Goal for Today

• Learn some rhetorical devices and add some to your projects!

Mini-lesson:  Some Rhetorical Devices

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WORK TIME:

• REVISE your draft.
• You have a draft of your written argument due AT THE END OF CLASS THE DAY BEFORE YOUR CONFERENCE.  If your conference is Friday, your draft is due TODAY.  For Monday conferences, this mean the end of class Friday. 
• Work on your Oral Discourse Project!  Incorporate some of the rhetorical devices.

Starter:  Write a focusing question on the top of your draft.

PEER CRITIQUE!!!

1.  Read through the piece carefully.  Then make at least 4 substantial (not just a word or two) annotations responding to the piece.

• Your annotations could be about any of the following:
• Props
• Places that make you feel an emotional connection to their argument (Indicate which emotional reaction you are having
• Where you get confused and why
• Effective/ineffective evidence
• Effective or powerful phrases, sentences, or word combinations
• Places where they could improve their word choice, with suggestions
• Questions you have as you read
• Ideas that you have about other things to include

2.  Try to answer the focusing question.

TODAY:

• Sign up for a writing conference!  Again, this means that you have a draft of your written argument due AT THE END OF CLASS THE DAY BEFORE YOUR CONFERENCE.  For Monday conferences, this mean the end of class Friday.  
• REVISE your draft.
• Work on your Oral Discourse Project!

Starter Pair Share:  For your own written argument, will you try to use Rogerian or Aristotelian structure?  Why?  What tone do you want your piece to have?


Discuss last night's assignments:
Perspective of each?
Types of evidence used?
Pathos?
Ethos?
Solutions?  Recommendations?
Style and formatting of op-ed genre?
Aristotelian or Rogerian?
What insights did we gain?


Guidelines for Op-Ed Writing



SIGN UP FOR WRITING CONFERENCE!  



WORK TIME/HOMEWORK

Revise/refine draft written argument

COMPLETE DRAFT OF WRITTEN ARGUMENT DUE TOMORROW for PEER CRITIQUE

Goals for the Day

• Clarify our next steps
• Refocus ourselves on effective persuasion and argumentation
• Learn some new strategies for building effective arguments (Aristotelian and Rogerian arguments)

 Walk and Talk, Shake it Off

• ·         How was break?
• ·         How are feeling about your progress in our project?

Starter:  Rubric Review and Self Check-in

Please write this on a piece of paper and hand in to me. 

1.  Update me on your status with both parts of this project.  Be super honest and super specific.  When you look over the project guidelines and rubrics, how are you feeling about your progress?

2.  In what ways are you excelling in this project?  What is going well for you?

3.  In what ways do you need to make progress?
4.  Anything else you want to tell me about your situation in my class?

My takeaways from spending a week with your projects:

1.  We, as a class, are not ready to exhibit this project on a stage a week from tomorrow. I haven’t seen much evidence of your project work for exhibition, with a few exceptions.

2.  We need to spend more time working on making effective arguments, written and otherwise.

3.  The exhibition part of this project wants to be critiqued and practiced and refined. 

4.  Our written arguments need some critique and refinement as well.

So……CHANGE OF PLANS!!!!  Let’s check this new calendar!

Other Odds and Ends

1.  Did you turn in your research notes?  Did you turn in your project plan?  Check Powerschool and see if these assignments are missing.  If so, rectify it!

2.  Exhibition is still on for January!  I need an exhibition crew.  Who wants to help me coordinate it?  Who is my video and audio crew?  

3.  Note new due dates for your project!  See this calendar to review.

4.  Honors students, please make a meeting with me!

What makes for effective argumentation? 

1. Group Brainstorm/Review:  What makes for effective arguments?

2. Strategies for Argumentation:  Aristotelian and Rogerian Rhetoric

3. Opinion Column Analysis

Work time/Homework:

Finish Opinion Column Analysis:  Due tomorrow

Revise/refine draft of written argument.  Decide:  Should you go Rogerian or Aristotelian?

OPTIONAL:  Read argumentative writing!  Read commentary and opinion!  Read letters to editors! 

When you submit your draft to me, please answer the following in the body of the email or on the draft itself:
1.  What is the message you are trying to transmit?
2.  What is the impact you are trying to have on your audience?
3.  When I give you feedback, what would you like me to focus on?  What are you struggling with or stuck on?  Do you have a focusing question for my feedback?

Worky, worky kids.....

Welcome, liberal panel!

2nd period:  Michael-led lesson on Syrian refugee crisis

WORK TIME
No, but really, your project plan is actually due:) And your research notes.....
DRAFT DUE THURSDAY @ midnight!!!  (If you want to turn it in earlier, by all means....)
Scroll down for a list sample projects.
The Rise of ISIS?  Inform yourself!

Are you missing an entire chunk of points from your quiz?  See me about quiz corrections!