28 November 2016

Today students crafted questions at issue and enthymemes, then began developing synthesis essays to support their claims.

Some additional resources include:

•   "Letter of Recommendation: High School Football" from this last week's New York Times Magazine
• "A Not So Brief and Extremely Sordid History of Cheerleading" from Mother Jones
• Radiolab's "American Football" episode
• "Are People Violent By Nature? Probably" from the Los Angeles Times
• "No Pain, No Game" from The New York Times
• "Stop Glorifying Football Players and Start Glorifying Soldiers" from Time

In class, we reviewed the synthesis essay assignment and scoring guide, and students got underway with the writing process. A first complete first draft of the essay is due on Tuesday, 6 December/Wednesday, 7 December 2016.