tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36041857877309675712024-03-13T11:41:28.320-05:00Yeah, Write Ms. Cardona. WHS. AP Language. Poetry. Philosophy.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-57872092678244130592014-09-03T09:10:00.003-05:002014-09-03T09:10:38.881-05:00NEW BLOGI moved!<br />
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-38476814235522696142014-04-07T10:31:00.000-05:002014-04-07T10:31:12.310-05:00ModernismPlease view the prezi on Modernism and take good notes. You are responsible for learning and remembering this information. Also, you should praise me for making such a beautiful prezi.<br />
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<a href="http://prezi.com/9dbh6losaxof/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy" target="_blank">Modernism Prezi</a><br />
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You're working your way through NaPoWriMo, and soon you'll be thinking about your portfolio project so there are lots of things up in the air. I am aware of this, but you will still have some homeworky things to do from time to time. Your pastiche poem (you got the handout today in class) is due Thursday, and as we begin reading <i>The Waste Land</i>, you'll have some things to do in preparation for class and as extensions of our conversations. But it is amazing so get over it.<br />
<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-24472777811160639532014-03-07T14:10:00.002-06:002014-03-07T14:23:57.153-06:00Poetry!Hey poets,<br />
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First of all, your poems today were awesome! I know we still have to hear the others--we'll do that on Monday. Next week we're going to take a stroll through literary romanticism. To prepare for it, please click through this prezi and take notes on the content using the sheet I gave you in class. Expect this content to show up on a quiz, so pay attention to it!<br />
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<a href="http://prezi.com/ybk2mljnxpyk/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy" target="_blank">Romanticism Prezi</a><br />
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Remember, the other part is to bring in a contemporary example of one of the ideas of romanticism. This example could be a song, a poem, a work of art, a film, an object--whatever, you decide.<br />
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Also, go to <a href="http://truartspeaks.com/be-heard-mn-youth-poetry-slam-series/" target="_blank">the poetry slam</a> on Saturday. It will be rad.<br />
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Happy weekend.<br />
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-30195174940570333672014-01-22T21:08:00.000-06:002014-01-26T17:11:22.621-06:00NOSCHOOLNOSCHOOLNOSCHOOLSo, school has been cancelled tomorrow because it's going to be colder than the 9th circle of hell. (Quick: somebody explain that allusion!) Which means you can sleep in and relax, but it also means a sort of weird, anti-climactic closing to our semester. <i>Update: See you Monday. Treat the following as your final weekend blog post. Newer update: See you Tuesday because Monday is no-school-due-to-polar-vortex-day #4. A couple of you have your index poems up--yay!</i><br />
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What we were going to do in class was compose index poems that function as entertaining summaries of the course experience. Here's a tiny sample of how an index poem might look. This is an excerpt from an index poem written by a poet/acquaintance/colleague of mine named Amorak Huey. <br />
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</span><span style="color: #ffffcc; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.........</span><span style="color: #29303b; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Eric and 158-160<br />
</span><span style="color: #ffffcc; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.........</span><span style="color: #29303b; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Optimism and 126-157<br />
Arcade 129<br />
Arrogance 122, 125, 146<br />
</span><span style="color: #ffffcc; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.........</span><span style="color: #29303b; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Making fun of everyone who
is not we 122, 129, 133, 141<br />
</span><span style="color: #ffffcc; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.........</span><span style="color: #29303b; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Nicknames, occasionally
cruel 123, 139<br />
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159<br />
Autonomous self, the 120, 140, 145<br />
</span><span style="color: #ffffcc; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.........</span><span style="color: #29303b; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Unrealized expectations for
159<br />
Bartles & James 124, 126-132<br />
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from first period; see also fake ID) 124<br />
</span><span style="color: #ffffcc; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.........</span><span style="color: #29303b; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">taste of (see also
Kool-Aid) 129<br />
Beach 121, 133, 144, 147<br />
Best week ever, anticipation of 120, 122</span><!--EndFragment-->
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Notice a couple things about the set-up: alphabetical A-Z (again, I just gave you a snippet), imaginary page numbers are included, the (see also) element to indicate other cross-references, and the blend of obvious and literal with quirky, inside-jokes and humor and the word or phrase building into a line or full sentence by indentation of the following line. It's a lot of fun to write these, actually. Think about all of your silly inside jokes about Bitzer and Orwell and how crazy your teacher is and have some fun with it. I challenge you to write one as your final blog send-off.<br />
