AGENDA 12/19

Prep for Final Exams

Answers to Multiple-Choice Practice:
1 - A
2 - A
3 - C
4 - B
5 - D
6 - C
7 - D
8 - C
9 - E
10 - A
11 - D

HW: Last round of independent reading book groups and projects this week. Final exam on Wednesday: 20 multiple-choice questions and 2 rhetorical analysis essays, back-to-back. Bring your Rhetorical Analysis Timed Essays FLT sheet and any prep materials you'd like to use. You'll also need notebook paper and blue or black ink pens.

AGENDA 12/14

Take California Healthy Kids Survey

Review and discuss elements of good rhetorical analysis introductions
-peer revise rhetorical introductions we wrote on Kilbourne and Porter for homework

Review FLTs for Rhetorical Analysis Timed Essays

HW: Write ONE body paragraph for either the Kilbourne or Porter essay, building off your revised introduction and making sure to include the elements called out in the FLTs. Due tomorrow. Independent reading presentations wrap up this week and next!


LAST CHANCE FOR WRITING CENTER, TODAY AND TOMORROW AT LUNCH!

AGENDA 12/13

Continue to complete viewing guide for Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly 4 , take notes, and discuss as we watch


HW: Complete another SOAPSTone thesis paragraph for Jean Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly 4  just as we did for Tony Porter's "A Call to Men" and turn in tomorrow with our Kilbourne film viewing guide. Keep working on independent reading projects--presentations continue this week.

AGENDA 12/12

Distribute viewing guide for Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly 4 and discuss the "before viewing" questions

Watch the three Dove commercials: "Amy," "Onslaught," and "Evolution" and discuss: Which is most compelling? What sticks with you?

Watch and discuss (and take notes on) Jean Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly 4

HW: Hold onto Friday's SOAPSTone paragraph for Tony Porter's "A Call to Men" until we finish the Kilbourne film. Keep working on independent reading projects--presentations continue this week.

AGENDA 12/9

Combining review of this week’s learning around argument with previous learning of rhetorical analysis
Watch Tony Porter’s TED Talk, “A Call to Men”
Discuss and analyze Porter's choices, and talk about whether this is primarily an argument of fact, value, or policy

HW: Write a SOAPSTone thesis paragraph in response to the prompt: Watch the TED Talk carefully. Then, write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the techniques Porter uses to convey his argument.  (NOTE: Do not write the whole essay, just the introduction paragraph!)

AGENDA 12/7

Additional practice on open, closed, and counterargument thesis statements


HW: Finish independent reading 📚 and work on independent reading projects. Read, annotate, re-read, and funnel “Putting Down the Gun” by Rebecca Walker, pages 573-575 AND “Being a Man” by Paul Theroux, pages 567-570 for THURSDAY.

AGENDA 12/6

WHAT WE’RE DOING TODAY:
Discuss Tannen’s essay “There Is No Such Thing as an Unmarked Woman,” pages 552-556.
Schedule independent reading discussions


HW: Finish independent reading 📚 and work on independent reading projects. Read, annotate, re-read, and funnel “Putting Down the Gun” by Rebecca Walker, pages 573-575 AND “Being a Man” by Paul Theroux, pages 567-570 for THURSDAY.

AGENDA 12/5

Quiz over Introduction to Chapter 3 - Analyzing Arguments: From Reading to Writing
Group activity: writing closed, open, and counterargument thesis statements
Schedule independent reading discussions


HW: Read, annotate, re-read, funnel Tannen’s essay “There Is No Such Thing as an Unmarked Woman,” pages 552-556. Be prepared to discuss tomorrow. Finish independent reading 📚 and work on independent reading projects