1.  Collecting editorials....

2. Rhetorical analysis discussion and thesis... Clarifying the assignment.  The WHY!

In the editorial by, ........................, titled, ................................, the author employs logos/pathos/ehtos (pick 2) to convince readers that....

3.  As a reminder, let's practice explaining why:

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
This means that what you currently have is more valuable than what you might get.
This means this because................

4.  Rhetorical Analysis, in class exercise.

Two songs.  The first is just to set the stage and spin the mood.  The second is the one we'll write about.

Song one....

Song two


Topic sentence for #2-

In this version of the "Star Spangled Banner," the best guitarist in the history of the universe uses the national anthem to convince listeners that....

HW-  Complete your rhetorical analysis for editing on Thursday.

Rhetorical Analysis.

1.  What do you think it means when an English nerd says you have to do a close reading and a rhetorical analysis? 

2.  Self-editing strategies.  Don't be scared.

2.5 5 most important things.

3.  Practice close reading.

Let's use a poem!  That will be more fun.  This is a sample close reading and analysis:

Here's one:  Millay--

“First Fig,” 

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.


A candle burning at both ends is a common idiom that implies one is living to hard or much.  If both ends of a candle are burning, then the candle will eventually shrivel from both sides and turn into a puddle of wax.  Perhaps the poet chose the familiar to make it unfamiliar later.  The saying is a warning, right?  It is usually said to someone who is living in an unhealthy way.  Her candle is burning so fast that it won't last the night, so it's really burning, and I think the purpose of this sentence is to emphasize that her candle is burning at both ends more than others' candles are.  It's burning at both ends, fast.  After she emphasizes the severity of the way she's burning the candle at both ends she addresses all those in her life and in two categories:  foes and friends.  When she says but ah and but oh, those words are, in a sense, meant as excuse.  But, but, but, the child says when she does something wrong, and this but and and are doing the same thing.  She means, I know I'm living to hard, but,...  The last line explains why.  The candle offers a pretty light.  It's beautiful.  So, then, it's okay, according to the speaker, to live dangerously, fast, or hard, because it is lovely.  This is how she makes the familiar image of the candle unfamiliar, and in doing so, offers us a glimpse into the speaker's self-justification.  Is it excuse or true that it's more lovely?  We don't know and are welcome to choose. The poem, then, has a message or a theme, a meaning.  Perhaps its that those of us who judge others for living that type of life are missing something we don't see or it also could be that living like this is getting the most out of life, even if it will be a short one.


Working in Groups,  Write your own close reading/analysis based on this short poem:



At least the robbers
left this one thing behind —
moon in my window.

 C. 1079. Written after thieves had broken into his hut, Monk Ryōkan (translated by Steven D. Carter)


HW-  Let's create our own rhetorical analysis.  Please find a new editorial on any topic and bring it to class so that we can set up and plan out our essay.

Opinions, opinions.

1.  In your editorial, did you mostly use logos, pathos, or ethos to convince others?  Why? 

1.5 MLA review, if needed.

1.7.  Class narrative.  What's happening in here?

2.  Groups and editing of editorials.  They will be due to me Thursday.

Groups

Is the MLA format correct?
What is the purpose of the editorial?
Which of the rhetorical appeals do they employ the most?  Is this effective or not?
Circle any grammar mistakes.
Circle any sentence errors.
Would this convince someone opposed?  Why or why not?
Offer a compliment.

3.  HW- complete your editorial for submission on Thursday.

4.  HW-  Read Chapter 6, rhetorical analysis, for an upcoming assignment, and make sure to bring to class the 5 most important things from the chapter for discussion. 

1. Journal-  Well, you have to write an essay, eventually, so what topic are you choosing and why?

2. Reading Review-  What's important from Chapter 1?

Induction-

Deduction

Logos--  Convincing using logic. Inductive/Deductive... Facts.  True.

Ethos-- Ethics.  Credibility.

Pathos--

And a parody...

And a rhetorical analysis, of sorts.


