Hard Work or Making Mistakes

Turn in your Rhetorical Analysis papers.

Then you check yesterday's exercise.

Then you have time to type up your five paragraph essay about either the benefits of hard work or making mistakes.

If you need to, you may finish it to hand in on Monday.

Short Essay Day

First of all, when you use subordination, you create dependent clauses.

Do Ex. 30.19 on pages 59-60 in the Everyday Writer exercise book.

Now. Have you heard of  TED?  We watch this.   What is Mike Rowe's point?  What did he get wrong?  What does he want to do?

So, in the interest of helping him, write a one page freewrite on the topic of the benefits of hard work.  He uses the phrase, the "forgotten benefits" of hard work.  Who should you imagine for an audience?  In addition, you can consider the importance of "getting things wrong." What then?

Homework:

1.  Proofread and prepare the final version of your Rhetorical Analysis.

2.  Think about the prompt and be ready to type and hand in a short essay on the prompt tomorrow by the end of class. Fill one page in your daybook prewriting on this topic.

Draft #2 Rhetorical Analysis

I hand back your informative paper.  You write about it in your daybook.


Homework:

1.  Make changes and improvements to your draft.  The final version is due Friday.  Edit carefully!

Shared In-Class Essay

Read the prompt carefully.  CAREFULLY.

Write. 

Homework:

1.  Prepare Draft #2 for tomorrow.

Propaganda and Effective Writing

First of all, review sentence variety.  Subordination and coordination. Put ex. 24.3 in your daybook.

Why rhetorical analysis?  What about these?    

Let's look at pathos vs. logos.

And what about this?

Then let's talk about mawwage.

All go buy a bluebook for tomorrow.

Homework:

1.  Work on Draft #2 for Wednesday.

2.  Buy a bluebook for tomorrow.