February 28

Critique of Academy Awards presenters Anne Hathaway and James Franco. The writer says the two young hosts did a good job in the "Inception" film clips; they didn't do as well in front of the live audience.

The papers you are writing are also critiquing--rather than critiquing people's performances, you're critiquing a reading. Today we focused on analyzing logos, pathos, and ethos; and analyzing Purpose and Audience.

If you weren't in class (10 points),
1) please read A&B pp. 404-406 ("Paintball") and write answers to questions 2-4 on p. 407;
2) please analyze the "Audience and Purpose" of these four readings: "Paintball," "Shadow Scholar," "When Nice," and "We Do Abortions Here." If you don't have a copy of "Abortions," please see me for a copy of the first two pages.

February 17

Auntie Beth Grammar Songs (affect/effect and a lot)

Homework due (Chapter 6 Take-Home Quiz)

Summary/Strong Response Essay
Anticipation Guide--"Nice"
"When Nice Ain't So Nice" by Eloise Bell--skim; then read "with the grain" to get the gist; annotate in the margins while reading; read again at home. If you were absent, you should see me to get a copy of this essay.

Significant Event Paper REVISIONS due Friday, Feb. 18

If you wish to revise your SE Paper, first read my Google Docs comments and my green Grading Rubric comments for revision ideas. Be aware that I don't mark all errors/problems that I see but only enough to give you an idea of the kinds of issues you should take a look at. You should take the initiative to carefully reread the entire paper and improve it. As you make changes to your paper, please highlight those changes with the Google Docs highlight feature.

To send me revisions of your SE Paper to look at (with the hope of recovering some points), please write me an email at pharline@alpine.k12.ut.us and in the email provide me with the link to your Google Docs paper. You can do this by copying and pasting the URL from the Google Docs page. In the email message, please give me an idea of what changes you made to the paper.

Homework Assignment due February 17 (24 points)

Starting February 17, we will be working on "reading rhetorically." The first step is to carefully read A&B Chapter 6 (up to the middle of page 129) and complete this Chapter 6 Take-Home Quiz on your own. Since the PGHS Copy Center has been down, you will need to print this assignment from the link I've given you. Set aside at least an hour to do this assignment.

Document Design Presentations

During your presentation, I will be using the Significant Event Paper rubric, the Document Design section, to score your work: type fonts; space and layout (which includes contrast and layout); color; graphics and images. If you want to read parts (or all) of your story, great, but that's not what I'm grading.

If you aren't ready for your presentation, you'll receive a 0.

Schedule

Wednesday, February 9
Tucker
Audrey
Jennie
Ben
Kim
Brittney
Christie
Tamela
Anna

Friday, February 11
Marie
Courtney
Skyler
Brandon
Ryan
Corbin
Nate

Tuesday, February 15
Jillian
Taylor
Colter
Carson
Adrienne
Robyn
Jason
Cayden