All the cool new friends you'll meet when you drink raw water Do you ever feel like your drinking water is just too clean? Last week, The New York Times reported on a trendy new beverage known as raw water. Yes: people are spending loads on unfiltered, untreated, and totally unsterilized spring water. “It has a vaguely mild sweetness, a nice smooth mouth feel, nothing that overwhelms the flavor profile,” Kevin Freeman, a shift manager at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery, told the Times of his store’s au naturale H20. But drinking raw water isn’t just about flavor and mouthfeel. Giardia This sassy little lady is sure to impact your life—or at least your bowel movements—in a big way. After taking a few days or weeks to settle into her new home in your GI tract, this pal will give you gas, cramps, nausea, and violent diarrhea. Legionella Legionnaires’ disease is a severe—often fatal—form of pneumonia. Norovirus Who the heck needs to go on a cruise to meet norovirus when you can just invite him into your home? Campylobacter Crypto Salmonella and E. coli
Commandments of Teaching AP Language and Composition-Part Two – The Rhetor's Toolbox This is the second half of a two-part series about teaching AP Language and Composition. You can check out the first part here. Good feedback is everything. Like this: Like Loading... Related Commandments of Teaching AP Language and Composition-Part One This fall, I've received many messages from new AP Language and Composition teachers who are trying to find their feet. In "AP Language and Composition" How Assertion Journals Can Inspire and Challenge Your Students They're analytical. In "Analysis" How to Teach Analysis Like a Boss In my last post, I made a case against the five paragraph essay as an appropriate analytical structure for high school students. I'm a high school English teacher with a passion for teaching AP Language and Composition.
Chart shows how opioid deaths soared between 1999 and 2015 When his targets have pointed out that his facts are wrong, Musk has doubled down. Some examples: On Dec. 14, Musk rebuked Wired when it quoted him on his attitude toward public transport. "This is why I stopped following Wired long ago. This behavior is not new: In a 2013 attack on NYT reporter John Broder, Musk foreshadowed President Trump's current signature phrase: "NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake," he tweeted. How to explain the divergence in Musk's public personas? It's his psychology: Michael Maccoby, a Washington, DC-based anthropologist and psychoanalyst, told Axios that Musk is a classic example of a productive narcissist — a renowned entrepreneur and visionary who is changing the world, even though he may lash out on Twitter when challenged. If Musk's Twitter act is deliberate, it's a tricky calibration, Sastry said. With his outbursts, Musk may simply think he's funny.
You Should Never, Ever Argue With Anyone on Facebook, According to Science You've seen it happen dozens if not hundreds of times. You post an opinion, or a complaint, or a link to an article on Facebook. Somebody adds a comment, disagreeing (or agreeing) with whatever you posted. Someone else posts another comment disagreeing with the first commenter, or with you, or both. There's a simple reason this happens, it turns out: We respond very differently to what people write than to what they say--even if those things are exactly the same. Their general response was probably very familiar to anyone who's ever discussed politics: a broad belief that people who don't agree with you are either too stupid or too uncaring to know better. That result was no surprise to at least one of the researchers, who was inspired to try the experiment after a similar experience of his own. So what should you do about it?
