PATHOSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Before these past two days our idea of pathos was skewed and hard to make out. But, after hearing a lot of great and creative summaries our knowing of pathos increased exponentially. We now know the true idea of pathos. It can not just be done with lack of detail or pathetic grammar. You have to be able to think deep within yourself and have an extensive vocabulary. I guess you can say that everything you do for this has to come from the heart. Many of our classmates were using big words to get across simple ideas, the use of these words was a great way to get the pathos across to the reader.

BOOKS!

Joey-Today i read a book about a football coach named Gary Barnett and how he inspired many people to do great things.His wife even quoted that when they were young he inspired her and that he was doing the same to his football team that he coached.


Jayke-Today in class i read a book called flyboys. I read about two young men from totally different worlds that meet each other in the navy and little did they know they would fight a winning war.

What did you learn about pathos and logos?

Pathos
What the stumpanator and I took in on what pathos is that it is the emotional feelings derived from the article.




Logos
We learned that logos is the use of logic for example: 2+2=4 it makes sense.

Pathos & Logos

Do?
Informs
Introduces


Summary
What he is trying to get across in this paragraph is that we do not need new summer enrichment programs but, we just need to better them.(improve them any way possible)They give an example of how getting grant money to better there math training through project SEED.

Pathos
N/A

Logos
The paragraph is vary logical because it says that a lot of volunteers come together in the common goal of advancing summer enrichment programs.

Weeellll better be gettin back to the ol dusty trail.

Low income kids need summer enrichment programs to stop the "summer slide" from effecting them in the long run.

What we think is missing from the article so far is the fact that he hasn't gave us all the little details about all the ways to fix that problem.

JAYKE & JOEY!!!!

Summer learning programs can expand students knowledge of the world, such as a group of kids that are experiencing Italy in late july , but their are many children in low-income neighborhoods that must settle with local program that bind them to field trips and assignments.

joey and christian

HaPpYyYyY tHaNkSgIvInGgGgGgG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paragraph 4
This paragraph talks about students in Kansas that have a study program that helps them succeed.When asked what they would be doing if they didn't have that program, they said they would be swimming in their one pool, or playing basketball with their one hoop or getting soda from their one soda machine.

Two words that describe the paragraph: Demonstrates, Informs


Paragraph 5
This paragraph talks about all of the rich organizations that fund these enrichment programs for low-income  children, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and President Obama has even created a "National Summer Learning Day" to promote these programs over summer.

Two words that describe the paragraph: Introduces, Informs

What is summer associated with? And school?

Summer is associated with fun and school is associated with boredom.

Why is larking through summer a luxury we can no longer afford?

Kids are losing all knowledge during summer.

Is summer really a lark for many children? What is it really?                                                                 No because low income children don't see it that way they see it as being isolated from all the fun they have at school.

Is that your experience as well?                                                                                                             No that is not my experience,during summer i have the time of my life.

What is healthy stimulation during the summer months according to the authors?

Stealth learning.

If they keep the same schedule when you are parents, what kind of summer activities will you plan for your children and why?

I want my kids to have fun during summer and be educated while doing that so i would send my kids to a summer camp.

What's the trick to establishing summer enrichment activities?

You have to blend the learning in with the fun!

Why did we have long summer breaks in the first place?

Before children would have to stay home  during the summer to help there family work on the farm.

The case against sumer vacation

Christian and I both interpreted the article exactly the same. What we came up with was that instead of extending the school year they should just add summer programs that would be fun but educational.They would hide the fact that you are learning though.They called it "STEALTH LEARNING".

ESSAY REVISION. JOEY AND CHRISTIAN

Change second sentences, needs to be rewritten.
Revised Sentence: Education is a big part of my life. I wish to further my education, but difficulties at home make it hard to reach that point.
First sentence in second paragraph is redundant.
Redundancy in the first sentence in the third paragraph.
Revise first sentence in fourth paragraph: I am expecting to have a baby soon, and this is keeping me from furthering my education.

joey and christian

9/20
Today we learned about the placement of commas matters quite a bit in sentences. For example: "today in class, expository reading and writing, 706, we learned about commas..." More editing sentences for better group literacy in the class to prepare us for college.
9/21
Today in class we learned more about parallelism, how you need to have similar ending on words so that the sentence makes sense.  More of revising sentences, and focusing on the topic sentence. If the paragraph has more than 1 topic, start a new paragraph!
9/22
In class today Hamilton showed us some things that aren't that big of a deal but they dramatically changed the idea on  a story. He said that just breaking up your story into little paragraphs instead of one big one makes your story that much better for the reader to look at.
9/24
In sustained silent reading today i got a new mystery book called 'The Last Coyote".From what i read today it is about a female cop that is at a shrink talking about a past problem she had twice now.  My boy christian read the book every young man's battle, which talked about the struggles all young men deal with on a daily basis, and had some ways to deal with them.

joey and christian

9/13
Today we learned that punctuation, capitalization, and correct wording in writing is crucial.  We are still learning, that if something is written poorly, and has a lack of all of the factors above, the burden is on the writer.  Proof reading a finished product is important, so to make sure the reader can understand what you're trying to get across.
9/14
Today Hamilton made us do a little exercise taught us that holding hands stands for connecting sentences. What we also came to know is that there is not a sentence that cant be made better then the old one. He also let us know that we have to get used to scratching out sentences if you eventually want a good sentence.
9/15
Today in class we learned about self-correction.  When you are jotting down on paper, or brainstorming some ideas, self-correction is when you correct yourself to make a sentence better, while editing it.  We learned this is a vital skill we can use later on in life.  In addition to that we are still learning about reading and writing as a transaction.
9/16
Today we learned how important combining sentences are. If there is a sentence with a big idea you have to try to add some detail about that sentence in the next sentence to spice up your paragraph.
9/17
In class we read our novels and it really felt like a good atmosphere so everything  we read we could really interpret it. Were glad we do this sustained silent reading it really gives us a better vocabulary and gets us to learn punctuation.

Our amazing books

Today we had sustained silent reading. I read "THE COLOR OF LAW" by Mark Gimenez. I would have to say the beginning of this book has been really good. Hamilton told me this was a mystery book and just by reading the prologue it already has me guessing. Christian's book is called "every young man's battle" by Stephen Arterburn.  He is kinda plain with his detail. He just told me it was a good book.=(

Today was whatever

Christian and I feel today in class we didn't not learn nothing! There was just to many side conversation and we got off topic to much.

It is not yet over

In class Christian and I were learning about concrete writing. I think that we actually had a broad idea on what were talking about. Day by day we are learning more then we thought. Hamilton let us know that what he is teaching is a direct class invented by the Cal State system. He told us a story about Flora and how she came back to him letting him know that everything he did teach was exactly on the test!

Editing

In 2nd period expostiory reading and writing, Joey and Christian learned that you need to write according to your audience, and that too many big words can confuse the reader.  Solid, concrete and understandable words are the structure of a good passage. Question: how can we better our vocabulary?