Monday, October 7

Name Quiz (5-10 min)

Can you list the names of everyone in class? There are 20 students. Who are they? Write them down.

I’m going to ask some people to tell me the name of someone. I’m going to ask each of you. No shame if you don’t get it! But this is some practice so we know each other’s names.

Also:

Revision Plan (45-60 min)

Open up your review letter from your classmate. Open up the comments I left on your full literacy narrative draft.

Then, open up this Revision Tables handout to plan your revision.

If you can’t open a Microsoft Word document, open this Google Doc and MAKE A COPY for your own Google Drive. To make a copy, select “File” and then “select “Make a Copy.” Make sure to save it to a folder and give it a title to be able to find it again.

Look at prompt for Revision of Literacy Narrative!

This is for you, you don’t have to send it back to me but I’m going to check to make sure you are working on it each day (today and Oct 9) that you are working on it.

Since you will be reading your feedback closely, now is a great moment to ask me or your peer review partner for clarifications about what we meant!!

What is Rhetoric? (20 min)

Let’s look at some of your Reading Responses and try to connect them to the piece we read for today. Here are some examples from your writing that I wanted to talk through so we can talk more about rhetoric:

  • The fact that my brother could not understand what I was saying at first greatly confused me, because he is more religious than I am. This should have meant that he has the perfect lens to view the film from and see what I could see. [about brother not picking up on religious themes of creation in the film Mother!]
  • TV series song about a dying character in Avatar
  • Conversation with a bus driver who wouldn’t honor round trip ticket, possibly mad and prejudiced against a young couple
  • Texting styles and posts, length of time to response (especially romantic partners or prospects)
  • Niche video games, encouraging discussion by connecting to more mainstream ones. (about a journalist who challenges aliens who run the world, forcing humans to dance!)
  • asking friends to stop making fun of disabled people, especially hurtful because of family member who is disabled. Friends did not consider audience fully. (let alone the moral issue!)
  • to recenter away from emotional instability but also can be lazy answer to deflect. think of audience
  • expressing how felt hurt by friend constantly cancelling plans but told it wasn’t that deep to deflect. Ignores feelings of audience
  • discussing a play in soccer to get player and another player used it to deflect away from thinking more
  • when playing video games as a way not to try hard at it
  • being okay with being wrong about romantic prospects, two different perspectives
  • music of Squid Games to match theme of greed and negative effects of capitalism
  • discussing Kanye West’s albums, saying music is about enjoyment to deflect analyzing more about methods of making music
  • getting emotional and needing to be alone when your team loses, others not understanding and seeing it as not that deep (my wife does this to me all the time!)
  • watching the film Miracle in the Cell No. 7 about a father wrongfully imprisoned. About societal expectations, how people judge each other on appearances, and power of love. watched with family and father resisted efforts of film to make him cry, saying “it’s just a movie”
  • about getting courage to go up and talk to people you don’t know when starting at a new school
  • rejection from romantic prospect, others saying it wasn’t a big deal but it felt like a big deal. didn’t feel listened to even though they are, logically, right in grand scheme of things
  • caring for a trapped rat in a glue trap that other family members would not think twice about killing

Analysis vs. opinion. What is “it’s not that deep”?

Next Time

-Read “Tools for Analyzing Texts”

-Post at least 4 annotations for “Tools for Analyzing Texts”

-Complete your 10 minutes of weekly private writing. Here is the prompt: Talk about a person you met so far this semester who has really influenced you in some way (hopefully positive!). What did you learn from that encounter(s)? What further encounters with other people would you like to have? Who do you want to get to know? How will you get to know them? Clubs? Jobs? Classes? What’s your plan for meeting more people you can learn from and grow with? Write for at least 10 minutes.