Students will be able to create data and warrants to support claims outlined within the extended text.
Announcements:
Many are having issues understanding what to do for the wiki space project. I will be creating a class wikispace. Each partnership should have a shared wikispace in which both can edit. Follow the directions spelled out in the outline and rubric. Everything is in there that I will be grading. When completed, post the link to your wikispace on my "class wikispace." That will allow me to go on and look at each partner site and it will allow others to be able to comment on them.
There are no more presentations for this project. Just work on the site and make sure to comment on each others.
Bellringer:
Dialog journals were to be filled out during this time.
Activity:
Read pages 97-108
Turn in dialog journals
Read/Write:
Students were to begin a new CDW chart. The prompt was provided and the students were to gather their data from the Amusing ourselves to death essay.
Here is the prompt: How does the author persuade us that the mediums of communication influence how we think, how we communicate, and thus, influence our culture?
If you notice, this is the thesis for this new paper and it also includes the three claims I want you to use. (half of your CDW is completed now) Students are to record the data that will support the three claims provided in the thesis and warrant them. Students were graded upon how much they were able to complete in class.
Activity:
Discussion on warranting. Warranting is where you get to explain the data you presented. Here are some tips to help you in your warrants:
1. Paraphrase or summarize the data/evidence in your own words.
2. What were the reasons for selecting this evidence for this claim? -So what?
3. What is the "if...then" relationship between the claim you make in your argument and the particular statistics, authoritative sources, anecdotes, etc. that you are using as evidence?
4.Is your "if...then" warrant one that would appeal to your readers?
Homework:
Continue on the CDW charts, catch up on the reading, continue on wikispace projects, update dialog journals.