Day27: Evaluating Articles Workshop

Objectives: We will be able to

• Evaluate the persuasive strategies for both articles.
• Decide the most effective persuasive strategies in groups.
• Decide the weakest persuasive strategies in groups.

Warm-up (10 min)
Boys vs. Girls?

Discussion and Review of Homework (20 min)

In your groups, prepare for the presentation of the MOST effective persuasive strategies and the WEAKEST point you can find in Pro- and Anti- articles.

Topic: Single-sex schooling is good for girls.

Pro-article
Where the Girls Aren't

Anti-article
Don't segregate boys and girls in classrooms

Please use the following Google Docs.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YGAI6IWBXemC6QsdxurX6hzSmYECFNtIO1QPo-M40HE/edit

Homework due next class!
Read and Reverse-outline
The following essay is a rhetorical analysis of John Naisbitt’s The military-nintendo complex by Kathryn Williams. Describe what the author is writing in each part of the essay (what the role of each part is in that paragraph). Don’t worry about the introduction and conclusion parts. The first part is done for you as an example.
John Naisbitt: Fighting the War Against Violent Video Games