A Sense of Doubt blog post #2715 - KNOW YOUR RIGHTS MIX - Music Monday for 2207.25
I finish the blog vacation and fall almost a full week behind right after.
Of course, soon after, I decided that I also needed a music mix.
So here it is.
The mix, some resources, and the assignment.
Thanks for tuning in!
- PRE-SHOW MUSIC MIX
The Clash - "Know Your Rights" - I cannot embed this video due to copyright.
another version:
- The Clash - “Know Your Rights” (see above)
- Review assignment - need to choose an endangered right and argue for its continued protection or its official protection
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Let’s look at the base survival needs for which access could be blocked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
FROM THAT, let’s brainstorm “rights”
- human rights
- gov’t protected rights
- unprotected “rights”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
Hoped for .... not enacted (not fully):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
Various resources in this folder
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE UNPROTECTED (SHOULD BE) RIGHTS?
- MY EXAMPLE - freedom of speech/press - censorship
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2543 - CENSORSHIP WEEK: FARENHEIT 451: Book Bans are Getting Worse
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2545 - Dear Book Banners, Please Actually READ Gender Queer
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2593 - Persepolis dropped from Pennsylvania English curriculum
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS MIX - FOR MUSIC MONDAY 2207.25
Ye Olde Argumentation Essay Assignment - ENG101 (on to-do list TO READ IT!!) :-)
THIS ASSIGNMENT IS ALSO KNOWN AS ESSAY TWO (E2).
ESSAY TWO WRITING PROCESS
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BPO - Brainstorming, Pre-writing, Outlining
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E2D1: FIRST DRAFT
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Required Peer Review
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E2D2: SECOND DRAFT
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?? E2D3: THIRD DRAFT??
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FINAL DRAFT DUE IN PORTFOLIO
HERE’S THE CONCEPT:
What is the most important right to you and why?
There are different kinds of rights.
There are HUMAN RIGHTS - inalienable rights that all humans should enjoy regardless of government, war, religion, or catastrophe.
There are the rights that our government ensures, in our case, the United States government.
And then there are rights that ARE NOT ENSURED by the United States government but should be.
After we brainstorm all these rights, you will choose the one that is most important to you and argue against those who want to take away the right, not ensure the right, or who are endangering the right.
Some examples will be given in class during the brainstorming session.
You will begin the essay process with a personal statement of belief as to why the right is important to you and place it in your journal as a Week Three entry.
Next, you will begin a research process to find articles by people who want to take away the right, who wish to or are acting to endanger the right, and/or are arguing that the right should not be a right and should not be protected.
Armed with these two elements – a statement of belief and articles – you will write an argumentative essay that COUNTER ARGUES against those seeking to take your right away, endanger it, or not protect it at all.
Your essay will be structured around presenting these arguments by those who oppose your right and then COUNTERING those arguments, refuting them, seeking to show how your right needs to remain protected, safe, or needs to become a protected right.
ASSIGNMENT:
Write a persuasive essay (ie. one that persuades the audience) on a subject of your choice. You will choose a subject for the essay by reading and reacting to a launch source you choose and for which you receive instructor approval.
REQUIREMENTS
Length = min. of 1000 words (D1) then min. of 1200 words (D2)
SOURCES: THREE authored sources.
STRUCTURE: define the right, statement of belief, how is it at risk, counter argue (refute) the opposition to the right, and call to action for audience.
- They Say-I Say or variants - proceed from counter claims
- Use of at least two multi-source use paragraphs
- Corroboration of evidence
- Extensive reasoning and analysis of sources.
An academic essay structure in at least six paragraphs with standard essay elements, such as thesis, topic sentences, and an attention getting title and hook. More details of the requirements follow later in this document and expand for subsequent drafts.
An argumentative essay persuades a reader through use of a structured and well-considered argument that can be framed in a problem-solution organizational pattern. Our argument essay will establish an argument with a chain of reasoning, refuting of counter arguments, and evidence from sources.
Students will work the essay through a writing process culminating in a final draft at the end of the term. This document shares the step-by-step development of the essay.
OVERVIEW OF PROCESS
- STAGE ONE: STATEMENT OF BELIEF: You will start by describing why this right is important to you and a fundamental part of your belief system. This statement of belief goes in your journal for week three and it also part of your essay.
- STAGE TWO: PREPARING TO DRAFT: Once you have chosen a SUBJECT, you will begin to build your argument through brainstorming and by accumulating additional sources.
