During this unit my class and I read a book entitled "10 Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now" by Jaron Lanier. We were later broken into groups and asked to pick a specific chapter to analyze and to create a sldieshow presentation afterwards to teach the rest of the class about it's contents. My group picked Ch. 6 which describes how social media is destroying each user's ability to empathize with others. After analyzing our chapter, and taking notes on everyone else's, we finally had to take a stance on the argument. We were all asked to make a defensive claim, find evidence to support it, and finally address a counterargument for each claim. 

For this mini-project, my class and I were asked to pick a song and analyze its lyrics. We had to identify and explain at least three literary devices used in the song. I used the song "Like Him" by Tyler the Creator. Then, we used the slideshow on the right to share our thesis, claim, and evidence  arguing that our song is the "GOAT" (greatest of all time). Afterwards we read and reviewed three of our peers’ presentations and left them feedback on their analysis and argumentation. We used the information in the presentation to write our final essay.