September 19

Agenda:

• 15 Minutes of silent reading

• Socratic Seminar "This is Water" & Psychology Article

  1. What’s our rhetorical situation?

     • • • Exigence 

         • Audience

         • Speaker

         • Purpose

  2. What rhetorical strategies do we pick up on? Modes?

  3. What do you think is your “natural default setting” in how you think or perceive the world? 

  4. In what ways does your own experience in the world limit your world-view? 

  5. Do you have an experience that is similar to the example Wallace shares at the supermarket? Looking back now, how could you have shifted your thinking during that experience?  

  6. Wallace says, “The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.” What have you chosen, consciously or not, to assign meaning to? 

     • • What is sacred? What is important? Thinking about it consciously now, is it worthy of your time and attention?

  7. What advice do you think Wallace is trying to give? How would you follow it?

• With a partner, construct a valid introduction and thesis for "This is Water"- We are sharing out at the end.

• We will start on Speed Speeches if time permits!