Schedule and Homework for February 14-18

Monday: Read, Annotate, and Questions for “Barriers to Seeing." For Homework: Do the Writing Assignment.
Tuesday: Peer Edit Essays. For Homework: Clean Copy of Essay.
Wednesday: AP EXAM PRACTICE
Thursday: Read, Annotate and Questions for “On Photography.” For Homework: Nothing!
Friday: CANDLELIGHT Work. For Homework: NOTHING!!!!!

EXTRA CREDIT FOR THIS WEEK

In yesterday's Estadao, there is an article on Gilberto Gil (in the CULTURA section). The article describes synthesis. Read the article and then write a paragraph explaining what you learned about the process of synthesis by reading this article.

Schedule and Homework for February 7-11

Monday (7th) Peer Edit Rhetorical Analysis; Homework for Tuesday (8th)-Read and Annotate: Orwell on Politics and Language (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm)...Be prepared to discuss it in class on Tuesday. (you may annotate electronically and send it to my email OR print it and annotate)
Tuesday (8th): Discuss the Orwell Essay; For Thursday (10th)-Practice Multiple Choice Section.
Thursday (10th): Go over Multiple Choice Section; Homework for Friday (11th)-Become familiar with the fallacies listed on this site: (http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html)
Friday (11th): Classroom activity to review fallacies

ACCEPTABLE SITES FOR BLOG ENTRIES

Current Events
Please read at least one current event article from the following websites and write a two paragraph summary looking at the way the author used language to communicate his/her message. Was he/she effective? What devices did he/she use?

THESE SITES WILL CONTINUE TO BE ACCEPTABLE:
http://www.salon.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.economist.com/
http://www.theatlantic.com/
http://harpers.org/

YOU MAY ALSO FIND ARTICLES IN THE FOLLOWING SITES:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/
http://www.newyorker.com/
http://www.slate.com/
http://www.theonion.com/

C.

Then comment on at least two posts from other people.