ESL writing Class
This is the 11th week in the English writing class.
Attendance and review (5)
Last week
- no classes because of two holidays
Two weeks ago
- warrants
- three ways to make a warrant and persuade people: logos, pathos and ethos (problem with computer for this part)
This Week
- remember the book report (due May 26)
- review warrants
- inquiry method of learning, thinking and writing
- two new writing assignments
- feedback on past writing (#1 electric car and #2 alligator river)
Schedule (10)
- Week 11: May 10 and 12 – class (inquiry method)
- Week 12: May 17 and 19 – class (hypothesis and argument) quiz #2
- Week 13: May 24 and 26 – class (last new writing assignment, how to write an email) book report due
- Week 14: May 31 and June 2 – class (last day to hand in writing for feedback)
- Week 15: June 7 last class (exam review)
- Week 16: June 9 FRI and 14 WED no classes (make up week)
- Week 17: June 16 – final exam
Key Dates
- May 19 – quiz
- May 26 – book report due
- June 2 – last day to hand in writing for feedback
- June 7 – last class
Hour 1
Attendance and review (5)
Quick review of some student writing, and general comments.
Logos, pathos and ethos (10)
- review the slide show about warrants
- review examples of logos, pathos and ethos (last time the computer did not work)
Introduction to inquiry method of thinking and writing (10)
- brings together arguments and warrants and special way of seeing information
Presentation about Inquiry Method of Learning (20)
Writing Assignment 1: Murder Scene
Click here for the murder picture.
- Queenie and her husband Arthur.
- Yesterday, they had an argument. She left the house and met friends in a bar. Arthur went to a different bar.
- She said she left the bar about 1am and asked her friends to come to her house for a drink.
- She said she arrived home at 1:30 am. Her friends got to her house about 10 minutes later, about 1:40 am.
- When the friends arrived, she opened the door and looked shocked. She said something bad happened.
- Her husband fell on the stairs. He was coming down for another drink—he still had the glass in his hand.
- She called the police.
- The police report said he died from a head injury and he was drunk when he died.
Do you believe here?
Framework
- Question
- Data
- Warrants
- Probable Conclusion/Argument
Writing assignment #3
- write a report which looks at 2 or 3 pieces of information in the picture
- analyse that information with the inquiry method
- make a conclusion about the woman based on this information
Hours 2-3
Attendance and review (5)
Writing assignments so far:
- analysis and evaluation of electric car commercial
- death of husband
- alligator river
Two assignments this week
- death for dinner
- living small
Practice: Death for Dinner (20)
- Here is a restaurant crime scene.
- Early this evening, the police heard a gunshot inside Ernie’s restaurant.
- The police found the dead body of body of a famous gangster.
- Ernie, the owner and only employee, said: “The murderer leaned against the wall while firing his gun. There is a hand print on the wall.
- The last number on the cash register was $8.75.
Who killed the guy?
Writing Assignment #4: Live Small (30)
Click here get the writing lesson:
- watch a short video
- write analysis of the man’s arguments and information based on the inquiry method