Dec. 16, 2010

The past 3 days in this class we have talked about pathos. Since Tuesday of this week we started reviewing blogs of how people felt when they saw a TIME magazine cover. This exercise was to see how much pathos the students got out of a simple picture. Each picture represented a certain feeling for each student. Everyones feelings were very close to the image that they chose. During the past few days the term Pathos was burned into our head (in a good way), because the strong feelings that everyone felt. Some students showed personal connections to the magazine cover while others just found some emotion by simply glancing at the cover.

Cesar Bernal & Josh Bell 12-13-10

This image speaks to us because we, as children, live with parents that need to be more trusting with their child's decision. This image shows a child being maneuvered by strings, which can only be assumed as his parents decisions and commands; and he doesn't have enough power to change anything yet.

*picture provided by Time Magazine

SSR Dec. 10, 2010

Today in SSR I read the final chapters in The Indian in the Cupboard. The final chapters consisted of the character Omri sending back his beloved indian Little Bear back to his home. Omri hid the key which may lead to future adventures.
-Cesar Bernal

Today in SSR, I read Pokemon Rangers and the Temple of the Sea. I like the part when Ash and May helped Manaphy put back the jewels into the Sea Crown from the Temple.
-Josh

Dec. 9, 2010 Pathos and Logos

Today in class we learned more about pathos and logos. For logos we learned to look carefully for the logic of the paragraph. For pathos we learned that every paragraph has some for of emotional appeal, whether its to the reader or in general.

Dec. 7, 2010

This paragraph mentions two different topics, one topic mentions activist trying to improve on the city's "existing patchwork while keeping costs low", and the other topic mentions another all-day summer academy that educates kids through stealth learning.

pathos-  could not find anything
logos- could not find anything

Dec. 2, 2010

The argument this speaker is trying to make is that kids lose a significant amount of knowledge during summer, and that there are summer programs that help kids gain intelligence without them knowing. A piece of information missing is feedback from an underprivileged kid, the author does not have children's statements of what the kids are doing during their summer.

Dec. 1, 2010

In the East 10th United Methodist Church on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis they have a local summer all- day program that offers a different theme every year for some selected few elementary school children, while they unintentionally learn about math and science