Book Clubbing, Day 5: May 11, 2017

Focus: What should we understand better or differently?

1. Warming up with your gifts

2. Identifying, analyzing, and evaluating Finding Joe's rhetoric; please turn in your tracking sheets for the final time!

3. Book clubbing, Day 5!

4. Wrapping up with success tickets

HW:
1. Finish your book and final syllabus for Tuesday.

2. ALL MAKE-UP WORK, REVISED WORK, ETC. DUE BY 3:00 PM ON FRIDAY, MAY 19.

3. We will be working on final speeches tomorrow.

Finding Joe, Day 2: May 10, 2017

Focus: What are your gifts? How can you offer your gifts to the world?

1. Warming up by finding the gold underneath

2. Finishing Finding Joe

3. Wrapping up with your post-viewing questions and small-group discussions to identify, analyze, and evaluate the film's rhetoric (if time allows)

HW:
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus for tomorrow.

2. Start thinking about your final speech; we will be working on it on Friday.

Finding Joe, Day 1: May 9, 2017

Focus: What does Finding Joe want us to understand better or differently about ourselves?

1. Warming up with your previewing questions for Finding Joe    (10 minutes)

2. Watching the first half of Finding Joe with a focus on the one rhetorical appeal you haven't studied yet

3. Wrapping up with a three-minute return to your questions

HW:
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus for Thursday.

2. On Friday, you and your book club will start preparing your final speech.

Book Clubbing, Day 4: May 8, 2017

Focus: What does your book club author want you to understand better or differently?

1. Warming up with three good things!

2. Spending 15-20 minutes of quality time with your book / audiobook

3. Enjoying Book Clubs, Day 4! I will be checking out your syllabi from afar.

4. Wrapping up with your success tickets and thinking about what you need to do for Thursday

HW:
1. Assigned book club reading/syllabus for Thursday.

2. Start researching your book club final speech; in addition to your book, you will need to research at least three other reliable sources that offer important information about the issue you're taking on.

3. I need to get all Gatsby books checked in by Wednesday, May 10. 

Stand Up, Speak, and Field Questions: May 5, 2017

Focus: How do I help an audience to think better or differently about something?

1. Warming up with post-viewing responses to Blackfish

2. Analyzing and evaluating Blackfish in a 20-minute Socratic seminar; turning in tracking sheets

3. Giving one-minute speeches to other students who share your rhetorical appeal; following up with one-minute panel discussions

• As you listen, think of (and possibly jot down) 1-2 questions to ask of the speaker that relate directly to the speech. The tone of your questions should match the tone of the speech.

4. Reflecting on your second one-minute speech with the American Lit speech rubric

HW:
Assigned book club syllabus and reading for MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY.

For students with school-issued Chromebooks:

1. You will only need your Chromebook for this class if you need it to prepare your speech. You will otherwise not need it on the last day of class nor during finals.
2. Please turn in your Chromebook as early as possible based on your needs for other finals.
3. If your Chromebook is damaged or lost, come see us before finals week.
4. You now turn in your Chromebook to the library, not to your English teacher.

Book Clubbing Day 3: May the Fourth Be With You!

Focus: What do your book club authors want you to understand better or differently?

Tribe: Slightly shortened class

1. Warming up with our book club wins and losses; also, an announcement about documentary #3

2. Book Clubbing, Day 3: What larger patterns are starting to emerge? What tensions are on the rise? Any shifts yet?

3. Exiting with your success tickets

HW:
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus for MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY (not Tuesday). 

*BIG SWITCH-A-ROO FOR NEXT WEEK: We will have a book club meeting on Monday, May 8, and then two documentary days in a row on Tuesday and Wednesday. You will have 15-20 minutes of reading time on Monday.*

2. Bring your documentary tracking sheet to class tomorrow; write me a note if you'd like me to regrade your Waiting for Superman section.

3. Prepare your new one-minute speech with your new rhetorical appeal tomorrow. Click here for the topics. There will be a twist...stay tuned.

For students with school-issued Chromebooks:

1. You will only need your Chromebook for this class if you need it to prepare your speech. You will otherwise not need it on the last day of class nor during finals.
2. Please turn in your Chromebook as early as possible based on your needs for other finals.
3. If your Chromebook is damaged or lost, come see us before finals week.
4. You now turn in your Chromebook to the library, not to your English teacher.

Blackfish, Day 2: May 3, 2017

Focus: What does Blackfish want us to understand better or differently, and how does it use rhetoric to persuade us?

PLC: Shortened Class

1. Warming up with the big questions:

• Whom does Blackfish want us to blame for Dawn's death?

• How does the film use logos, pathos, and ethos to persuade us?

2. Viewing the end of Pathos

Note to self: Start around minute 45:40, then skip from 57:30 to 1:06 (the Loro Parque scene)

HW:
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus for tomorrow. 

*BIG SWITCH-A-ROO FOR NEXT WEEK: We will have a book club meeting on Monday, May 8, and then two documentary days in a row on Tuesday and Wednesday.*

2. Bring your documentary tracking sheet to class on Friday; write me a note if you'd like me to regrade your Waiting for Superman section.

3. Prepare your new one-minute speech with your new rhetorical appeal this Friday. Click here for the topics. There will be a twist...stay tuned.

For students with school-issued Chromebooks:

1. You will only need your Chromebook for this class if you need it to prepare your speech. You will otherwise not need it on the last day of class nor during finals.
2. Please turn in your Chromebook as early as possible based on your needs for other finals.
3. If your Chromebook is damaged or lost, come see us before finals week.
4. You now turn in your Chromebook to the library, not to your English teacher.