Research Progress Check / POL Tone Analysis

Your time in the lab today is dedicated to research and possibly tone analysis of one of your POL poems. 

RESEARCH:

By the end of the period, be prepared to share with me your notes document of compiled research.  As mentioned in the previous post, there should be "good evidence" of critical reading of sources, as well as a broad reading of sources.  The target I gave you for required sources was 6-10.  Somewhere in that slot should suffice for full credit on this project check, but only if the selected material you've pulled out has been meaningfully culled through and IS NOT merely a collection of unedited chunks of paragraphs or entire pages that have been cut and pasted from the articles.  I'll also be looking for the bibliographic citation for each source in your notes page.  And I'll also be looking for research that covers the opposition's point of view on your debatable question.

If you feel you're done with your research, try to find a pattern to the research.  What are the major categories and points of argumentation that have come across in your research that could use as the body framework for your speech/persuasive argument?  2-4 major sections, if well supported, should be plenty for this 3-5 minute speech.  Much more than that and you're going to run into trouble making the time limit and/or end up just listing off facts and stats.

POL: 

For class tomorrow you will submit a tone map analysis of your poem for credit. 

In a Word/Google document, create a tone map template for your own poem like the one we used for Jenny Kissed Me.  Remember that your entire poem should be accounted for in the tone map.  Feel free to add as many rows to the template as necessary.    

Section	Tone
Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in;	Fond reminiscence with tinges of being amused, affectionate
Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, Put that in!	Still amused (now by Time, rather than by Jenny), but growing a little wary, a little scornful Disdainful
Say I’m weary, Say I’m sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I’m growing old,	Candid, a little sad Lightly or playfully regretful

But add, Jenny kissed me,

Rallying, insistent Marveling, contented

When you're done, take your map and put it into a simple paragraph narrative.  Remember:  your poem will, without a dobut, have a dominant tone, but there should be shifts within it that give you as the reciter something to work with.  The map above (and the one you do for your poem) is the basis for this.  Give a shot.  To be clear, I want this turned in tomorrow as a hard copy, including a copy of your poem.  This is not a blog entry.

Speech Guidelines, POL, etc.

Our plan in the lab today is twofold: continue work on speech research AND select a couple of poems to use for the POL in class competition.

By the end of the period, compose a blog entry on your blog that has the following:

1. Your revised (if necessary) topic and debatable question AND a list of 10 subtopic questions for your topic/question (no answers necessary)
2. Links to at least two poems you've selected form the POL website.

SPEECH: For the speech, I'd like you to humor me a little by composing a list of 10 subtopic questions based on your topic and debatable question. This shouldn't take you long. As a step in the research process, it tricks you into thinking about your argument and how to proceed with finding the support for it. Rather than the yes/no debatable question, subtopic questions are very open ended and can't be answered with simple yes/no statements. They require specifics. They are the answer to the who, what, why, when, and how of your topic. Once you've completed these. Go and find the answers to them.

If you haven't already started compiling a notes page in a Word/Google document, you should start doing that today. On Wednesday (01/11) I'll be spot checking at the end of class for evidence of your critical reading of the sources in the form of cut and pasted snippets AND bibliographic citations for each source you draw from. Remembering, with your final draft of the speech you will submit a MLA Bibliography/Works Cited. For this project I'm requiring 6-10 sources. You should focus most of your research attention on SIRS, Issues and Controversies, and Opposing Viewpoints. I'll allow for more no more than 2 "free web" sources. Just so you know, on Tuesday of next week (01/17) we'll be work shopping the rough drafts of our speeches and possibly doing some small group practice with these.

POETRY OUT LOUD: Go to the POL website and find a couple of poems that you'd be comfortable developing oral recitations of. There are lots of ways to sort the poems. Remember about the assessment criteria as you make your selections. In the blog entry for this part of the assignment, link to your two poems by title. Bring hard copies of these poems to class on Tuesday and Thursday.

Lunch break en route to Ashland

Taking care of business on our magnet field trip to watch Shakespeare at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.

