Writing Warmup:
In Wednesday's and Thursday's classes, we spent a lot of time discussing introduction paragraphs for your essays. In order to analyze the argument you picked, you need to assume your reader knows nothing so that you, the writer, can clearly explain your topic to them.
This got me to thinking: what do you think you know about the topics you picked for your essays? Is there anything you're unsure of? Is there anything you want to know more about?
In the comments section below, answer the following questions.
1) What do you think you know about your topic?
2) What puzzles (confuses) you about your topic?
3) What do you want to know about your topic?
When you are finished, be ready to discuss your answers with the class. Also be ready to share your intro paragraphs with the class.
1.) What I think I know about my topic is pro-choice is you have the choice to do whatever you feel is the best. Also pro- life means you are completely against it.
ReplyDelete2.) Nothing really confuses me about my topic.
3.) Something I want to know about my topic is how many people are actually pro-life and pro- choice. Also how many abortions happen in a single day.
1) I know that pro-choice is when women can choose what they want to do, and pro-life is when there are no abortions and women don't have a choice.
ReplyDelete2) Nothing really puzzles me about my topic.
3) I would like to know about how many people are pro-choice and how many people are pro-life.
1) I think I know that technology and the internet are making some people feel alone, because they aren't actually socializing face to face.
ReplyDelete2) Something that confuses me about my topic is how many people feel the same way about technology.
3) I want to know how people know that technology is the actual reason they feel this way.
My topic is: how young is too young to have a cellphone?
ReplyDelete1. I think that I know everything that needs to be clarified and thought about before children should have a cellphone. For example, I know that parents should have rules set for their children, and that kids should know what is right and wrong.
2. Something that confuses me about my topic is how many parents actually think about what they are getting their child into, and how many actually sit down with their child and talk about everything they need to know (rules). Other than that, nothing confuses me.
3. I want to know if having a cellphone at such a young age will effect them in any way in the future.
1. I think I know most the stuff about the topic because it is about the school system being terrible and I think it is terrible too.
ReplyDelete2. The little stuff that is confusing is the stuff talking about how it was back in the day cause obviously I wasn't around then.
3. One thing i want to know about my topic is that is why schools don't try to change and make it a better place to be for a kid that wasn't born to be a professor or assembly line worker.
1.) I know that there are a lot of different opinions on the new grading vs the old school grading, some are good and some are bad. I also know what my opinion is on it.
ReplyDelete2.) I am confused about what made people think they needed to change to a new grading system from what I knew I thought the old system was just fine.
3.) I want to know if the new grading is going to happen everywhere and what people are going to think about it when it is everywhere.
1. I think I know that the school system is very flawed and isn't really helping kids improve and pursue what they want to be learning.
ReplyDelete2. I am puzzled why there isn't any authority to make changes to schools in ways that Prince ea explains. Im puzzled how the people in charge don't want to make changes because its how its always been and its not important enough, when it should be important.
3. I want to know if the school system will ever be rebuilt for young peoples advantage or if high school will remain the same forever.
1. I know basically Tom Brady's full story from his college years at Michigan University through his whole career with the patriots.
ReplyDelete2. I am only confused about the other side of the argument, how people can think he is not very good when there is plenty of facts and statistics to prove he is the best of all time.
3. I want to know more about his first couple years in the NFL, when he wasn't a big star yet and just trying to prove himself to the patriots and the football league.
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ReplyDelete1. If you find what kids are interested in and give them a chance to learn more about what they care about they will be more intuned and pay attention.
ReplyDelete2. I am confused on how lobsters themselves are "keeping kids in school"
3. I want to know more about what courses or class this school is offering.
1. What I think I know about my topic is that, any form of sexual assault is completely and utterly wrong no matter what. Doesn't matter if you're a professional football, basketball player, swimmer and so on... Brock Turner was wrong to assault the women who might've been in an intoxicated state of mind and didn't realize how she was acting was going to effect this man in the way it did. He might've thought, well, she's flirting with me, dancing with me maybe she would be okay with another step.
ReplyDelete2. What I don't understand about this whole case is how it went on for so long, how someone could make up numerous stories and have law officials believe him just because he was a great swimmer at Stanford who was planning on competing in the olympics, how does that overrule the proof the women was presenting?
3. First, I would love to be able to figure out who the victim is, it would make this whole situation a lot easier to understand. However, the victim is older than Brock Turner, basically that's all we're told besides her being known as the "unconscious intoxicated women".