Posting Bad Ads

If...

You posted your Bad Ad before we scored them today in class, you may want to go back and revise/edit your post. I'm sure you will find that a few changes can greatly improve your score. Look over the guidelines carefully.

Can't wait to see final copies!

Remember:

Definition/Compare-Contrast Essay Re-write/Upgrade is due tomorrow. Please post on blog so we can all read them.

All other work is also due FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12TH.

Fantastic work this unit! You deserve your upcoming holiday!

For your BAD AD

Steering you

Use these questions to help guide your Bad Ad essay. In addition, we will use them on Monday with the documentary we watch.

1. Who is the producer/storyteller of the message?
2. What is their purpose/motive/agenda? (to inform, to persuade, to educate, to call to action, to entertain, to shock)
3. Who is the intended (primary) target audience? How do you know? Is there another (secondary) audience?
4. What does the message say? How does it say it?
5. How do you know what the message means?
6 What format/medium does the producer use?
7. What are the advantages of the format/medium?
8. What methods/techniques does the producer use to make the message attractive/believable?
9. What lifestyle is portrayed in the message? What clues tell you ?
10. Who/what is left out of the message?
11. Do you agree with the message?
12. How might different people interpret the message differently?
13. What do you know; what do you NOT know; What would you like to know?
14. Where can you go to verify the information or get more reliable information?
15. What can you do with the information you have obtained from the message?

ATTENTION

UPCOMING DUE DATES:

Friday--December 5th--

• Expository Essay Due
• Imitation of "Dial vs. Digital" (Look at Jimmy's, Rachel's, Cathy's, Michael's--they're good! Make comments!)

Next Week:

• 3 articles you find and like, posted on blog. Include AUTHOR and SOURCE (Where did it come from?)
• 3 bad ads posted on blog.
• Expository Final Draft
• Bad Ad for Contest DUE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12th

For the Weekend...

REMINDERS...

Monday:

• RRN Check #2. Changes: substitute questions for "Pain" instead of "Hoax", and you can eliminate the Alice Walker essay (although it's really great, and I highly recommend it)

• First Draft of Essay. This can be a compare/contrast essay or a definition essay. If you are still stuck on ideas, just go with "What is tolerance?" You can take this in many directions. What does tolerance mean today in the world? To you personally? Have you ever experienced acts of intolerance by others? When is intolerance acceptable? Have you ever been intolerant of something/someone?

Ode to Tolerance

Ode to Tolerance
Lit II/Writing II

If we all saw each other as a person, we wouldn’t need tolerance.
We are all the same no matter what falls upon us.

Tolerance is the lock on the door of anger
Tolerance is the slow and hard walk away from pain and destruction.

Watching the hopeless child
Crap on the sidewalk

Waching the old couple
Beg for spare change

Watch as they cry
Because of gang violence

Watch as they’re jailed
From a far away range

Tolerance creates peace
Cause no one discriminates.

POETRY ANALYSIS and other writing assignments

IF...

You need help with any revisions, please come see me! The final draft is due on FRIDAY, November 28--in 2 days.

Tomorrow (Thursday) we will have time in the computer lab to work on blogs, bad ads, and other writing assingments. Come to class prepared to use every second.

Using FEAR

What do you think? Does the fear technique work? Is it appropriate? Does this make it a "bad ad"?