Welcome to Class
Announcements:
• No quiz today (you will earn your 2 points by being on time)
• Turn in your projects and any revisions in the folder.
• Submit to the create writing magazine by March 19th.
• Transfer fair on April 14th.
Where are we in the course?
Personal
Narrative
• take-home essay
• communicate a
message about a
personal
experience
• Using narrative
details to show
experience
Argument
Essay 1
Argument
Essay 2
Final Exam
• take-home
essay
• take-home essay
• in-class essay
• make a claim
• make a claim
• Support with
personal
experience AND
other author’s
claims
• Support with
personal
experience AND
at least 2 specific
author’s claims
(including practice exam)
• make a claim
• support with
what you know
and have
experienced
Argument Essay Phase 1
argument essays make a main claim that is specific and complex
support that main claim with paragraphs that provide supporting
claims (reasons)
support those reasons with specific evidence with what you have
experienced and what you already know (from this class, other classes,
things you have read etc)
Argument Essay Phase 2
Incorporate other author’s ideas in order to support and/or clarify our claims
Summarize the text (tell what it is mostly about)
the author’s main claim to decide what it is has to do with your claim
Paraphrase sections (put them in your own words)
in order to understand them or use them as evidence
Quote (use the author’s exact words)
• specific parts as evidence which you then explain/analyze
• Cite those authors using MLA in-text citation
Syllabus Updates
Date
In-Class
3/15
Summary and Close Reading Intro
1) Summarize different types of text using key terms and main points
2) Begin close reading to analyze points
3/22
Summary, Close-Reading, Response: Fromm “Obedience”
1) Summarize exam text main claim using key terms and points
2) Closely read sections (paraphrase quotes in order to analyze and explain them)
3) Consider how our claims relate to Fromm’s claims
3/29
Paraphrasing and Quoting in Paragraphs
1) Write paragraphs that make claims and use the author’s quotes or paraphrased points as
support
Spring Break 
Summary Practice
Write everything you did yesterday.
Now what you did in 1 sentence.
When have we already used summary (synthesis) this semester?
Summary
What is it?
The text’s main claim, point, message (depending on the genre).
Why do we do it?
Think they say/I say—you need to know an argument before you can
argue/support it
Knowing the main claim will help you understand the other points
How do we do it?
Think about key terms and points. How do they relate to one another?
What do all the key points have in common?
Watch video clip
Write down notes to answer:
1) What is the main claim Milgram is making from the experiment
results?
2) What are the main reasons he draws these conclusions?
3) What question is Milgram trying to answer with this experiment?
Responding to Milgram
How would you answer Milgram’s question (what claim would you
make)?
Why (what reasons would you give)?
What evidence do you have to support that claim (from Milgram’s
experiment, class lessons, personal experience)?
Patriotism
What is it?
Close Reading
When we examine a small section and read a lot of meaning.
When we read a text for the explicit (what is says) and implicit meanings (what
it implies but does not state directly).
Quote
Define key terms
Paraphrase (Put in your
own words)
Analyze: What is implied
in this statement but not
directly stated? What
does it make you think?
What questions do you
have?
Close Reading
Quote
“The Patriot Act” (1)
“Allows law enforcement
to use surveillance against
more crimes of terror.” (1)
Define key terms
Paraphrase: put it in
your own words
Analyze: What is implied in
this statement but not
directly stated? What does
it make you think? What
questions do you have?
Patriotism
What is it?
Summarize the Patriot Act
Key terms/points
How do they relate? What do they have in common?
What is the text mostly about?
Is it making an argument or is the claim implied?
Patriotism
What does patriotism have to do with freedom?
What does patriotism have to do with obedience?
Background on Fromm
Psychologist writing for other psychologists (explains some of the examples that he
uses)
Fromm lived through the first World War as a Jewish young man (may explain some
of his feelings/ideas about obedience)
This is a theory text: he makes a claim that he is arguing can be applied to many
different situations
- Makes reading difficult b/c it seems abstract
- You have to bring the real life examples/situations where it could apply
- Like King, uses evidence from a variety of fields (literature, psychology, Greek
mythology, philosophy, religion)
For Next Time (don’t pack up yet…)
* Visitor next week
Fromm essay
 Study guide
 You will be in charge of explaining an additional term
Luther
Sigmund Freud
The Enlightenment period
Andolf Eichman
minority and majority
Antigone
capacity
Soviet Union and Atomic Age The State (not a region of land like the 50
Prometheus
states)
virtue and vice