LI@AT February 8, 2021 Class

 The Plan:

1. Review Chapter 1 Assignments

Audience
Topic
Purpose
Question you'd like your essay to answer?
Writing Strategy: Cause and Effect; Problem Solution; Classification, Definition. . . 


WA 1 (13-14)

Watch "Camanda-in-Chief" Amanda Gorman's presentation at Superbowl LV Sunday this weekend. 

"Today we honor our three captains

For their actions and impact in

A time of uncertainty and need.

They've taken the lead,

Exceeding all expectations and limitations,

Uplifting their communities and neighbors

As leaders, healers, and educators.

James has felt the wounds of warfare,

But this warrior still shares

His home with at-risk kids.

During Covid, he's even lent a hand

Love-streaming football for family and fans.

Trimaine is an educator who worlds nonstop,

Providing his community with hotspots,

Laptops, and tech workshops

So his students have all the tools

They need to succeed in life and in school.

Suzie is the ICU nurse manager at a Tampa Hospital.

Her chronicles prove that even in tragedy, hope is possible.

She lost her grandmothers to the pandemic,

And fights to save other lives in the ICU battle zone,

Defining the frontline heroes risking their lives for our own.

Let us walk with these warriors,

Charge on with these champions,

And carry forth the call of our captains!

We celebrate them by acting with courage and compassion,

By doing what is right and just.

For while we honor them today

It is they who every day honor us."

2. Chapter 2
Inference
Judgement
Fact

Example from W;t
This play is about a professor who is dying and how she finds hope in punctuation-- the semicolon ";" vs period ".":
Chip 4
Clip Highlights
Clip 1
Last Clip: Do you ever miss people (6:34)
W;t  which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for drama, comes to Burlington thanks to another woman named Vivian — Vivian Jordan, a Shelburne resident who plays the lead role and whose profession merges the performing arts with the medical arts.  Jordan works at the hospital as a “standardized patient,” which means she acts out roles for medical students learning how to diagnose illnesses. It brings awareness of end-of-life issues and spark discussion on the complex nature of dying in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. For more info please visit: https://www.uvm.edu/medicine/?Page=ne...

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud

BY JOHN DONNE

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,

And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well

And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Exercise 2D (28-29)

The structure of the essay: Introduction, paragraphs, thesis or conclusion or claim, premises or evidence. Key terms (47). 

Chapter 3: The Structure of Arggument: Standard Form (53); Claims or Premises and Support (50). 

Hidden Assumptions (59)
Summaries (65)

Writing Assignment 5 (67)
What is the difference between arguments and explanations (69)

Summarize W;t. 
Write an explanation about W;t
Write an argument about W;t

Homework: Read the chapters for next week. Complete the WA and exercises (1-2/3s). Think about what topic you would like to prusue in your first argument. 


Notes:
Juxtapose the fictional character in W;t with the real character, Henrietta Lacks, who also had cancer, hers ovarian. She was 31 when she passed, mother of 4 children. Treated in the "colored people's lab at Johns Hopskins Hospital in Baltimore, she had a very different treatment than the fictional college professor here.

Mrs. Lacks is the Mother of Modern Medicine, her cells, HeLa the basis for scientific research and findings for cures unattributed to her until recently. She would have been 100 August 1, 2020. A book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, written by Rebecca Skloot with Mrs. Lacks daughter, Deborah, who went on an investigative journey to find Deborah's mother and recover her history. There is also an HBO film, which stars Oprah Winfrey as Deborah. 

When we think about the Coronavirus and the skepticism many African American feel about the American medical association, Mrs. Lacks story is a recent case not often cited that gives reason to our distrust. 

I wonder what Mrs. Lacks would have thought about John Donne and his Holy Sonnets.