Monday,+April+16

Essential Question: What are the possibilities and limitations of forgiveness? =‍‍ ‍ Titanic Bell Ringer: = Visit the following website and read the article titled, "Main Points in Senate Titanic Report."

‍‍‍Creative response:
On your blogs, answer the essential question. Pretend you are one of the passengers on the Titanic. If you are a woman, you may have been placed on a lifeboat and survived. If you were a man, you probably would have been left to sink with the ship. Think of the captian of the ship who pressed on with the trip even though he had been warned of iceburgs. Look at the officers who failed to warn passengers and only packed lifeboats to 1/2 capacity. Maybe even consider the survivors in the lifeboats who did not come back for the people drowning. Do you think it would have been possible to forgive these people in your final moments if you had been on the ship? Would forgiveness have been possible or limited for you in this situation?

Walk through the blogs!
Spend a little time exploring the other blog posts from Thursday about //The Sunflower//. Comment on each other's ideas. Spotlight on: [|Peter] [|Kali] [|Brittney] [|Skye] [|Samantha]

‍‍‍Journaling Practice:
Watch me do an journal entry on the part we read aloud today! Noting the rhetorical appeals is important in commentary that discusses DICTION, IMAGERY, DETAILS, LANGUAGE, or SYNTAX. For instance, loaded words are important in diction analysis; the switch Wiesenthal makes between referencing Karl as the "SS man" and the "murderer" is a strong emotional appeal. The dramatic pause created by elipses followed by interjections such as "My God" appeal to both pathos and ethos as they provoke an emotional response from the audience and display the German's distress and repentence. All analytical commentary focuses on HOW the author is achieving PURPOSE; The three rhetorical appeals are essential to this discussion. Link to Journal Explanation

The SS man’s description of the “blazing hell” in Dnepropetrovsk demonstrates his deep disturbance and fear (42). These words appeal to pathos as they immediately draw a strong emotional response from the listener. The connection between the burning house of helpless Jewish civilians and the biblical connotation of “hell” may point to the German’s deepest fear- that of his own eternal damnation- eliciting a sense of shock and pity in Wiesenthal, the dying man’s unwilling audience.

===‍Journals are due Friday, April 20! Make sure you have 10 analytical chunks that focus on style using DIDLS. These should display deep analytical thinking and a keen eye for purpose - the author's SO WHAT. Make sure that some of your chunks address ethos, pathos, and logos in your commentary!===

=READ-THINK-DISCUSS = Essay (p.207) by Herbert Marcuse
 * Introduce Vocabulary:
 * 1) transcend
 * 2) perpetuate
 * 3) alleviate
 * 4) entitled
 * 5) travesty
 * [|Bio- Herbert Marcuse]
 * What is the [|National Liberation Front (NLF)?]
 * What does he mean by [|"the assassination of Rathenau"?]

=‍WRITE = What is Marcuse's central claim? Do you agree or disagree with Marcuse's position?

=Homework =
 * Journals are due on Friday, April 20!
 * Choose another essay from "The Symposium" to read. On a sheet of paper, write the page number, the author, and a short response that includes: 1. the central claim 2. your personal response to this position