Stearns Fatherblog

Hope all went well without me.
The first thing I’ll need to figure out is how far you’ve gotten on your 1st draft for the OMM Lit Paper. You should have 3 body paragraphs with all of the parts (topic sentence, set-up quote, quote, interpretation and connection to thesis). If we have that, great. [...]

In the last research essay, some people had problems with parenthetical notation. Go here. The first person who is able to correctly parenthetically notate and give the works cited for this quote:
To paraphrase H. L. Mencken, nobody ever went bankrupt underestimating the American people’s desire to shop for electronics and sweaters of dubious [...]

As we often start, we’ll begin with a very old dead man talking about…something. Actually, Thomas Paine is one of those guys we don’t spend enough time with. We’ll read the first three paragraphs of Common Sense and blog a) a summary b) an analysis of the logical argument (fact, claim, warrant) and [...]

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all.
Hope all is well and the next few days are beautiful and fulfilling.
We’ll be making T-day haiku and hand-trace turkeys.  Also, there is  a Thanksgiving wordseach if you’re not a haiku fan.
Next week…Test and pre-write for LA1o,  historical essay pre-write for EF, and we’ll be starting political argumentation for APComp

First, of course, the film festival…for 6th…We’ll talk about how well the research pieces went.
For fun, let’s summarize Joseph Addison’s principle of humanity.
Then, read these two political opinion pieces and identify the parts according to the Toulmin method. Is the warrant implicit or explicit? Do the facts necessarily match up with the [...]