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Stay warm!AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-25421060878002704102014-01-18T16:20:00.001-06:002014-01-18T16:22:19.472-06:00Your Assignment: BLAFor this weekend's blog post, please offer a brief analysis and response to the argument your BLA selection presented. I would encourage you to find additional information/sources/perspectives on the topic discussed by your author(s) simply because it would be an interesting way to inform your response. There is no requirement to do so, I just think it would be good mental exercise.<br />
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At this point, you are pros when it comes to identifying and analyzing argument (right?) and you've pretty much always been pros at responding to stuff -- you know, <i>what do you think about x, y, z?</i> stuff. So this task should be straightforward for you.<br />
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A word about grades and the end of term cookiness of it all: As your grades are presently, they do not include: a) the most substantial piece of writing you've done this semester, b) the most substantial project you've done this semester, and c) a final exam that will be similar in substance and grade-impact potential as the term 1 final was. This means you can and should expect that your grade will most likely change. And if/when it does, and you think <i>ugh, my grade went down-ah, that's so unfair-ah, </i>you must simply re-evaluate your logic: Your grade did not <i>go down.</i> Rather, your grade was incomplete before the input of this data. Now, it reflects your performance on these culminating, summative assessments.<br />
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I <i>heart </i>you all, and I'm pulling for you, but I simply will not tolerate whiny, last-minute grade-grubbing. I've been upfront with you about my expectations all semester. This is where that counts. If you are dissatisfied with your work on something, I sympathize. These things happen. We learn from it and we carry on. You are allowed to have a moment of tantrum, just please keep it to a minimum.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She's mostly just sad about her haircut. <i>I know, honey, I know.</i></td></tr>
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-70022626706208714042014-01-10T14:22:00.003-06:002014-01-10T14:24:07.279-06:00THE FINAL COUNTDOWN<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am always surprised by how quickly the days escape us. It seems like just yesterday I was introducing you to Friday Freewrites and now you are about to graduate from the land of AP Lang. Crazy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In these final eight days, you will be presenting your author study work, wrapping up your term BLA, nervously awaiting your essay grade, nervously wondering what kinds of mischief the final exam will entail, and all kinds of other mentally-taxing, and emotionally-draining experiences. And then it will be over and you will move on to other, less important classes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, we looked at these four prompts at the end of class. I asked you to jot down a few ideas about how you might respond to one of them and now, I'm asking to to go a little further. For your blog post this weekend, please respond to one of the prompts from class however you'd like to. If you want to use this as an opportunity to construct a solid exam-worthy response, go for it, but if you'd like to be a bit more casual or creative or interpretive in your response, that's a-ok, too. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The prompts:</span></b><br />
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Read and think carefully about the following quotation from Voltaire: <i>“It is dangerous to be right in matters
about which the established authorities are wrong.” </i>Then write an essay in
which you refute, support, or qualify Voltaire’s claim. Make sure to use
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From talk radio to television shows, from popular magazines to Web blogs,
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Use appropriate evidence from literature, history, or your own personal
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In "The Singer Solution to World Poverty," an article that appeared
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Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics, calls attention to the urgent need
for food and medicine in many parts of the world. Singer argues that prosperous
people should donate to overseas aid organizations such as UNICEF or Oxfam
America all money not needed for the basic requirements of life. "The
formula is simple: whatever money you're spending on luxuries, not necessities,
should be given away." Write an essay in which you evaluate the pros and
cons of Singer's argument. Use appropriate evidence as you examine each side,
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So, the rhetoric of New Year's is sort of interesting... all of this talk of "new year, new you!" and an insistence that the next year will be infinitely better than this past year was, fresh starts and do-overs abound, and there's a strange belief that at the stoke of midnight, something magical happens: there's a countdown, a sparkly ball, <strike>champagne</strike> sparkling apple juice, and cheers and smiles and kisses. But why? What is it about this holiday (why is this a holiday?) that makes us want to celebrate? And why do we celebrate it this way?<br />
