Hour 1
• What have you learned about philosophy
and rhetoric?
I thought this was meant to
show you can do anything you
set your mind to.
This was meant to show that one
can do anything they set their mind
to.
Comma Splice!
I love eating cake, she loves
cookies.
I love eating cake; she loves
cookies.
I love cake: it is totally delicious.
I love eating cake, but she loves
cookies.
She and I love ice cream.
I really liked this book because....
This is an important piece of
literature because....
"He was on fire" (Hall
234).
Michael Hall's essay
"Running for his Life"
Their There are many problems in that part of the world.
There They're going together to the play.
They're Their dog barfed in the yard.
There is a place.
Their is possessive: Their belongs to them.
(heirs get money--it's theirs)
They're is a contraction: They are totally using two
words in one!
Apostrophes
Possession
Contractions
Eric's
gross toupee
they've
Haley's big hat
Chris' water
we're
The Chris's project
The Schwens' project.
Plural
The
toupee Eric found.
She likes to drink Pepsi's Pepsis
He likes to watch DVD's DVDs
Pineapple's for sale.
Pronoun Possession
Its motor fell out.
Their monkey ran away.
His dog puked in the yard.
I me you us
I think this was a very sad story.
This was a very sad story.
This story made me feel sad for Gilbert.
This story is meant to make the reader feel sorry
for Gilbert.
The essay shows us that we can always turn our
lives around.
The essay shows that people can always turn
their lives around.
The essay shows that one can always change his
or her life.
It shows that you can always change your life.
This shows that when you don't try hard, you will
fail.
It shows that one can always change his or her
The Impotence of Proofreading
Taylor Mali
Has this ever happened to you?
You work very horde on a paper for English clash
And then get a very glow raid (like a D or even a D=)
and all because you are the word¹s liverwurst spoiler.
Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence.
This is a problem that affects manly, manly students.
I myself was such a bed spiller once upon a term
that my English teacher in my sophomoric year,
Mrs. Myth, said I would never get into a good colleague.
And that¹s all I wanted, just to get into a good colleague.
Not just anal community colleague,
because I wouldn¹t be happy at anal community colleague.
I needed a place that would offer me intellectual simulation,
I really need to be challenged, challenged dentally.
I know this makes me sound like a stereo,
but I really wanted to go to an ivory legal collegue.
So I needed to improvement
or gone would be my dream of going to Harvard, Jail, or Prison
(in Prison, New Jersey).
Today’s Question
• What have you learned about philosophy
and rhetoric?
Wednesday’s Menu
• Discuss “What is Rhetoric?”
• Great Speech Assignment
– Select your speech tonight (off limit list)
– Outlining info tomorrow (due Tuesday)
– Start next Friday
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Audience
“Are Women Persons?”
Developmental Assets
"I Have a Dream“, August 28, 1963
– Compare to “Letter…Birmingham Jail”
– Imagery, Anaphora, Allusion, Word Choice, Figurative Language
– Annotation
• “We Shall Overcome”
– complete reading as homework
Not available
• Susan B Anthony, “On Women’s Right to
Vote”
• MLK, “I Have a Dream”
• LBJ, “We Shall Overcome”
• Barbara Jordan, “Statement on the Articles
of Impeachment”
• Reagan, “Challenger Tragedy”
• Nixon, “Checkers”