Waiting for Superman, Day 2: April 26, 2017

Focus: What do we need to understand about public education in the United States?

1. Warming up with a large-class collection of your ethos, logos, and pathos observations

2. Watching the second half of Waiting for Superman with your documentary tracking notes

3. Concluding by investigating what this documentary helped us understand better or differently about American public education;: Returning to your Waiting for Superman pre-writing questions and turning them into post-writing questions

HW:
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus for TOMORROW. Remember that you may earn up to 30 points per syllabus:

• 20 points for a thoughtful, meaningful syllabus that is ready to go before class begins.
• 10 points for clear and thorough discussion notes on the syllabus.
• Click HERE to see a 1st semester sample with student discussion notes and my feedback.

2. If you did not complete your documentary tracking notes or your post-writing questions, you need to complete them by Friday; this when I will collect/evaluate them.

3. Practice your 1-minute speech for Friday. Click here for the topics. Remember that the first two rows are focusing on pathos, the second two rows are focusing on ethos, and the third two rows are focusing on logos.