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Post at least once over break. You can write about anything you want, but maybe consider commenting on this New Year's phenomenon I was just rambling about...I'm interested to know what you think of it. Do you participate in the practice of resolutions? The countdown? Nothing? Are you surly about it? Okay, you get the idea.<br />
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The paper. Draft, brainstorm, develop, revise. Read the assignment sheet. Thursday and Friday after break will be work days so make sure you have stuff to work on. Those days will be more useful to you for the essay if you have a full (though rough) draft going into it.<br />
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The project. Read and annotate like a beast. Very few of you had the quantity and quality of notes I had expected to see at this point. That's not a jab; it's an expression of genuine concern. Read the assignment sheet. Really get to know your author's style. Refer to that "incredibly tedious guide" I gave you a while back. Remember the in-class work we've done with identifying style and writing style statements. You have everything you need to do well on this, but you've got to make use of those resources and pay attention to the assignment's objectives, articulated on the assignment sheet.<br />
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Get some rest. Play in the snow. Drink hot cocoa. Eat cookies. See you in January. <br />
<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-40618317508671157652013-12-12T14:42:00.001-06:002013-12-12T14:42:53.112-06:00Not Gonna LieTry to be 100% truthful this weekend. Just see how it goes. At the very least, take notice of how many times you bend, smother, or evade the truth...and consider why you do that. Write about it if you want to, but otherwise your blog post topic is open. You haven't had one of those in a while.<br />
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For Monday, please read the essay "A Clack of Tiny Sparks" by Bernard Cooper (it's on our Moodle page). CRJ it if you'd like. At some point next week (not Monday) I will collect a CRJ from you. Consider yourself warned. Pay specific attention to how he shapes the narrative and uses it to <i>say something</i>. <br />
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GET GOING ON YOUR AUTHOR STUDY. Before you leave for winter break, you must show me that you are making progress. I will ask to see your notes/annotations/CRJ type stuff probably on Thursday. I might publicly shame you if you have nothing. <br />
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Happy weekend.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-65555352152031827872013-12-06T14:58:00.000-06:002013-12-06T14:58:18.090-06:00Thirteen Ways of Looking at PorridgeI<br />
Among hundreds of frozen trees<br />
the only cottage<br />
was the cottage of the three bears.<br />
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I was of three minds<br />
Like a table<br />
at which there are three chairs.<br />
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The porridge steamed the chilly air<br />
it was a small part of my ritual.<br />
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A girl and her porridge<br />
Are one.<br />
A girl and three bears and porridge<br />
Are one.<br />
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Okay, that's enough fun. This weekend, blog about whatever you want, but approach it in a few different ways. What do I mean? "Fifteen Comments on Cookie-Baking" or "Six Ways of Looking at Sledding" or Twenty Observations on Sleep" or something like that. The goal is to toy with structure and perspective. Change up the usual--what are some other angles to explore? What are the different components of something you do all the time? If you have a low number, those chunks should be a tad longish. If you have a high number, those chunks can be little.<br />
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Remember to read and CRJ Eric Liu's essay "Notes of a Native Speaker" for Monday. It's on our Moodle page and I'll try to get it up on my website, too, but it's been giving me fits.<br />
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BLA on Tuesday and get started with your author study. Holler if you decide to 86 your author and replace him or her with a new one. <br />
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Happy weekend. <br />
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-20027158464257073182013-12-03T11:14:00.001-06:002013-12-03T13:09:06.816-06:00The Author StudyAs an extended study of style, you will be reading an author of your choice extensively. This work will span the rest of the term and will result in a presentation of sorts in January. This is all I will tell you about the project at this time. For now, your task is to find an author whose work you wish to study in-depth. This author must be established/published, but can work in any genre. Here are some suggestions (you may propose another author to study but I get to say no for any number of reasons):<br />
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AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-75291292923766841552013-11-26T12:34:00.001-06:002013-11-26T13:14:57.307-06:00Turkeys, Menorahs, Shopping!First of all, whatever you plan to do for the next several days, I hope you enjoy the break and take some time to relax.<br />
