Daily Annoucements
I post here daily about what we accomplished in class each day, including handouts and links available to students on my CANVAS site.
Monday, 3/5
Semester 2, Day 28 (Only 1st period had independent reading time at the beginning of class because 3rd and 4th are playing catch up for time lost last week to ACT testing, etc.) Today, we evaluated the arguments between Oedipus and Teiresias in Scene I of Oedipus Rex. First, students conducted a silent debate to summarize the arguments between the two men (1st period finished the silent debate last week). Then, they evaluated the relative strengths and weaknesses of the points made. I then introduced the concepts of rhetoric, rhetorical appeals, and the three main appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos (more from Aristotle). The class watched a short video (see above), about the use of these appeals in persuasive speech, took notes on the three appeals, and then applied those to the argument in Scene I. Tomorrow when they read Scene II, they will repeat this process to evaluate the argument between Oedipus and Creon. Finally, I introduced the topic of our final ACES paragraph by asking them to read and annotate (using a graphic organizer) an article about a modern day tragic hero. I had three articles about Joe Paterno, Lance Armstrong, and Oscar Pistorius available for them to choose from, but they could also research and find their own article about a different example (some they mentioned were Bernie Madoff, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and Robin Williams). Tonight, they should read the article and complete the graphic organizer with examples of each of the tragic hero characteristics they find.
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