Wednesday, January 4, 2012

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 17

"Everybody is a genius.  But, if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."   Albert Einstein

WARMUP:

1. If you did not yet pick up this week’s vocabulary words on the center table yesterday, do so now.
2. Complete Exercise 1 on the back page this week’s vocabulary handout – we’ll do exercise 2 for homework.
1. Reviewed pronunciations and phonetic spelling
3. Return graded papers (inanimate object) and read your story through the eyes of something else.
4. Check grades.

Checked our understanding of noun plurals with page 1 of handout - Made 20 guesses from page 7 of plural packet (handout) – then reviewed answers

Reviewed omniscient narration (pg. 233)

Previewed “The Interlopers” (read bits of beginning, middle, end; looked at illustrations; made predictions)

Read “The Interlopers” by Saki – pgs. 232 – 240.

ENGLISH homework:

Complete Exercise 2 on the back page this week’s vocabulary handout.

Study for Monday’s vocabulary test: Lesson Two vocabulary words (amalgamate, demented…)

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PLAYWRITING - Day 17

THEME OF THE DAY: Persuasion

WARMUP: (answer the following questions)

1. Think of a time when you were persuaded to do something you didn’t want to do but were FINALLY persuaded to do. What did they do or say to persuade you?
2. What makes someone agree, even reluctantly, to do something? What works on you?
1. When the roles are reversed, these can become tools to persuade others.

                                                              i.      Re: “The Sound of Persuasion” (per Barry Lane)

2. Discussed

Our list of persuasive tools might include:

1.       Minimize the consequences; 2.       Threats; 3.       Money; 4.       Guilt; 5.       Pity – relieve my hurt; 6.       Verbalize the result;

7.       Promise of something better; 8.       Once in a lifetime; 9.       Repetition; 10.    Compliment – sweet talk; 11.    Reason – common sense

Next, in 2 minutes, we listed all the things that “I’ll Never Buy.”

Wrote a radio/TV commercial that persuaded a classmate to buy one of the items on his/her I’ll-Never-Buy list. Also noted what kind of persuasion we used in our commercial.

Read scene from The Decendents (new film, 2012) and analyzed it according to the 4 steps of dramatization (see yesterday’s notes) as well as techniques of persuasion.

PLAYWRITING homework:

None.