Tuesday, April 30 ~ Game on. Are you ready for the quiz tomorrow?

WARM-UP

• Sentence Type? Rhiannon and Francesca left on the bus before I arrived, so I did not see them at the station.  

DEBATE

• Choose your topic and position: Click here to view the master list.
• Study for the quiz while we get partners worked out. 
• Research time
• Impromptus

HW

• Quiz tomorrow (ELP, Logical Fallacies, Debate Vocab)

Monday, April 29 ~ Choosing topics!

Extended Chapel/Assembly Schedule
HS Bell Schedule
First	8:10 - 8:50	40 minutes
Second	8:55 - 9:35	40 minutes
Break	9:35 - 9:45	10 minutes
Third	9:50 - 10:30	40 minutes
Fourth	10:35 - 11:15	40 minutes
Chapel/Assembly	11:20 - 12:25	65 minutes
Lunch	12:25 - 1:05	40 minutes
Fifth	1:10 - 1:50	40 minutes
Sixth	1:55 - 2:35	40 minutes
Seventh	2:40 - 3:20	40 minutes
Buses leave at 3:30

WARM-UP

• Sentence Type Practice: Nick and Chely realized that Chris was waiting at the train station after they had already left on the bus.

DEBATES

Topic Votes

• Should we add something first? 
• Let's vote on your class topics. Mark only five with your class period number on the left.

Journal 40: Debate Vocab

• Affirmative - The side of the debate that says "yes" to change. This team will strive to show that the current system/law/rule must change. Often this team will lay out a possible plan of change. 
• Brief – A summary of all the evidence to be used in a debate. Similar to what lawyers use in American courts, debaters can use this as an organizer in preparation for the formal debate.
• Burden of Proof – The affirmative or positive side is proposing a (new) position or resolution. Therefore it falls to this side to show evidence for that position. This requirement is called the burden of proof.
• Proof – evidence supporting the team’s position or used to denigrate or defeat the opposing view.
• Proposition – A suggestion that is offered for consideration or acceptance. An idea presented calling the hearer to accept a specific position or changes his actions. There are several kinds of propositions. Depending on the nature of the proposition, the evidence for the position will change. A.K.A. the resolution.
• Value - Television is harmful to kids; animals have rights too. This is a debate of opinions.
• Fact – North American cars are more trouble prone than Japanese marks. This is a debate of fact. An argument based on whether something is true or false.
• Policy – The government should include prescription medication as part of funded public health care. This is a debate proposing a change of procedure or a call to action.
• Presumption – In a debate, the positive side is an advocate for change. Therefore the negative side is defending the status quo. The negative side enjoys the presumption that they are correct. Presumption is acceptance of the correctness of a position based on prior evidence or belief. Ex. Affirmative: The world is round vs. Negative: The world is flat.
• Rebuttal – Statements claiming that some proposition is untrue or incorrect. A team uses the rebuttal time to refute statements made by the opposition.
• Resolution – A formal statement of the proposition. Ex. “Be it resolved that the government should eliminate taxes on the purchase of reading material.”
• Status Quo – The generally held opinion held prior to the start of the debate. The Affirmative argues to change it in some manner.

Topics are.... We'll place partners tomorrow. Get someone to claim for you if you will be absent!

Impromptus

Block Day, April 25-26 ~ Persuasion in Magazine Ad Analysis

GRAMMAR

• Quizzes back
• Practice... Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex?

                   Iris seemed mean, but she won us over with her bee.

PERSUASION

Go over commercials (Click here)

Journal 38: Further Fallacies...
Choose three logical fallacies that may still be fuzzy in your understanding. Do a little research and write down an example of each one. Add to your definition if you need to.

Magazine Ad Analysis

• Journal 39: Persuasion in Magazine Ads: For each magazine ad, record the way it appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. Please practice on at least five ads. 
• Format: Brand/Product:
  Ethos:
  Logos:
  Pathos:
• Logical Fallacy:

Impromptus

HW: This weekend, make sure you consider any debate questions you'd like to add to the list. We will vote next week. 

Wednesday, Apri. 24 ~ Logical Fallacies Complete!

Go over J35.

• Ad Hominem - 
• Band Wagon -
• Argument from Antiquity - 
• All - Natural -
• From Authority -
• Appeal to Quantum Physics -

Journal 36: Record terms and brief descriptions of each logical fallacy in this video #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71w-rHkeSk

• Weasel Words -
•  Straw Man Argument - 
• Loaded Question -
• Poison the Well -
• Proof by Verbosity -

Journal 37: Record terms and brief descriptions of each logical fallacy in this video #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmRCpqO_1JA

• Excluded Middle -
• Red Herring - 
• Special Pleading - 
• Non-Sequiter - 
• Argument from Ignorance –

Activity: ELP Commerical
With a partner, find one commercial that uses a logical fallacy. Link it here with a description of how it uses the fallacy (10 points). 

Impromptus: Over the next few weeks, we will complete two-minute impromptu speeches for a ten point grade. Your only goal will be to continue speaking for the entire two minutes. But first we must make our topics! Please consider things that you might wish to draw from a hat. Create two impromptus slips before the fun can begin. PG 13 please! Try to make these interesting...something we would want to hear about.

• Make topics.
• A Few can go today.

HW: Start talking with people in class about being partners or possible debate topics. Here are the ones I have. 

Tuesday, April 23 ~ Welcome Back! We are in the final stretch now!

