers the essay to you in time for you to read it. 

  Today's Agenda

1. Diving deeply into "Dumpster."
2. A Styx-y situation
3. "Honorable" vocab and syntax questions
4. SOAPSTone 

Agenda, January 17

• Due Now: "On Dumpster Diving," by Lars Eighner (1993), from 50 Essays, 3rd edition. Add it to your bib.
• Late: Vocab Styx. Typed. This assignment has a unique requirement: you must post one sentence that includes a properly punctuated colon to the blog.
• Due Thursday: "The Roots of Honor," by John Ruskin (1860),  from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.
• Due Monday, 1/22: Vocab Leavened. Post one sentence as a comment. The sentence you post, however, must include the word “however.” If “however” is an interrupter, surround it with commas; however, if you use it to connect two complete sentences, precede “however” with a semi-colon and follow it with a comma. Bonus Challenge: Write all your sentences about bread or other baked goods.

  Today's Agenda

1. An odd e-mail from Admin
2. MC Practice Section
3. Diving deeply into "Dumpster."

Agenda, January 16

• Due Now: "On Dumpster Diving," by Lars Eighner (1993), from 50 Essays, 3rd edition. Add it to your bib.
• Due Now: Vocab Styx. Typed. This assignment has a unique requirement: you must post one sentence that includes a properly punctuated colon to the blog.
• Due Thursday: "The Roots of Honor," by John Ruskin (1860),  from The Language of Composition. Add it to your Bib.
• Due Monday, 1/22: Vocab Leavened. Post one sentence as a comment. The sentence you post, however, must include the word “however.” If “however” is an interrupter, surround it with commas; however, if you use it to connect two complete sentences, precede “however” with a semi-colon and follow it with a comma. Bonus Challenge: Write all your sentences about bread or other baked goods.

  Today's Agenda

1. Vocab Styx
2. MC Practice Section
3. Diving deeply into "Dumpster."

Vocab Leavened

It’s Getting Better

Words to Make You Feel Good

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

The sentence you post, however, must include the word “however.”

If “however” is an interrupter, surround it with commas; however, if you use it to connect two complete sentences, precede “however” with a semi-colon and follow it with a comma.

Bonus Challenge: Write all your sentences about bread or other baked goods.

1. Alleviate
2. Asylum
3. Auspicious
4. Benevolent
5. Benign
6. Mollify
7. Reclamation
8. Sanction

Bonus Point – Tell me why the following sentence is funny: The students were happy when the principal agreed to sanction the use of cell phones in class.

Liar, Liar

When the Truth is in Question

1. Dubious
2. Fabricated
3. Hypocrisy
4. Slander
5. Spurious