Allie Highsmith Scribe 10/09

Homework: Jury comes to a decision, read and annotate Long Way Gone 3-5 (Monday), questions over 1-5, higher level thinking questions/connections to Othello, LOF, Long Way Gone (Due Monday), SAT 6 including synonyms (Monday), go to forum tomorrow  instead C-11

• Passout for reading strategies
• Long Way Gone strategies 
• How to formulate successful questions
• interpretive level questions 
• anticipating, speculating, generalizations
• critical thinking questions
• well beyond text 
• Smith expects "really good questions."
• Everyone signed up for fishbowl discussion presentations? 
• Inner circle and outer circle
• Inside- presenters/discussers
• Leading discussion (facilitating) 
• Pull others into conversation
• Must come in with preparation- questions, things you'd like to bring up during discussion, etc. 
• Use names, be polite. 
• Outside- listeners- live bloggers
• Do not have to talk.
• Do not have to blog.
• Can listen to insiders.
• Bloggers can put in media, start polls, etc. 
• No rubric
• However...
• there is one online, an expectations sheet. 
• but... the conversation will be graded by Smith in a way that doesn't use a rubric. 
• Both insiders and outsiders will be graded.
• Outsiders- Commenting and contributing to conversation will get you points.
• Insiders- Graded based on how involved you are and the information you bring to the table.
• Long Way Gone
• Connect to essential question! "To what extent do... rule our lives? Affect our relationships? Decide our future selves?"
• Into debate groups
• Discussing blue self-evaluation with groups 
• Jury (Audience) discusses findings.
• Team Ethos
• Would a viewer be interested in a celebrity that doesn't know anything about the product?
• Ethos- Yes, because the celebrity is relatable.
• Does general population become entity when ethos is used (bandwagon)? 
• Yes
• Jimmy Fallon's twitter
• Team Logos
• more effective to include recent statistics or old one? 
• Recent because more up to date
• More likely to continue in support and believe in organization
• Update information to make more trustworthy 
• Which statistic was most effective in portraying narrators point of view and why?
• 30,000 children because still remember
• Do you think people actually understand the numbers or just think "what a big number?"
• visual representation helps contribute and make it clearer
• Team Pathos
• Does Gavin have his own opinion or is he swayed by his father's opinion?
• His opinion is based off of father's opinion. 
• Does Pathos have long term effect?
• Yes, just not as strongly.
• Connection to AHS 12/13/13. 
• Feeling is still there, just slightly less strong. 
• Which element of film best uses Pathos?
• Gavin- We want a better world for the next generation. 
• Jacob- Explains his experience.  
• Imagery of children- Shows mutilations by Kony and his army. 
• 15 minutes of homework time from Smith 
• Jury announces decision.
• "You all competed very well..."
• Winner is Logos.
• Because of strength of opening statement.  
• Originally tie between Pathos and Logos.
• Jury talked it out and decided Logos did a better job.