Caesar Take Home Exam Pre-Write

We've worked through the better part of 3 sets of sentence errors that mimic the format you saw on the PSAT and will see on the SAT. Now it's time to apply your new found understanding of the rules we've reviewed by drafting your response to the Caesar Take Home Exam.

As you work on your responses, consult the rubric and be sure to strive for the cleanest possible mechanical and grammatical piece you can write. That is ONE of the elements of a successful response in this sort of a prompt. Remember, the prompts, format, and rubric you see on this assignment are VERY similar to what you'll see in AP Lit. (possibly AP Lang.) in the coming years.

TODAY'S TASK: Create a new blog entry on your blog and start drafting a response to 1 of the 3 questions on the exam.

For those of you choosing question #3, make sure that you focus your response based on one of the three prompt suggestions: a defense, challenge, or qualification of the prompt. To be clear, a defense is where you support the proposition/premise of the prompt (the ends justify the means); a challenge is where you argue against it; a qualification is where you say something like, "Yes/No, but only if ..."

Your due date for the final on this will be roughly 2 weeks from now, right around the time we complete and show the videos.

Writing the Literature Review!

So we've sampled the literature through the annotation process, taken notes, etc., now it's time to put it together in a lit review.

This is not very different from the other formal academic writing you've done in the past. You'll have an intro with a thesis, a body of support (made up of the predetermined categories of HO, CTP, CD, etc.), and a concluding section. This is, really, the first half of your larger research paper.

That being the case, you should make some sort of reference to your project. You have several options for this: you can do it in the intro/thesis; you can do it as part of the analysis/concluding thoughts in your body paragraphs; you can do it in the conclusion; you can do it in all those places. Just do it (Nike)! Notice my citation.

As you weave the research into the paper, remember to vary your approach in integrating quotes and paraphrased material. Good writing will do this in number of ways. The Integrating Quotes handout is a good resource/review on different strategies for this. Part of the rubric is tied to your use of these different strategies. Remember that anytime you borrow somebody's direct words or paraphrase their ideas/work, it deserves an APA citation. Be sure you attempt to correctly use what we call "in text" citation of your sources, following the APA format. Consult the OWL APA Guidelines for In Text Citation as you work on this.

If you're visual and you want to see a pretty good model of a finished lit. review product, check out this paper: Lit. Review Example It's a little on the long side for your first version of your lit. review, but it's a decent holistic model that does the things you're supposed to do according to the rubric.

Notice, for instance, in the example how they have a title page (you must do this), their use of leveled APA headings, and a reference page that is properly formatted, with only the references they used in their paper, no annotations.

Finally, keep the Literature Review Rubric close at hand during this process. There is no excuse for NOT doing well if you follow this and strive to format according to APA guidelines.

You can do this ... don't leave it to the last moment ... you'll be fine.

Hard copies are due for turn in/class activities on Tuesday, 10/18. No excuses.

Ryann's World: Propaganda/Media Literacy Portfolio

Ryann's World: Propaganda/Media Literacy Portfolio: This is an advertisement from a magazine. This ad is trying to get people to think that tide is the best laundry detergent and that they...

I really like Ryann's use of all sorts of media in her Prop/Media Portoflio. Nice collection of samples, solid analysis. Check it out.

Work time ...

Today is yours to work on completing the Annotated Ref assignment. Be sure to review the rubric as you work on completing this step. For those of you who need more time at home to complete this, be sure to use the home/remote login info for ProQuest: username (papermaker) and password (welcome). Otherwise it will not let you login.

Finally, don't forget that you MUST bring to class tomorrow, along with your Annotated Ref assignment, either your note cards OR your digital notes for the progress check on this. I need to see good evidence of you having critically read the sources and that you're pulling out meaningful tidbits of info/quotes/stats, etc. that you can later plug into your lit. review.

Later this week and next week you'll have class time to start piecing your lit review together. The due date for this is 10/18, in class, hard copy with title page, lit review, and reference page. Email with questions.