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Thinking Routine | Values, Identities, Actions Antigua: Today, you will embark on some research about the island of Antigua using the thinking routine Values, Identities, Actions. Fill out the thinking routine by researching the following categories: Demographics
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Do Now | Compass Points
Reconsider: The Effects of Gentrification in Milwaukee, WUWM
Add to your Compass Points by (re)considering the same questions in regards to this podcast:
Cyberjournal | Read Part III to the break on page 52 Turn your Compass Points into a comprehensive Cyberjournal that considers thoughts on gentrification using evidence from the two audios from yesterday as well as considers gentrification within the novel: What “gentrification” happened in Antigua in part three?
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Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Reflection Today, you will construct your first reflective blog post for this class. Writers develop and clarify ideas by interacting with other writers. Writers develop, connect, and reflect on ideas presented by other writers. In doing so, they determine their personal opinion on a topic. This opinion is then developed into an argument using information gathered from other writers. This information and insight adds to their own writing via direct and indirect evidence. Construct a paragraph about your personal thoughts on tourism by responding to the questions below. Be sure to write in complete sentences, paragraph form.
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Do Next | Rhetorical Strategies Posters
Rhetoric is the use of language to persuade an audience to understand the writer's perspective in nonfiction text. There are several rhetorical strategies we will analyze when reading A Small Place this unit. Today, you will each receive one rhetorical strategy to present to the rest of the class. To develop an understanding of this strategies do some quick research: define the strategy in our own words, construct a symbol you think represents the strategy, and explain your symbol in writing. Then create a mini-poster to hang on the wall for us to reference during this unit. Include the name of the strategy, the definition of the strategy and your symbol. Also be sure to leave space for us to record examples from A Small Place.
Presentations | Present your poster to the rest of the class. As each person is presenting, copy their definition of the rhetorical strategy into your notes. Parts, People, Interact | Maps of Antigua
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éPortfolio Submission FormCourse DescriptionA Small Place is an interdisciplinary course inspired by the controversial nonfiction novel, A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, about Antigua—the lasting effects of British colonialism, criticism of the tourist industry and corruption of Antiguan government. Throughout this course, Étudians will research and analyze a wide variety of multimedia texts about Antigua, Sheboygan, and Native American history in Wisconsin; focused on the themes of tourist and native, colonialism and gentrification, and the cultural importance of movement.
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