Food Fight!
Read Food Fight by Gahan Wilson beginning on page 675 of your books.
Look up and define anthropomorphized.
Blog questions 2, 4, 5, and 6 and be prepared to discuss all of them.
Tomorrow you will have the opportunity to put into practice some of what we’ve been working on the last couple of days.
The Mirror of Her Dreams
For those of you who may have forgotten, tonight is a night for making up missing work before the grace period runs out 
tomorrow.
Also, if you are a creative individual and have poetry, short stories, photography, art, etc that you would like to showcase in the Figh High School’s very own Mirror Magazine, then turn your submissions in to me, the box in the library, or mirrormagazine@hotmail.com.
Silence and the Notion of the Commons
Tonight read Silence and the Notion of the Commons by Ursula Franklin found on page 641 of your books. (How come no one ever names their daughters Ursula anymore? Maybe if Charlie ever gets a sister…) Take a look at the questions and the type of things they ask. Construct a multiple choice question of the depth we have seen so far (perhaps use the questions as a starting point). Your question should include a stem (the question part) and five (a-e) choices. Make your distractors reasonable so it is not too easy. If this proves difficult, just do your best. We will be doing a group activity in class on Tuesday that will hopefully alleviate any confusion you may have about this as well as familiarize yourself more intimately with the inner workings of an AP multiple choice question. You’ve all answered enough multiple choice questions in your lives that I’m pretty confident you’ll do well.
That assertive angel
For your homework, blog your response to the following prompt:
Assertion Journal: The Angel in the House
Defend, challenge, or qualify the following assertion noting the complexity of the issue and acknowledging any possible objections to your point of view: the angel in the house is dead and no longer lives in the imaginations of either women or men.
Remember to explain the assertion, provide support for your position, and address the counterargument. Responses should be 250-350 words.
Angel in the House
After reading Virginia Woolf’s “Professions for Women” answer the following questions on your blog:
p 360 Discussion question # 3
p 361 Rhetoric and Style questions 4 and 9
Second Period: Please remember to bring in stuffed animals. The drive runs through April 30th, but the sooner we get our contribution in, the better.
Bears!!!!
Don’t forget
to bring a stuffed animal for traumatized kids. It really is a good cause.
Light homework…No complaining!
All right, as stated in class, your homework tonight is to finish reading “Why Don’t We Complain?” by William F. Buckley Jr.
Remember to blog the questions on “The Future of Happiness” you created in your groups along with the ones you did last night.
Rephrasing the question
The results of our question analysis in class today are below. Your task is to write new questions that require the same or very similar skills to answer based on the Future of Happiness text we read over the weekend. If you haven’t read it, please do so. Homework then is to blog questions for 1-3. We’ll finish 4 and 5 up tomorrow in class. That does not mean you don’t have to do 1-3 tonight.
- Identify something in the text; Analyze text/diction in context for meaning
- Explain an assertion; identify his argument; evaluate his techniques
- Analyze how diction reveals his bias/attitude
- Identify a relationship (between elements of a text); analyze par. 6 for pros & Cons then create/synthesize an ideal relationship
- Analyze the effect of a ref. to a person; evaluate how convincing his argument is; identify an effective rhetorical move or propose one that would make the argument better
Oh, and please make an effort to work better in groups during class. Some of you do well, others waste time prodigiously.
Controlling the Message
You may find this article interesting, given the paper we just finished on the influence of television.
Extra Credit?!
Write up an argument analysis with an eye to establishing its foolproof construction or its downfall. I will give extra credit for a well-done analysis (whoo hoo!). If you don’t want the extra credit, just watch the video for your own interest in his argument. If you do want to try for extra credit, blog your analysis by the end of the week.
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This video was made by another amazing University of Puget Sound alumnus.
Don’t forget to scroll down for your actual assignment!
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