3. Flipped Class Definitions.  What is it?  Give and example of it at work.

Logical Fallacies-

Partner Pairs Research and present:

1.  Equivocation-   Use of deceiving expressions.  Ex:  Providing a piece of the truth.

2.  Begging the Question:  Assuming the conclusion of the argument is true.  Ex:  If these actions were not illegal, then they wouldn't be illegal.

3.  False Dichotomy:  Either or thinking.  Could be more than just two possibilities

4.  Red Herring:  Misleading or distracting from the argument.  EX:  Gun Rights.... Murder.

5.  Straw Man:  You make up a fake argument to win the point.

6.  Appeal to Pity:  Convincing by exploiting emotions.  See Chipotle ad.

7.  Appeal to Ignorance:  Arg with lack of evidence or an assumption.  Since you haven't proved it, it must be true/not true.

8.  Ad Hominem:  Attacking the arguer. 

9.  Tu Quoque:  You, too.  Just because you're smoking, doesn't mean you're wrong when you say not to.

10.  Ad Populum:  Bandwagon.  Everyone does, you should.

11. Hasty Generalization:  assuming too fast.

12.  Missing the Point

13.  Post Hoc (False Cause)

14.  Slippery Slope:  One thing leads to another. 

15.  Weak Analogy

16.  Appeal to Authority:  This person is smart, they must be right.

4.  HW-  Read the rhetorical analysis of the Chipotle ad as a model for your second writing assignment.

5.  Write your own editorial about your topic, based off of the two editorials you should have read.  Due Tuesday.

1.     Journal-  Summarize the editorial you've brought to class, and find another to trade questions with. 

Topic Brainstorm.... What's good and not good?

2.    Thinking Skills Project-

3.    Voice Work—Sf Work…

4.    HW-  Reading-  Chapter 1 of Everything's an Argument.  Please list bring the 5 most important things you learned from the chapter to class for discussion on Thursday.

HW-  Origami Crane 

Note:  Pantry Club meeting Wednesday, 1:00, in this room (?)

Essay-  Try

Writing Process-  

Invent-   Journal, watch tv, read, talk, listen, surf web, surf.

Organize-   Make a logical plan to deliver info others will understand.

Draft-   First try-  Don’t worry about anything except for finishing.

Revise-   Make sure ideas are right, and make sense.

Edit-   Grammar.  Conventions…

Publish-  Publish means perfect.

6- Traits of okay writing.

Voice--- Unique Personality… Yours is yours-  not boring!

Ideas---  What it’s about.  The content.  The stuff….  Needs to be interesting TO OTHERS.  Learn/entertain/experience.

Conventions—grammar…

Organization—plan your work, work your plan.

Sentence Fluency—flow….

Word Choice—Right word, right time.

Topic-    Ideas—what it’s about.

Audience-  who it’s for—a professional audience

Purpose-     Why you’re writing….

Essay-

Introduction

Body paragraphs

Conclusion….

Most Likely Mistakes

Fragment-          I went to the store and I bought something that.

Comma splice-   I went to the store, I bought something.

Run on-               I went to the store I bought something.

Parallelism-        I love to walk, climb, and running.

Verb Tense Agreement-  She love to walk.

Pronoun Antecedent Agreement--  People are who and things are that.  Ex-  Jon is someone that……

Tense shift--    I love to go to the park and walked my dog.

Ending thinking skill work, notes.

1.  For thinking skill purposes, seriously, write directions for another to follow so they can construct a paper airplane.

2.  Attendance.

3.  Notes... More notes.

4.  In class practice thinking for project...

5.  HW-  get the book!  You'll need it Tuesday.

6.  HW-  Find an editorial about a topic you are interested in and bring the editorial to class with 5 TS questions about the editorial for another to read.

Last two thinking skill days...

1. Journal-

What do you think about your chances of finishing what you've started in college?  Be honest.  Why?

