Juan’s English blog

 In class we had to finish up the benchmark because it was the last day to do it. If you hadn’t answered the questions you had to take an educational guess so that you had enough time to finish up the argument essay which was question 20

 Today in class we were given a vocabulary book and we had to write down the fifteen vocabulary that was in pages 5 and 6. Once we finished writing them down we put them into our binders to keep. We then had to write a unique sentence for each word as well as answer exercise 1 that was on page 7. The exercise had 3 parts to it and we had to only write the correct order the words went in. Then once we finished with all that we had to write our blogs

 In the beginning of class we took down some notes on how to format an argument essay. It has to have a total of 8 sentences which include the introduction which will be the attention getter, introduces the topic and thesis statement, then the body paragraph which includes the claim, two evidence explaining how that evidence supports the claim, then finally the conclusion which will restate the thesis statement and sums up the entire paper. Once we finished taking those notes we had to finish up the rest of the benchmark that we weren’t able to complete on Monday as well as fully finishing up the 20th question 

 Today In class we had to take out our Chromebooks because we were going to take a benchmark test that had 20 questions. There were 2 passages to read with the first one having 6 questions then the second one having 13 questions as well as a 20nd question that was an essay which we’ll be doing tomorrow. The passages that would help us answer the 19 questions were short ones and didn’t take long to read but we ended up not having enough time to finish up all 19. So we had to pause our test and wait till tomorrow to finish them all up. 

 Today in class we defined what evidence was and the definition was that it comes from your readings, your experiences or your observations. Then we were shown a form of the way to discredit evidence by showing how a person can get away with murder if the evidence is strong enough and that can’t be proven wrong

In class we went onto illuminate for an assignment on logos, pathos and ethos. We were shown videos and pictures and were told to determine whether it was logos, pathos, or ethos and give an explanation on why that was the correct answer as well as give as tell who the targeted audience was. In total we did 9 of them together 

Today In class we took notes about what an argument is. We learned that an argument is an opinion(claim) which is supported by evidence but doesn’t have to be persuasive but can be implicitly persuasive. As well that anything can be an argument such as why earth is round and not flat. In addition, an argument includes three elements which are the speaker, the purpose and the audience, as well as rhetoric which is the art of arguing effectively. A rhetoric can also be a rhetorical triangle which is a relationship between logos, ethos and pathos which all also help an argument be a better claim.