Today, you were to catch back up from the reading/summary-response journal entry most of you missed over the weekend. Check below for Friday's entry to get the reading log and the the schedule. Tonight you should be reading through chapter 2. You WILL have a quiz on chapters 1-2 on Tuesday. You should also turn in the 2-column summary/response on TUESDAY. REMINDER- THIS IS AN ENGLISH HONORS CLASS. Do not turn in TRIPE and expect to receive anything other than a nominal grade.
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Above is the PDF example sheet for a SPES argument. Now, one could certainly go nuts with the verbal play on words of SPES and specious; however, if done well, any paragraph with a SPES structure will at least have form--if not, arguably, valid content. In other words, you may not succeed in building a decent argument, but if you use SPES, you will at least build a decent paragraph. The goal is to build both persuasive paragraphs and awesome arguments. Please keep in mind that the above PDF is NOT intended to make a political statement whatsoever. As a matter of fact, we'll go ahead and fictionalize the authors: Paragraph 1: written by "Richy Republican" and paragraph 2: written by "Debby Democrat." Thus the bias exhibited in both is clearly stated upfront. Neither paragraph suggests necessarily my own biases, which I do not admit upfront, other than to say that, although I do have biases, they're really not part of this discussion at all. Period. :)