ELA II: No Name Calling Poster (70 Points)

• Create a poster that uses persuasive techniques to convince people to participate in Franklin’s No Name Calling Week.
  • Follow these requirements, including your 6-8 sentence reflection.
• If you complete the poster by Thursday, 1/27/11, Mr. Rosentel will enter it into the No Name Calling Week contest, for which the winner receives a $25 Visa gift card. However, the poster is not due in class until Friday, 1/28/11.
• Thanks, Ms. Sabbara, who designed this assignment.

FLEX Enrichment: No Baby! (20 Points)

• Read “‘Teen mom epidemic’: NINETY teenage girls pregnant at one high school” and watch “90 Teens Pregnant In One Memphis School” and “‘No Baby’ Program Looks to Fight Teen Pregnancy”.
• Write at least 1 paragraph on whether you think the “No Baby!” program will help reduce teen pregnancy.
  • Explain the problem.
  • Describe the program.
  • Explain whether you think the program will work.
  • Use evidence from the articles and videos.

ELA II: Don’t Eat Me (30 Points)

• Pretend that YOU are an Oreo cookie, and you’re terrified. At any moment this huge human thing with large white teeth and a slimy tongue is going to mash you up into little bits and kill you! You only have one chance to persuade this human crusher NOT to eat you. Plan your persuasive arguments in the boxes on the Help! Don’t Eat Me! worksheet. You must write down at least 2 persuasive arguments for logos and pathos, and at least 1 argument for ethos and kairos.
• When you fill in the charts, follow steps 2-4 to write your 2-paragraph argument on why the human should not eat you.
• In case you missed it, here is the PowerPoint on logos, pathos, ethos, and kairos.

ELA II: Complaint Box (30 Points)

• Like everyone else, you have things that bother you, whether it’s the sound of nails scratching a chalkboard or someone saying “please” at the beginning and end of sentences (that one bothers me). These annoying things are called “pet peeves.”
• Some people who have specific pet peeves write short essays in the New York Times “Complaint Box”  section. These essays are examples of persuasive writing.
• Read one of the following essays from the “Complaint Box” section and complete “Opening Up the Complaint Box”:
  • “Immobile on the Phone” (about people who stand still, blocking the sidewalk, while on their cell phones)
  • “iPod Volume” (about having to listen to others’ music because the volume on their iPod is turned up too loudly)
  • “I See London” (about men wearing their pants so that their underwear is visible)
  • “Counter Culture” (about rude or inattentive sales clerks)
  • “No More Cheeks to Turn” (about kids picking on a girl at camp)
  • Or, you can choose a post from the entire series
• For extra credit, write a persuasive pet peeve short essay of your own. Use this example to help you.

ELA II: Cigarette Ads (25 Points)

• Analyze the cigarette ads to answer the questions on the bottom of the worksheet.

ELA II: 2011 Resolution (20 Points)

• Based on our chosen resolution today, complete the 2011 Resolution packet.
  • Our chosen resolution is:
    Everyone will arrive to class on time, in their seats, and ready to start their Bell Ringers. Each time the whole class achieves these goals, students will receive a point. Every 20 points, Mr. Rosentel will throw the class a party.