The delicate compulsions of our social life…

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First, I’d like you to both turn in a physical copy of the Juxtaposing Images assignment and post it onto your blog. Then, we’ll ask your fellow students to read 1-2 and post a comment with some specific analysis. I’ll also check and grade the comic book responses to the Sanders AP prompt.

Good, then I want to run through a short Keynote about argumentation and remind ourselves of important truths therein.

Then, I want to give small groups time to compare note on the Sanders prompt and then the Kennan prompt.

1. How can we create a nuance thesis or claim?
2. What evidence could we use to back up these claims?
3. What traps (obvious ideas that will likely be overused) are laying in wait?
4. How can we integrate quote into what we want to say?

Thursday plan on an in-class prompt writing extravaganza.

HW: Blog post: Write two paragraphs putting forth an opinion about an important social issue (Gun control, Affirmative Action, Cats are better than Dogs). Choose an issue you care about but write one paragraph according to how you actually feel and the other according to how someone who disagrees might feel. Try to make is so that someone from the outside wouldn’t know which of these you agree with.