September 27th

Tonight I was a little light on content. I should have taken more time to provide examples of pathos, logos and ethos. I will see how they do with their writing tonight and then if I need to add more to it next week, I can. They are working on the literary analysis essay which is a little more challenging. Hopefully, I won't have too many stories to read! At least I have the notes from last year's text so that will help. Editorial cartoons were helpful and I could tell they got the points from them.

Next week I am going to use advertisements for pathos, logos and ethos, claim and evidence. Maybe online ads?

September 27th

Tonight I was a little light on content. I should have taken more time to provide examples of pathos, logos and ethos. I will see how they do with their writing tonight and then if I need to add more to it next week, I can. They are working on the literary analysis essay which is a little more challenging. Hopefully, I won't have too many stories to read! At least I have the notes from last year's text so that will help. Editorial cartoons were helpful and I could tell they got the points from them.

Next week I am going to use advertisements for pathos, logos and ethos, claim and evidence. Maybe online ads?

September 20, 2016

I have been working on using more critical thinking skills to teach my class. Tonight we used "hat full of quotes" taken from the book Teaching for critical thinking by Stephen Brookfield. I had my students read "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and then selected 6 different quotes from the story and had students first write what they thought the quote symbolized or meant to them and then put them in groups based on their quotes. The quotes were random so the class was mixed up-they didn't get to sit with their friends or seat mate! It went well. I had them write one paper based on their discussion of the quote and its context with the story. It helped them gain more confidence in critical thinking and connecting literature. I will definitely do this activity again.

I have also been using more youtube videos. There are so many great videos to use with literature!