Persuasive essay grading has begun!

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"Acting" out your persuasive speech

Today we discussed adding symbolic cues to your speech note cards in order to practice our "performance."  Because your audience are so visually oriented, and not often paying attention, we need to pull out all the stops, and our note cards need to remind us of the visual and verbal "exclamation marks" that we add into our speech.

Homework:

• Add 10 symbols to your cards - Mon.
• Visual elements are due - Mon.
• Vocab quiz due Friday

Listening

Studies have shown that immediately after listening to a 10-minute oral presentation, the average listener has heard, understood and retained 50 percent of what was said.
Within 48 hours, that drops off another 50 percent to a final level of 25 percent efficiency.

"...An experiment conducted with the cooperation of Minneapolis teachers from first grade through high school. Each teacher involved was asked to interrupt classes and suddenly ask pupils 'what were you thinking about?' or 'what was I talking about?'
Results were discouraging but informative. The answers of first and second graders showed that more than 90 percent were listening. Percentages dropped in higher grades. In junior high school classes, only 44 percent of the students were listening. In high school classes, the average dropped to 28 percent."

http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=CM150

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New Vocab List Flash Cards

Extreme-Challenge (Honors) List
Super-Challenge (College Prep.) List
Challenge (Freshmen English) List

Another way to download these is to search for creator cmsteacherstowell in your iPod.

Remember:  You are responsible for knowing

• spelling of the word
• part of speech
• definition
• example sentence

 The quiz is in the same format as usual:  I'll give you the sentence or definition, you give me the correctly spelled word and part of speech.

Conclusion Paragraph

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The Persuasive Due Date Approacheth!

Hi kids,

All week we have been typing out our persuasive essays in class, part by part.  Today we go over the conclusion paragraph.  The bench-mark for the end of class is to have that paragraph typed and finish any rebuttal(s).  So, this means that by Monday you will be expected to have a FULL typed essay.

It's important that you do, since Monday we will be peer-editing, and it will be your last chance to get as many pairs of eyes on it as possible before you turn it in.

Reminders:  Don't throw away your sources!   Some of you have been forgetting/procrastinating on the easy-bib citations...catch up!  You will be turning in a works cited page with your essay.

Final due date for the essay, for EVERYONE is on Tuesday.

The Rebuttal

Today we talked about the two ways you can incorporate a rebuttal into your persuasive essay.  There is a handout you received in class today explaining the two options.  Option 1 (the easy one) is below.  It has your rebuttal as a separate paragraph that you can put anywhere after the intro paragraph, and before the conclusion paragraph.

 Below is option 2.  Instead of having a rebuttal paragraph, you have two separate rebuttal statements that you insert into two of your body paragraphs.  This is much more difficult because each of those rebuttal statements have to relate to the topic of the paragraph you place it.  You really have to write the paragraph first, and then try to see how someone would argue with it.



Homework:  Either a draft of your intro paragraph or your rebuttal paragraph is due Monday.



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Some of the paper wasted so far...

Let's be more careful of what we print!


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Universal Statement

Today we discussed how a universal statement enhances your argument, and acts as a bridge to your thesis statement.  Make sure you get the handout!  Tomorrow we work on the rebuttal paragraph.

Homework:  Don't forget that your note taking sheet is due tomorrow.

Taking Notes and Outlines

This week we are taking notes on the information we gathered the week before vacation.  On Wednesday, you also got copies of the outlines.  For the Challenge version, there is also a template you can download and fill in the blanks.

Challenge Template
Challenge Outline
Super-Challenge Outline
Extreme-Challenge Outline

Homework:  You completed Note-Taking Sheet is due Friday.