Tuesday - September 7, 2010

Class Work


1. Take a look at your paper. Did you include:


A. dialogue?


B. vivid description?


C. a message? (What's your point?)


D. a quotation from one of the articles in the book?


E. a quotation from one of the students in our class?


F. a quotation from one of the "found" articles?


G. correct MLA formatting?


H. Works Cited page?

2. Trade papers with someone in the room who has a paper. Use the Narration Revision Checklist and check off all that is included in your partner's paper. (Handout)


3. Look back at your own paper. What do you need to do to make your paper perfect? (List on post-it)

4. Looking at MLA formatting, in-text citations, and the Works Cited page. (pp. 540+ in Between Worlds) We will be taking a look at a sample MLA research paper beginning on p. 524.

5. In your "Body Art" paper, you must give credit to your sources within the text.

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Advertising techniques: Ads try to convince us to part with our money. Persuasive writing attempts to convince readers to part with their ideas.

Strategies:
1. Bandwagon
2. Humor
3. Star Struck
4. Plain Folks
5. Penny Pincher
6. Health appeal
7. Wealth
8. Youth appeal
9. Numbers game
10. Expert opinion/scientific study
11. Patriotism
12. One-0f-a-kind
13. New and improved
14. others?????


Task: Work with a partner and locate three magazine ads. Figure out what techniques are used. Be prepared to share.

Task #2: Compare and contrast two web sites that sell the same product. What techniques are used? What interactive features are employed? What impact do the visuals have? Which site provides the best information? Which site is the best . . . why?

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This ended up being the homework. We will discusson Thursday.

"What's Love Got to Do with It?" - Dating then and now.

Think/talk about it:

1. Talk about your first date.
2. Talk about your best date.
3. Talk about your worst date.
4. What was dating like for your grandmother or grandfather? What was dating like for your mother or father? What is/was dating like for you? What is the same? What has changed?

Read: "Modern Romance" by Celeste Biever p. 51 in Between Worlds and "Virtual Love" by Meghan Daum p. 56 and "Boy Friend: Between Those Two Words, a Guy Can Get Crushed" by Libby Copeland p. 45 in the same book. At your table, discuss the "Thinking about the Text" questions following each selection. Appoint a recorder to write down the responses to submit for the group.



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Learn the formatting for comparison/contrast essays.

Homework

1. Complete the final copy of the "Body Art" paper.

2. Read the articles in the links below if we did not get to them in class.

3. Ask at least three people you know what their opinion is of on-line dating vs. face-to-face dating. What are the pros and cons of each? Bring your information to class.














Sites related to on-line dating
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=71190&tsp=1





http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/top-10-cities-online-dating/story?id=11544294 (ABC News article



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27294186/ (MSNBC: "Is technology spawning new dating disasters?")



http://www.safeteens.com/2009/12/08/technology-and-teen-dating-abuse/ (Technology and Teen Dating Abuse)



http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/comparison.htm (Comparison/contrast guicelines)