March 22, 2018 - Amanda DiFino

American Literature - March 22, 2018

NOTES:

Capitalization - equal opportunities?, Economic: Survival of the fittest, Opportunities created for others to succeed.

Descriptive (to explain) or Argumentative (to prove)? Explicit or Implicit (there's something wrong)?

“And right from the beginning, Americans have told themselves that they are really good at capitalization, really good at social mobility, any kid can grow up to be President. That's whats supposed to set America apart from everywhere else.” (Gladwell)

There's something wrong…  (Used who, what, where, when, why, and how. )

• The idea of capitalization and climbing to the top is a flawed idea that the Americans blindly follow.

“That's why the capitalization of talent is such an issue because these are really long odds.” (Gladwell)

DESCRIPTION OF TODAYS CLASS:

Today in class Mr. Rivers went over the podcast from class on Tuesday. He first asked our groups the definition of capitalization, which was, equal opportunities?, Economic: Survival of the fittest, Opportunities created for others to succeed. After we understood the meaning of capitalization we went over a part of the podcast where Gladwell said, “And right from the beginning, Americans have told themselves that they are really good at capitalization, really good at social mobility, any kid can grow up to be President. That's whats supposed to set America apart from everywhere else.”. Mr. Rivers had us split up the text and find where it was descriptive or argumentative. We found in that text that, "Americans have told themselves that they are really good at capitalization, really good at social mobility", was descriptive and "That's whats supposed to set America apart from everywhere else.” was argumentative. We then broke it down to make the text more simplified and got, The idea of capitalization and climbing to the top is a flawed idea that the Americans blindly follow. The remainder of the period Mr. Rivers showed us a picture to discuss within our groups.

AN EXTENSION THAT EXTENDS WHAT WE LEARNED IN CLASS TO THE WORLD AT LARGE:

This is to prepare us in the future to write a stronger thesis in essay or papers for college or if we become a writer. Its simple knowledge to help improve rough drafts.