We look at your evidence questions. How about the sibling annotations?
I hand out print copies of the articles for annotation.
Time to annotate.
Get into groups (or not) and label points, support, evidence. Circle words you're not sure of. Write down questions and comments.
This annotated paper will be handed in with your Final Version.
I collect the daybooks.
Special add-ins: Notes for the long observation paper
Annotated sibling handout
Annotated letter re: The Tweet
Homework:
1. Continue to read and analyze the article. Your rough draft is due Wendesday. Remember, you are doing both summary and analysis. There will be some time for writing tomorrow.
2. TWFTD: pick a word from your article.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Critical Thinking
How did you define "critical thinking"? Groups discuss, compare graphics, agree on a definition, and put it on the board.
We look at pages 36 and 37.
You read pages 40-43. Answer these questions. You may work in groups if you wish.
1. List the four types of evidence discussed in detail.
2. In the "Types of Evidence" paragraph, it describes four other types of evidence that are not part of their current discussion. However, that list includes what I hope you will provide as support in a short five paragraph essay. What are they?
3. Give an example of a fact:
Give an example of a belief:
Give an example of an opinion:
4. Explain how "interpreting" a statistic is different from misleading with statistics.
5. Explain why an auto tech student's analysis of the Ford Mustang's design flaws should be more convincing than mine. {What other factors might interfere with his/her effectiveness?}
6. What are possible problems with "firsthand observations"? {aka anectodatal evidence}
What are the rhetorical appeals?
First of all, remember rhetoric?
Aristotle's Three Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Okay, let's hear it from someone else.
Now read pages 43-44.
After reading those pages, I want you to annotate the handout. It is a letter; label each paragraph with one of the three appeals. If any appeal is missing, note at the bottom why it is left out, and come up with an example of that appeal that could be added to the letter.
Homework:
1. Finish whatever of the above you did not finish in class.
2. Read pages 634-636 and 638-640 in Bedford. Decide which of these articles you will write the next long paper on. (It's up to you whether you write about one you agree with, or one you disagree with.)
2. TWFTD: retard in the OED: you must find out how long it has been used as an insult (in writing).
We look at pages 36 and 37.
You read pages 40-43. Answer these questions. You may work in groups if you wish.
1. List the four types of evidence discussed in detail.
2. In the "Types of Evidence" paragraph, it describes four other types of evidence that are not part of their current discussion. However, that list includes what I hope you will provide as support in a short five paragraph essay. What are they?
3. Give an example of a fact:
Give an example of a belief:
Give an example of an opinion:
4. Explain how "interpreting" a statistic is different from misleading with statistics.
5. Explain why an auto tech student's analysis of the Ford Mustang's design flaws should be more convincing than mine. {What other factors might interfere with his/her effectiveness?}
6. What are possible problems with "firsthand observations"? {aka anectodatal evidence}
What are the rhetorical appeals?
First of all, remember rhetoric?
Aristotle's Three Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Okay, let's hear it from someone else.
Now read pages 43-44.
After reading those pages, I want you to annotate the handout. It is a letter; label each paragraph with one of the three appeals. If any appeal is missing, note at the bottom why it is left out, and come up with an example of that appeal that could be added to the letter.
Homework:
1. Finish whatever of the above you did not finish in class.
2. Read pages 634-636 and 638-640 in Bedford. Decide which of these articles you will write the next long paper on. (It's up to you whether you write about one you agree with, or one you disagree with.)
2. TWFTD: retard in the OED: you must find out how long it has been used as an insult (in writing).
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Reading
Turn in your short essay on the utility of close observation.
I. We look at your sentences from yesterday. "Education is..."
II. Meet William Kamkwamba. Reading can change your life.
William Kamkwamba. first time at TED.
Now, William later.
His website.
III. What is critical reading? Find the answer on page 17.
Read pages 20-22 in Bedford under "Responding to Reading." Think about this.
Take the handout and annotate the reading on it. Make sure this is in your daybook for the next check. Use symbols; provide a key to those symbols. Show that you are analyzing the reading, and discovering its structure.
Homework:
1. Finish annotating the handout.
2. Google "critical thinking" and select "images". Choose one of the graphical representations that best matches your definition of critical thinking; either print it and add it to your daybook, or sketch it in to your daybook.
3. TWFTD: annotate
I. We look at your sentences from yesterday. "Education is..."
II. Meet William Kamkwamba. Reading can change your life.
William Kamkwamba. first time at TED.
Now, William later.
His website.
III. What is critical reading? Find the answer on page 17.
Read pages 20-22 in Bedford under "Responding to Reading." Think about this.
Take the handout and annotate the reading on it. Make sure this is in your daybook for the next check. Use symbols; provide a key to those symbols. Show that you are analyzing the reading, and discovering its structure.
Homework:
1. Finish annotating the handout.
2. Google "critical thinking" and select "images". Choose one of the graphical representations that best matches your definition of critical thinking; either print it and add it to your daybook, or sketch it in to your daybook.
3. TWFTD: annotate
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