Critical Thinking You will have 6 minutes to complete the following task. Pass your answer forward on a piece of paper as soon as the bell rings.

Scrambled Words There is a sentence that uses all of the words below and no others and exactly two punctuation marks: a comma and a period. and Lennie post the besides market Sara’s to Cove office store village down only the walked in past the was Lane’s past the which Reconstruct the sentence.

Answer Lennie walked down to Lane’s Cove past the post office and past Sara’s, which was the only store in the village besides the market.

Today’s Goals I can change the diction of a sentence and explain the effect. I can utilize the See-Think-Wonder routine to help me analyze a text. I can determine the stasis of a text.

Last week’s most commonly missed words were: Week 3 Vocabulary - Remember, you’re responsible for studying vocabulary each week. You might want to make flashcards to help you study. Last week’s most commonly missed words were: Objectivity Vindicated Paradigm Vocabulary Quiz #3 on Friday – all words from week 1-3 are fair game.

Voice Lessons - Diction Consider: Abuelito under a bald light bulb, under a ceiling dusty with flies, puffs his cigar and counts money soft and wrinkled as old Kleenex. Discuss: How can a ceiling be dusty with flies? Are the flies plentiful or sparse? Active or still? Clustered or evenly distributed? What does Cisneros mean by bald light bulb? What does this reveal about Abuelito’s room? Apply: Take Cisneros’s phrase, under a ceiling dusty with flies, and write a new phrase by substituting the word dusty with a different adjective. Explain the impact your new adjective has on the sentence.

Major Premises in this Class Diction – Words Matter. Good writers are very thoughtful when choosing words. All nonfiction texts are part of a broader conversation. Good writers use the best possible means of making their argument – this is called rhetoric.

This is called rhetoric. Rule 3 - Good writers utilize the best possible means to make their argument. This is called rhetoric. We will have to learn what the tools and trick are. We will have to learn how and why authors use these tools. We will want to begin using these tools ourselves as we aim to become better writers. But first we’ve got to cross a threshold – we must learn to pay attention.

Learning to Pay Attention Consider how many times you’ve heard a song on the radio and didn’t really love it. But, after hearing it 5-10 times on the radio, you’re tapping your foot and starting to hum along. Then, another 5-10 listens and you’re singing along to every word, you’re thinking about what the song means, and you love everything about it. The most difficult issues in our city, state, country, and world aren’t likely to be solved without deep thought and much consideration. Are you willing to pay attention to the conversation taking place? Let’s find out!

See – Think – Wonder Routine We will use this routine often. Begin by SEEing what is literally in front of you first – harder than it sounds. Begin to THINK about what you see and how the things you see fit together. WONDER and question what all of these things might mean. Check to see if the meaning works with what you are seeing. Draw some conclusions.

Learning to Pay Attention Together, we’re going to look closely at a painting for a full ten minutes. Although our task today is not really to determine the meaning of the painting, I want you to pretend that for the next ten minutes, we are looking at this painting with the goal of trying to discover the meaning of the painting. However, to do this, your immediate task is to SEE every little detail you can see during the allotted time – at this phase, don’t bother thinking about the why or even trying to discover meaning at this point. As you notice a detail, and write it down and note which minute you noticed it.

The Temptation of St. Anthony

One thing we know for sure: “Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness.” There is Power in Patience – Jennifer Roberts teaches an entire class at Harvard titled – Power in Patience: Teaching Students the Value of Deceleration and Immersive Attention. She has a PhD from Yale, has taught at Harvard for over 30 years and has taught classes on the Power of Patience to US Presidents, foreign world leaders, and some of the top FBI, CIA, military, and civilian minds in the country.

Homework Turn in Voice Lesson if you didn’t. Read pages 1-6 AND 44-54 in your Language of Composition book. DUE TODAY – Read chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6 of The Shallows and write a summary for each chapter. DUE WEDNESDAY – Read chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10 of The Shallows and write a summary for each chapter.