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Ryan Meehan

Common Core State Standards Initiative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a U.S. education initiative that seeks to bring diverse state curricula into alignment with each other by following the principles of standards-based education reform. The initiative is sponsored by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Announced on June 1, 2009,[1] the initiative's stated purpose is to "provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them."[2] Forty-eight of the fifty states in the United States are members of the initiative. Standards were released for mathematics and English language arts on June 2, 2010, with a majority of states adopting the standards in the subsequent months. (See below for current status.) States were given an incentive to adopt the Common Core Standards through the possibility of competitive federal Race to the Top grants. The common standards are funded by the governors and state schools chiefs, with additional support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and others.[3] States are planning to implement this initiative by 2015[4] by basing at least 85% of their state curricula on the Standards.
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      talk about this common core standard....
  • here are six categories of content to be covered at the high school level: number and quantity; algebra; functions; modeling; geometry; and statistics and probability. Some topics in each category are indicated only for students intending to take more advanced, optional courses such as calculus, advanced statistics or discrete mathematics. Even if the traditional sequence is adopted, functions and modeling are to be integrated across the curriculum, not taught as separate courses. In fact, modeling is also a Mathematical Practice (see above), and is meant to be integrated across the entire curriculum beginning in kindergarten. High school standards in other categories which are intended to be tied to the modeling category are indicated in the Standards with a star symbol.
Ryan Meehan

Discussion: Your rhetorical life - 53 views

started by Ryan Meehan on 17 Nov 08 no follow-up yet
  • Ryan Meehan
     
    Now that you have spent the past few months thinking in terms of rhetoric, consider the following: How have you applied the principles of rhetoric to your own life? Give an example or two of a time when you were consciously making "rhetorical" decisions with the purpose of influencing or directing (or manipulating -- gasp!) an outcome.
Ryan Meehan

Project 2 - Research Plan/Abstract - 24 views

research plan abstract
started by Ryan Meehan on 12 Nov 08 no follow-up yet
  • Ryan Meehan
     
    Please post your research plan and abstract in ONE post below.
Ryan Meehan

MediaStorm: Common Ground by Scott Strazzante - 0 views

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    On July 2, 2002, Jean and Harlow Cagwin watched as their home - the last remnant of their 118-acre cattle farm in Lockport, Illinois - was torn down clearing the way for a new housing development. Several years later, Ed and Amanda Grabenhofer and their four children moved into the new Willow Walk subdivision, their house just yards from where the Cagwin's home once stood.
Ryan Meehan

myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding - 0 views

  • Recently, a library patron challenged (urged a reconsideration of the ownership or placement of) a book called "Uncle Bobby's Wedding.
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  • I suspect the book will get a lot of challenges in 2008-2009. So I offer my response, purging the patron's name, for other librarians.
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  • You suggested that the book could be “placed in an area designating the subject matter,” or “labeled for parental guidance” by stating that “some material may be inappropriate for young children.” I have two responses.
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    "Recently, a library patron challenged (urged a reconsideration of the ownership or placement of) a book called "Uncle Bobby's Wedding." Honestly, I hadn't even heard of it until that complaint. But I did read the book, and responded to the patron, who challenged the item through email and requested that I respond online (not via snail-mail) about her concerns."
Ryan Meehan

"Rabbit" by Run Wrake - 0 views

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    A thought-provoking animation by illustrator and cartoonist Run Wrake. What argument is the creator of the film trying to make? Is it clear? Is it successful?
Ryan Meehan

Peer Review Project One Thread - 148 views

draft first one project
started by Ryan Meehan on 12 Oct 08 no follow-up yet
  • Ryan Meehan
     
    Please post the link to your first draft below. Then take a look at the Peer Review Lineup here and complete your peer reviews using the Diigo "Highlight and Comment" feature.

