This week, as we continue to explore Maleeka Madison's life in the novel, The Skin I'm In, we will also be working on a project entitled MY IDEAL SCHOOL. Now that you've had seven years of school experience, you have a lot of credible thoughts to share regarding what makes a school successful, engaging, and worthwhile.
For this creative project, you will have the opportunity to create your own school schedule, a list of subjects that will be taught, and even the types of teachers who will work within your school! I hope you will use all of your wonderful insight in this creative endeavor as we continue to learn about Maleeka's inner-city school experience.
I am looking forward to a fantastic week!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Our First Full Length Novel of the Year...
I am so proud of all the work you have completed on our first formal essay, exploring logos, ethos, and pathos in a film of your choice. Now, we are moving on into our first full-length novel of the year.
This week, we will begin reading The Skin I'm In, by Sharon G. Flake. The novel takes place in an inner city school in New York, and cnters around the life of Maleeka Madison, a 7th grade student who is often taunted by her peers, and who seems to have almost no friends.
However, Maleeka will learn the power of her own voice and ideas in the face of huge obstacles.
In conjunction with our novel, we will be exploring some very powerful statistics throughout our unit. We will look at literacy and illiteracy rates, variation in welath, and poverty both in America and abroad.
I look forward to exploring these powerful ideas with you this week!
This week, we will begin reading The Skin I'm In, by Sharon G. Flake. The novel takes place in an inner city school in New York, and cnters around the life of Maleeka Madison, a 7th grade student who is often taunted by her peers, and who seems to have almost no friends.
However, Maleeka will learn the power of her own voice and ideas in the face of huge obstacles.
In conjunction with our novel, we will be exploring some very powerful statistics throughout our unit. We will look at literacy and illiteracy rates, variation in welath, and poverty both in America and abroad.
I look forward to exploring these powerful ideas with you this week!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Writing with Logos, Ethos, and Pathos
This upcoming week, we will be crafting our first formal essays of the year. We will analyze movies of all kinds--each choosing a movie of our choice--and examine how the Rhetorical Trinagle functions within that movie in order to "trick" us into believing its message.
Last week, we watched some powerful clips from the documentary, Tough Guise, and we questioned how certain stereotypes and cultural expectations are set up for boys and girls, and we also wondered about what kinds of dangerous messages we can glean from films and video games.
Now, we'll use logos, ethos, and pathos to try and unpack the movie of our choice, and find out what messages are reallybeing sent our way! Be ready to type, revise, type, revise, and then type and revise again.
I am confident that your final essays will be something of which you and I can both be proud!
Last week, we watched some powerful clips from the documentary, Tough Guise, and we questioned how certain stereotypes and cultural expectations are set up for boys and girls, and we also wondered about what kinds of dangerous messages we can glean from films and video games.
Now, we'll use logos, ethos, and pathos to try and unpack the movie of our choice, and find out what messages are reallybeing sent our way! Be ready to type, revise, type, revise, and then type and revise again.
I am confident that your final essays will be something of which you and I can both be proud!
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