Tuesday, November 28, 2017

1. Journal-What’s our portfolio entail?  Make a list that you think includes what you should turn in to show you earned an A
a.  Journals-14
b. In class work- Thinking skills, works cited, etc.
c.  Drafts
d. Notes
e. 4 essays with stars
2. Remaining semester timeline
a.  11/28 plan/lab
b. 11/30 open lab
c.  12/5 open lab/meetings open lab
d. 12/7 meetings/open lab



Thursday, November 16, 2017

1. In one of the ads we watched choose a SYMBOL and explain what it symbolizes & why
a.  Present to Mr. Berge to gain access to the computer lab
2. Computer lab: B122- searching for ads, writing, re-writing

3. HW essay draft due Tuesday

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

1. J- What works to convince you?
2. Notes
a.  Chose a video ad
                                                           i.      Write an essay utilizing Pathos, Logos and ethos as a lens
                                                        ii.      Analyze
1. What it means
2. Why it means
3.  Rough draft due 11/21/17
4. Project: choice of presentation or group commercial

a.  Project due date 11/28/17

1. Semester essay’s
a.  Narrative
b. Problem/solution
c.  One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
d. Commercial ad

Thursday, November 2, 2017

1.      J- what’s your plan for your essay?
a.      Write on the board.
2.      Notes
a.      Ethos
                                                              i.      Ethical appeal
b.      Logos
                                                              i.      Logical appeal
c.       Pathos

                                                              i.      Pathetic emotional appeal

Thursday, October 12, 2017

1.      Journal- would you like to read a screenplay? (in class) Watch a movie? Which & why?
2.      What’s expected for the draft
a.      MLA Format
b.      Works cited
c.       First daft due Tuesday 10/17/17
d.      Final draft due Thursday 10/19/17
3.      What’s reliable & what’s not
4.      Next writing about literature, poems as practice, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest as subject
a.      The Mexican Cabdriver’s Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him by Martin Espada
b.      When the Mexican driver says his wife is “like the bridge….,”
c.       He means that….
d.      He means this because

5.      Time & grading

Thursday, October 5, 2017

1) What’s the best that ever happened to you?

2)Research in the computer lab