- STAGE THREE: DRAFTING: Once you have prepared well, you will write the first draft of your essay and continue to revise multiple drafts based on feedback you receive and to the best of your ability
END RESULT: WIN!! Success and great learning, development of critical thinking skills, writing skills, facility with construction of a reasoned argument backed by evidence, and a strong sense of personal accomplishment. You will have ADDED YOU VOICE to the rhetoric regarding an issue you care about very much.
STAGE ONE: FINDING YOUR SUBJECT:
Choose the right that you care about the most: a currently protected right or a right that is not yet protected and/or ensured.
Find any article about why that right is in danger of being taken or continue to not be ensured by International Human Rights organizations or the American government (or another country if you prefer).
For additional guidance, see the description in class instruction and a YOUR RIGHTS page of resources in Canvas.
STAGE TWO: PRE-WRITING WORK: In the BPO, you will want to fully explore your ideas. Pre-writing will be expected to be the most robust section of the work.
BRAINSTORM: Brainstorming, prewriting, and outlining are extremely important steps in planning your essay and preparing to write your first draft. Brainstorm possible topics extensively and even in multiple ways. Prewrite on at least one of those topics and maybe more if you get inspired. Then look at your work and construct a preliminary outline plan for the essay. This work will save you a great deal of angst and is part of the drafting process.
STAGE THREE: FIRST DRAFT OF THE ESSAY:
Deadline: (see syllabus and modules).
ADDRESS these five content goals in your essay:
- Define your right - What is it? What secures it (US con or Human Right)? Of not secured, why not? Who is fighting for it?
- Statement of belief - Why do you care so much about this right? If it is a secured right, why do you wish to see it kept. If it is not a secured and guaranteed right, then why should it be?
- HOW AND WHY AT RISK: How and why is this right at risk of being lost or not becoming a right. Who endangers it? Why?
- REFUTE: Refute the arguments made by the opposition to eliminate the right, change its intention, or not see it guaranteed in law.
- CALL TO ACTION: Foment a call to action for your audience to protect this right. Your audience should be very specifically someone the power to enact change.
Using your a core source as a launch point, write a persuasive essay that follows problem-solution structure to disagree with the opinion expressed in that article in part or completely and persuade your own views in reaction to it.
LENGTH = 1000 WORDS minimum. No maximum length.
Six paragraph minimum.
Argue at least four topics (three problem and one solution or some variation).
FORMAT: Follow the MLA format template. Student header with title in MLA form on page one. Please add the assignment: E2D1. Title page optional. Double-spaced text in standard 12 pt font. Page numbers and page headers are helpful. Works Cited appears on its own separate page at end of document, labeled correctly.
SOURCES: Find at least three authored sources on your own: one via the library database and one that uses data and will inform your data graphic.
Cite and reference these four required sources and ensure that they are all written by human authors that you can reference by name.
****************** Annotate all sources on Works Cited page.
The launch source should be credible and written by a human. The other sources you find will be required to be of a certain type but must all be written by human authors. Beyond four required sources, you may use sources without human authors by name.
Source one - launch source (starter)
Source two - found via library and/or uses data as evidence
Source three - data evidence if not found in source two
- You may use more than three sources. Only three MUST have authors.
STAGE THREE: FIRST DRAFT OF THE ESSAY: sources: continued
Label all three of the required sources in the annotation for that source: Launch source, library source, data source.
Three required sources must be written by authors with names, real people whose identities you can track. They must be from print sources. No TV channel web sites, videos, or films in the minimum required three.
General sources like Wikipedia as well as films and videos and TV channel content even from web sites may be used in addition to three, authored sources. Most essays will need to use more than the three minimum required sources for adequate support for ideas. But it’s not meant to be a huge research project. No need for a boatload of source material.
CITATIONS: Student writers cite all source material (quoted or paraphrased) with in-text citations and end references in proper MLA form.
As per the instructor’s lessons and stipulations, please render full cites as (author, pg#) or (author, para#) for all source use.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: All sources are listed with annotations following the MLA formatted reference in single-space text even if more sources are used. Annotations include a short summary of the source (no more than five sentences); the type of source (opinion, data, library, or other), marked at the start of the annotation; and some information about the author’s credentials and/or the site’s credibility/reputation/ownership (Media Bias Fact Check). You may need to use your own investigative and thinking skills to determine this last part on credibility. Consult class instruction for more details.
