Pre-AP English (9th)
In today's class we started our time together by taking a quiz on Romeo and Juliet Act IV. After the quiz we discussed different forms of note-taking and necessary good note-taking is to prepare for exams and essays.
Finally, we practiced our new note-taking skills by going through a powerpoint that discussed life as it was lived in Shakespeare's day (1500s). We finished our time in class by writing in our journals.
AHSGE Reading Review
Today's topic was authorial purpose and logical fallacy. We discussed the three types of purposes for writing (information, entertainment, and persuasion). Stemming off of persuasion, we discussed logical fallacy and how authors can use it to convince us that their point of view is the only valid point of view.
To reinforce this point, we talked through several moral dilemmas and saw how the people who pose those questions try to make the reader believer there are only two options in each situation, which is a logical fallacy. We finished our time together by working some extra practice on this topic.
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