Comparision Macbeth and the Crucible
EAE3U | Unit 3 – Speaking Out! | | Activity 5 – Preparing the Persuasive Essay |
Responding to Alan Lightman’s Progress
With a teacher-assigned partner, use the Graffiti Learning Strategy to complete the template below in response to Alan Lightman’s essay Progress.
The Graffiti Learning Strategy
This strategy requires that each member of the group provide his or her reactions or answers to each category. The reactions can be in the form of illustrations, complete sentences, point form statements, or any other method or combination of methods which clearly demonstrates your message. Once you have responded to all three categories, you must return to each and comment on, respond to, or elaborate upon your partner’s answers.
This activity works best when each member of the group uses a different colour of font for his or her responses. Template for Responding to Alan Lightman’s Progress | Purpose : What message is the author trying to convey to his readers? | We ought to not lose ourselves in the constant evolution of technology. We need to know where we are and assume it. Let’s live in the moment and all throw our computers out the window on three! One, two… oh, ok, let’s not and just say we did . | Persuasive Techniques : Give examples which demonstrate that the author used some of the persuasive techniques you have learned about. Refer to the interactive exercise Persuasive Techniques in Activity 3.2 if you need to review this information. | Opinion: He doesn’t want to have an e-mail because of his belief. He doesn’t want to join the revolution.Emotional appeal: He talks about one of his friend who wastes a lot of his time to find the important e-mails through his mailbox. He wastes his life away in front of an inanimate object.Repetition: He comes back to his example of the e-mail twice during the essay. He really doesn’t like e-mails.Appeal to logic: After reading that essay, I felt as if technology has really overruled us. I’m personally a
Responding to Alan Lightman’s Progress
With a teacher-assigned partner, use the Graffiti Learning Strategy to complete the template below in response to Alan Lightman’s essay Progress.
The Graffiti Learning Strategy
This strategy requires that each member of the group provide his or her reactions or answers to each category. The reactions can be in the form of illustrations, complete sentences, point form statements, or any other method or combination of methods which clearly demonstrates your message. Once you have responded to all three categories, you must return to each and comment on, respond to, or elaborate upon your partner’s answers.
This activity works best when each member of the group uses a different colour of font for his or her responses. Template for Responding to Alan Lightman’s Progress | Purpose : What message is the author trying to convey to his readers? | We ought to not lose ourselves in the constant evolution of technology. We need to know where we are and assume it. Let’s live in the moment and all throw our computers out the window on three! One, two… oh, ok, let’s not and just say we did . | Persuasive Techniques : Give examples which demonstrate that the author used some of the persuasive techniques you have learned about. Refer to the interactive exercise Persuasive Techniques in Activity 3.2 if you need to review this information. | Opinion: He doesn’t want to have an e-mail because of his belief. He doesn’t want to join the revolution.Emotional appeal: He talks about one of his friend who wastes a lot of his time to find the important e-mails through his mailbox. He wastes his life away in front of an inanimate object.Repetition: He comes back to his example of the e-mail twice during the essay. He really doesn’t like e-mails.Appeal to logic: After reading that essay, I felt as if technology has really overruled us. I’m personally a