AGENDA 9/28

Computer Lab T110 - Take Election Quiz and discuss issues/surprises
Complete Election Issues Prior Knowledge Survey

Continue to brainstorm ideas for Election Project with your group members

Confer about independent reading books 

HW: Select potential candidates/issues for Monday! Since there's no other homework this weekend, get started on next grading period's 500 pages of indie reading!

AGENDA 9/27

Introduce Election Project and get into groups of three
TOMORROW: Computer Lab T110.  Be reasonably aware of the following campaign issues (that is to say, if you've never heard of one or more of the things on this list, ask your parents tonight, consult Wikipedia, etc.):
privatization of Social Security             Obamacare
Medicare                                             Patriot Act
offshore oil drilling                              farm subsidies
debt ceiling                                          online privacy
bank bailout                                         progressive tax
amnesty/path to citizenship                
 President Obama's 2009 Stimulus Plan

Fallacies Group Quiz
View the following commercials and discuss the primary fallacy the commercial employs:

Dr. Pepper: "Always One of A Kind" 

Miller Lite: "Skinny Jeans" 

Little Caesar's: "No Rules!" 

Old Spice: "You Don't Need a Prescription" 

DirectTV: "Don't Have Your House Explode" 

Axe Body Spray: "Billions" 

Fancy Feast: "A Love Story" 

Old Spice: "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" 

AT&T: "Postcards" 

SoCal Honda: "Helpful: Lesson"
Verizon: "Easy Choice 2.0"

HW: Finish independent reading! Confer with me about your books tomorrow if you haven't already done so...250 pages due! Meet in the computer lab, T110, tomorrow and bring your indie reading book!

AGENDA 9/26

HOLIDAY

AGENDA 9/25

Make logical fallacies posters using your packet from Everything's an Argument and your notes from the PowerPoint presentation

HW: Finish independent reading! Confer with me about your books soon if you haven't already done so...250 pages due Friday!

AGENDA 9/24

View PowerPoint presentation and add to/complete  your notes 

HW: Finish independent reading! Confer with me about your books soon if you haven't already done so...250 pages due Friday!

AGENDA 9/21

Read through excerpt from Everything's an Argument to learn about logical fallacies

HW: Finish independent reading! Confer with me about your books soon if you haven't already done so...250 pages due Friday!

AGENDA 9/19

Continue Seminar: Use Guided Reading Assignment for Gretel Ehrlich's "The Solace of Open Spaces," pages 643-650 in the McGraw-Hill Reader, "Our Vanishing Night" by Verlyn Klinkenborg, and Lucianne Walkowicz's lecture "Look Up for a Change"

HW: Independent reading