2. Attendance

3.  Thinking Challenge-  What's a proverb you know?  List.

4.  Model, Me.  In class.

5.  Topic, What it means in terms of topic, why it means what it means....

6.  Your Practice.  Show me when completed.  Teams?

7.  Challenge-  Below.

8.  HW-  Reading....  ?


1. Stag vehicle
2. Youngster honesty
3. Village jester
4. Pony rout
5. Hot drink charge
6. Jar cover chart
7. Grab a quick look at
8. Courageous captive
9. Dog mug
10. Dog noise


1. Cargo entrance fence
2. Clan secretary
3. Rock area
4. Postage winner
5. Adorable shoe
6. Rookie team
7. Top exam
8. Unusual fish
9. Prison story
10. Dollar fortune

 1. Move, Female Deer
2. 24 hours with toys
3. 50% giggle
4. A totally cool dad
5. A birds foot defect
6. A blue-green moray
7. A boring Choo-choo
8. A boy slug with a shell
9. A cap that got sat on

 1. A literary theif
2. A naked sitting device
3. A literature hiding place
4. An uncooked animals foot
5. A pig meat rip off
6. A prison for Moby
7. A promise to grow
8. A quick explosion
9. A run for the money
10. A sack for holding Old Glory

 1. Big pituitary
2. Black "Jaws"
3. Agricultural enchantment
4. Athlete stocking
5. Artificial pond
6. Angry employer
7. Argumentative feeling
8. An obese vampire
9. A twisted penny
10. Beach front, growl

 1. Pheasant prison
2. Redish nylons
3. Sailboat rope tie
4. Turn clenched hand
5. Well fitting coffee mug
6. Footwear cube
7. Prying boy scout team
8. Stop the non-violence
9. Wet winner
10. Munchie bag

 
1. Cool accomplishment
2. Brave fungus
3. City dress
4. Ruin the grease
5. Soda store
6. "Sniffer" iced up
7. Moitionless fish lung
8. Lip pecked forearm
9. True bargain
10. Obvious terror

Journal-  In class.

Attendance

Going over inference test.

Fun questions...

HW-

1. A graduate applying for pilot training with a major airline was asked what he would do if, after a long-haul flight to Sydney, he met the captain wearing a dress in the hotel bar. What would you do?

2. A man built a rectangular house, each side having a southern view. He spotted a bear. What colour was the bear?

3. If you were alone in a deserted house at night, and there was an oil lamp, a candle and firewood and you only have one match, which would you light first?

4. What can you put in a wooden box that would make it lighter? The more of them you put in the lighter it becomes, yet the box stays empty.

5. Which side of a cat contains the most hair?

6. The 60th and 62nd British Prime Ministers of the UK had the same mother and father, but were not brothers. How do you account for this?

7. How many birthdays does a typical woman have? Why can't a man living in Canterbury be buried west of the River Stour?

8. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?

9. If you drove a coach leaving Canterbury with 35 passengers, dropped off 6 and picked up 2 at Faversham, picked up 9 more at Sittingbourne, dropped off 3 at Chatham, and then drove on to arrive in London 40 minutes later, what colour are the driver's eyes?
10. A woman lives on the tenth floor of a block of flats. Every morning she takes the lift down to the ground floor and goes to work. In the evening, she gets into the lift, and, if there is someone else in the lift she goes back to her floor directly. Otherwise, she goes to the eighth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to her flat. How do you explain this?

11. A window cleaner is cleaning the windows on the 25th floor of a skyscraper, when he slips and falls. He is not wearing a safety harness and nothing slows his fall, yet he suffered no injuries. Explain.

12. The Zorganian Republic has some very strange customs. Couples only wish to have female children as only females can inherit the family's wealth, so if they have a male child they keep having more children until they have a girl. If they have a girl, they stop having children. What is the ratio of girls to boys in Zorgania?

13. John's mother has 3 children, one is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?

14. You are running in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

15. In the same race, if you overtake the last person, then you are in what position?

16. Using just ONE straight cut, how can you cut a rectangular cake into two equal parts when a rectangular piece has already been removed from it?

