Welcome to my English 2010 page. In this class I will be honing my skills in rhetoric and language analysis. Rhetoric is not argumentation or debate of a specific topic but understanding how a speaker trying to persuade and tailor his point to those whom he is trying to influence. I am looking forward to having a greater understanding of how others speech tries to influence me and vice versa.
Below is my Flash memoir. I have to say it was a challenge to stay within the 500 word limit. I felt like I could have written a whole book about my many passion for education.
Notebook Prompts:
Write two lists entitled "What I Know"
and "What I Don't Know” about my issue. Develop a list of possible
resources that you could help you explore what you “know” and find
answers to what you “don’t know” about your issue.
Write
down five statements from your research (sources). then write some commentary
that responds to, or challenges, or embroiders upon, or adds to, or offers a
bit of relevant information that's missing--or any other kind of
commentary--for each statement.
Collect several images that interest you, related in some way to your issue
(the relevance can be tangential, as long as you feel it). then write something
that connects the images, one to another. You can think of your connections as
a story (one thing connected to the next), or as a web (everything
cross-connected), or as a square, with two sets of opposites, or as a circle
(ideas leading back to the place you started).
Write a letter to one of your sources or to a politician whose ideas you
disagree with. Explain, respectfully, why you disagree with their ideas.
Explain your own ideas. Discuss where you think compromises could/should be
made between you and the audience for your letter.