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What I'd like you to blog about is the curious obsession we humans have with tradition. You can explore this in any way you'd like to--maybe your family has all kinds of traditions, maybe they don't, but you don't have to write about yourself and your traditions. One needs only to flick on the <i>tele</i> to see evidence of culturally ingrained traditions...what do you think about this? Why do we create and maintain traditions? What do we gain from them? Do you think having traditions is healthy and positive or bizarre and twisted? These are not questions you have to answer, I'm just trying to get the ball rolling because what I'm not asking for is a play-by-play of your Turkey-day festivities. Think more broadly about tradition than that. Comment on it.<br />
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This week, we've spent a great deal of time on detail, observation, description, careful crafting of language to communicate a specific tone/feeling/setting/etc. Yesterday, Seth was talking to you about a number of things, but chief among them was imagination. Creativity. Inspiration. I cannot tell you how it pains me to hear you all groan <i>But I'm not creative!</i> Because you are. You've just forgotten.<br />
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And I am going to force you to remember.<br />
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This weekend, I'm asking you to go find cool stuff on the internet and when something strikes you as interesting, unique, creative, inspiring, etc, use it to prompt your blog post. Perhaps you snoop around on Vimeo and find some crazy video that gets your imagination buzzing--embed it in a blog post in which you discuss what you dig about the video and/or how it inspires you and/or something that you wrote as inspired by said video. Cool Tumblr images might take the place of the video. Maybe it's from YouTube and not Vimeo--that stuff doesn't matter, the goal is to find something interesting and let it inspire you and then write about it. Maybe it will inspire you to dig out your finger paints--go for it. And then blog about it. <br />
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You and your big, beautiful brains need to remember how to create.<br />
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Here's a super cool video to get you started:<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/64542506">The Vein / Magma</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/dvein">Dvein</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-50715009363317423572013-11-21T09:16:00.004-06:002013-11-21T09:16:49.946-06:00Your Observations
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movies</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This month has rained more than snowed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Majority of items owned are blue</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Listen—hear blood pumping in ears</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Classrooms with windows = better
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gets dark at 5:18 dark blue to black </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Humans <span style="font-size: small;">baboon</span>, chimps are only animals to kiss</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9 yr old having a boyfriend </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7<span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span>
grade girls have horrible style (aero uggs and baggy jeans)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">News makes my parents angry – they yell
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contrast b/w public cheer and angst</span></span></div>
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tests is very very scary</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Formula for WHS girl: Uggs,
Lulus, Northface,
Caribou cup</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pomegranates</span> looks really strange<span> </span>(overall)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When we blush, it evokes sympathy of
those around us (adrenaline response to stimuli)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NPR!!!!!!!! Poems about food: eating is
the only form of professionalism tha tmost people ever attain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There’s a water bottle in my ceiling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bathroom stall 2<span style="vertical-align: super;">nd</span> floor D wing: Keep Calm and Breathe</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spyhouse Cafe—girl walking with 2 guys…chucked the
flowers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Telephone poles look like crooked cacti</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Norwegian chess player (peeps are
obsessed)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ellie stares at people at stoplights<span style="font-size: small;">--</span> awks</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">DQ meal– chicken tenders come with toast </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No 2 laughs are the same </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7 lovely logics: (advice)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All the classrooms in the horseshoes have
windows with blinds (that are in bad condition) so during lockdowns, the blinds
don’t really help… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grandma’s house: tiling and carpet
separated by thin metal transitions that wiggle</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Strange how people share intimate details
about their lives with their hairdressers (counseling)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Food: sensory experience versus cognitive
awareness</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Romania Christmas eve—no decorations,
