Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Wednesday, Nov. 4, Defense of the Jury QUIZ, Persuasive Essay GuidelinesThe Road Not Taken

Objective: Test your knowledge of the jury system and what you learned regarding author's claim, emotional and logical appeals, opposing arguments and vocabulary used in the article, Defense of the Jury. We will then review steps to writing a persuasive essay. Finally, we will read A Road Not Taken and determine its relevence in the unit.

Warm-Up

Pencils out. Textbooks out. Notebooks away.

You have 15 minutes to review and take notes on Defense of the Jury. Use the paper I give you. I am going to allow you to use these notes during the quiz. I will collect these notes with the quiz.

1. QUIZ

2. Review steps to writing a great persuasive essay (power point).

3. Give out essay topics. Review nd discuss.

4. the Road not Taken - page holt text.

HW - review persuasive essay topic list. Research some of the topics you are interested in and choose two. Write a paragraph with your "claim" and why you want to write about this topic. What do you want to persuade your readers to do by writing about this topic?

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