1. Mrs. Fernandez August 10, 2015 Honors English 10 Please remove your ball cap and put your gum into the trash can. Warm-up: 8/10/15

2. August 10, 2015 Agenda:  We will review the pre-assessment argument prompt.  We will discuss how to approach an argument about judgement.  You will review and make notes on your pre-assessment argument essay.  You will engage in a judgment argument activity.

3. YOUR ESSAYS WERE LIKELY TO BE LESS THAN STELLAR.  What does the word stellar mean?  Informally it means outstanding or extraordinary.  Do not berate yourselves.  The prompt was not simple – nothing in life worth arguing about is!

4. Pre-assessment Writing  Read the prompt  Turn it into a question – what is the prompt REALLY asking you to argue?  Take a position and make a CLAIM.  Underline YOUR claim.  Give reasons why your CLAIM is reasonable/worthy/believable  Circle YOUR reasons.

5. Pre-Assessment Writing  Reasons need evidence.  How do you know what you claim?  What can you share about the world around you that relates to your reasons?  Why should the reader believe you – HOW DO YOU KNOW?  Put a box around any evidence that supports your reasons.

6. Judgment Arguments  We do it all the time – make complex judgments without much thought.  Judgments are the “measuring stick” we use to hold people, groups, objects, or concepts against.  Movie critics  Advertisements (Coke vs. Pepsi) – quick poll -whose judgment is “right” ?  Arguments of judgment are the basis of serious issues:  We see the world based on what it is we have seen.  Prejudice and intolerance  Unexamined assumptions and beliefs  Who is “right” ? https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/fuo/5140523413.html

7. The Giraffe Project(Sticking your neck out)  Identify and document (IN YOUR JOURNALS) criteria needed to be awarded the “Giraffe Award”  Ralph Flowers  Cases