Christmas day is when decorations appear</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The way people treat their pets says a
lot about how they treat other/their character</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trail run: in the woods, beware purple
thorns</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The world is never completely silent</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">People are either staunchly, stubbornly
closed minded or apathetic</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highway, white sedan, little old ladies
surrounding tall man</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">APUSH didn’t mention anniversary of
Gettysburg…but AP CALC did!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s fun to hold/smell money<span style="font-size: small;">--</span> flashback and realizations about money</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">People have tics and habits and
mannerisms</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brother’s long hair<span style="font-size: small;">--</span> “weird woman”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Email: <span style="font-size: small;">etiquette</span> is missing in many exchanges with adults
(it reflects poorly on them) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When teacher leaves the classroom during
a test/quiz …cheating? Nope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One camera for each level…<span style="font-size: small;">surveillance</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hanukkah begins the day before
Thanksgiving this year. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ms. Boyd swears. (When girls fight.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When a person dies, the brain is active
for 7 minutes<span style="font-size: small;">: </span>WAKING LIFE</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;">The girl who sits in front of me just had a 10 minute discussion with
her table-mates about the popular game "Candy Crush". I have never
played it, but apparently she heard on a night-time news program the previous
night that changes to the game were in planning. There is mutual outrage among
the involved parties. Clearly "Candy Crush" is a major part of their
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AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-39317718380589923272013-11-15T14:12:00.003-06:002013-11-17T17:43:04.595-06:00Happy WeekendThis weekend, you're exploring 10 words from that mondo list--look into origin and etymology, look into context, connotation, usage, etc. and write 2 exemplar sentences that demonstrate the accurate use of the words. These sentences should aim to be legitimate and believable--not halting and awkward.<br />
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Also this weekend, you're hunting for a passage of mind-blowingly good writing. Find and bring in a passage that exemplifies qualities of good writing--a passage that you'd commit to memory if you were ever compelled to do such a thing. It can be any genre, any form. No more than a page.<br />
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New BLA groups will meet briefly on Tuesday to finalize their plans. The following week, Nov. 26th, will be the first official BLA meeting. (That's the day right before Thanksgiving break.)<br />
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Keep up with those observations journals. Remember to blend fun facts, random things, stories, bits of conversation, thoughts, etc. Sometimes pause and write for a while. Explain why you find something interesting, what you notice about it and why it maybe seems interesting to you. Other times you can just record snippets.<br />
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As for your weekend blog post, please write something based on a conversation you overheard or participated in. Take this however you'd like, but offer a little blurb of introduction before your post that explains where and when this conversation took place and whether or not you were a participant or merely a snooping bystander. Have some fun with it. Craft your words, don't just barf up a story.<br />
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-7270138278744554822013-11-13T12:47:00.002-06:002013-11-13T12:47:54.396-06:00The Art of Looking<a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/12/on-looking-eleven-walks-with-expert-eyes/" target="_blank">The Art of Looking</a> is the article/essay you are reading for tomorrow. This link takes you to one of the greatest resources for interesting things I have ever known ever: Brainpickings.org. I love it.<br />
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A more printer-friendly version is on our moodle page and I'm working on putting it on my website, too. Read it. Enjoy it. Heed the suggestions to observe your surroundings and learn from them.<br />
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This directly feeds into your observations journal. AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-45848644575146843642013-11-07T08:46:00.005-06:002013-11-07T08:46:58.793-06:00Grades and ThingsHi cats and kittens. <br />
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Don't email me forty times about your grade and skyward and all that. Nothing is finalized. I am still grading and entering scores and adjusting scores and all of that good stuff. Settle. AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-68749610528370390642013-11-05T09:59:00.001-06:002013-11-05T11:52:19.322-06:00Term 1 Final: Take Home Portion Watch this video. Identify his argument. Respond to it intelligently. In under 300 words. <br />
