SLC's tonight!

Starter 21:  SLC Check-In

1.) The second semester of junior year is the most academically significant semester for the college
admission process. How are you making this semester count? Speak to your academic successes and
challenges.  Review grades and ACT/SAT scores and share anecdotal evidence.
2.) What support do you need this semester to reach your academic and L.I.N.K. goals?


What makes a good Powerpoint?

Powerpoint handout

Sign up for presentation date!!

PROJECT WORK TIME

Project Work Time

Brainstorm:  What makes for a good Powerpoint presentation?

PROJECT WORK TIME:

Revise Essay

-more research?

-keep writing?

-Commas and friends

-in-text citations/bibliography

-commas and friends

-What is the title of your essay?

Conference with Me?

Begin work on Powerpoint

-image search

-sign up for presentation (draft due Friday)

SLC Prep?

Monday Feb 27

In-text Citations


Powerpoint:  Commas

REVISION!

1.  Revise your draft based on feedback.
2.  Revise your draft for sentence focus.
3.  Revise your draft for correct use of quotations.
4.  Revise your draft for comma usage?  Conquering the comma

Peer Critique

If you were absent today, you should arrange an alternative critique.
Critique Protocol

Homework:
1. Revise your critiqued draft.
2. Evaluate the use of quotations in your draft.  Set the quotations up properly if you are not already doing so.
Setting Up Quotes

Claim/Outline due...

For each person’s thesis statement, discuss:

·    Does it make a debatable claim about the topic?

·    Does it state the obvious or something factual?

·    Is it specific or general?

·    Is it focused?

·    Is it stated clearly?

·    Is it stated eloquently?

·    Will there be sufficient evidence to make the argument?

·    Does it avoid the first person?  (“I think…” “I believe”)

·    Could it benefit from a concessive?

·    What can the author do to improve the thesis statement?

For each person’s outline:

·      Does each planned paragraph support the claim?

·      Is there sufficient evidence to support the topic sentence of each paragraph?

·      Will the essay crafted from this outline represent a bias on the intervention?

·      What is missing?  (What questions are you left with?)     

·      Will the essay concede counterpoints?

·      Is the outline working toward an essay that will take the shape of an Aristotelian argument?

Happy 4-day Weekend!  Complete draft due next Wednesday Feb 22 (printed out at the beginning of the hour).

Sentence Focus (Welcome, Mr. Fisher!)

Sentence Focus Practice

Work Time

Due tomorrow:  Claim, outline

Continue research...

Starter 20:  What is your working claim?  Articulate your developing opinions/conclusions about your conflict.

New Due Dates:
Friday, February 17:  Claim and Outline Due
Wednesday, February 22:  Draft 1 (peer).  Come to class with a printed copy.
Friday, February 24:  Draft 2 (me).  Due by 8am electronically.  If you do not meet this deadline, you will not get my feedback by Monday.

The Fog of War

Film Notes: T-chart

Homework:  Read the 10 additional lessons from Robert McNamara.  Keep researching your intervention.

Project Work Time

Research Tips

1. Real research is born of the need to answer questions.  Barrage your intervention with questions.  Follow the questions where they lead you.  (Refer to original handout for list)

2. Create your bibliography as you go.  Evaluate the credibility of your sources.

3. Take good research notes.  Electronic notes are handy because you can cut and paste direct quotes from your internet sources.  Keep track of where your quotes come from in order to easily cite them later.

4. Jot down your analysis, conclusions, idea, opinions, etc. as they occur to you.  Play with potential claims as you research.  Test your claims by barraging them with questions.  Consider opposing points.

5. Wikipedia:  Read overview to give yourself a foundation.  Use the bibliography links at the bottom of the page.  

Turn in your Iraq War writing.  Staple the rubric to it.

WRITE!

Would your argument benefit from a concessive?

At some point today or tonight, send me an email with feedback about yesterday's "fishbowl" seminar.
1.  What did you like about it?  2.  Recommendations

Seminar: Iraq War

Due Wednesday:  Seminar Writing

Rubric

Seminar Prep

Starter 19:  What position are you developing about the Iraq War?

Iraq War Seminar and Writing Task

Homework:  Seminar prewrite (outline or draft of writing task)

Why We Fight

Shock and Awe!:  The initial bombing of Baghdad

Assign Interventions:  If you do not know what intervention you are studying, see me.

Key Terms: "military industrial complex"; collateral damage; "economic colonialism"

Why We Fight (2005)

1.     How does this film answer Essential Question #1?  (Why do we fight?)

2.      “Annotate” for Rhetoric:  fallacies, four A’s, logos, pathos, ethos

3.     Is the argument presented in this film convincing?  Why or why not? 

4.     What counterpoints can be made against the film’s rhetoric?

Homework:  Finish film questions.
Optional:  Do additional research on Iraq War.  Begin researching your intervention.

Leading to War

Reading Quiz:
1. Explain the ideological bias of the article and (Honors) The Project for the New American Century.
2. Explain the foreign policy advocated for in the reading(s)

Discuss quiz answers and:
3.  What are the advantages of this viewpoint?
4.  What good points are made?


The Bush Doctrine


Media Excerpts from the Bush administration (Leading to War)
1.  Analyze carefully the rhetoric of Bush and his defense staff.  Jot down observations about the rhetoric:  note effective use of the 4A’s, logical argument, Aristotelian appeals, fallacies.
2. How is their rhetoric convincing?
3. What points can be made against their rhetoric?




Homework:  
1.  5 Fallacies
2.  Finish Q's 2&3
3.  Honors:  adapted Zinn, Chapter 25

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