Class Twenty-Four
Journal:
Re-read the final page of your paper: What are you taking away from this draft in terms of your understanding of your own culture and the other culture you considered? Be concise.
Class Discussion
Hand In Paper
When you go home for Thanksgiving, you are almost certainly going to run into someone who asks you what it is you have been learning at school this semester. Because of this, I thought it might be helpful for us to go over or “re-cap” the course content we have covered so far this semester.
We’ve spent a lot of time this semester talking about the writing process and cultural traditions. This has involved three major papers so far: a cultural analysis essay, and adaptation essay, and a cultural comparison essay.
As we have worked on these papers, we have taken on certain topics and concepts that have led us to:
- Envision and practice writing as a process
- Understand that good writing requires multiple drafts
- Understand that writing well requires a certain measure of independence
- Understand that writing well requires you to constantly edit to avoid major errors in grammar, structure, coherence, and cohesion
Along the way this semester, we have been taking up various cultural issues, and thinking about the ways in which our own cultures are unique and shape our worldviews.
Recently, we have considered Rhetoric, and the concepts of Pathos and Ethos and how they relate to rhetoric. I thought that for today we would put that to use by thinking about Thanksgiving Day Survival Strategies!
How do we talk to “The Thanksgiving People” about school and what we are doing at school?
Journal Article, using the concept of Rhetoric and your understanding of Pathos and Ethos, I want you to describe to me how – and importantly why – you will talk about school with two different people or groups you are likely to encounter during your Thanksgiving break. It is perfectly fine for you to note that you may not say very much to a given person about your experiences, but you need to lay out an explanation for why that is the case if you do.
Group Discussion
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Class Discussion
Now, as you are going away for a few days, I want to give you something to be excited about for when you return, and that is the concept of Logos, which is perhaps the most important part of rhetoric, at least as far as most educated people are concerned.
Let’s open our book to the section on Logos;
New Concept: Logos!
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