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Due tomorrow when you walk in the door. Typed. AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-86974844827462165542013-11-02T14:25:00.002-05:002013-11-02T14:25:45.803-05:00Scary StuffHi. Sorry about the delay...things just happen sometimes.<br />
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This weekend, I'd like you to blog about fear. If this means you mull over the abstract concept of fear and wish to write about it that way, go nuts. If you'd rather write about things that scare you, or things that people generally find scary and explore why, sweet. If you end up writing about fear in some other capacity, that's fine, too.<br />
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And if you get to scared during this process, just pause and look at this puppy: </div>
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Speaking of fear, you all have this incredible fear of "failure" (and by "failure" I mean getting anything less than a perfect score on anything and everything). This is madness, people. I get why this happens, but at some point you've really got to settle down. This is just high school. This is where you are supposed to take risks and make mistakes and learn from them. But since I understand your neurosis, let me remind you that Monday will be a review/study day for our term final (course midterm). Bring in any/all materials you have and be prepared to make a mess of them and then re-organize them. This isn't really a test you can study for in the traditional sense. You can, however, review certain materials and remind yourself how to analyze and read closely. Actually, all "studying" really ought to be just this. Tests are designed to measure what you have learned thus far. They should be sprung on you without warning to be accurate. But you all freak out too much and there's too much emphasis placed on the results, so we've quit doing that. Instead we warn you well in advance so you can prepare, which isn't a bad thing if it helps you learn the material more deeply.<br />
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Happy "studying" everyone! <br />
<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-74115732148324571352013-10-25T14:32:00.000-05:002013-10-25T14:32:49.248-05:00How About Those Zombies?Alright, so.<br />
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You're revising your little tails off this weekend. Good. This is the writing process, folks. Remember to, first and foremost, write an interesting and solid essay. Stop worrying about what "I want"--I've told you what I want: interesting, thoughtful, and engaging writing. Do that. Worry about whether what you're writing is any good in general terms not what grade you're going to get. If you do good work, the grade will take care of itself. If you panic and default to sad, boring, stilted, studenty writing, the grades will likewise reflect that. Consult the original assignment sheet--there is valuable information there--and go through the workshop/revision steps in that blue packet. I am only collecting your final draft, so go ahead and set the other drafts on fire if you want. Really, it's cathartic.<br />
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You need to read that "Extended Language" piece for our work next week. Reading all of that and working on your essay and blogging and doing everything else you must do is probably kind of a lot. Read it when you can, I am not going to sniff out those of you who haven't read it yet on Monday, but it will help you to make sense of what we're doing Monday and Tuesday so... you know, read it, but sleep, too.<br />
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Your blog post is not open topic this weekend. Instead, pay attention to the lyrics of a song you have been listening to recently. Post the song and/or the lyrics and then comment on them. (When I say "comment on them" I mean <i>make some sense of them, see what you notice about them, explain how they are oh-so-effective and why. </i>Not like <i>mad-rhetorical-analysis-why</i>, but some kind of <i>why</i>.)<br />
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Oh, and stay warm because suddenly winter is all: <span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">I<span style="font-size: x-large;">'M HEEEEEEEERE. </span></span></i><br />
<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-48885058449037124302013-10-23T15:05:00.002-05:002013-10-23T15:05:57.363-05:00Those Essays of YoursHey, remember when I moved your due date to Monday and you all cheered jubilantly? That was hilarious. I hope you learn something from this: I may expect you do so hard things but I am not altogether unreasonable, nor am I "out to get you" or some such nonsense. It took us a little longer to get through the documentary and I really wanted to be able to talk about it, so a concession I make is that we shove some things around. So what does this mean? It means this:<br />
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Tomorrow is our field trip to see King-Fu Zombies vs. Cannibals. Meet at the Trojan Head at the beginning of second block. Bring a bag lunch.<br />
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Friday you must have a printed draft of your essay in class for <strike>shredding and dismembering</strike> revisions and other workshop goodness. See blue packet you picked up for details about this revision.<br />
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Over the weekend, you'll have your usual weekend blog post, your essay to make awesome, and that "Extended Language" reading which is a xeroxed textbook chapter, so plan accordingly. This chapter should be read by early next week. Monday would be great. Tuesday is, I think, more realistic for you. It will inform the work we do next week and the work we will carryover into next term, so treat it accordingly.<br />