17. A man and his son were in a car crash. The father was killed and the son was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The examining doctor exclaims: "But, this is my son!".
    How can this be?

18. You have to choose between three rooms.
    The first is full of raging fires
    The second is full of tigers that haven’t eaten in 3 years.
    The third is full of assassins with loaded machine guns.
    Which room should you choose?
19. Three of the glasses below are filled with orange juice and the other three are empty. By moving just one glass, can you arrange the glasses so that the full and empty glasses alternate?
    
20. Name three consecutive days in English without using the words Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday

21. What's unusual about this paragraph? Just how quickly you can find out what is so funny about it. It looks fairly ordinary and plain that you might think nothing is wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is highly curious though. Study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you could just find out.

Busy, Busy. Inference norming.

Busy, Busy. Inference norming.

1.  Attendance.

2.  Journal:

Please read the following short poems by Robert Frost and Sara Teasdale, respectively.  Choose one and, using your thinking skills, explain what you think it means and why you think what you think it means.  :)

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


The Mexican Cabdriver

We were sitting in traffic
on the Brooklyn Bridge,
so I asked the poets
in the backseat of my cab
to write a poem for you.
They asked
if you are like the moon
or the trees.
I said no,
she is like the bridge
when there is so much traffic
I have time
to watch the boats
on the river.

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3.  Inference tests....  Number 1-  in groups.

Babe Smith has been killed. Police have rounded up six suspects, all of whom are known gangsters. All of them are known to have been near the scene of the killing at the approximate time that it occurred. All had substantial motives for wanting Smith killed. However, one of these suspected gangsters, Slinky Sam, has positively been cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  1.                  Slinky Sam is known to have been near the scene of the killing of Babe Smith.

T  F  ?  2.                  All six of the rounded-up gangsters were known to have been near the scene of the murder.

T  F  ?  3.                  Only Slinky Sam has been cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  4.                  All six of the rounded-up suspects were near the scene of Smith's killing at the approximate time that it took place.

T  F  ?  5.                  The police do not know who killed Smith.

T  F  ?  6.                  All six suspects are known to have been near the scene of foul deed.

T  F  ?  7.                  Smith's murderer did not confess of his own free will.

T  F  ?  8.                  Slinky Sam was not cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  9.                  It is known that the six suspects were in the vicinity of the cold-blooded assassination.

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   A businessman had just turned off the lights in the store when a man appeared and demanded money. The owner opened a cash register. The contents of the cash register were scooped up and the man sped away. A member of the police force was notified promptly.

           

T  F  ?  1.                  A man appeared after the owner had turned off his store lights.

T  F  ?  2.                  The robber was a man.

T  F  ?  3.                  The man who appeared did not demand money.

T  F  ?  4.                  The man who opened the cash register was the owner.

T  F  ?  5.                  The store-owner scooped up the contents of the cash register and ran away.

T  F  ?  6.                  Someone opened a cash register.

T  F  ?  7.                  After the man, who demanded the money, scooped up the contents of the cash register, he ran away.

T  F  ?  8.                  While the cash register contained money, the story does not state how much.

T  F  ?  9.                  The robber demanded money of the owner.

T  F  ?  10.              The robber opened the cash register.

T  F  ?  11.              After the store lights were turned off a man appeared.

T  F  ?  12.              The robber did not take the money with him.

T  F  ?  13.              The robber did not demand money of the owner.

T  F  ?  14.              The owner opened a cash register.

T  F  ?  15.              The age of the store-owner was not revealed in the story.

T  F  ?  16.              Taking the contents of the cash register with him, the man ran out of the store.

T  F  ?  17.              The story concerns a series of events in which only three persons are referred to: the owner of the store, a man who demanded money. and a member of the police force.

T  F  ?  18.              The following events were included in the story: someone demanded money. a cash register was opened, its contents were scooped up, and a man dashed out of the store.

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HW-  Read Fish Cheeks, by Amy Tan and create 10 TS questions for another in class to answer.

HW-  Finish the first inference test we didn't complete in class (STORY A).   To access it, please click here.