Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, Individuality vs Conformity (5th – 6th)
Hello SAVY families!
Well, this course is sure to be full of fascinating personalities and ideas! It is already clear that many of our students have complex and interesting perspectives and ideas, and I can’t wait to see what we discover about each other as we investigate our similarities and differences and learn to express ourselves and expand our worldviews.
We started the class off with a discussion and overview of the schedule. In this course, we will embrace a myriad of learning methods and participate in a variety of activities from reading and writing to critical analysis to physical activities. Each afternoon we will take on a different project in the afternoon that will help us put what we’ve learned into action. Today we created parodies in the form of a play script of Plato’s Cave from The Republic along with Ray Bradbury’s All Summer in a Day. Earlier in the day we learned about rhetorical strategies of persuasion and practiced using pathos, logos, and ethos to express our viewpoints and convince others. Ask your students who their character was – were they Copernicus? Or Maybe Magellan? What strategies did they use to convince the world of a brand-new idea? Tomorrow we will perform our parodies and get to see how our classmates view the world and think creatively.
Each morning, we will have a team trivia review of concepts and vocabulary. Within the evening blog each day, I will include a hint for a bonus question answer. Please share the hint with your students and allow them to look through the blog to find the answer!
Bonus question hint for students: In class earlier, I mentioned syntax and syntactical strategy, or the way we use sentence structure, phrases, and words in a particular way to appeal to an audience. Try to find an example within this blog of a place where I use a syntactical strategy to convey a feeling or hook the audience. You do not need to know the name of the device being used, just look out for ways I am using rhetoric and language to convince you of something!
Just for fun: Students, ask your caregivers/parents if they happen to know the name of any rhetorical devices and if they can come up with an example. NO using onomatopoeia! Too easy!
Until tomorrow,
Ms. Rho