Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem
2) Seminar on Transgender pronouns
3) Benchmark review--discuss strong and weak examples of responses on the benchmark and why they were good or bad.
* You can come in to tutorials on Thursday or the Writing Lab on Tuesday to revise your benchmark if you want to. You can get up to half of the points you lost back.
4) Work on your own paper
Coming up:
1) Friday, your 1984/BNW research paper and poster are due.
2) Monday, your blog post is due. Article can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/us/governor-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-voting-rights-convicted-felons.html
3) Monday, you will have a vocabulary quiz
4) Tuesday, we will have the seminar
1) Opening poem
2) Seminar on Transgender pronouns
3) Benchmark review--discuss strong and weak examples of responses on the benchmark and why they were good or bad.
* You can come in to tutorials on Thursday or the Writing Lab on Tuesday to revise your benchmark if you want to. You can get up to half of the points you lost back.
4) Work on your own paper
Coming up:
1) Friday, your 1984/BNW research paper and poster are due.
2) Monday, your blog post is due. Article can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/us/governor-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-voting-rights-convicted-felons.html
- 1. Summarize the controversy. What do proponents want to change, specifically? What are the opponent’s reasons for disagreeing?
- 2. What does “disenfranchisement” mean in the context of this article? What does it refer to and what effect does it have on the tone of the article altogether?
- 3. What is your opinion on the situation? Should felons ever have their voting rights restored? If not, why not? If so, in what context? Should some receive those rights back, and not others? How should it be decided who does get them back?
- 4. Write a level 3 question of your own that is brought up because of this article.
3) Monday, you will have a vocabulary quiz
4) Tuesday, we will have the seminar
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