May 4 – Monday

Je Suis Charlie

Building Portfolios

April 29 – Wednesday

My notes did not save

April 27 – Monday

No filler or repetition

Use Blockquote for Italicized quotes

Earth Day – Wednesday

Did the Course Evaluation on Banner

April 8 – Wednesday

If you’re argument is weak you can leave out a weak premises and hope no one notices, but very easy to refute if someone notices.

Remember this link http://counterintuitive2015.com/2015/04/08/how-to-start-2/

April 1 – Wednesday

Causation Statements – what caused something to happen

Different types of causes – Immediate, Remote, Precipitating, and contributing.

Precipitating – layers – underlying causes

False Causation – some causal, some correlations

Provide more information for essay

You have time to catch up so do it Kyle.

Causal Chain – X causes Y, which causes Z.

March 23 – Monday

The air cannot escape because of the surface tension of the water.

Spotting arguments and spotting flaws and looking at information.

How do you refute? You find the other persons evidence. You could give as much evidence as you want and it might not be enough.

March 11 – Wednesday

Weak (passive) – Elephants are tortured.

Stronger (active) – The circus owners torture elephants.

Strongest (Active) – Elephants suffer torture.

Verb makes a claim, instead of says write refutes.

Active does something

Passive is being done too.

March 9 – Monday

Professor for Life

Do your introduction last, and do your conclusion early.

When you’re finished you go back to introduction and make the boldest and most thought provoking claims in your introduction.

Make a thought provoking argument for the first sentence.

You can lose the argument in the first sentence.

March 4 – Wednesday

My guess was wrong. I thought of Gotham but I didn’t want to guess it out loud.

Come to meeting with an agenda.

One small claim is untrue, then the whole claim can be said to be untrue.

March 2 – Monday

*Remember to change hair part*

Professor Hodges orders us pizza.

Make a conference appointment.

Review new counterintuitive topics

If you cant find claims, you’re not looking hard enough.

The pizza was palatable and I wish I did not go to Chick-Fil-a before class.

February 25 – Wednesday

Definition Essays – Takes the definition and can define through moral value, law, and define every single thing that the word defined word could mean.  Think about loopholes.

A definition can be an argument.  Define from new perspective.

Never actually told definition.  The definition is the argument that establishes terms  under which the rest of proof will be conducted.

2 sources on work cited page

February 16th – Monday

Think of new ways to approach topics other then collecting and relating.

Need to be certain your position is correct.

Be as opinionated as you can be.

February 9th – Monday

Schedule an appointment for grade conference.

Make a singular gender choice or make everything plural.

February 4th – Wednesday

Remember to put all the posts under Author to take credit for it.

Went over grading. “A ‘C’ is a ‘D’ and a ‘D’ is an ‘F'”

You can look at an earlier save if you go to edit and click on an earlier save.

Always leave feedback on the feedback.

Serve a purpose with your summary- draw any conclusion you would like – use the material to create and conclusion you would like.

Start with “It seems counterintuitive that…” and make that your thesis.

February 2nd

Professor opened with Maps by The Front Bottoms

I did not hit update on the notes I don’t know why but thats why they are not here.

WED JAN 28 Professor Hodges opened with WAR by Edwin Starr. Open your notes and write something important that shows you participated in class if you are here. You can attach a link by highlighting a word and hitting the chain things. As long as you put something reasonable in by the deadline you can always edit it before the grade. Your first draft is always crap, no matter how great you think it is, even if it is great, its still crap. Yap was an island in Micronesia- in Pacific owned by Germany. 1904- Anthropologist wrote a book about the people of Yap and their Stone Money – HUGE LIMESTONE DISKS Nearest Limestone is 400 miles away. Shaped and brought Limestone on canoes. Stone Money – Fay Anyone could hold their fay but if its theirs than thats all their riches. Man made best Fay ever-lost it but people told story about how great this Fay was and therefore was the richest man on the island. Germans wanted paths built so they were up to code with them. Germans impoverished their fay until they repaved the road. France wanted gold from US but did not want trouble and expense so US set it aside for France. INFLATION