During her talk, she wanted to teach the audience how to read and talk. She started off by giving us steps on how to master these things stated above.For number one, she states “Don’t multitask.” She wants you to be present and in that moment. Don’t be thinking about other things. Don’t be half in it and half out of it. Don’t parifitate. If you want to state your opinion without any comments or argument, write a blog. You need to enter every conversation assuming you have something to learn from it. Set aside your personal opinion. True listening requires a setting aside of oneself. Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t . Use open-ended questions when communicating with people. Start your questions with who, what, when, where, why and how. If you put out a complicated question, you will get a simple answer. Try asking them more questions along with your first question. Go with the flow!

Ashali Knox
Mr. G
Writing 101
07 October 2020

Rhetorical Analysis

I chose to write my Rhetorical Analysis on the Netflix series “When They See Us.” The series was based on a true story and it is mainly about a group of young African American teenagers being wrongfully convicted of a crime they did not commit. On April 19, 1919, a female jogger, named Trisha Meili, was beaten, raped, and left for dead in Central Park, located in New York. Throughout the series, the director, Ava DuVernay, recompensed careful attention to the horrific power of language was used, especially how the prosecutors and journalists referred to the teen boys. The author establishes credibility by basing her series off of a true story.
To begin with, she uses different scenes that actually occurred in New York and included them in her series, but she changed some things up to make it truly her series. The author uses the black teens because she knew how this would really open the eyes of many Americans and she wanted them to actually understand how things were during this time frame. For instance, in the scene where the boys were being interrogated by investigators without their guardian around and how they wanted them to confess to something they didn’t commit just proves how bad they really wanted to solve the case no matter what and how they were going to do it. The author uses syntax by referring her characters and scenes off of true events. To me, if the author hadn’t written her series this way, it wouldn’t have as much impact and meaning as it does today.
Furthermore, the author uses ethos throughout the series or some of her interest based on how she wrote and scripted every episode. Since this is a very known and popular series on Netflix, many people learned and were impacted from this. She establishes a sense of credibility by conveying her respect and integrity to the ones that watched her series. She makes certain claims that many people during that time and today could really relate to. For this series and many others like this, she has the ability to construct an urgency for change and difference in the world of her audience.
The author really uses rhetorical devices to inform her audience about how the lives of many African American teenage boys were affected during that time. From her using specific characters to the scenes she included in her series, she is informing her audience on how wrongfully black teens are treated by the justice system, the people who are supposed to protect them.

Reading Journal

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page
Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages. Grant‐Davie, K. (1997). Rhetorical situations and their constituents. Rhetoric Review, 15(2), 264-279. doi:10.1080/07350199709359219

Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words

The article communicates about the history of the rhetorical situations occurring in the essay. The author informs the readers by applying rhetoric to the reading and listening situations as well as to reading and writing situations. The word rhetoric means to change and many writers use it to view the need of change in certain situations. Many humans are involved in numerous amounts of rhetors. the readers of this article know and understand when they are only trying to play the role of another. To me, this article was a little confusing at first, but once you read more and got more in depth then I started to understand where the writer was coming from.

Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.

intractable- “Rather than envisioning argument as something productive and useful, we imagine intractable sides and use descriptors such as “bad,” “heated,” and “violent (Jones 156).” definition- hard to control or deal with.
fallacious- “When all angles are not explored or fallacious or incorrect reasoning is used… (Jones 160).” definition- based on a mistaken belief.

How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? This reading connects with other readings i’ve read because they both have something to do with literature and I’m always learning new things when I read different things.

Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.
What was the purpose of the author writing the story like she did?

Adverse Childhood Experience and toxic stresses are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood. It can include violence, abuse, and growing up in a family with mental health or substance use problems. Toxic stress from ACEs can change brain development and affect how the body responds to stress. It can affect the child’s development because they won’t have the proper tools to grow and gain the right knowledge throughout their childhood. Also children growing in terrible homes won5 have the motivation or positive aspect to want to be and do more in life. children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below-average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement. They have a higher likelihood of dropping out early or choosing not to pursue a higher education. They just don5 hav3 the motivation to push through.

She made a difference in Flint by elucidating what she was going to do to keep herself and her community safe. The biggest crisis that occurred in Flint was that the government was trying to utter that the water was safe to drink while knowing it was definitely not safe. She was able to speak up what she knew was wrong and wanted a change for the better for her community. She was able to bring all of this to the light of the public’s eye and hope for better.
Growing up, I always believed that Santa Claus was never real and that I knew my parents and grandparents were getting my gifts, so I would always tell my twin that and she never once believed me up until 2nd grade when she caught my parents in the act of wrapping and putting our gifts under the tree.
Even though I don’t litter, I could throw away trash every time I see it in a place where it doesn’t belong. Take shorter showers. Stop using so much plastic.

