Thursday, September 28, 2017

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Agenda:
  • Argument Question
    • review AP Q3
  • Rhetoric: documentary film as a tool to analyze techniques
    • An Inconvenient Truth
Homework
  • Finish vocabulary and study for spelling test #3
  • CEJ #6
  • AIT analysis essay

Today in class we started off with an excerpt from Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, in which he talked about the United States' current social status. He claimed that the US was a country with many backgrounds, and although there was a lot of diversity, the social aspect of the States worked together like oiled gears. He idealized the States and described them in the way that the Americans wished it to be, rather than how it really was. The general response was as follows:
As people of diverse ethnic backgrounds, the class disagreed with his second point on how there were little to no issues between the racial, ethnic, ranking, and gender splits within the society. All of us have lived in the US for all or most of our lives and have seen first-hand how the society really is. On the other hand, Paine is a born Englishman who simply supported the split of the Colonies from England; he is not very credible in the matter of how life in America is.

After completing that prompt, we moved on to the documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth. We finished watching the first half hour, while filling out our charts on the use of pathos, logos, and ethos through the visual and auditory tracks. 

Our homework was to study for the weekly spelling test (#3), complete the weekly CEJ (#6), and write an analysis essay on Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". 

-Sumaya Naji 

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