Tuesday, 1/29/13: Grammar and RD

* Open

* Lost Tools Lesson 3
  • Review definition in seven steps: paper pages 27-28.  Let's consider Creon:
    1. State the subject or term:
    2. Groups:
    3. Most helpful group:
    4. Other members of this group:
    5. Shared characteristics, properties, etc. of this group:
    6. What makes our subject or term different than others:
    7. Define:
  • Review exordium
    • Questions, statistics, joke, anecdote, quote 
  • Elocution: Basic Editing: Verbs
    • Oral review on paper pages 33-34
    • Notes
      • Passive verb
        • The ball was hit by Jim.
      • Vague verb
        • He does stuff that bothers things.   
      • Clichéd verbs
  • Peer edit
HW:
  • (Schwager) Work in your draft
  • (Reno) Due tomorrow
    • Turn one of the Five Key Questions (below) into a statement. Then pick a character that is relevant to that issue. 
      • Make an ANI chart that explores whether or not the character should or should not have done something that is relevant to that statement

       
       Five Key Questions:
    1. ·         Is the safety and protection of a city more important than the basic rights of its citizens?
    2. ·         Does loyalty to one’s family outweigh loyalty to one’s country, when the two are in conflict?
    3. ·         How much control should the government have over its citizens?
    4. ·         What happens when government law conflicts with religious law or moral law?
    5. ·         When is civil disobedience the right course of action?
     

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