So, I enjoyed the website I mentioned, figurospeech, so much that I went out and bought the writer's book. It's called Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion. I started reading it last night, and I have to tell you it is highly readable and brings in some of the concepts of AP Language. It does take the whole rhetoric idea to an extreme that I don't think our kids will have to know, though so far in my reading it seems very promising in terms of helping kids understand arguments.
I've enjoyed it a lot and would love to have a copy for our English department library as well...we do have one of those don't we?
Sorry I've monopolized the blog...
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As I've shared with Cheryl, I received a preview copy of this book last year and have read quite a bit. It's got a permanent spot on my commode.
And yes Cheryl "Newly Blog Good," we have a department library. Perhaps when this TOSCRF/January Regents is all done I'll put up links to the books I have in my room. Most are collecting dust. I'd like to circulate them.
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