Mr. Hawley - Burlington School Daily English Lessons

Tuesday - Jan 29, 2013

7th Grade:
-DOL
-Revision video to understand the process and reasons for revising our writing.
-We watched the introductions to about 8 different movies to examine them for the 9 different kinds of foreshadowing students took notes on last week.

8th Grade:
-DOL
-Video for the next few days:  A More Perfect Union which ties in with history and English classes right now as we begin our constitutional unit in the history and Language Arts textbooks.

10th Grade: 
We began our Persuasive Speech unit today.
-Read pages 560, 561, 564, 565 in the text book about persuasion.
-Assignment:  Read through the comments on pretty much any internet story and there are people who try and persuade with innefective methods.  The most common are calling people names, shouting or arguing vehemently till you overwhelm the other person, or using half baked, illogical counter arguments.  When all else fails, swearing at a person seems to be a favorite method too.  I asked the kids to find and read an article that interests them, and then to report back to the class tomorrow on some person who was less than persuasive in the comments.