PERSUASION

• EQ: What do you think are the main factors that make something persuasive?

Starter Definition:

• Logical Fallacy - an error in argument that makes something seem convincing even if it is not true. (These errors may be used purposefully or accidentally.)
• Rhetoric - the art of using language effectively and persuasively.

Now, take notes from this prezi.

• Ethos:
• Logos:
• Pathos:
• What makes something truly persuasive? 

Practice Activity: ELP Mix-up.


HW: Journal 35: LOGICAL FALLACY Notes

• Add to your Debate notes in preparation for a quiz. As you watch, record each type of Logical Fallacy with a definition + an example. 

Video ONE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N3TROA8MYY

• Ad Hominem - 
• Band Wagon -
• Argument from Antiquity - 
• All - Natural -
• From Authority -
• Appeal to Quantum Physics -

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-ethos-logos-and-pathos.html

Wednesday, April 10 ~ Last day to figure out sentence types...

BTW - The quiz on this moved to tomorrow.

Today, let's practice a bit more.

• One point of confusion may be that you need a review of what can be a dependent clause. Click here to get a review.
• Move this worksheet to Notability to work on it. 
• And another quiz...

HW: (Honors Only) Paragraph Rewrite (15 points; due on Block 4/11)

•  Choose one paragraph from your essay that had the most simple sentences (original paragraph must have at least 6 sentences). 
• Rewrite it using higher level structures. 
• Use at least one Compound, one Complex, and one Compound-Complex. 
• Underline all dependent clauses. 
• Turn this in as a clean, hand-written sheet tomorrow in class.  

Sentence Types Quiz on Block Day!

Tuesday, April 9 ~ More on Sentence Types

First, let's review the grammar from yesterday.

• EQ: Do you know the four sentence types?
• Would you like to go over anything from yesterday on that quiz? 
• Click here for another quiz. 
• Could you pass a real quiz on this tomorrow? 

Essays back...

• Read your rubric and any feedback
• Fix any fragments or run-ons
• Count your sentences
• Label the sentence types: S, C, X, CC

Journal 34: Record your percentages for each sentence type. 

Monday, April 8 ~ Finishing up projects and a side note...

Today we finish up last projects.

If we have time, let's work on a small skill with big results: Sophisticated Sentence Structure.

This week you will...

• Learn the FOUR types of sentences: Simple, Compound, Complex & Compound-complex,
• Analyze your essays to figure out what kinds of sentences you are usually using, and
• Work on improving our writing to create a more sophisticated sentence structure.

Let's try to identify the type for each type of sentence below:

1. Robert doesn't eat meat, so Barbara made a special vegetarian dish for him. 
2. This new laptop computer has already crashed twice.
3. I'm happy, even though the dish didn't turn out as good as my mom's.
4. After getting home from work, my brother and I went to the mall last night, but my sister stayed home to study. 

Let's take grammar notes from this video.

Also, this link is pretty clear if you need further explanation. 

Do you know this skill already? 

If I give you this compound/complex sentence, can you build a simple, compound and complex sentence from it? 

• After getting home from work, my brother and I went to the mall last night, but my sister stayed home to study. 

Here is a quiz to begin testing your knowledge.

Monday, April 1 ~ Across a Hundred Mountains ~ Project Work Day

Side note...will you fill out this form for a student project on body image?

Today we have a project work day.

• Here is the rubric linked once more. 

Here is the going order:

Period 2
Tuesday              Wednesday          Block Day
Jenna D-R           Nick                     Bella G.
Ali                        Chris                    Damien
Devin                   Bella V.                Chely
Sam                     Alec                     Shayna
H. Hollings.                                      JR
                                                         Sarah
                                                         Mackenzie
                                                         Kevin
                                                         H. Harvey
                                                         Blake
                                                         Jakob

Period 4
Tuesday          Wednesday          Block Day
Cristiana         Grace                    Ryan
Rhiannon        John                      Matt
Rachel             Bailey                   Miztli
Mackenzie       Teddy                   Alex
Kayleigh          Riland                  Noah
                         Justin                   Kristin
                                                     Clarissa                     
                                                     Gianna

                                                      Eli

                                                      Aaron

                                                      Maya

                                                      Ava

Period 5
Tuesday          Wednesday              Block Day
Emma              Rachel                      Jason
Connor            Briana C.                 Madison T.
Stuart              Spencer/Armando    Grace
Riley               Briana F.                  Sophie
                       Carson                      Maddie H.
                                                        Hayden
                                                         Andrew
                                                         Julia
                                                         Nicky
                                                         Jessie
                                                         Lucy
                                                         Kalea

Period 6
Tuesday          Wednesday          Block Day
Haleigh A.       Lyndsee               Jonny
Logan              Nate T                  Nathaniel
Marlena           Alexa                   Daniel
Hailey L.         Rachel                  JP
                        Caroline               Faith
                        Sofia                    Aileen
                                                     Flo
                                                     Chiara
                                                     Emma
                                                     Dimitri
                                                     Aleah
                                                     Soriyah             
                                                     Sierra

Period 7
Tuesday          Wednesday          Block Day
Mikayla           Megan H.              Ayden
Madison          Alea                       Sam
Jack                 Megan B.               Leo
Erik                 Abby                      Natalie
                        Kaytlin                   CC
                        Amit                      Annie
                                                       Fracesca
                                                       Taylor
                                                       Chloe/Naia
                                                       Nathan
                                                       Moises
                                                       Christy