October 3-7

It's October and we're already in our sixth week of school!  Please make sure you've made up any older quizzes you missed because I'll be passing back work from September (except last week's quiz). 

Here's what's planned for the week:

TUESDAY: Journal warm-up.  Review rhetorical analysis terms learned so far; share tone words from homework.  View clips from first presidential debate and analyze the rhetorical devices used by each candidate (logos, pathos, ethos, connotation, diction, tone, etc.) Read Chapter 14 in class and analyze. Summarize Chapters 15-17.

Due: Read another 20-30 pages of your independent reading book and think about the tone that the author or authors use.  Come into class ready to share three different, original words that describe the tone of the book or books so far.

Upload narratives to Turnitin.com (under the 1st or 2nd period class code on the right hand sidebar of this site) by Monday night at 10:00 p.m.

Homework: Read 15 pages of Chapter 18 of The Grapes of Wrath: the Joads are almost to California.

Study for quiz.

THURSDAY: Journal warm-up.  Quiz covering vocab, Grapes reading.  Notes: Irony.  Irony videos.  Presidential debate clips - one more segment, analyze rhetorical devices, tone as a class.  Continue with Chapter 18 of Grapes in class.

Due: Read the first 15 pages of Chapter 18 of The Grapes of Wrath: the Joads are almost to California.

Homework:

1. Please read and analyze two articles with opposing views about government-sponsored health care.
2. Do a complete SOAPS analysis on each article and bring to class on Monday ready to discuss and debate.
3. Which is the better argument?
4. Which one do you personally agree with?  (Those are not necessarily the same.)