Agenda:

Friday:

• homework check for the 10 sentences with parallel structure (Ch. 26) – review
• discussion of the Pro-article
• go over the essay assignment

Thursday

• homework check for #1 – 11 the Con article – discussion
• read a pro-stance article #3 in under the Assignments heading in the RED TAB – discuss
• introduction to the essay documents

Agenda

Wednesday

• quick homework check for #1 – 8 (sets of 4)
  • work on the Con-article questions (#1 – 11) during the homework check
• We will go over the parallelism and discuss the next activity (the 10 sentences that are not parallel) in Ch. 26 doc – this is due Friday, Sept 15
• Finish the questions for the Con-article – due tomorrow (Thursday, Sept 14)

Tuesday

• discuss the assignment: the what and the how of it (the document is on the red tab)
• Intro to parallelism – first part is due tomorrow (document is in the Writing and Grammar tab)
• review the rhetorical strategies in the two Ted Talks (see docs in the red tab)
• read an article – do the questions

Agenda:

Today is a shortened schedule day:

• Homework check for the Annotations on the AI Ted Talks assignment- we will discuss this today
• please play either of the following English Language enrichment games during the homework check:
  • Free Rice
  • Bean Bean game
• Introduction to other forms of Rhetoric and Parallelism (documents for this are in the Writing and Grammar Tab of the blog)