Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
For the first 30 minutes of class, we will work have time for a study session. Please use this time wisely to get caught up with anything owed for the first six weeks of class.
After our study time, we will continue in our unit on persuasion. We will focus on vocabulary. We are going to make "emotion" charts. Some of the words we will use are:
frustrated
surprised
excited
delighted
bored
anxious
upset
worried
shocked
appalled
preoccupied
lonely
resilient
despondent
Think about a time when you or your friends felt any of these emotions. As you present the chart, share an example.
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
For the first 30 minutes of class, we will work have time for a study session. Please use this time wisely to get caught up with anything owed for the first six weeks of class.
Today we are going to example articles and use the following sentence frames to re-tell the authors arguments:
One example that supports this is ______.
One argument in favor of / against this ____ is _________.
The explicit message is ____, but the implicit message is ____.
Based on the evidence, ____.
Vocabulary:
implicit
explicity
asserts
supports
Vocabulary Review:
The elements of persuasion: pathos (emotion), logos (logic), credibility (ethos)
