December 9, 2019

Periods 1 and 2:
The focus of today's class is to work on explaining the importance of the evidence you choose/chose for your letter to an authority.

Here are the SLIDES that will help you through today.

You should be finished drafting your letter by the time you walk in on Wednesday (for writing response groups).

Periods 3 and 4:
We began the class by watching the TED Talk: "Why Student Journalists Should Be Protected From Censorship." This represents source four on your note chart. You should take notes, reflect, and include a rhetorical precis for this source.

For the remainder of the period (and for tomorrow), you were to select ONE article found in this folder covering the topic of censorship in the international community. Again, the directions are the same: take notes, reflect, and include a rhetorical precis for this source.

Period 6:
For today's class, we learned about rhetorical precis.

Here is the link to the document that you will need to copy/paste into your notebook. This document, if you were absent, was used to notice and note what happened in each of the four parts of a rhetorical precis. When finished with the inquiry, you will write your own precis at the bottom of the document.