Eh 200 Fall 2010 Class Four

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Your homework for today was to draft your argumentative précis.

Opening Journal Entry:  (Suggested: 10 to 15 Minutes)

Step One: Get our your précis. Look it over for a moment, and underline the sentences you think are particularly important.

Step Two: Spend approximately ten minutes writing about the perceived strengths and weaknesses of the current draft.

What do you like about this draft? What are you dissatisfied with? Focus on the writing process you followed. “How” you wrote is an important as “what” you wrote.

Small Groups: (Suggested: 7-10 minutes)

Get into groups, summarize your journal entry for your group. Also, share the important lines from your précis.

When you are done, come up with a short 2-3 minute presentation on your collective strengths and weaknesses. One of you will present this to the rest of the class.

Group Presentations: (Suggested: 7-10 minutes)

One member from each group will stand before the class and present the group’s findings.

During your presentation, there can be

• No leaning on podium.

• No Gum.

• No hats.

Class Discussion of Précis and how it will be revised. (Suggested: 5 minutes)

Time Permitting: Discussion of Income and its relationship with Class.

Income: An individual’s financial means with respect to the financial means of other people within a given community or region.  (There are lower-, middle-, and upper- divisions).

Journal: How are, or are, “class” and “income” different concepts? Are they? Is the distinction important? Does the term relate to “play”? To “The Untold Lie”?

Homework:  Revise Précis and have a copy of it with you next time.