There are multiple parts to this weeks' assignment.
1) You need to watch carefully when we view the "Chi-Raq" documentary. You need to take notes over logistics - how many similarities there are between the two communities, one in Kentucky, the other, Chicago. Also, there is (are) glaring dissimilarity (ies). What are those? Why?
2) Select one issue: drugs, poverty, government, police, working poor, lack of jobs, lack of education, drug laws/drug sentences, logical fallacies, the use of Anecdotal Evidence.......SELECT ONE (or a group of) lines, facts, statistics, anything. Explain why that particular item struck you so much. What did it relate to? Remind you of? Make you think of?????
3) The Guardian is a British Newspaper. What is the First World's view of America? What in particular was the slant - the piece of irony, as they saw it - that came out in this piece of writing? Why? How would you like for America to be known? For what reasons?
So......this article is much longer than any other yet this semester, and because of that, Mrs. J and I are giving you until:
SUNDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 2ND AT 1158 PM
to respond fully to this article.
Write well. Don't let this be a last minute session for you, because your grades suffer from crappy responses. =)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Stq5OF4To
"Chi-Raq" video link, in case you missed part of Wednesday or Thursday. =)
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Septermber 18th - 24th!
Islam.
Anti-Islamic rhetoric has led to multiple negative experiences and encounters for hundreds of Muslims in the United States. Read both articles provided about Muslim Americans working and learning in our nation's public schools. As you read, consider the intended audiences and the purpose of these articles. Write your response to the questions below in 12-15 sentences.
1. Explain what rhetorical approaches Shah and Sharim use in response to "Islamophobia" (ethos/logos/pathos) and why you think their approaches or rebuttals are effective or ineffective.
2. Explain why you think it is significant to discuss topics like this in a high school classroom.
Make certain you maintain your objectivity while answering the first question, and then you may insert a more conversational tone while answering the second question.
Think critically, write well.
=)
Mrs. Sudan
and
Mrs. Salinas
Anti-Islamic rhetoric has led to multiple negative experiences and encounters for hundreds of Muslims in the United States. Read both articles provided about Muslim Americans working and learning in our nation's public schools. As you read, consider the intended audiences and the purpose of these articles. Write your response to the questions below in 12-15 sentences.
1. Explain what rhetorical approaches Shah and Sharim use in response to "Islamophobia" (ethos/logos/pathos) and why you think their approaches or rebuttals are effective or ineffective.
2. Explain why you think it is significant to discuss topics like this in a high school classroom.
Make certain you maintain your objectivity while answering the first question, and then you may insert a more conversational tone while answering the second question.
Think critically, write well.
=)
Mrs. Sudan
and
Mrs. Salinas
Sunday, September 11, 2016
It's Never Easy in America
http://www.kvue.com/news/national/tribes-request-to-stop-work-on-pipeline-denied/316179558
Week of SEPTEMBER 11 - 17TH
Assignment due: September 17th by 11:58 pm
This article is truly American: Capitalism, Environmentalism, Native American Land, DAPL, Energy, Safety, water supply.............holy cow...........this article has it all.
Requirements:
Week of SEPTEMBER 11 - 17TH
Assignment due: September 17th by 11:58 pm
This article is truly American: Capitalism, Environmentalism, Native American Land, DAPL, Energy, Safety, water supply.............holy cow...........this article has it all.
Requirements:
- Read CRITICALLY
- Pay close attention to the uses of persuasion (ethos, logos, pathos, fallacies)
- Contemplate both sides of the argument
- Writing:
- 12-15 sentence response that 1st discusses the argument as it is presented in the article
- Next, you will use an academic tone to define onto which side of this argument you fall.
- YOU MAY NOT BE A FENCE SITTER; CHOOSE A SIDE.
- You need to focus on ethos and logos in your response, and avoid the use of pathos and logical fallacy.
- Write well. Be better than last week. And, hopefully more than 26 of you will remember this week so I don't have to give so many zeros. Goodness Gracious.
Monday, September 5, 2016
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 6TH - 10TH
Happy Short Week, Students!!!!!!
Since we are just beginning our review of black stereotypes, this is an article full of historical references, and it will be simple for you to jump into the academic world of digital responses.
Here is the article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dear-khloe-cultural-appropriation-of-black-hairstyles_us_57b380cde4b014a587fba07c
Your job:
Respond to the article's audience/topic/purpose. What did it make you think of, feel, understand, find in a new perspective, etc.????? Was the argument effective - regardless of how YOU FEEL.......look at it as a student of rhetoric.
The expectation is for you to write 8 - 12 academically sound sentences that answer the previous questions.
Write well. Your response is due before September 10th at 11:59 pm.
=)
Happy Short Week, Students!!!!!!
Since we are just beginning our review of black stereotypes, this is an article full of historical references, and it will be simple for you to jump into the academic world of digital responses.
Here is the article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dear-khloe-cultural-appropriation-of-black-hairstyles_us_57b380cde4b014a587fba07c
Your job:
Respond to the article's audience/topic/purpose. What did it make you think of, feel, understand, find in a new perspective, etc.????? Was the argument effective - regardless of how YOU FEEL.......look at it as a student of rhetoric.
The expectation is for you to write 8 - 12 academically sound sentences that answer the previous questions.
Write well. Your response is due before September 10th at 11:59 pm.
=)
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