📖 Book Talk x 2 & Indie Read

WRITE TIME ⏰

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Writing #4 – “10 Things . . . ” due in Dropbox drafts as MSWord doc no later than end of day TODAY Wednesday 10/11

📖 Book Talk x 2 & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #21: LISTS (from your life) – important people, favorite interests, abstract beliefs

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Writing #4 – “10 Things . . . ” due in Dropbox drafts as MSWord doc no later than end of day TOMORROW Wednesday 10/11 (time for writing in class today & tomorrow)

WRITE TIME ⏰

VIDEO: “On the Banning of Looking for Alaska” – John Green (vlog brothers April 12, 2016)

📖 Indie Read

READ/STUDY: “10 Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say to You” by Jason Reynolds – click to read

TO DO: Work with a partner to Read Like a Writer – choose 1 of 3 texts (“10 Things,” “Camaro,” or “All Parents Are Cowards” and annotate it for what you find . . .

UPCOMING: Writing #3 next week!

VIDEO: ABC News “Author (George M. Johnson) Speaks Out Amid Surge in Efforts to Ban Books in Schools and LIbraries” (September 20, 2022)

📖 Indie Read

STUDY: Rhetorical Appeals – logos & kairos (quick notes + thought application through quickwrites)

🖋️ Quickwrite #20: “Consent as Tea” – Blueseat Studios

🖋️ Quickwrite #17(reprise): Magazine Ad – return to yours and take a few minutes to note specific use of pathos, ethos, logos in the visual/written argument made

🖇️CLIP-IN: “I’ll Look at Your Facebook Profile” by Louis M. Profeta (click link to read on LinkedIn) – find & annotate examples of emotional connection (pathos), proof/evidence for the argument (logos), & reasons the writer is credible/believable (ethos)

VIDEO: Now This News “Authors are speaking out about attempts to ban their books” (December 24, 2021)

📖 Indie Read

STUDY: Rhetorical Appeals – pathos & ethos (quick notes + thought application through quickwrites)

🖋️ Quickwrite #18: “Camaro” by Phil Kaye – focus on pathos

🖋️ Quickwrite #19: “All Parents Are Cowards” by Michael Christie – focus on ethos

Click to read: https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/all-parents-are-cowards/

PAST DUE: Submission #1 (one of the two papers you’ve written for class) MSWord doc (in Dropbox submission folders) to Mrs. C + audio (on Flipgrid) was due 10/1 – (If you had tech issues, communicate with Mrs. C & get them submitted asap) *you can find the details under RHET-COMP WRITING ASSIGN tab above

VIDEO: PBS Newshour “Nationwide effort to ban books challenges freedom of speech” (Mar. 10, 2022)

📖 Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #17: Magazine Ad – What does it “do”? How? + Where (which magazine) did it some from? Why does that matter?

REVIEW/RECAP: Everything’s an Argument CH 1 – notes & overview

PAST DUE: Submission #1 (one of the two papers you’ve written for class) MSWord doc (in Dropbox submission folders) to Mrs. C + audio (on Flipgrid) was due 10/1 – (If you had tech issues, communicate with Mrs. C & get them submitted asap) *you can find the details under RHET-COMP WRITING ASSIGN tab above

🖋️ Quickwrite #16: Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022 (ALA) – Your thoughts? (click the link to check them out)

📖 Indie Read

STUDY: Notetaking Skills Crash Course

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE/WORK TIME: Notes on Chapter 1 – Everything’s an Argument (college textbook – you can find a pdf of the chapter on GClassroom if you didn’t check out a book in class today)

PAST DUE: Submission #1 (one of the two papers you’ve written for class) MSWord doc (in Dropbox submission folders) to Mrs. C + audio (on Flipgrid) was due 10/1 – (If you had tech issues, communicate with Mrs. C & get them submitted asap) *you can find the details under RHET-COMP WRITING ASSIGN tab above

🎬Book Trailers & Indie Read

Open eBooks codes (see Mrs. C if you missed class): access to tons of great books online for FREE 🙂

🖋️ Quickwrite #15: “59” Poem by Harry Baker

RECAP: Items of review from yesterday’s WRITE CLUB – length of papers? & MLA formatting (specifically, before & after spacing tutorial)

ASSINGMENT/DEADLINE: Submission #1 (one of the two papers you’ve written for class) due as MSWord doc (in Dropbox submission folders) to Mrs. C + audio (on Flipgrid) no later than end of day Sunday 10/1

STUDY: Five Word Focus – a quick way to up your word choice & readability (check the slide in GClassroom or take a pic in class)

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

WRITE CLUB! Bless, address, & press with your writing group. Working today on QW expansion or MB chapter.

TO-DO: Consider how your paper might change after comments and work with your group & read something awesome.

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: Revision in Motion – a look at college (undergrad) app through 3 drafts

DEADLINE: Writing #3 – quickwrite expand or memory book chapter (see sheet below or on the RHET-COMP WRITING ASSIGN tab above) due as a complete MSWord draft in Dropbox drafts no later than end of day Wednesday 9/27 – TODAY!