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Slake
Zenith
Pacifist
Bedlam
Prehensile

Friday

Today, we are going to finish reading, "The Ballot or the Bullet".  We will talk about hooks, conclusions, and dialectical journals.   On Monday, we will be to rehearse your orations, so you homework for this weekend: 1) Read chapter 5 of Malcolm X. 2) Make sure your oration is done.  3) Put your oration on notecards.  4) Finish the questions below.



Your assignment for the "Ballot or the Bullet" is as follows:

1) List at least one example of the following: Malcolm's use of ethos, logos, pathos.
2) What is the purpose of the speech?  How does Malcolm obtain that purpose?
3) Who is his audience?  How do you know this?
4) List at least one example of the following types of proof:

a) analogy/narration to back up his main idea
b) statistics
c) facts
d) expert witnesses

5) Does he have refutation of the opposing side?  If so, what is it?

6) List so structural devices and discuss their effect:

parallelism


short sentences


long sentences (types of long sentences)


7) What other things does Malcolm X use for effect?

dialectical journal instructions

The Dialectical Journal/Blog

Effective students have a habit of taking notes as they read. This note-taking can several forms: annotation, post it notes, character lists, idea clusters, and many others. One of the most effective strategies is called a dialectical journal. The word “dialectical” has numerous meanings, but the one most pertinent is the “art of critical examination into the truth of an opinion.” As you read, you are forming an opinion about what you are reading (or at least you are SUPPOSED to be forming an opinion). That opinion, however, needs to be based on the text – not just a feeling.. Therefore, all of your opinions need to begin with a text. To that end, you will need to create a dialectical journal as you read your outside reading novel. You will then use this journal to help you write your outside reading paper, and I will use it to gauge just how interactive you are with your novel. This journal will be included as a significant part of your paper – in fact, you will be unable to get anything higher than a low “B” without completing the journal, so take it seriously.

The procedure is as follows:

1. As you read, pay close attention to the text.

2. Whenever you encounter something of interest (this could be anything from an interesting turn of phrase to a character note), write down the word/phrase making sure that you NOTE THE PAGE NUMBER. If the phrase is especially long just write the first few words, use an ellipsis, then write the last few words.

3. Then WRITE YOUR OBSEVRATIONS ABOUT THE TEXT you noted or quoted.  Please separate this two things by a little space. You need to interact in detail with the text. Make sure that your observations are THOROUGH, INSIGHTFUL, and FOCUSED CLEARLY ON THE TEXT.

for examples see: 

http://shelbyap.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

http://brandycollegeenglish.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-02-25T22:40:00-08:00&max-results=7&start=7&by-date=false

http://collegeintroenglish.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

Peer review, consulting is the activity of seeking the help of a “fresh” reader and asking him or her to tell you what is good about a draft, what is questionable, and what definitely needs change and improvement.

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Write your whole name, or a nickname, and then jot down some ideas about it.  Are you named for someone?  Do you like your name?  Is there a funny story associated with you name, how it's pronounced, or how it's spelled?  Are there things you don't know about her name - why your parents gave it to you or what the word means?  Write those questions too.  Write quickly without stopping much to consider how you sound or where you're headed.  The idea is to get your initial thoughts on the page or screen where you can see them. 

Self-Review of Speeches

I want you to go through you essays and paragraph by paragraph record the following:

Number of sentences in the paragraph?

Types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex.   Note the number of each type.

Arrangement of sentences: loose, periodic, parallel, appositives, alliteration, others?

Any use of tropes: metaphor, simile, personification, irony, others?