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