There were no handouts for today.
IN CLASS TODAY:
Today, we began with a review of the first five words from unit 6 and added five more: effigy, equity, inane, indictment, and indubitable.We then brought out our sheets observing classroom behavior from other classes, and in small groups, I had you complete the following statements based on your own observations and conjectures:
In classes, girl students tend to ______________________, while boy students tend to _______________. This is because ___________________________________. Meanwhile, male teachers tend to ___________________________, while female teachers tend to _______________________.
We then reconvened as a group to start picking apart Katha Pollitt's essay, looking at her major premises. We went back and looked at Tannen's essay, revisiting her major premises.
Pollitt says the major differences between genders are created by society and we should move past them. Deborah Tannen says our major differences are hard-wired and we should cater to them. What are their biases? The strengths and weaknesses of their arguments? You've done your own observations, enough to form an opinion of your own. What do you think? What are your biases?
The purposes of reading these two essay were:
- To start practicing assessing arguments and analyzing the parts of them.
- To engage you to the point of having an opinion of your own.
Incidentally, American Heritage Dictionary defines "doll" as follows:
doll (dŏl): n. A child's usually small toy having the likeness of a human.
CLASS NOTES:
No class notes for today.
HOMEWORK: - Read Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" in your Essays book. List ALL of the major premises (stated or enthymemes) you can find on a separate piece of paper and bring it with you to class.
- Review the unit 7 of Sentence Diagramming.
- Bring your vocabulary book with you to class Monday.
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