Friday, October 18th

WORK DAY!!!!
Scroll down to earlier posts for all relevant links to essay assignment, research notes template, Jessica's essay, etc......

By the end of the hour today, please write me an exit ticket (paper OR email) answering the following questions:

1. What is your topic?  Can you frame it as a yes/no question?
2. What is your perspective (bias) on this topic?
3. What will be the opposing perspective that needs investigating?  Do you have any idea who you might interview?
4. What support do you need from Jessica right now?

Thursday, October 17th

SLC's tonight! If you haven't looked at the protocol, please do so today!

Let's critique Jessica's essay!
Give me feedback based on the rubric and the following questions:
1. To what degree am I answering the focusing questions of the assignment?
2. Is anything confusing?
3. Does anything feel extra or unnecessary?
4. What might I add to help you understand where my perspective on my topic comes from?
5. Other comments, suggestions, questions?


PROJECT DUE DATES

Topic Choice: Friday, October 18 (or before!)

Part 1 Personal Connection Narrative: Thursday, October 24

Part 2 Research Notes and 1st interview done by Sunday, November 3rd

Part 3 Rogerian Argument Project Draft for Peer Critique: Thursday, November 7 (start of class)

Part 3 Draft to Jessica for Feedback Conference:  Week of November 11-15 (on assigned date)

Project Final: Exhibition November 20 (tentative)

Tuesday, October 15th

Starter (post-it and verbal pair share):  
What topic or topics are you thinking of focusing on for this project?  Why are you interested in that topic?  What angle or issue might you zoom in on?


SLC PREP!


WORK TIME TODAY:
Finish and turn in all assignments

• Rhetorical Appeals handout: Bryan Stevenson TED talk questions and scenario brainstorms
• (let's all take a moment on this one....)
• Where do the parties stand on the issues?
• Political Ideology Research
• HONORS: Resubmit your finalized essay today!  Note that you have a reading and a journal for this week:)
• PROJECT WORK!!!!!

BRAINSTORM TOPIC IDEAS

1. ProCon.org
2. ISideWith Polls (scroll issues)
3. Intelligence Squared Debates
4. Middle Ground

Are you ready with your topic?  
Start Part 1 of this project.  Jessica did so this weekend!  Read my draft of my personal connection narrative here.  Feel free to give me some feedback;)

PROJECT DUE DATES

Topic Choice: Friday, October 18 (or before!)

Part 1 Personal Connection Narrative: Thursday, October 24

Part 2 Research Notes and 1st interview done by Sunday, November 3rd

Part 3 Rogerian Argument Project Draft for Peer Critique: Thursday, November 7 (start of class)

Part 3 Draft to Jessica for Feedback Conference:  Week of November 11-15 (on assigned date)

Project Final: Exhibition November 20 (tentative)

Wednesday, October 9th

PROJECT DUE DATES

Topic Choice: Friday, October 18 (or before!)

Part 1 Personal Connection Narrative: Thursday, October 24

Part 2 Research Notes and 1st interview done by Sunday, November 3rd

Part 3 Rogerian Argument Project Draft for Peer Critique: Thursday, November 7 (start of class)

Part 3 Draft to Jessica for Feedback Conference:  Week of November 11-15 (on assigned date)

Exhibition:  November 20th (tentative)

WORK TIME:

Continue work from yesterday and/or move forward on your project

Tuesday, October 8th

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND LEARNING

TO-DO LIST FOR TODAY:

***HONORS WRITING CONFERENCES

A. CATCH UP

• Finish yesterday’s journal.
• Finish and turn in Where do the Parties Stand and any other past assignments. 
• Catch up Comp Book?

B. POLITICAL IDEOLOGY RESEARCH (Do you want a hard copy of this?)

Links for Research:

1, The brain research on liberals and conservatives

(Link to You Tube video)

2. Party Platforms

Republican Party Platform

Democratic Party Platform

Libertarian Party Platform

Green Party Platform

C. IF EXTRA TIME:

• Want to watch an episode of my favorite You Tube project?  Perhaps it could inspire some ideas for the project and/or exhibition?  Middle Ground
• Interrogate the differences in media coverage on the same news (Fox/CNN?)
• READ: WaPo Article about Yale study in which they tried to turn conservatives into liberals….
• BRAINSTORM TOPIC IDEAS

1. ProCon.org
2. ISideWith Polls (scroll issues)
3. Intelligence Squared Debates
4. Middle Ground

Monday, October 7th

Starter 10.7: Causes of Partisan Perceptions

Choose several of the items on this list and discuss where you have seen the principles in play in society. Think about yourself and your own views.  Do you find yourself falling victim to any of these causes of partisan perception? Or think about the climate of information we are living in. What are examples of people seeing the same events/ideas in different ways.  Why does this happen?

What is confirmation bias?  How does our media environment feed our confirmation bias in today’s politically divided society and keep us from having our ideas shaken and disturbed?

What is the relationship between the media climate and the political division?

CHECK OUT THIS TOOL:  https://www.adfontesmedia.com/

Did anyone do the optional homework?  What do we learn?

Why is it valuable to do this in divided times?

Shall we continue our deconstruction of the issues?  

Ted Radio Hour, 10-27-17, Part 2: How do we bridge the political divide?

JOURNAL 10.7

What do we learn from Robb Willer about making effective arguments? How might “moral reframing” help with rhetorical effectiveness?

How can the concepts from these TED talks (today's and Jonathan Haidt's last week) help us better communicate with people who are ideologically different than we are? 

How could it help us find compromise in US politics?
How might it help you with your own rhetoric?

HONORS:  
Essay due by midnight tonight
Writing conferences tomorrow and Wednesday
No reading this week; instead, there is an episode of TED Radio Hour to listen to!
See Honors calendar for journal prompt

Friday, October 4th

Friday, October 4th

Storycorps: One Small Step
Starter 10.4:  React to this interview.  How do you feel about the “empathy interview” format as a piece of our project? Is there anyone in your life you might want to sit down with and have a conversation like this?  What is the value of doing so?

DISCUSS GROUP WORK FROM YESTERDAY

GROUPS SHARE OUT ON THEIR ASSIGNED ISSUE

ACTIVITY: What would a liberal/conservative say about _______________?

• Line-up in two even lines (one liberal, one conservative).  You shouldn’t necessarily be in the line that you yourself agree with (although many of you will be). 
• Review issues from “Where do the parties stand on the issues?” taking turns making points and counterpoints on each issue.
• What are the moral frameworks and underlying values driving the viewpoint?
• What questions do we have?

OPTIONAL WEEKEND HOMEWORK:

Switch back and forth between CNN and Fox to notice the difference in their coverage.