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End-of-term BLA stuff is right around the corner. I will tell you about it on Friday.<br />
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-49430836419326069952013-10-16T14:23:00.004-05:002013-10-16T14:23:47.986-05:00Who Loves MEA?Enjoy your long weekend, get a good start on your rhetorical analysis paper--if you never got around to signing up, email me your first and second choice.<br />
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The following articles are full for block 3:<br />
"Super People"<br />
"Google"<br />
"Culinary Elitism"<br />
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The following articles are full for block 4:<br />
"Culinary Elite"<br />
"Outboard Brain"<br />
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So pick another one. Remember, you have the option of selecting one on your own, just let me know what you've chosen. Remember the objective is to analyze the rhetoric; it's not to attack or support the argument. We just did lots of practice with the Dan Kennedy piece. You even have a student sample essay. That was from this very assignment. It's all about how the language works to persuade. Read you assignment sheet a million times. It's all on there.<br />
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BLA on Tuesday.<br />
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Blog sometime over MEA. Open topic.<br />
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-4692338474949648922013-10-11T10:32:00.002-05:002013-10-11T10:32:29.642-05:00Funny BusinessYour weekend blog post assignment is this: open topic. What does that mean? Write about something. Anything you want. Make it interesting. Give it some thought. Don't just tell me about the amazing autumn squash soup you had at Panera and how you have to babysit and <i>argh</i>, that <i>just sucks</i>.<br />
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In case you missed it, on Wednesday we watched these two videos and talked a little bit about how they use humor to communicate argument.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/V9rzMaAucI4" target="_blank">C is for Cookie</a> which, remember, is a parody of <a href="http://youtu.be/IKuwq_XObeI" target="_blank">V for Vendetta</a>. <br />
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And then, this one:<br />
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Which is just awesome.<br />
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You brought in an example humorous argument and then you posted it on your blog and wrote up a little explanation/analysis of it this week. Some of you still haven't done this...what's with that?<br />
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Browse and sample your peers' work--you guys found some great stuff. <br />
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-55570411260056108092013-10-04T13:34:00.001-05:002013-10-04T13:34:08.013-05:00Weekend UpdateHi.<br />
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Remember when you did those great rhetorical modes blogs? Me too. Go back to your writing for that assignment and select one mode that you explored and revise that tiny blurb into a full post. The idea is to use the same topic you used for the rhetorical modes assignment but you can pick a new one if you really want to. Oh, and feel free to supplement your writing with other modes (as this is nearly inevitable) but make sure one mode is dominant and intentional. Create a label for this post that clearly states the mode you're playing with. (Labels option is immediately to the right of the posting text box. Just click it and type in the label: a mode.)<br />
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Other things. I will collect a CRJ from you next week (by Wednesday) so choose one that you did for an essay or article that we've read thus far. Options include:<br />
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<li>Declaration of Independence</li>
<li>Gettysburg Address</li>
<li>Ain't I a Woman</li>
<li>On Compassion</li>
<li>Million Dollar Murray</li>
<li>On Dumpster Diving</li>
<li>Tax Soda</li>
<li>A Modest Proposal</li>
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This CRJ is a normal CRJ and not a massive, guided CRJ like you did this summer for "Letter from Birmingham Jail" it should, however, be a clear demonstration of your close reading skills.<br />
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You may be wondering when you're going to do some essay-writing. Rest assured that you already are flexing those muscles, whether you realize it or not, and that soon--very soon--you will be writing a full and proper essay. Details to come. First, we're going to play with satire and such.<br />
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Happy weekend. Have fun and be safe. AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-26492656755965363662013-09-30T23:38:00.001-05:002013-09-30T23:38:06.366-05:00That Time Mrs. Cardona Was Gone ForeverHi.<br />
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So I'm as sick as forty dogs and can't get off the couch. I'm hoping this plague will subside and I will be back Wednesday, but for now: couch. That means a little rearranging. Again.<br />
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I read your blog posts in response to the essays and the movie and I have to say, I am really impressed by what some of you wrote. All of you did the assignment and it was great (well, actually, not all of you did...still waiting on a few) but a few of you composed pieces that would be lovely essays. And so, you have stumbled upon one of my motives for making you blog: you end up writing brilliant, essay-quality stuff without really realizing that's what you're doing. <i>Mua-ha-ha.</i> In any case, well done; keep it up.<br />
