Helpful+Notes+From+the+Written+Documentarians

All Year Reading List - Living With Geese. Author: Paul Theroux -What the dog saw: Author: Malcolm Gladwell - Vocabulary of Comics. Author: Scott McCloud -Dumpster Diving. Author: Lars Eighner -Regarding the Pain of Others. Author: Susan Santag -Politics & The English Language. Author: George Orwell -Consider the Lobster. Author: David Foster Wallace -Freakonomics. Author: Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner -Our Perfect Summer. Author: David Sedaris -Maus I. Author: Art Spielgman -Powder. Author: Tobias Wolff -How to Watch T.V. Author: ? -Four Arguments For the Elimination of TV. Author: Jerry Mander -How to Think About Great Ideas. Author: Mortimer Adler -A new literary history of America. Author: Susan Castillo -Examned Life. Author: Malcolm Gladwell -Speech to the Atlanta Cotton States. Author: Booker T. Washington -Paradise Lost. Author: John Milton Milton's Rhetoric:Examples of Milton's Use of Classical Schemes and Tropes - The Wonders of the Invisible World. Author: Cotton Mather - The House of the Seven Gables. Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne -Why We Can't Wait (intro) Author: Martin Luther King - For Fasting and Football, a Dedicated Game Plan. Author: Samuel G. Freedman - Kill 'Em! Cruch 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw! Author: John McMurtry - The Proper Place for Sports. Author: Theodore Roosevelt

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4/11 Review: Means of persuasion
 * Ethos-values (the speaker)
 * Logos-logics/facts/proof (subject)
 * Pathos-emotions (audience)

3/28/11 Turnitin.com help English IIPreIB block4
 * Class code: 3933238
 * password: seven
 * title: What it is and name ex: Rough Draft Bobby Jane

3/4/11 - Research questions
 * What is the point?
 * What do I have to do vs. What do i have to turn in?
 * Know what you are answering

3/2/11 -How to make an outline
 * Pick out main argument
 * subpoints
 * Proof
 * Commentary
 * If you use an A there must be a B
 * If you use a I there must be a II
 * must always have two of the category

2/24/11 - Research Paper ex. Moral, ethical, scientific
 * Consider __--__
 * Focus on main issues of controversy
 * Find the academic area of the topic
 * Pick your angle
 * make sure its specific