Feel Without Acting Feb. 3

WRITTEN PORTFOLIO
Today we saw that students still needed to work on idea development for their media essays. Thus, we will move the deadline for the essays to Friday of next week.

In class we worked on answering the first question from the essay prompt: "How does media threaten the liberty of today's youth?"

We considered some of the aspects of our lives that can be negatively impacted by spending too much time and attention on media: social, physical, spiritual, emotional, educational, etc. As we discussed, we differentiated between evidence and claims. Every paragraph is composed of a claim with supporting evidence. Evidence consists of examples, analogies, statistics, quotations, scientific findings, and so on. Claims tell what the evidence means and help to answer the essay prompt.

Students will be doing a second draft of their outlines. In their next draft, they should make sure that the highest levels of the outline are full-sentence claims and that the sublevels provide evidence in support of those claims. You should select the evidence that your audience will find most persuasive. (Remember, we are first writing for an LDS audience and later will be writing for a general audience.)

COREBellwrite #46: What is the difference between confidence and pride? What is humility?

Students turned in their Angel Letter #4. After discussing the bellwrite, we finished reading Screwtape Letter #13. We considered Screwtape's tactic of getting the patient to feel without acting. We each identified something we have felt repeatedly that we "should" do, but which we have failed to actually do. We individually made a specific action plan and told a classmate about the plan so we can hold ourselves accountable. Class B began reading Letter #14.

For history, I continued presenting on WWI. Today we finished discussing key battles from the Western Front, and then discussed important developments from the Middle East and on the Eastern Front.

Homework:

• Spend 30 minutes working on vocabulary.com. Use the list "Screwtape Letters 13-15.")
• Memorization from Screwtape Letters due Thursday.
• Update: Media essay will be due NEXT Friday.