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