Spelling Quiz Week 12

Hi Haumana! Here is your Week 12 spelling quiz.

Click on the link and fill in the questions with the correct spellings of this weekʻs words. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHFrUUxMNFNaREd5ckt2Y2xIVTE4dXc6MQ 

And here is the week 12 SAT vocabulary quiz for grades 9-12. Middle schoolers can take this for extra credit!

 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEMzUHc2YU56andiU0pMTFprUkNvRUE6MQ

Pathos, Ethos, Logos

Can you identify what these commercials are trying to appeal to? Is it your emotion, your sense of right and wrong, or your logic?

In the comments section below, identify each commercial by Pathos (feelings), Ethos (right-and-wrong), or Logos (logic).

Kawaikini English Newsletter Vol. 2, at last!

The much anticipated Second Volume of our Kawaikini English Newsletter is finally ready to hit the presses!  Here are some screenshots as teasers. 

P.S.

I had lots of trouble finishing this document in Word: it kept overwhelming the program and making everything crash and lose changes and save itself as a duplicate. So if your formatting is different from how you originally did it in class, thatʻs why. Does anyone have suggestions for newsletter building programs? For Octoberʻs newsletters letʻs see if we can find a program that can handle a complex document like this. Not wimpy Word. 

Persuasive Essay Assignment: High School

High Schoolers!
Here is your persuasive essay assignment. This is due November 2, 2012.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B13VABsPbQGBZ1NXeGEzX2ZoOU0

Book Club Assignment

Octoberʻs Book club will be on Wednesday October 24. This will be our third one so hopefully everyone will be beautifully prepared.

Here is a link to the assignment on google docs in case you need a refresher.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDYGVdxTQSDlu-HSsX6r9j6Z3bOv5mou8zEbmvQpkgk/edit

Great Speeches

All arguments, whether they are about dirty socks on the couch or international trade policy, are in one of three tenses: past, present, and future. The past tense is the language of forensics-- of finding out what happened, who did it, who is to blame or who gets the credit. The present tense is the language of values. It defines who we are and who we aren't, and it defines us versus them. The future tense is the language of solutions, options, and choices.

Listen to these famous speeches and make a note in the comments about what tenses these rhetorical examples use. Does their use of past, present, and future reflect blame, values and choices? Or is it more complicated than that?

In your comment write:
1. the speaker's name
2. the topic
3. the tense: past, present, future
4. the effect of the tense on the strength of the speech Here's Bobby Kennedy, a young and promising politician, announcing the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Shortly after this, Bobby Kennedy himself was assassinated. Here's a comedian, Charlie Chaplan, giving a speech in a movie. Isn't it so oddly incongruent that he is dressed as Hitler? He is reclaiming that image to rob it of its terror. Would you, as a teenager, face the UN and tell them to shape up or ship out? President Barack Obama, when he was still running for president, saying that words matter: And a little while later, Barack Obama talking about what he will do (future!) and about the history of the US (past!) Martin Luther King talking about what America means, in his last speech before he was killed. He says "we are not going to let any dogs or water hoses turn us around!" What's the context? If you don't know, find out.

October Articles:

Week of October 8

Vedantam, Shenkar. "Tie my Shoes, Please: How Persuasion Works." SHOTS NPR Health Blog. NPR.org. July 24, 2012. Web. Accessed September 26, 2012.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/07/23/157248356/tie-my-shoes-please-how-persuasion-works

Week of October 15

What is rhetoric and what does it have to do with us?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/04/30/151711810/reclaiming-rhetoric-for-the-modern-age

Week of October 23

Is this the age of advertising?

http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138115998/the-age-of-persuasion-how-marketing-ate-our-culture?tab=excerpt#excerpt

Week of October 29

Thank You For Arguing

Here is a link to the full text of my favorite book about persuasion:

http://swcta.net/davis/files/2011/09/Thank-You-for-Arguing.pdf

This is Thank You For Arguing by Jay Heinrichs.

You can also check out his webpage with a cute interactive argument tool at

http://www.thankyouforarguing.com/high/home.html

Ha! "The Day I Read a Book" Song

(I’ll Never Forget) The Day I Read a Book"
Jimmy Durante

SPOKEN:
When I look back through life I find,
Lots of memories remain,
Certain days stay in my mind
And keep running through my brain,
I remember the day that Ederle swam the channel, what a splash.
I remember the Wall St. Crash
Or when Winchell first shouted, “Flash!”
But there’s one day that I recall though it was years ago.
All my life I will remember it, I know.

SINGING:
I'll never forget the day I read a book.
It was contagious, seventy pages.
There were pictures here and there,
So it wasn't hard to bear,
The day I read a book.
It's a shame I don't recall the name of the book.
It wasn't a history, I know, because it had no plot.
It wasn't a mystery, because nobody there got shot.
The day I read a book. I can't remember when,
But one o' these days, I'm gonna do it again.

SPOKEN:
Ah, lit'rature!
There's nothin' like sittin' home next to the fireplace, with a pipe, a dog, and a good book at your feet.
But if you walk into my house, you’ll see loads of books.
And believe they’re not there just for appearance.
I press an awful lot of butterflies.
My literary appetite is “stupendious.”
They don’t write them quick enough for me.
The book of the month didn’t come out fast enough,
So I read the book of the week!
The book of the week didn’t come out fast enough,
So I read the book of the day!
The book of the hour! The book of the minute!
But that wasn’t even fast enough.
So far this week I’ve read six books that haven’t been written yet!
But I’m not confined to home reading.
I once spent two weeks in library.
I would have been outta there sooner,
But I had buried my nose in a book and forgot which book I buried it in!
A “dilemmia.”
Why on the first page of this book they printed the author’s name,
And right underneath it was a private phone number.
Copyright-1-9-3-9.
But I’m gonna send it back.
I’ve been dialing that number for four months and nobody has answered.
Nevertheless, while perusing through the library,
I found the tract that I was looking for.
It wasn’t the Encyclopedia “Britannia”!
It wasn’t Ferverum Briago.
It was a book that was 3,857 pages thick.
And I’m glad I took it!
It fit perfectly under the short leg of my pool table!

SINGING:
It wasn't a history, I know because it had no plot.
It wasn't a mystery, because nobody there got shot.
The day I read a book.
I can't remember when,
But one o' these days, I'm gonna do it again.
Yes, and one of these days, I’m gonna do it again!