    Please carefully read the Peer Review Guidelines here before getting started.
Ryan Meehan

"Faces of New York" by Simon Hoegsberg - 0 views

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    Consider the portraits in Simon Hoegsberg's Faces of New York project. What can you tell about these people just by looking at their faces? Are the decisions we make about the way we keep our faces rhetorical? If so, how?
Ryan Meehan

Public Writing Assignment #1 - 80 views

pwa1
started by Ryan Meehan on 29 Sep 08 no follow-up yet
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    In the space below, please do your best to direct me and your classmates to your public comment. In many cases, comments you leave on a web site can be directly linked to. If this is not possible, please provide a link to the page and the handle/screenname you are using so your comment is easy to find.
Ryan Meehan

"Trendspotting" by Demetri Martin on The Daily Show | Diigo - 0 views

  • Rhetoric is important in the advertising industry, and in a way, I’m kind of selling my page to other people.
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      Great response, Angela. I appreciate your wiliingness to be so thorough here. Let me ask you, though. You make a good point that maintaining and updating a social networking profile page is a way in which you can "sell your page," and that you employ similar tactics to ad agencies trying to sell products. My question would be: What do you suppose your product is? In other words, why are you focused on driving more traffic to your page?
  • You need body language, eye contact, touch, sound, inflection!
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      Great point. In what ways do you think we account for the lack of "traditional" rhetorical tools we have available to us in the online format?
  • who by the way has other funny stand up videos on You Tube, you should check them out
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      Your instructor agrees.
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  • The Daily Show sometimes takes the rhetoric of pathos to the extreme and ruins the validity of their argument all together.
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      I think this is an interesting point that might be worth exploring a bit more in-depth at some point in the semester. Does The Daily Show get a "free pass" due to its status as a comedy show? What are some undoubtedly valid arguments it has presented over the years, and what are some examples of arguments that maybe get lost in the slapstick?
  • I think that my page truly represents who I am
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      This comment reminds me of a discussion I have had with previous classes about the rhetoric of clothing and body decorations (tatoos, piercings, etc) Many students would often say something to the effect of "My clothes help me express who I am as a person." I sometimes think of Facebook the same way - it's like the clothes we wear on the Internet.
  • (Prostitot- preteen/young teen girls who dressing in a slutty-esque fashion.
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      Brilliant!
Ryan Meehan

"Trendspotting" by Demetri Martin on The Daily Show - 0 views

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    Watch the following segment from The Daily Show called "Trendspotting."
Ryan Meehan

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      The Sophists were a group of traveling teachers in Ancient Greece who were hired by citizens who were looking to become better, more persuasive teachers. Today, the term "sophistry" carries a negative connotation, as it refers to arguments that use rhetoric for malicious reasons, like to confuse or distort.
Ashlee Duckworth

More like these? - 21 views

started by Ashlee Duckworth on 16 Sep 08 no follow-up yet
  • Ryan Meehan
     
    Thanks, Ashlee. I am glad you enjoyed it. And yes, we will have other assignments along these lines.

    Ashlee Duckworth wrote:
    > I know you have a requirement that you have to go by but I just wanted to express my feelings that I loved the Magnum in motion article by Christopher Anderson and I hope we have more assignments like that one because it really provoked me and made me think. Just a little food for thought!
Ryan Meehan

Week 4 - 0 views

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"Middle East" by Christopher Andersen - 0 views

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    Magnum In Motion is a web site dedicated to the art of the photo essay. Each presentation contains a series photographs, coupled with the photographer's commentary.
Ryan Meehan

The Artwork of Dan McCarthy | Diigo - 0 views

  • If McCarthy is making an allusion to this verse then he did a really good job of taking something and making an amazing visual representation of it. By using a lot of interesting themes that connect the lives of animals, humans, and plants, in ways where love, death, time, and relationships are the main focus, McCarthy used the rhetorical approach of pathos very well.
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      Excellent analysis here, Shekenah. Using literary devices like allusion is yet another way that authors, writers, artists, etc. can be "rhetorical."
  • Grays and blacks usually signify sorrow or night, and bright colors allow a different more vibrant feeling to come through.
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      Good, specific analysis here. In attempting to interpret our class web readings this semester, it's important that your opinions are supported by evidence. In Cybil's case, she's drawn on her own experience as art aficianado to make a case that McCarthy's art is pathos-driven, and she's provided evidence (her comments on color, for instance) to support her claims. Great job.
  • He is naturalist that sees the world and nature as a continuing process even with death as a part of it. As humans we all die and we are all either buried or cremated,"given back to nature" in a way. McCarthy shows this circle of life as related to the natural world.
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      Another excellent piece of analysis here, and in a way it builds off the comments above that allude the repetition of symmetry and pairs.
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  • Even though human beings are the dominant species on this planet, McCarthy asserts that our time on Earth could be over just as quickly as it was for the dinosaurs.
    • Ryan Meehan
       
      Great point, Troy.
Ryan Meehan

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