AGENDA 10/7

Reflection for Enrique's Journey:
1) How has reading Enrique's Journey developed your empathy? To which people/groups are you more sympathetic? Give 2 textual references to support your responses.
2) What 5 questions do you have for further research? Give 1 textual reference to use as a starting point for further research.
3) Based on what you know so far, in what ways might you be able to contribute to resolving/addressing the issues in this book? What is possible?

Introduce new unit on Gender, Beauty, and Advertising
Skills emphasis: recognizing appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos; identifying logical, ethical, and emotional fallacies; arguing fairly and coherently; examining claims and evidence

Hook: "A Hymn to Him" from My Fair Lady
lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

Discuss: what stereotypes do we see here in terms of gender expectations? How might these stereotypes hinder relationships and individual expression?

Introduce unit overview and explain concept circles for tomorrow

AGENDA 10/6

Share 3-2-1 posters made on Friday for Enrique's Journey with class
(read quotation or question/explain image, and provide an explanation of your choice)

Individual reflection (pre-writing for letters): (CLASSWORK TOMORROW!)
1) How has reading Enrique's Journey developed your empathy? To which people/groups are you more sympathetic? Give 2 textual references to support your responses.
2) What 5 questions do you have for further research? Give 1 textual reference to use as a starting point for further research.
3) Based on what you know so far, in what ways might you be able to contribute to resolving/addressing the issues in this book? What is possible?

HW: Due to today's shortened schedule, we will only complete independent reading for homework tonight. Please plan to finish your book checks before 10/15

AGENDA 9/29

Timed essay

HW: Read/review chapters 5 and 6 of Enrique's Journey for discussion tomorrow!

AGENDA 9/26

Introduce Top 5 Tropes for analyzing speeches
Review Stewart introductory paragraphs and notes, following the steps on the Rhetorical Analysis FLT sheet:
Notes from Period 3
Notes from Period 4
Notes from Period 5

Practice applying skills to new speeches: Ronald Reagan's "Speech on the Challenger Disaster" and Lou Gehrig's "Farewell to Baseball"

For extra pathos, watch or listen to the speeches:
Ronald Reagan's "Speech on the Challenger Disaster"
Lou Gehrig's "Farewell to Baseball"

HW: Timed essay on Monday. Use the Rhetorical Analysis FLT sheet to help you! And email me if you get stuck-- jpust@smmusd.org. Read ch 5 and 6 of Enrique's Journey for discussion on Tuesday 

AGENDA 9/19

Review Stewart introductory paragraphs and notes, following the steps on the Rhetorical Analysis FLT sheet:
Notes from Period 3
Notes from Period 4
Notes from Period 5

HW: Write full rhetorical analysis essay for the Stewart prompt. This may be typed or handwritten in ink. Be prepared (and proud!) to share it on Monday. Use the Rhetorical Analysis FLT sheet to help you! And email me if you get stuck-- jpust@smmusd.org

AGENDA 9/10

Review and discuss yesterday's Funneling activity with excerpts from page 20-21 of Enrique's Journey

Debrief the strategy:
1) What was difficult/went well?
2) In what other contexts/classes might this strategy help you?

Analyze and discuss "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus as part of Teaching Tolerance's "Two Poetic Views of Immigration"

HW: Write down a paraphrased denotation and gather connotations for each term associated with the immigration debate:
indigenous
migrant
immigrant
emigrant
refugee
undocumented
illegal alien

AGENDA 9/9

Introduce and practice the Funneling activity with excerpts from page 16-17 of Enrique's Journey

HW: Practice the Funneling activity with excerpts from page 20-21 of Enrique's Journey and be prepared to discuss and share your choices.

Hope to see you at Back-to-School Night!