End Of Quarter Two is Thursday 1/24/19 @ 3PM

The following are due by the end of the quarter:

Journals w/ unknown vocabulary
Notes w/ unknown vocabulary
The rebuttal to your original Leadership Synthesis Argument.
Three revised timed writings.

Class notes include:
1. Exercise 1-3 pg 999
2. Annotation of The Fourth Great Awakening
3. Peer review of timed writing
4. Notes on the rhetoric in Chiefs
5. Questions on rhetoric on Woolf's "Death of a Moth"
https://sites.tufts.edu/expositorywriting2016/files/2016/01/Woolf_The-Death-of-the-Moth.pdf
6. Comparison between Dillard and Woolf

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS (DOCUMENTARY FILM) DUE 1/11/19

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS (DOCUMENTARY FILM)
Documentary films use images, words, and sounds in order to present an argument. View a documentary film and then analyze the rhetorical strategies employed by the filmmaker in the construction of the film’s argument in a 400-600 word essay. The essay is due 1/11/19.
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·   The essay should not be a summary of the film.
·   The essay should not be a review of the film.

Your essay should do all of the following:

1. Identify the filmmaker’s purpose and analyze the rhetorical strategies used in order to develop the film’s thesis.

2. Examine the ways in which the thesis and / or aim of the film’s argument is supported through the particular style and manner of the composition’s construction, that is, through rhetorical strategies. Choose a selection of strategies and techniques to analyze; do not attempt to discuss everything about the film. Choose specific scenes or moments from the film which illustrate these techniques, and analyze how the filmmaker uses them to present the film’s argument.

3. Interpret or explain why you think that the filmmakers made the particular rhetorical choices they did in an effort to forward their main argument or achieve their purpose. These choices are not random. Interpret why the filmmakers makes these certain choices. Again, support all claims with specific examples from the film.

Six Way Tone Paragraphs Due 12/21/18 by 11:30am

Assignment:

Write six paragraphs. Each of which exemplifies one of the following tones:

Condescending: showing or implying condescension by stooping to the level of one's inferiors, especially in a patronizing way   

Nostalgic: unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons

Whimsical: playfully quaint or fanciful, esp. in an appealing and amusing way   

Sardonic:  grimly mocking or cynical   

Threatening: expressing an intention to cause somebody deliberate harm or pain

Befuddled: confused or perplexed



DO NOT TITLE EACH PARAGRAPH. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO READ YOUR INTENDED TONE WITHOUT A HINT!

Remember, tone (in writing) is conveyed by Details, Imagery, Diction, Figurative Language, and Syntax. See the examples below.



Casual tone

"The way I look at it, someone needs to start doing something about disease. What’s the big deal? People are dying. But the average person doesn’t think twice about it until it affects them. Or someone they know."

Tone: insane, nervous, and guilty

“It was A LOW, DULL, QUICK SOUND -- MUCH SUCH A SOUND AS A WATCH MAKES WHEN ENVELOPED IN COTTON. I gasped for breath, and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly, more vehemently but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why WOULD they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men, but the noise steadily increased. O God! What COULD I do? I foamed -- I raved -- I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder -- louder -- louder!”

-Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”,

Tone: calm, peaceful

“It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference.”



–Ernest Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

Class Notes/ Journals First Five Weeks Q2 due by 3PM on Friday 12/7

Class notes should include:

1. Summarize Socrates's arguments on Value and Policy
2. Plato Vocab(I have these)
3. Class notes on Toumlin
4. Applying Toumlin to Plato's Paragraph 65.
5. Applying Toumlin to Machiavelli.
Notes should include unknown words encountered during class readings.


Journals should have 10 entries about 8 long form essays or a non-fiction text.
Journals should include any unknown words encountered in your reading.

Leadership and Wisdom Essay

Leadership and Wisdom Synthesis Essay

Task:

Write a persuasive essay making a claim about the relationship between leadership and wisdom which synthesizes the ideas we have considered from Plato, Machiavelli, Saunders, Aurelius, and Lao Tzu to support your position.  

Schedule:

M and W Lab 2042

Essays due Wednesday 12/5 by 3PM.

https://stephanielytle.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/allegory.pdf

http://as1020.pbworks.com/f/saunders-braindead.pdf

http://www.umphrey.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Machiavellei-The-Morals-of-the-Prince.pdf

Injustice is a kind of blasphemy. Nature designed rational beings for each other’s sake: to help—not harm—one another, as they deserve. To transgress its will, then, is to blaspheme against the oldest of the gods. And to lie is to blaspheme against it too. Because “nature” means the nature of that which is. And that which is and that which is the case are closely linked, so that nature is synonymous with Truth—the source of all true things. To lie deliberately is to blaspheme—the liar commits deceit, and thus injustice. And likewise to lie without realizing it. Because the involuntary liar disrupts the harmony of nature— its order. He is in conflict with the way the world is structured. As anyone is who deviates toward what is opposed to the truth—even against his will. Nature gave him the resources to distinguish between true and false. And he neglected them, and now can’t tell the difference. -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.

If you don't trust people,
you make them untrustworthy.

The Master doesn't talk, he acts.
When his work is done,
the people say, "Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

End of Quarter--- All Work Due by 3PM

Journals- 10 entries about 8 long form articles

Notes:
1  Syntax analysis of Timed Writing #4
2 Questions on rhetoric and style "On Compassion"
3 Identify and Analyze the rebuttal by MLK.
** Both notes and journals should include new vocabulary. It is your responsibility to look up unknown words after you encounter them.

(3) Timed writing revision submitted with the originals

One major essay revision submitted with the original

All work will be accepted anytime up until 3PM.  Any request for an extension or incomplete should be made through the Guidance office.

THREE APPEALS ESSAY

Assignment:

Write an 800-1000 word essay which discusses the three appeals Martin Luther King, Jr makes in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail. What devices does the speaker use to appeal to the reader? How are the appeals created by these devices? Identifying, evaluating, and analyzing the connections between the appeals (Ethos, Logos, and Pathos) and the devices the speaker uses to create them should be the focus of the essay.

 The text of the letter can be found here: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf

The essay is due on 10/26 by 3PM.

The essay should be double-spaced and submitted by email as a word document to patgar1@gpsk12.org.

Please have your name as part of the file name (For example, BillThompsonThreeAppeals.doc).