Thursday, April 25th

Student develops a position supported with coherent claims, counterclaims, evidence, and analysis of evidence. Student selects evidence, etc. based on knowledge of audience.


As a listener, student understands essential meaning of an oral text and can demonstrate that understanding.  As a speaker, student effectively conveys essential meaning through an oral text.


Announcements: 

• Article of the Week:  Privileged by Kyle Korver 
• Blog Post #5 due on Friday. 
• Book Club meeting Tuesday, April 30th 
  • ​American Street--EL
  • ​A Wide Expanse of Sea--LL

1. Book Talk & Reading

• Blog Post Rhetorical or Literary Analysis 
  • ​Most important line & WHY OR
    
  • Writing move & WHY OR 
    
  • An analysis/response to Kyle Korver Text 
    

2. Discuss "Privileged"

• Topic
  
• Writer's Moves  

3. Sentence connectors (3rd) 

• THAMO (or Conjunctive Adverbs). 

4. Mastery Arguments ​

• Start with topics & formats
  • ​Go back to Writing Territories.  What arguments are in there?  
    • ​Ms. Feliks demo. 
• ​​Possible formats for arguments
  • ​3 quick write topics and formats. 
  • ​Discuss and develop paper topics. 
  • Possible organization for paper.