16 Elements of Style

I know some of us had to turn in notebooks Friday, so if you need to know the 16 Elements of Style in order to study they are:

1) Tone , 2) Attitude, 3) Diction, 4) Language, 5) Figurative Language, 6) Figures of Speech, 7) Detail, 8) Imagery, 9) Point of View, 10) Perspective, 11) Organization, 12) Narrative Structure, 13) Form,  14) Syntax, 15) Sentence Structure, and16) Phrasing. 

How to Decorate the Inside of your Portfolio

Upper Left:  Through words and pictures, show your major life influences. What people have influenced your life the most? What ideas do you find inspiring, compelling, influential? What music, books, quotes, organizations have shaped your life? How?

Upper Right:  Draw or find a picture of yourself that best represents you.  Beneath the picture, write a brief caption that explains its significance.

Bottom Left:  Write a paragraph about your hopes, your dreams, your goals, your desires.  These may be dreams for yourself, your family, your friends, your country or your world.  I'd appreciate it if you wrote seriously about this topic.

Bottom Right:  Make a list of five interesting or little known facts about you.  Be creative.  I want to learn things about you that I don't already know.

Prohibitions:  no glitter.  No feathers.  No cat hair.  Remember, your work will touch the inside of the folder, so be mindful.

Please remember to write your last name prominently on the tab.  :)  Due on Monday.

Why not get started on Round 2 of Vocab

The next eight words will be quizzed on Friday, September 16, and I will be checking for these 8 and your 8 that you choose yourself.

Learning new vocabulary in the context of your reading, and copying the sentences of professional writers while paying attention to how they are putting language together will help you develop and improve your own style.  The English language is an incredibly rich and varied language, so put your mind to work on acquiring and mastering the new vocabulary.  Don't let yourself slip into old bad habits of auto-pilot -- working without thinking.

intrinsic • ubiquitous • ossified • corollary • contentious • permeate • prosaic • aphorism

ADDED 9/11/16:  OK, who contributed these words?  I'll start you out, but those of you who know where to find these words, please post!

intrinsic (Johnson, 71)

But because those ideas were by definition successful ones, it's tempting to attribute their success to intrinsic causes: the sheer brilliance of the idea itself, or the sheer brilliance of the mind that came up with it.

ubiquitous (Shirkey, 13)

A few years ago Evan wouldn't have been able to get the story heard either. Before the Web became ubiquitous, he wouldn't have been able to attract an audience, much less one in the millions, and without the audience he would not have been able to get the police to change the complaint.

Fletcher Vocab FAQ

1.  How are we supposed to find the sentences when we didn't read both books? 

These words were selected by you kids.  I did not assign them.  YOU picked them.  So now, if a word you contributed is on that list, help us by posting the sentence where the word is featured.   Notice Alyssa's comment in the previous post, where she advises exactly where "tautological" could be found.  Except, I'd prefer it if you just went ahead and typed out the sentence, like I did.
Some of you seem a little lost, so I did the first three for you.   But you don't really think I should be doing the vocab words for you, do you? Kids, you need to step up.  We're a community.  Members of a community have responsibilities to one another.

2.  How do we fill in the little chart?  

The first eight words are extrinsic, tautology, jargon, ephemeral, innocuous, ramifications, meritocracy, and erstwhile; these will end up on the chart that we started in class.  But YOU create another chart, and choose eight more words that you selected to study this summer, but that didn't make the cut.  For example, when I was reading Here Comes Everybody, I selected the word "mete."  That didn't make it on our group list, so I'll include it on my personal list.

3.  When is the quiz?

The quiz is this Thursday.

4.  When are the vocab pages due?

The vocab pages are always due on the day of the quiz, so on this Thursday I will check your notebook for 16 words -- the eight "group" words, and the eight "personal" words.

Any more questions?  Pose them in the comments below.

The Vocab Sentences, Round 1

Here are the sentences that feature the words we have chosen for vocabulary study this week.  Don't forget:  you work on the eight I provided, and then eight more that you chose.

You don't  have to cram the entire sentence in the little box, but get enough of it to give you the necessary context for the word.

extrinsic, (Shirkey, 135)
This explains why both experts and amateurs are willing to contribute -- the structure of participation is not tied to extrinsic rewards, so people capable of adding to the technical explanation of complex mathematical shapes end up working alongside people who only know enough to be able to proofread descriptions of same.

tautological, (Shirkey, 70)
...who, exactly, should enjoy journalistic privileges?  The tautological answer is that journalists should enjoy such privileges, but who are journalists?

ephemeral, (Shirkey, 57)
In these cases, the scarcity of the resource itself creates the need for a professional class...[in] these cases professionals become gatekeepers, simultaneously providing and controlling access to information, entertainment, communication, or other ephemeral goods.

Is Instagram the new snapchat

Instagram has recently updated its system to include stories on a persons profile. Many argue that they stole this idea from snapchat. In the book Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson he introduces the idea of the adjacent possible. The adjacent possible is the process that ideas are influenced by other ideas. Instagram may have been influenced by Snapchat but the ideas seem way to similar. Has Instagram plagiarized snapchat? What do you guys think about this? Should Snapchat fight back for what was their idea or should they leave it alone?

"Unique" Names

When i did my Room for Debate I came across a topic that was talking about how peoples names can effect the way people view them. The article talked about how if you have a "ghetto" name you would be less likely to be hired for a job before they even meet you. This topic was not something that i was oblivious to, but I never really gave it though or cared. Now that i am getting older it is something that i real have to think about because I myself do not have a traditional name.

For those who do not know me my name is Tiara and some people may see my name as ratchet, which i find interesting because for all my life it has just been a normal name to me. What do you think about this topic? Do you think that this article is true or do you think it is not true. If so think imagine you had a different name and think about if you meet a person with your current name what would you think about that person before you meet then based off there name.