Friday,+September+23

Today's Announcements:

==‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Guiding Questions: What is the purpose of education? Are schools achieving this purpose? ==

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
**[|Evan Esar]**//American Humorist (1899 - 1995)//

 ﻿ Bell Ringer: Language Workshop Homecoming Voting Mark 2 best journal entries with post it notes. Journal check! Do Exercise 4 (1-5) on a piece of notebook paper. These sentences are from Francine Prose's essay.

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3A- Continue our Socratic Seminar. Those in the outside circle last time need to be in the inside circle. Outside circle participates via Twub!
 * Return to the TEXT! What would Emerson say about the points you bring up? Look at your annotated essay; this is where you will find great points to bring up!**

Analytical Writing Pre-Assessment (30 minutes)

 * Read "America Needs Its Nerds"
 * Annotate as you read, selecting key textual evidence. Think about tone, audience, and purpose!
 * Write a **tone thesis** statement that precisely pinpoints the author's tone and purpose.
 * Write **one analytical chunk** containing key evidence from the text (concrete detail- CD) and two insightful and astute commentary sentences relating this evidence to your thesis (commentary- CM)[[image:cafeharmon/chunk.png width="640" height="120"]]

Discussion
Briefly discuss the argument. Complete the graphic organizer by taking notes from 3 classmates. What text evidence did they find? What big ideas did they write about?

Homework
Look at Suggestions for Writing questions 1 and 5. Respond to one of these prompts in a well-written blog post. Label it "Education". Have this posted by Tuesday!