Wrapping Up The Week

Good afternoon, and Happy Friday.

Today, students did 2 things: set up their composition notebook(s), and engaged with an activity that involved both skill we addressed this week.

Here is a link to a short powerpoint that explains how to set up the composition notebooks.

We then inaugurated these by taking our first Lit-Term related note: The explanation, and a definition, of parallelism.

• Click here to see the notes students copied from my whiteboard.

Or click here!

Then, students demonstrated their familiarity with Annotation and the application of Bloom's Taxonomy by exercising those skills on:

This article from mic. (this is the exact handout)

And here's the same article in web-based format.

Remember: the job was to read, annotate, and draft the Bloom's QUESTIONS. You didn't have to provide answers.

HW for the WKND

• Finish annotating the article, and drafting the Bloom's Questions.
• Bring Speak to class, if you have a copy (digital is fine)
• Bring your notebooks back to class as well.

And some totally non-required thinking:

The article submits that:

Songs are popular because they are played a lot.

And not that

Songs are played a lot because they are popular.

This...intrigues me. And makes me think about Transformers 4. Is the media defining popularity for us? Or do we, as consumers, but more importantly, human beings, have agency in deciding what's "cool" anymore?

I love questions like this because I don't know the answer.