Friday, October 7

"The Myth of Tone Policing" vocabulary quiz.

Returned scored responses to the Chapter One Culminating Activity.
Discussed message and tone in the moon landing texts, and specific language, details, and imagery that provide support for our ideas.

Thursday, October 6

Students noted their ideas about purpose and "The Myth of Tone Policing," and set them aside.
Students wrote in response to the Chapter One Culminating Activity from their handouts.

COLLECTED Culminating Activity analysis essays for an AP-style score.

DUE DATES

Friday, October 7: "The Myth of Tone Policing" Vocabulary Quiz.

Wednesday, October 5

Assigned homework for Thursday: finish reading Chapter One in the handout, reading the last selections carefully.  Come prepared to write!

Checked in about vocabulary we generated from the yesterday's essay, "The Myth of Tone Policing," and distributed a Quizlet list for Friday.

Groups shared their annotations and discussed

• Significant-seeming information on Speaker, Occasion/Context, or Audience
• Suggestions of tone
• Rhetorical appeals (to authority/character, reason, or emotion)
• Likely PURPOSE of the work.

Whole class discussion, analyzing the essay together.

DUE DATES

Friday, October 7: "The Myth of Tone Policing" Vocabulary Quiz.

HOMEWORK for Thursday, October 6

Finish reading Chapter 1, "An Introduction to Rhetoric," in your handout.
Come to class prepared to write!

Tuesday, October 4

Discussion of ideas in yesterday's homework: how tone and appeals to authority/character, reason, and emotion applied to the texts in the reading.
Discussion of visual texts as argument.  Shared simplified version of the SOAPStone organizer.

Read and annotated the essay, "The Myth of Tone Policing," looking for

• Unfamiliar vocabulary
• Significant-seeming information on Speaker, Occasion, or Audience
• Suggestions of tone
• Rhetorical appeals (to authority/character, reason, or emotion)

Whole class shared challenging vocabulary; groups discussed probable meanings for the words we identified.

Groups will continue with a discussion of their other annotations and observations tomorrow.

DUE DATES
Friday, October 7: "The Myth of Tone Policing" Vocabulary Quiz.

Monday, October 3

Assigned tomorrow's homework.
Wrapped up discussion of tone in  Jamaica Kincaid's essay, "The Ugly Tourist."

Read and discussed the comic strip "No, We Won't Calm Down" by Robot Hugs at the Everyday Feminism blog; considered SOAPS/tone as they apply to this essay in comic strip form.

Students took notes on the rhetorical appeals, Ethos, Logos, and Pathos, and how they relate to other elements of rhetorical analysis.

HOMEWORK For Tuesday, October 4

Read pages 7--29 in your Language of Composition handout.