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Senior English 10/7/13. What are the positives and negatives about reading articles and exchanging ideas online with French students? How do you feel about the project? Does England have a fourth of July?
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Senior English 10/7/13 • What are the positives and negatives about reading articles and exchanging ideas online with French students? How do you feel about the project? • Does England have a fourth of July? • Epizootic – describing a disease that is widespread in animals, as opposed to epidemics, which are human. Goals – Discuss the new project. Check the site. Get enrollment started. Homework – Get enrolled on the Wiki tonight. Points will be assigned. Don’t forget to begin study for vocab. 6 quiz on Friday.
Senior English 10/8/13 • What makes an article authoritative or credible? If not an article, what do you find most convincing? • What did the lawyer name her daughter? • Labtebricole – living in holes. Goals – Form groups. Resolve issues. Review Toulmin’s model. Use it to evaluate the articles. Begin analysis. If you have joined the site you may blog Homework – Get an informal blog completed and posted on the wiki.
Senior English 10/9/13 • Educational exchange can turn nations into people, ... Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology. – William Fullbright • What kind of jokes do vegetables like? • Mordacity – likely to bite, a biting quality. Goals – Check Dailies. Finalize sign ups. Collect permission forms. Read articles. Write your responses in a word document. Copy and paste into the wiki. Homework – Read the reactions of the French students and blog your own reactions to the article.
Senior English 10/10/13 • How do you know if an article is credible? How about a website? Why do you need to know? • Why do male deer need braces? • Petulcous – Butting like a ram. Overly aggressive. Goals – Change seating. Discuss reasons goals for evaluating the credibility of information sources. Homework – Find and print an article about a topic that interests you.
Senior English 10/11/13 • Five minutes to review for the vocabulary quiz #6. • Two flies are on a porch: which one is the actor? • Nacicornous – having a horn on the nose. Goals – Complete Vocab. Quiz #6. Discuss first level of evaluation based upon Toulmin’s Model. Homework – Find and print an article about the same topic that you chose last night but takes a different perspective.