Monday, December 4th:
Don’t forget the last paragraph of your essay:
The restated thesis statement
The three main facts you covered in your essay
A final summation of your conclusion based on your evidence
Submit your introductory paragraph to the introductory inbox on schoology.
Submit your first body paragraph to the first body paragraph inbox on schoology.
Submit your second body paragraph to the second body paragraph inbox on schoology.
Submit your third body paragraph to the third body paragraph inbox on schoology.
Finally, submit your concluding paragraph to the concluding paragraph inbox on
schoology.
This is your first draft.
I am going to correct your rough draft paragraphs.
Then you are going to correct the rough draft and submit your final draft in the final draft inbox.
The rough draft paragraphs are due tomorrow, December 5th.
The final draft will be due on Monday, December 11th. Please submit your final draft to the final box inbox.
Grammar: Kinds of Clauses
A clause is a group of words that contain a verb and its subject, and is a part of a sentence.
A subordinate clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone.
Elena is studying astronomy, and she wants to be an astronaut. Use a conjunction!
Fanboys – for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Elena is studying astronomy; she wants to be an astronaut.
Elena is studying astronomy; however, she wants to be an astronaut.
Can the following stand alone?
If the fog lifts – No!
When the show begins – No!
Whom we have met before – No!
They need independent clauses to express a complete thought!
1. Egypt is most likely where the first postal system developed. Subordinate
2. Postal systems were developed because ancient governments needed to relay messages. Independent
Tuesday, December 5th:
Showed 9 minute documentary
on Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Went over questions about
the video
Discussion
Passed out “Ain’t I a
Woman?”
Watched part of Cicily
Tyson’s “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Wednesday, December 6th:
The
setting for Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” was 1851 in Akron, Ohio for
the Women’s Conventions
Watch Cicily Tyson perform Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"
Students now analyze the text:
What
was the argument at the convention?
Women’s
suffrage – or the right of women to vote!
Nadiya:
One of the arguments used to oppose women’s right to vote was that women were
not smart enough!
One
of the main arguments against giving women the right to vote was that women had
to be taken care of.
Alondra
– Women were not strong enough and therefore could not and should not vote.
What
was Sojourner Truth’s counter argument against that?
A
man was saying that women had to be helped into carriages.
A
man was saying that women had to be lifted over ditches and mud puddles.
What
was Sojourner Truth’s argument to that?
Nobody
helped her into a carriage or carried her over mud puddles – and ain’t she a
woman?
Sojourner
Truth showed her arms and her muscles to prove how strong she was; she got her
strength and her muscles by plowing fields, which was considered men’s work -
tough hard labor.
Thursday, December 7th:
One
man argued that women couldn’t have equal rights because Christ wasn’t a woman.
Sojourner
Truth’s argument was:
Lizbeth
L.: Christ was made from God and a woman – and man had nothing to do with it!
“Gathered
into barns” – what does that mean?
Yessenia:
she would harvest the fields and fill the barn with the harvest.
“And
no man could head me?” -
Hilaryd
– no man could best her or out work her
“I
could eat as much as a man – when I could get it!” Lizbeth L. – this implies
that she didn’t always get enough food to eat.
“Bear
the lash” – states that Sojourner Truth was beaten and bore the beating as well
as any man. “And ain’t I a woman?”
“I
have borne thirteen children, and seen them most all sold off to slavery, and
when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a
woman?”
This
proves that she was emotionally strong.
Intellect
is intelligence. The capacity of
reasoning, understanding, and thinking.
What
does Sojourner Truth argue regarding women’s intelligence?
If
a man has a quart of smarts and a woman has a pint of smarts, then isn’t it
mean for a man to “not to let me have my little measure-full.” Why am I not
allowed to use my brains? Why am I denied an education to develop whatever intelligence I have?
If
the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down –
who is she speaking of?
Eve!
What
did Eve do?
She
wanted knowledge!!!!
Pathos
has to do with emotion!
Watched
a Sarah McLaughlin commercial for the ASPCA for emotional appeal.
Friday, December 8th:
Please finish and submit your rough draft paragraphs to the
assignment boxes on schoology.
The final draft will be due on Tuesday.
The final will be your original speech based on Sojourner
Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman.”
Watched video showing overview of Pathos, Ethos, and Logos
Showed commercials depicting:
Pathos: ASPCA commercials
Logos: “How to Save Water”
Ethos: Lebron James and Nike
Discussion
Pathos is an argument that appeals to feelings or emotions
Logos is an argument that appeals to logic
Because it is using evidence, charts, graphs, etc.
Ethos is an argument that persuades by the character and
credibility of the speaker
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