Goal for the day:
We’re starting today with more of President Obama’s speech. We’ll start at roughly 15:00 and go until 22:30. Notice how he acknowledges both sides of the Ferguson debate to give himself authority and then uses the authority he gains from this rhetorical device to bolster the American public and tell us what we can do. This is a great way to get the audience on his side. Then he turns the argument toward the Voting Rights Act itself and calls for Congress to strengthen it. He does this with 100 members of Congress in the audience, a shrewd move. This is the most political part of his speech. The way he frames the issue makes it difficult to disagree with him. We’ll pick more of this up tomorrow.
The rest of the day is work time. Your senior project goal is to draft out your three paragraphs for the deep reading assignment. You should also be moving on today to a second article to actively read with notes, the worksheet, or your own system to absorb the material
Homework due Friday, March 13th
Finish anything you need to for economics or senior project. Work on your visual for senior project exhibition.
- Write your three paragraphs for your Deep Reading assignment
- Read through a second article
We’re starting today with more of President Obama’s speech. We’ll start at roughly 15:00 and go until 22:30. Notice how he acknowledges both sides of the Ferguson debate to give himself authority and then uses the authority he gains from this rhetorical device to bolster the American public and tell us what we can do. This is a great way to get the audience on his side. Then he turns the argument toward the Voting Rights Act itself and calls for Congress to strengthen it. He does this with 100 members of Congress in the audience, a shrewd move. This is the most political part of his speech. The way he frames the issue makes it difficult to disagree with him. We’ll pick more of this up tomorrow.
The rest of the day is work time. Your senior project goal is to draft out your three paragraphs for the deep reading assignment. You should also be moving on today to a second article to actively read with notes, the worksheet, or your own system to absorb the material
Homework due Friday, March 13th
Finish anything you need to for economics or senior project. Work on your visual for senior project exhibition.