1. To me, literature is another form of reading and writing. We use it constantly in our everyday lives.
2. My dad really sponsored me to become better at my writing skills because he has really been a huge inspiration in my life in ways i could never ever thank him enough for.
3. I really don’t understand what the scene was suppose to be about, so please forgive me

24- hour Writing Log-

 IMessage:

• 8:11 am
Text to Chris
3 words
• 10:27 am
Text to Dad
2 words
• 10:54 am
Text from Mom
9 words
• 12:02 pm
Text to Mom
5 words
• 12:17 pm
Text from Chris
8 words
• 12:30 pm
Text to Twin
4 words
• 1:23 pm
Text from Twin
7 words
• 1:32 pm
Text to Twin
2 words
• 1:45 pm
Text to Mom
17 words
• 2:02 pm
Text from Mom
34 words
• 2:27 pm
Text to Mom and Twin
56 words
• 2:34 pm
Text to Dad
13 words
• 2:48 pm
Text from Dad
35 words
• 3:05 pm
Text to Family
79 words

 Social Media

• 3:34 pm
Snap from “Boo”
Picture
• 3:57 pm
Snap to “Boo”
Picture
• 5:09 pm
Instagram
Comment under picture
• 5:46 pm
Instagram
Respond to comment
• 5:48 pm
Instagram
Comment under picture
• 5:56 pm
Instagram
Respond to picture
• 6:11 pm
Twitter
Private message
• 6:24 pm
Twitter
Responds to PM
• 6:37 pm
Twitter
Private message
• 6:54 pm
Twitter
Responds to PM
• 6:59 pm
Twitter
Private message
• 7:04 pm
Twitter
Responds to PM
• 7:26 pm
Facebook
Comment on picture

 Email

• 8:23 pm
Email from Indeed.com
23 words

8:57 pm
Email to teacher
12 words

• 9:34 pm
Email from Teacher
8 words

 Puts phone on do not disturb and goes to bed

• 5:23 am
Text from Mom
23 words
• 7:48 am
Text to Mom
45 words
• 7:53 am
Text to Twin
11 words
8:57 am
Text from Twin

Reading Journal

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Fishman, A. (1986, November 30). Literacy and Cultural Context: A Lesson from the Amish. Retrieved September 02, 2020, from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ363335

Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words While reading this story, I began to realize that throughout the story the characters mainly focused on reading to their children for bedtime. They were mainly focused on where the books were and how much they valued reading. They wanted the children to really have a strong understanding on why reading books are important and they should take reading serious. There are many different types of words and writing located in many places, so they try to enforce enough knowledge into their children, so one they become grown, they will truly understand and know how to read and write. I really enjoyed reading this because my parents were the exact same way when I was growing up.

Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.

Redolent- Strongly reminiscent of suggestive of (something)
“… warmed by a wood stove and redolent with the fragrances of chicken corn soup…”

Cavorting- jump or dance around excitedly
“… antics of the cub who preferred cavorting with the sheep…”

How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
This reading shares a connection with the other readings I’ve read in the past because they all are some sort of literature.

Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. What is an important factor on why we need literacy today?

Reading Journal

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Gee, James. “What Is Literacy.” Http://Jamespaulgee.com/Pdfs/Gee%20What%20is%20Literacy.Pdf, 1989.

Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words In the story, the author mainly talks about a linguists and it goes into further detail about a linguists. He also gets into detail about different types of literacy and how we as people use literacy in different ways. He continues to discuss how it affects humans and society as a whole. I have noticed that everyone doesn’t use literacy in the same way. The articles continue to conversation about the many contrasting people using literacy in many contrasting places and how we also use different languages. Lastly, the article talked about how we chose things to attain and objectives we’ve learned in class. To many people, you will become more fluent with the language you’ve grown prone to your whole life instead of a language you’ve just found about yesterday.

Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.
Linguists- a person skilled in foreign languages. “It is a piece of folk wisdom that part of what linguists do is define words.”

How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
This reading connects with other readings i’ve read because they all are some sort of literature.

Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. What is the purpose of Literacy?

1. My name is Ashali Knox and I’m from Madison Mississippi. I’m majoring in Pharmaceutical Science. Something I’m good at when it comes to writing is knowing exactly.y what I want to write about and something I need to improve on is knowing how to correctly write my statements and thoughts on paper.
2. People who can give and take great criticism and are willing to grow and willing to put in the work to become a better writer.
3. Ravenclaw
4.aknox1@go.olemiss.edu
5. yes