This I Believe Paper

Ninja Nakayla Chan

Your This I Believe essay is due on Tuesday January 22nd. It should be uploaded to your blog and you will be reading it aloud in class as well. I will read along and grade the live presentation. Here are the requirements adapted from the This I Believe submission page (I encourage you to submit them to This I Believe if you wish). Keep the following in mind when you write your essay:

1. Limit your essay to 350-500 words.
2. Describe an event that shaped your beliefs or a person who inspired them.
3. Avoid sermons and editorials—no soapbox declamations, please!
4. Read more of the This I Believe essay-writing tips.

You can peruse multiple examples at http://thisibelieve.org. Often the ones put on the radio are a bit better, but not necessarily so.

Andrea Kang's (Class of 2009) This I Believe essay. They re-posted it from its original posting so all of the comments are gone, but her essay is there.

MLK day note: Did anyone else recognize some rhetoric echos in President Obama's inaugural address this morning? Maybe we'll take a look at that after finals.

So, what exactly do they believe?

This weekend read the rest of chapter 1 from the Everything's an Argument. Also read I Listen to My Parents and I Wonder What They Believe by Robert Coles in your packet and blog your answers to both the comprehension and Rhetoric questions.

Go Hawks!

Everything's an Argument

Please read to page 20 for tomorrow (stop at the heading Kinds of Argument). Actually you can read the whole thing if you have time. We will read it all anyway. This is an introductory chapter, so it is laying out the landscape of argument for you. It's a good foundation.