Engaging With Contrary Evidence In researching how best to prepare students for new-media literacy, I’ve come across the term confirmation bias—the tendency that all human beings share to search for or interpret information in a way that supports already held beliefs, and to ignore contrary evidence. It’s something that is hardwired into our brains—our world is too complicated for us to keep testing everything we know. It’s also one of the many cognitive biases that give us fake news and hyperpartisan politics as we learn to ignore evidence and just look for ways to prove ideas that we already hold. So what can we do to help students become critical and independent thinkers, voters who are not victims of manipulative fake news or corrupt politicians? Starting With a Clean Slate Many students are taught that you start with a thesis and then look for evidence. Cherry-Picking Not Allowed It’s very tempting to focus only on the facts that support what we want to believe. Revising the Thesis Truly Integrating the Counterclaim
Making Arguments Stronger: How to Get Students to Consider All Sides of an Issue | Teachers, Profs, Parents: Writers Who Care By Patricia A. Dunn Whether students compose arguments for tests or for real-world genres such as online petitions, public service announcements, complaints to manufacturers, letters to editors, etc., their writing would be more persuasive if they acknowledged and understood opposing views. What is Invention, and Why Do We Need It for Writing? Ancient rhetoricians designed invention strategies to help speakers understand and consider many sides to an issue, not simply to address the concerns of opponents but to possibly negotiate a mutually agreeable solution to a problem. I teach college students who are preparing to be English teachers. Jump-Starting Thinking through A Simple Invention Activity Here’s an activity I do in my classes to take advantage of invention’s possibilities: exploring the the arguments and counterarguments surrounding a particular controversy in the teaching of writing. The Cross-Room, Student-Led Debate Then we change the furniture. Patricia A. Like this:
Commonplace Books Then and Now Last June, The New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul released a bit of her soul into the world. Her memoir, My Life with Bob, uses her book-of-books (abbreviated as Bob) as its jumping off point. Bob is a simple journal in which Paul has recorded the titles of every book she’s ever read, along with the date (if she remembers to jot it down), going all the way back to her teenage years. In the introduction, Paul writes that while looking back at her journal collection, the “Dear Diary” sort makes her remember things she’d rather forget, but the titles in Bob bring back things she wants to remember. Many of us can relate to the idea of books orienting us in the world, and Paul joins a rich tradition of readers keeping a formal record of their reading history. According to the Harvard University Library, the typical commonplace book “contains a collection of significant or well-known passages…in order to serve as a memory aid or reference for the compiler.”
Collaborative Rhetorical Analysis Poster Project One of the things I love the most about teaching nonfiction texts is teaching rhetorical analysis and watching students get it. After teaching my students about ethos, pathos, logos, and a variety of rhetorical devices in two different speeches, I wanted to see if they got it on their own, so I assigned a collaborative rhetorical analysis project. To set up the project, I printed copies of historical and political speeches that we had not reviewed yet: The Space Shuttle Challenger Address, Dr. I gave each student group a piece of chart paper, markers, and a copy of the speech to annotate. Using my white board, I drew a mock-up, sample poster for the students with my requirements, and explained my expectations. The project took two and a half days, and it went better than I could have asked for. On the third day of this project, we took half a day to display the posters and complete a gallery walk.
Innovation in Teaching Competition - Beyond the Textbook Tabitha GintherNorthside High SchoolMuscogee County Schools Grade Level and Content 9th to 10th GradesEnglish Language Arts Overview This unit uses the enticing scenario of a zombie apocalypse to teach students rhetoric and rhetorical appeal. Standards Addressed English Language ArtsELA.9-10.RI.1; ELA.9-10.RI.2; ELA.9-10.RI.6; ELA.9-10.W.1; ELA.9-10.W.4; ELA.9-10.W.5; ELA.9-10.SL.1; ELA.9-10.SL.3; ELA.9-10.L.2; ELA.9-10.L.3 Available Materials • Unit Introduction• Daily Lesson Plans• SOAPSTone PowerPoint• SOAPSTone Graphic Organizer• Gallery Walk Activity Guide• Rhetorical Appeals and Techniques Graphic Organizer• TEDTalk Rhetorical Analysis Activity Sheet• Lebron James PowerPoint• Lebron James’ Letter• Zombie Apocalypse Opening• Zombie Apocalypse PowerPoint• Character Slips• Zombie Apocalypse Instructions• Zombie Apocalypse Ballot Video of Lesson Video 1 of 2 Video 2 of 2 About the Teacher <- Back to Main Menu
Meet Google Drive – One place for all your files One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Google Drive Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google Satire Through Subtlety-- Using the Comics of Savage Chickens to Teach Satire in High School English — The Bespoke ELA Classroom Introducing Satire with Savage Chickens 1. Direct your students to www.SavageChickens.com and have them select a "sticky note" comic to analyze either individually or with a group. 2. 3. Sample Analysis From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History behind the Satire ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, videos, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Begin your class study of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels by reading Dr. back to top Satirical Techniques Definitions: This resource provides definitions of satirical techniques. Gulliver's Travels Resources: Students can use the Web resources in this student interactive to gather background information on the historic events satirized in Gulliver's Travels. Further Reading