This week marked the beginning of second quarter; we’re already done with one-fourth of the school year! On Monday, Ms. Nickow handed back our independent reading assignments from first quarter. She had found some common errors in the papers, so we quickly went over usage of that vs. who, filler words, how to punctuate a title, and font selection. We then revisited Aristotle and pathos, ethos, and logos, trying to incorporate these methods of persuasion into our arguments for the upcoming debate.
Tuesday was a late start day, and the day started off with the introduction of a new seating chart, followed by the announcement that all independent reading journals must be written on the form that can be found on Ms. Nickow’s website. Ms. Nickow then went on to ask us to fill out an informal evaluation for her so that she can improve her teaching methods. We were then given the rest of the day to finish up preparing for the debate.
With Wednesday came the debate, and many interesting arguments were brought up. All groups were well prepared, and there was no clear winner for most of the debates. At the end of the day, Ms. Nickow asked us to evaluate our own individual performance in the debate, considering factors such as whether or not you were able to bring up all the points that you wanted to bring up.
We started watching the movie version of Of Mice and Men on Thursday and continued watching the movie through Friday, making the end of the week peaceful in comparison to the heated debates we had on Wednesday; Ms. Nickow decided to stop the movie right before Lennie killed Curley’s wife.
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