Cyber-Assignment: The Known World
1. Look at the themes: slavery, power and literacy. How do these three (3) themes play out in individual character's lives? Choose three to examine.
After looking at other themes students were told they could choose three (3) other themes to examine. Themes we looked at were: sacrifice, family, slavery, freedom, wealth, poverty, and personal histories and how these lives and their stories are changed or impacted both negatively and positively by the dominant social discourse.
Respond in three (3), in five (5) sentence paragraphs. Include a citation in each paragraph. Respond to a student post.
2. Fallacies 6A (in class contest). The E Team, E for Excellence won the first round with 17 points to the A Teams 15. We will have a rematch on Tuesday (smile).
3. Exercise 7B pp. 163-164. We didn't get to this. We will complete it on Tuesday in groups.
Homework:
1. Read in WLTC pp. 157-173. Skim the entire chapter. Complete exercises: 7A (163). You can post here and email to me as well (just in case).
2. Be prepared to do exercises: 7C, 7D, and 7E in class and 7B (see above).
3. Finish TKW. Homework, post five arguments in standard form taken from TKW here.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Moving Forward
We will write arguments using three forms: Toulmin, Rogerian and Aristotelian or Classical. Students will present these arguments orally. The essays will be about 250-500 words long.
The Known World (Classical)
From the Bottom of the Heap (Rogerian)
Black Like Me (Toulmin)
Let's look at due dates to see what is reasonable. Note the length of the essays.
The Known World (Classical)
From the Bottom of the Heap (Rogerian)
Black Like Me (Toulmin)
Let's look at due dates to see what is reasonable. Note the length of the essays.
Tuesday students worked in small groups on Exercise 6A in WLTC. We also talked about the Wise essay. Homework was to complete the second or third 100 pages (smile). Maybe it was second hundred--all I am certain of is, we complete the book next week. The other aspect of the homework was to complete the rest of 6A. We will review the answers in the morning.
We will look at revision strategies in the morning (handout and film--at a later date). We will also share at least one successful essay, more in the coming week. Students will also have an opportunity to develop thesis sentences related to themes from The Known World. We will use the Classical Argumentative form or Aristotelian, for this essay.
I will give students a sample essay using this form Tuesday to practice in groups. Let's look at next Thursday for essay plans for TKW using the classical form. Final drafts the following week. This will give students who are revising essays a chance to complete these revisions.
We'll start From the Bottom of the Heap next. It is an easy read, even if the issues addressed are not. Robert King is in town tomorrow for a screening of a film about the Angola 3. He will be at both screenings: 4 PM at the University of San Francisco's "Presentation Theatre" on Turk (near Masonic) in San Francisco, and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Mission at Third Street for the 7:30 PM screening.
As a part of Human Rights Watch Film Festival, the University of San Francisco is screening and panel discussion also includes a screening of the film, COINTELPRO and Mr. King will be joined by Richard Brown of the San Francisco 8 and Will Crossman. I think the USF event will be pretty remarkable, but YBCA will be great as well. YBCA costs $8 for tickets. A friend of mine said if anyone wants to go to the YBCA event and can't afford it let her know, which means you have to let me know (smile).
Oh, if anyone needs the book: From the Bottom of the Heap, now is the time to tell me, so I can order copies. It is $12.00.
If nothing else, the first essay assignment was a great illustration of the difference between argument, opinion and explanation. Don't you think?
We will look at revision strategies in the morning (handout and film--at a later date). We will also share at least one successful essay, more in the coming week. Students will also have an opportunity to develop thesis sentences related to themes from The Known World. We will use the Classical Argumentative form or Aristotelian, for this essay.
I will give students a sample essay using this form Tuesday to practice in groups. Let's look at next Thursday for essay plans for TKW using the classical form. Final drafts the following week. This will give students who are revising essays a chance to complete these revisions.
We'll start From the Bottom of the Heap next. It is an easy read, even if the issues addressed are not. Robert King is in town tomorrow for a screening of a film about the Angola 3. He will be at both screenings: 4 PM at the University of San Francisco's "Presentation Theatre" on Turk (near Masonic) in San Francisco, and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Mission at Third Street for the 7:30 PM screening.
As a part of Human Rights Watch Film Festival, the University of San Francisco is screening and panel discussion also includes a screening of the film, COINTELPRO and Mr. King will be joined by Richard Brown of the San Francisco 8 and Will Crossman. I think the USF event will be pretty remarkable, but YBCA will be great as well. YBCA costs $8 for tickets. A friend of mine said if anyone wants to go to the YBCA event and can't afford it let her know, which means you have to let me know (smile).
Oh, if anyone needs the book: From the Bottom of the Heap, now is the time to tell me, so I can order copies. It is $12.00.
If nothing else, the first essay assignment was a great illustration of the difference between argument, opinion and explanation. Don't you think?
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Today, the inclimate weather kept the many away. Thanks to those who braved the stormy weather (smile). We reviewed 5 more of the exercises from Hacker and Dennis shared http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM
(This is the complete sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y)
Dennis tell us about the argument and the fallacy. You can post it here.
Homework is to bring in an example of one of the fallacies depicted in Chapter 6, also to complete WLTC Exercises 6A: 1-5 on page 145. If students want to answer more that's fine. We will complete them all between Tuesday and Thursday.
Next week we will continue in TKW and look more closely at inductive and deductive reasoning using Venn Diagrams (157-199).
I will email students graded responses to their Wise essays. Thanks for your patience.
(This is the complete sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y)
Dennis tell us about the argument and the fallacy. You can post it here.
Homework is to bring in an example of one of the fallacies depicted in Chapter 6, also to complete WLTC Exercises 6A: 1-5 on page 145. If students want to answer more that's fine. We will complete them all between Tuesday and Thursday.
Next week we will continue in TKW and look more closely at inductive and deductive reasoning using Venn Diagrams (157-199).
I will email students graded responses to their Wise essays. Thanks for your patience.
Sekou Sundiata "Blink Your Eyes" Cyber-Assignment Homework
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR0nTMg3kbs
Watch and listen to the poem. What is the argument? What evidence supports the argument? What in your experience supports this argument? What in Wise supports this argument?
Watch and listen to the poem. What is the argument? What evidence supports the argument? What in your experience supports this argument? What in Wise supports this argument?
Cyber-Assignment 2 today
A good way to keep reading logs for the book is to keep them according to characters. As a first profile describe Henry Townsend.
Post your profile here.
Post your profile here.
Cyber-Assignment 1 today
Today we will, in groups, complete the balance of the Hacker exercises. Post summaries ofThe Known World reviews here now or later.
Students brought in visual arguments. I want students to have an opportunity to share them.
I plan to show students a clip from the film: The Great Debaters. The film is based on the true story of a small black college in Wiley, Texas's debate against, in the film, Harvard, in reality, the University of Southern California in the 1930s.
It is a great cinematic moment (smile). There is no writing assignment attached to it, just a way to observe how powerful argument is in changing the world or at least making it a better place to live in.
If you'd like to respond fell free to do so.
Students brought in visual arguments. I want students to have an opportunity to share them.
I plan to show students a clip from the film: The Great Debaters. The film is based on the true story of a small black college in Wiley, Texas's debate against, in the film, Harvard, in reality, the University of Southern California in the 1930s.
It is a great cinematic moment (smile). There is no writing assignment attached to it, just a way to observe how powerful argument is in changing the world or at least making it a better place to live in.
If you'd like to respond fell free to do so.
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