APELC Class Notes
Objective: APELCers differentiated levels of critical thinking in a text.
APELCers, I asked you to focus your efforts on an analytical text today and highlight various levels of critical thinking you encountered as you read. We had a discussion of thesis statements when I asked you to identify and defend your best candidate for a thesis statement in the Ayad piece. We’ll complete the activity next class when you’ll analyze Ayad’s logoi, that is, her organizational choices or how she arranged her evidence and analysis in support of her thesis.
Remember that College Night is tomorrow evening at the TCC. Please attend this important event if you can, even if you already have your post-secondary trajectory set. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans, a deranged and debauched artist once sang, and I encourage you to stay open to all possibilities.
By the by, here’s the talk by Mike Rowe of Discovery’s Dirty Jobs I mentioned in class in which he celebrates the working man. Be forewarned he does relate a frank, but humorous story of a lamb castration he was involved in for the show. (The story, properly an anecdote, is actually one of the major logoi of the story and helps make his point.)
Don’t forget to attend your reading. See you next class.
ANOTHER VISIT. I almost forgot to mention again second period Rhiannon’s mom’s visit to class today. I’m excited when parents take time to visit you in class to watch us work. Bring your moms, dads, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives to T-12; we can always benefit from their experience and participation.