Women's Brains

Brains...brains...braaaaiiiinnsss!!!

As we wrestle with the unpleasant, but important to understand Women's Brains by Stephen Jay Gould, work on the Rhetoric and Style questions 1-12 on pages 354-55 of the TLC book. They are due Wednesday for period 3 and Thursday for period 5, courtesy of the special HSPE schedule.


As you work with this essay, think about the implications of the ideas in the essay -- both those of Gould and of those he quoted. Are there echoes of those ideas alive and kicking today? How? When? Where? To what extent? ;) Thinking about these issues will prime you for the synthesis paper.


REMINDER: The Parallel Structures Grammar as Rhetoric and Style section beginning on page 339 is due Friday in class. Bring it in on paper as we will go over it and answer questions.

No unmarked woman

If you were on the band trip, read There Is No Unmarked Woman by Deborah Tannen in the TLC book on page 388. Blog 1-8 (p. 393) for Monday.

Now, just in case you thought the band was where are the musical talent resides in our class, Stephanie and McCrea are making a music video this weekend that we're hoping ends up on YouTube for us to enjoy. The song is a cover of a band I've never listened to on purpose until this morning when I learned they did the song "I Want It That Way." If you are like me and have little or no exposure to these boys from the back streets, here they are:



For those of you that wonder what kind of neighborhood produced those back streets, here is the Boss and his aging band doing Backstreets.

Synthesis and Development

There two things to do in this blog: one for one person out of each group and one for everyone.

1. One person in each group should blog their findings from our research today. I will combine all that research into a post or page that you can reference later.
2. In addition to the post on Being a Man, everyone should define what we mean by "development" when we talk about essays and arguments in a blog post.