Just Mine Now

Watch the video, The Price of Carbon , and identify the argument.  What is the main claim?  How does the video support it?  What evidence is provided?  How well does it do what it sets out to do?  Explain?  Just a little practice in analyzing argument. 

In an effort to cut down on paper, I'm posting this link here.  It may be helpful to add to your toolbox that we've been filling all year.  It's called Language Registers , which, in essence, describe different styles of writing, something that you might want to consider when working on writing rhetorical analysis, or even when writing your own creative nonfiction pieces such as the current one assigned that we will visit tomorrow: the rage essay. 

With grades due this week (I still have a way to go and must finish the essays at least), there will be no tutoring session after school on Monday, 3/11.  Tutoring will resume again next week. I plan to give a full multiple choice section this Tuesday after lunch while the 10th graders take the CAHSEE.  Please let your advisory teachers know in the morning.  If necessary, I will create a list of those of you who attend to give your advisory teachers. 

I'm still seeing problems with your journals.  The easiest fix needed is identifying each part specifically.  Also, there's no need for a separate page for your source ID.   What I'm still noticing in the analysis section is you are writing your own argument, pulling on information from the article you have chosen.  That is not the assignment.  That is what you will be doing when you write your researched argument.  You know, that long paper I've assigned? You're supposed to be looking at your chosen sources carefully; after doing so you should be writing an analysis of the argument presented in the source.  Begin with the author's main claim.  Think about whether or not it is supported well.  Look at the kinds of evidence used.  Are there any fallacies found in this evidence?  Is the evidence credible?  Does it support the main argument?  These are the kinds of things you should be using for your focus in this p...

Here's a link to that article I mentioned in class today should you want to read.  You might find it interesting - " The Country That Stopped Reading " which was posted in The New York Times today.   Maybe you'd like to share what you think about what is said. 

Here's a link to that wheel I showed in class today plus a few others.

Put in some extra practice at home.  Two tests can be found here online, each with two sections, reading skills and composing skills (multiple choice).  Granted they're identified as EPT (English Placement Test) but are comparable to the same types of questions for the EAP.  Try them out!