Day 11 - Feb.12th - MLA formatting and Arguments in Movies
Today, I gave back the Focus Essays that students had written last week. This gave me the opportunity to talk about what they should do and whould not do when studying literature. As I had noticed that most of them still did not know how to use MLA, I briefly went over in-text citations and Works Cited Pages.
After making sure there was no more question, we worked on Theme 2: Man in his Environment. Students had to read Civil Disobedience by HD. Thoreau. After several questions regarding the reading itseld: How Thoreau describes "action"? What happened to him: he interprets his action (analyzing why he did this and claiming for a better government, he eventually turns this action (his own personal move) back into action (asking the action -on an individual scale to be turned into a larger scale, calling his fellow men to follow him.) We then analyzed how to call men to action, Thoreau not only called for facts, and appealed to conscience, but also called men to be men - we then started a discussion on Thoreau possibly attacking masculinity.
I then showed students the first 20 minutes of Al Gore's movie, an Inconvenient Truth. This movie presents a strong argument, supported by facts and strong pieces of evidence. Using a handout, students follow the movie and write down what they believe is the claim, the warrants, etc... used by Al Gore.
Next time: students will need to write a movie-response paper. and we will watch the second part of the movie.
After making sure there was no more question, we worked on Theme 2: Man in his Environment. Students had to read Civil Disobedience by HD. Thoreau. After several questions regarding the reading itseld: How Thoreau describes "action"? What happened to him: he interprets his action (analyzing why he did this and claiming for a better government, he eventually turns this action (his own personal move) back into action (asking the action -on an individual scale to be turned into a larger scale, calling his fellow men to follow him.) We then analyzed how to call men to action, Thoreau not only called for facts, and appealed to conscience, but also called men to be men - we then started a discussion on Thoreau possibly attacking masculinity.
I then showed students the first 20 minutes of Al Gore's movie, an Inconvenient Truth. This movie presents a strong argument, supported by facts and strong pieces of evidence. Using a handout, students follow the movie and write down what they believe is the claim, the warrants, etc... used by Al Gore.
Next time: students will need to write a movie-response paper. and we will watch the second part of the movie.
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