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October 31, 2006
October 28, 2006
Cheap Food Nation
Cheap Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Sierra Magazine
See also:
A Tale of Two Immigrants
October 22, 2006
Rhetorical Analysis
According to Aristotle, rhetoric is "the ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion." He described three main forms of rhetoric: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. Your objective is to analyze a public document – speech, essay or editorial – for its use of rhetorical appeals.
1. First, learn about Rhetorical Analysis at the following sites:
The Rhetorical Triangle: Logos, Ethos and Pathos
The Forest of Rhetoric: Ethos - Logos - Pathos
2. Next, read a Rhetorical Analysis of Martin Luther King's “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
3. Highlight or underline logical, ethical and emotional language in a public document.
4. Finally, write a 250 word analysis based on a current political speech or essay using these Guidelines for Rhetorical Analysis.
- Use appropraite MLA citation of support from your source document, including works cited, and submit electronic copy of final essay to Turnitin.com.
Definitions:
Ethos (Appeal to character): Why should you believe the author? What research has the author done? What tone does the article have, and how does the author create it?
Logos (Appeal to logic): Which arguments make the most sense? What evidence does the argument offer?
Pathos (Appeal to emotion and values): What emotions does the article evoke? Which group or community does the article appeal to? What shared values does the author assume its readers have? What parts of the article seem like a call to action?
Newsweek Magazine "My Turn" Essays:
1. Browse the "My Turn" essays.
2. Choose one and print it off.
3. Read the article and complete both sides of the "Persuasion: Types of Appeals" handout.
4. Attach "My Turn" essay to handout and turn in at end of class.
Persuasion Handout and My Turn Questions
Defining Hip
For something that is by definition subjective, hip is astoundingly uniform across the population. It is the beatitude of Thelonious Monk at the piano, or the stoic brutality of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, performing songs of drugs and sadomasochism as a projector flashed Andy Warhol's films on their black turtlenecks. It is the flow of Jack Kerouac's "bop prosody" or Lenny Bruce's jazzed-out satire, or the rat-a-tat tattoo of James Ellroy's elevated pulp lit. Walt Whitman was hip; Lord Buckley was hip; Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is too hip for her own good. Hip is the way Miles Davis talked, dressed, played or just stood - and the way Bob Dylan, after his own style, followed in kind (though both men strayed into injudicious leather in the 1980s). The streets of Williamsburg in Brooklyn or Silver Lake in Los Angeles comprise a theme park in the key of hip. Its gaze is the knowing, raised eyebrow of Dawn Powell or Kim Gordon, bassist in the downtown band Sonic Youth - skeptical but not unkind.
From HIP: THE HISTORY, By John Leland
Newsweeek Sept 27, 2004
American Life in Poetry
American Life in Poetry provides newspapers and online publications with a free weekly column featuring contemporary American poems. The sole mission of this project is to promote poetry: America Life in Poetry seeks to create a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.
And at Poetry Daily:
If you asked what it is all about
I would say a field a green field
in the turning rows a killdeer
and after that barbed wire
the hedge with its cardinals
a blacktop then another field
From United States by Rodney Jones
October 20, 2006
Katrina Cottage
October 19, 2006
The Real Hollister
The real Hollister, California, setting for the Marlon Brando film, The Wild One.
October 16, 2006
Writing the College Essay
University of Virginia - Sound Advice from an Expert
Princetons Review - An Insider's Tips on College Essays
CollegeBoard.com - College Essay Writing Tips
USNews.com - Writing a Winning Essay
4 years - 25,000 miles
October 11, 2006
One Laptop per Child
Introducing 2B1, the children's laptop from One Laptop per Child, a potent learning tool created expressly for the world's poorest children living in its most remote environments. 2B1 was designed collaboratively by experts from both academia and industry, bringing to bear both extraordinary talent and many decades of collective field experience in every aspect of this non-profit humanitarian project. The result is a unique harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra low-cost, power-efficient, responsive, and durable machine with which nations of the emerging world can leapfrog decades of development, immediately transforming the content and quality of their children's learning.
U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren
By JOHN MARKOFF
NYTimes October 11, 2006
Will This Laptop Save the World? Pt. I, Part II and Part III
MIT Technology Review
November 2006
October 10, 2006
English 11 Media Center Activities
English 11 Online Literature Textbook:
1. Go to ClassZone eServices
2. Login or Register.
3. Go to page p. 150 in the online text and read "History Clashes with Commercialism".
4. As you read, click on the Your Turn links and answer the questions.
Newsweek Magazine "My Turn" Essays:
1. Browse the "My Turn" essays.
2. Choose one and print it off.
3. Read the article and complete both sides of the "Persuasion: Types of Appeals" handout.
4. Attach "My Turn" essay to handout and turn in at end of class.
Persuasion Handout and My Turn Questions
When finished, review Vocabulary Words to Know for quiz tomorrow.
October 07, 2006
20 Most Important Tools
From dawn to dusk, humans rely on tools to get us through the day. And from the beginning of civilization, we've used them to build and shape our world. In order to celebrate these devices, and so we might reflect upon the ways that we are the tools we use, Forbes.com decided to compile a list of the 20 most important tools of all time. These are the tools that have most impacted human civilization and helped move the course of history.
October 06, 2006
National Geographic World Music
October 05, 2006
Remembering Ivan Illich
Remembering Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich at the Preservation Institute
Reflections on a seminal cultural critic/intellectual gadfly, by Carl Mitcham, Peter Warshall, Jerry Brown, Vijaya Nagarajan, Lee Swenson, David Cayley, and Lee Hoinacki
From Whole Earth: Access to Tools, Ideas and Practices
Low Carbon Living
I’ve thought pro-green thoughts and occasionally even done pro-green things. I’ve run the dishwasher and washer-dryer only with full loads. I’ve recycled, as ordered, though like every New Yorker I’ve ever met, I suspect the system does more good for our feelings than for the environment. I’ve shaved while showering, although I can’t remember anymore whether that’s a good or a bad thing. From The Energy Diet By Andrew Postman NYTimes Octoberr 5, 2006
NativeEnergy supports Native American, farmer-owned, and charitable purpose renewable energy projects that create social, economic, and environmental benefits. Native Americans and farmers traditionally care for and care about the environment because they are also very dependent on the gifts of the Earth for their survival. They are seeking a way to build their economies and their communities. Learn More about global warming science and anticipated climate changes,
October 04, 2006
The Millennium Clock
"I think of the oak beams in the ceiling of College Hall at New College, Oxford. Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?"
- Danny Hillis at the The Long Now Foundation
Stewart Brand, President of the Long Foundation
Elephants Jumping (and Filmerman Jamal)
How do you teach an elepahnt to jump on a trampoline? From Cube
October 03, 2006
Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac
Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac
Sherwood Anderson's Birthday - September 13, 2004
Son of Citation Machine
Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.