Monday 5 March 2018 for Periods 1, 2, 5 & 6 and Tuesday 6 March 2018 for Period 7
Membean Vocabulary Drills: ten minutes
Project Display Tour
Students walked into the hall and spent time viewing the two display cabinets filled with their class Odyssey projects. They were also encouraged to view more of the projects inside the classroom.
Drafting Definitions in MLA Format
Mr. Stone reviewed the basics of Modern Language Association formatting with students as he directed them on how to type up and format the definitions they wrote out by hand over the weekend.
Students title the document with the word they were defining (the definiendum).
Mr. Stone directed students to make a subheading against the left margin for "Parenthetical Definition" and "Sentence Definition."
Students printed their typed rough drafts and submitted them to Mr. Stone.
Homework: Use a pencil to annotate a printed copy of "How to Tell if You Are a Jerk." Re-read the essay to identify the different types of definitions Schwitzgebel uses in his essay. Place bracket marks [ ] around the definitions in the text. Write the type of definition Schwitzgebel is using in the right-hand margin next to where you have bracketed it in the text.
Schwitzgebel's essay includes several examples of a parenthetical definition, several examples of a sentence definition, and an example of a stipulative definition and definition by example/ostensive definition.
Note, Schwitzgebel uses parentheses and dashes to set off his "parenthetical" definitions.
Schwitzgebel uses a stipulative definition when discussing the work of another scholar.
His use of definition by application is found when he discusses the application of the term "jerk."
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