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Ok. Then, over the weekend, you read those animal rights essays for Monday and had that quiz and, as for all quizzes, you're allowed to use notes/CRJs and all that good stuff. Quick note about that: whenever you are reading an essay for class that isn't an obvious content essay (like Bitzer, or a chapter out of a text book, or something) it's a candidate for a CRJ. Remember I'm never going to collect all of your CRJs, but I will call for one around midterm (yikes, that's like now...let's call it next week, okay?) and the end of the term. You choose which one to submit. Yes, you could go back and re-read an essay and fake a CRJ but the fact that you can always reference them on quizzes is supposed to be your motivation for doing them when the essay is assigned. So, that got long-winded, but I just wanted to remind you of that/finally address it if I actually haven't but only think that I have. Keep pestering me if it doesn't make sense. Seriously.<br />
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After the quizzing time you had time to prep for the debate that is supposed to be tomorrow and I'm betting that you have questions about what you're supposed to be doing. Rest assured that if you've read the essays well and are willing to engage in friendly, dramatized debate with your classmates, you will do fine. What you really want to know, though, is how to prepare: I'd say type or write out an overview of each author's main argument and approach along with some comments regarding the pros and cons of these different approaches. Consider what a panel of experts might ask each author and jot down a few questions. This is not extensive, serious debate prep, but it should be solid and workable. Does this help? I hope?<br />
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Okay. Tuesday. The debate is not happening, so you get another day to prep--hey consider bringing in some props--could be fun. Instead, you're going to do some similar argument analysis and pro/con stuff, but with a different topic. This is meant to be a partner thing, but you can certainly work by yourself if you'd like. It's further practice in argument identification and then synthesizing your own response (ie: exactly what the AP exam measures). The topic is same-sex marriage which was way more timely last fall (when I collected these articles) but still an interesting argument to explore. Pretend like it's a year ago if that helps you. Or just run with the perspective that it's a year later and same-sex marriage has been legalized...what's different? What are the conversations surrounding this topic now? You'll find that a number of topics we explore are inherently political--that's where the meaty rhetoric is, so we go there. <br />
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I'm going to get off the couch for the third time today and make some more tea/get more NyQuil/reload my supply of tissues. <i>Pathos, pathos, pathos, you can't be irritated at my absence because I'm sick, pathos, pathos</i>...<br />
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Miss your faces, see you soon.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03442761039422143869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3604185787730967571.post-41211934727715589492013-09-27T15:23:00.001-05:002013-09-27T15:23:46.996-05:00Blog Post #4Hello from Iowa!<br />
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I'm attending the Iowa Writers Festival at my alma mater, Luther College this weekend. I hope things went smoothly in class with <i>The Soloist.</i> Isn't is an incredible film?<br />
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So this week we read explored a similar topic from a few different angles--those angles are what I'd like you to consider for your post this weekend. Asher focuses on the underlying human traits of compassion and empathy. Gladwell gives us a human face to an otherwise faceless problem and proposes a solution (or explores potential proposals) and then Eighner gives us a firsthand account of living on the streets via his highly informative and, at times, tongue-in-cheek manual. In exploring their chosen topics, these authors comment on things they notice and offer their own opinions, observations, arguments. <i>The Soloist</i> does the same.<br />
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The interview with Lopez offer the behind-the-scenes information that inspired the film and of course the film takes on its own identity and its own argument, but ultimately all of these forms are getting at the same issue. Please comment on this or a related topic. Make your own observations, make your own social critiques and commentaries. I am not asking you to summarize or analyze all of these texts. I am asking you to synthesize your exposure to them and create something new: <i>your</i> perspective. I want to know what you think of this subject, what stirs you, what grates on you, what you'd like to be able to do about it--whatever. Please feel free to reference the film or articles as necessary, but know that I'm really more interested in your own ideas.<br />
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Enjoy the beautiful weather!<br />
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See you Monday for the start of homecoming week...perhaps there will be some opportunities for rhetorical analysis in those dress up days...<br />
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