FIRST DRAFT BASE REQUIREMENTS: To meet requirements for the first draft, the student writer must have written over 1000 words of text, an argumentative problem-solution thesis, paragraphs that lead with topic sentence claims, at least four body paragraphs, and cited sources with a corresponding annotated works cited page. The submission should feature MLA essay format and appropriate academic style (in part, third person with limited first person if personal experience is included).
NOTE: You do not have to have sources that meet the source type requirements until the second draft, and so I may be very lenient in assessing the source part in the first draft. Though if you already meet the requirements, that's AWESOME!!!
Is this the fun part? Are you having some fun, now? :-)
STAGE FOUR: THE SECOND DRAFT
Due dates on syllabus and modules.
After the submission of the first draft, you will receive feedback from your instructor in a group conference, and you will prepare for peer review and revision for the second draft.
PEER REVIEW immediately follows submission of the first draft, and it is a required step in the essay two writing process.
After peer feedback, now, you are ready to make a substantial revision and to work the piece of writing for a second draft. In brief, for this stage, you should consider issues of credibility and bias with regards to source material and work in related content to your argument,
- introduce and refute opposing perspectives,
- expand content,
- strengthen argument structure after learning more about persuasive strategy,
- provide transitions,
- add more source material,
- and include a few other elements to be taught by instructor.
REVISION LENGTH SECOND DRAFT: at least 1200 words.
REVISION: ADD at least one SOURCE: at least four total authored sources (one more than previously). Other required elements from first draft still apply, such as types of sources, authors, and annotations. This third source uses data as evidence to support or refute your argument.
GRAPHIC: Create a data graphic and insert it into your essay using source material. ANALYZE THE DATA. Graphics can be easily created with Excel. See class instruction for details. Data graphic[s] are inserted in the text of the essay and analyzed in the text as part of the argument. This data element is required by draft two.
REQUIREMENT CONDITIONS FOR SECOND DRAFT: All the listed requirements of the first draft as well as utilizing persuasive strategies and techniques, an engaging hook to start essay, preferably an emotional appeal (pathos), the data graphic, essay has a unique title, varied signal phrase for source use with (at a minimum) author, source, and some inclusion of author’s credentials when first used, a full examination of counter arguments, 1200 word minimum, third source, and transitions.
STAGE FIVE: The Third Draft (optional)
After feedback on two drafts of this essay, you will complete a third draft and then a final draft for the portfolio at the end of the semester. You revise this essay for the portfolio as your “signature” or “capstone” work.
REVISION DOCUMENT WITH THIRD DRAFT: With the third draft, you include a revision document charting revisions you have made so far and action items you feel may still need work. You include this document at the end of your third draft document starting on its own page separate from the rest of the document.
To “meet requirements” for ESSAY TWO either the third draft or the final draft must meet expectations for 12 of the 16 criteria in the persuasive essay rubric shared in the ESSAY TWO PROCESS MODULE in Canvas.
OVERARCHING REVISION POLICY: Each phase of the revision process must feature substantial revisions to the essay draft. If the student submits the exact same draft or a draft with very little change for any stage, (all revisions after the first draft including and especially the final draft), the submission will not meet requirements.
GETTING BACK ON TRACK WITH TUTORING: If any of the required steps is incomplete and does not meet requirements, the assignment will be marked as such, and you'll need to see the writing tutors in an appointment or use e-tutoring as directed by the instructor for assistance with completing the process and then resubmit the corrected and completed work (upon receipt of your visit) before the next stage of the writing process is due or before the end of the entire process depending on the instructor’s feedback.
SAMPLES OF SIMILAR PERSUASIVE ESSAYS HERE (shows annotations)
The BASICS of the RUBRIC
- Introduction - engages/context
- main point/thesis - complex
- Multiple point body paragraphs
- sub-point support
- SIP - source ideas
- MLA source citation
- subpoint support student writer's explanations
- balance - student/source ideas
- organization at all levels
- Transitions
- Background information
- Conclusion - wraps - killer end
- Clear writing
- Word choice, tone, style
- Rhetorical Appeals
GOOD LUCK! shalom: chris
All I really Need To Know I learned in Kindergarten; No one is a barber shop; Lighten Up; It Takes a Village; Like a Rolling Stone;
What’s so funny about Peace, Love, and Understanding?; Let’s Give Peace a Chance; Won’t Get Fooled Again; Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free, Take a load off Fanny, and you put the load right on me;
You Can’t Always Get What You Want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need oh yeah
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1687 - "The Weight" - 50 years later - BONUS Musical Tuesday
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