Think of all the new language generated thanks to the booming digital age. Just a few years ago the words "blog", "blogging", and "blogger" would have been meaningless letters. Why that word? Where did it come from? How did it come to mean personally-published internet journal?
What other new words have been coined and added to our daily lexicon? Where did they come from? Use your best guess or do some research!
Let's make our own new words as well!
HOMEWORK: Read Climate change articles in textbook, pages 862-887; take brief notes for use on Wednesday's quiz
Monday, March 16, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Sustainability
What is it? For those of you who attended the field trip, explain your experience for your classmates. What did you learn?
EXTRA CREDIT: Create a photo essay from your experience at ASU. Just like an actual essay, be sure your photo essay has an intro, body, and conclusion. You can include a few key words, quotes, or info in order to clarify your message.
EXTRA CREDIT: Create a photo essay from your experience at ASU. Just like an actual essay, be sure your photo essay has an intro, body, and conclusion. You can include a few key words, quotes, or info in order to clarify your message.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Pen Pals
Check this out--I've added a new blog to our blog list. It's Mr. Russoniello's third grade class--your pen pals! We're going to attempt some cross-grade level interaction and technology. We've posted a topic on his blog--and you ALL get to respond to it.
Audience is everything--your responses will be read by third graders and their PARENTS. Your responses need to reflect that audience. Unfortunately even the most clever innuendo, no matter how brilliant or classy, will not be appropriate.
This is is your chance to really mentor and model your incredible English composition skills for an audience that will be influenced by what you write. For this reason, use spell check, capitals, punctuation--all that fancy stuff. My blog window has spell check available--the comment window does not. Please COPY and PASTE your responses from Word into the comment box so you can ensure the quality of your writing. It also never hurts to reread and revise on your own (like what you're doing with your Supersize Me essays). Also be sure to indicate To: and From: within comment
BTW--Revised drafts of rhetorical analysis, 2-3 pages, typed, double-space, MLA format due on Moday, March 2. Extra Credit field trip to Global Water facility on Wednesday, March 4 at 3:00 pm--transportation on your own
Audience is everything--your responses will be read by third graders and their PARENTS. Your responses need to reflect that audience. Unfortunately even the most clever innuendo, no matter how brilliant or classy, will not be appropriate.
This is is your chance to really mentor and model your incredible English composition skills for an audience that will be influenced by what you write. For this reason, use spell check, capitals, punctuation--all that fancy stuff. My blog window has spell check available--the comment window does not. Please COPY and PASTE your responses from Word into the comment box so you can ensure the quality of your writing. It also never hurts to reread and revise on your own (like what you're doing with your Supersize Me essays). Also be sure to indicate To: and From: within comment
BTW--Revised drafts of rhetorical analysis, 2-3 pages, typed, double-space, MLA format due on Moday, March 2. Extra Credit field trip to Global Water facility on Wednesday, March 4 at 3:00 pm--transportation on your own
Monday, February 23, 2009
Supersize Me Rhetorical Analysis
Rhetoric: the art of effective communication (writing and speaking)
Analysis:
1. the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis ).
2. this process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its essential features and their relations: the grammatical analysis of a sentence.
3. a presentation, usually in writing, of the results of this process: The paper published an analysis of the political situation. [Thank YOU www.dictionary.com!]
Assignment: Is Morgan Spurlock's argument convincing? Analyze and discuss how Spurlock uses rhetorical elements to make (or break) his point.
Remember: rhetorical elements (i.e. speaker, message, audience, appeals, etc.)
Analysis:
1. the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis ).
2. this process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its essential features and their relations: the grammatical analysis of a sentence.
3. a presentation, usually in writing, of the results of this process: The paper published an analysis of the political situation. [Thank YOU www.dictionary.com!]
Assignment: Is Morgan Spurlock's argument convincing? Analyze and discuss how Spurlock uses rhetorical elements to make (or break) his point.
Remember: rhetorical elements (i.e. speaker, message, audience, appeals, etc.)
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