The Feast of All Saints

 Choose a current issue that our world is facing. Explain the issue, and then find a saint to whose intercession would be the most helpful and argue why that saint is the best choice. 

So, two jobs, one is to find and articulate a current world problem about which we need to pray. Your second job is to research a saint whom you think would be helpful to us in regards to this problem. 

Finally, on the Feast of All Saints, which is Sunday, November 1, say a prayer to that saint about the issue you have listed. After every classmates blog, respond, AMEN. 

“Is This the Country the Founders Envisioned?”

 This is where you will post the essay you will be reading aloud on to a disc or a usb so that it can be turned in and heard by the judges at the Emporium VFW. Your audience is a group of men and women who are Veterans of Foreign Affairs. Think about your audience. You are being tasked with answering the question, and then supporting that claim. Remember, a good rhetor establishes authority or appeals to the shared values of the writer and the audience. The writer can also garner support for the argument by using statements from outside sources that support the claim.  A good rhetor also appeals to logic. How should your argument unfold? What are the ways that will most effectively reveal your argument so that it is not only easy to follow, but that will make it clear and convincing? Comparisons, maxims, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning? And last but not least, you  must consider the emotions of your audience. These are men and women who love their country very much. They are proud to have served their country and many of them made sacrifices that many of us cannot even fathom. So, think about this before you sit down and just blast something out with your thumbs ten minutes before the deadline. These men and women deserve more than that, and each of you are capable of more than that. Be honorable to yourself and to your gifts and to everything you have learned about how to write a good, solid argument. 

I will be editing these before you are going to be permitted to record it. Post it on blogger and then print it out and bring it in on Monday. No late assignments will be accepted. 

Practicing our LOGOS with a little creativity!

 Fable Writing 

A fable is a short narrative that exemplifies a moral or principle of human behavior; that is usually stated in the conclusion of the story. The characters, setting and actions become a symbol of human nature. 

Directions:

 Go online and research Aesop’s fables at https://aesopfables.com/

 Read some of the fables you find and gather some ideas for your own writing. 

After researching, you will write your own fable. 

Criteria:

 Entire fable less than 250 words 

Title

 Plots actions must lead to the moral 

Moral must be given in last line of the story

 Keep it simple and specific 

Be original (not based on example fables) 

Uses appropriate language

 Use correct grammar, punctuation, etc.

Old Sojourner Due Sunday, October 4 by midnight

This is another rhetorical analysis essay. I DO NOT want you to split this essay up in logos, pathos and ethos. We need to get out of that poorly formed habit. So, in order to avoid that, I am posting a link to a video that will help you. 

Helpful video

Do NOT use the words logos, pathos and ethos in the essay. If you need some help, there are ten million rhetorical analysis essays online, even samples from this exact prompt. Fake it till you make it is not a bad strategy. HOWEVER, if you cut and paste an essay into this blog, you will flunk for the quarter, so while it is okay to look at some samples to get an idea of what you should aiming for, do not cheat. If you cheat in college you get kicked out, and this is a college class. So, proceed with caution. 

After her escape from slavery, Sojourner Truth became a vocal supporter of the abolitionist movement and the feminist movement. In 1851, Truth attended the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Hhio, where a group of men monopolized the audience with biblical evidence for keeping women subservient. Truth, who had not planned to speak, felt compelled to respond. She stood and gave the following speech. Read the passage carefully. Write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical choices Sojourner Truth makes to convey her message that women should have more rights. 

 Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say. [1]