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Favorite Mistakes

The Moth Podcast: The Big Oops

Betty White's Favorite Mistake

Rhetoric: How to Get What You Want?

For Trump’s Backers in Congress, ‘Devil Terms’ Help Rally Voters
Nytimes

Rhetorical analysis of GOP rhetoric
To His Coy Mistress
Figures of Speech Served Fresh
blog on rhetorical info and moves
How to Argue Well
nytimes
‘Everything is gone.’ Hmong immigrants in Sacramento forced to leave their world behind
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Sacbee
I Make Video Games. I Won't Let My Daughter Play Them. 
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NYTimes
The Question We've Stopped Asking about Teen-agers and Social Media: Should they be using these services at all?
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The New Yorker
Juul Settles Multistate Youth Vaping Inquiry for $438.5 Million
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New York Times
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Op-Ed: Let’s call this youth vaping crisis what it is: A Juuling epidemic
LATimes


A selection of flavored Juul cigarettes in the window of a vaping store in New York on March 24, 2018.

An Easy Win for Sacramento County: Banning Flavored Tobacco Products Marketed to Children
How the Tobacco Industry Hooked Black Smokers on Menthols 
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9 Ways to Spot Junk Science
Men's Health
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3 Ways to Persuade
Shawdowland
My students rhetorically analyze ads.  This one is perfect given the danger of vaping and the way that Blu advertises it benefits. 
Cha Xiong informed me that this short movie reminded him of Rhetoric and the 3 ways to persuade: ethos, pathos, and logos.  Watch it and see if you see the connection.
Why the New York Times Is Retiring the Term "Op-Ed"
A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
New York Times Op Ed​
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No, It's Not Your Opinion.  You're Just Wrong
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Houston Press Op Ed

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Thank You for Smoking Movie Review
​Roger Ebert

How to write an Op-Ed: Harvard
Op-Ed Tips and Tricks
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Sacramento’s proposed redistricting changes for Oak Park, Curtis Park reinforce past sins 
BY DEBORAH ORTIZ
 SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE DECEMBER 16, 2021 5:00 AM


​Katrina Simmons, who holds Ashley Simmons, 1, in her lap, socializes with family at Black Justice Sacramentos healing space event at Curtis Park on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Sacramento. The event was held for Black community members to heal, build solidarity and discuss future actions for the movement, according to a media advisory from the Black Justice Sacramento collective.

You've Been Profiled

The problem with Joe Rogan. . . and white boys
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ACLU: Know Your Rights

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Harvard's Project Implicit: An Implicit Bias Quiz

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Black Surfers Reclaim Their Place on the Waves
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New York Times
​2021

Running Has Always Excluded Black People
Race: The Power of an Illusion Episode 1 Part 1
Better Link

Serial: Who Killed Hae Min Lee?

Serial Season 1
A Ton of Evidence

The Innocence Project Tells Serial Fans What Might Happen Next
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Judge Vacates Murder Conviction of Adnan Syed of ‘Serial’

Baltimore prosecutors move to vacate Adnan Syed conviction in 1999 murder case
Baltimore Sun
9/14/2022 
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Serial Podcast Case Is Declined by Supreme Court
11/25/19
New York Times
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Adnan Syed leaving a courthouse in Baltimore in 2016. He has maintained his innocence in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, his former girlfriend.

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"The Case Against Adnan Syed": Finale Reveals New DNA Test Results
New York Times
​3/31/19

​Adnan Syed outside a Baltimore courthouse in 2016. Maryland’s highest court recently denied him a retrial, overturning the decisions of two lower courts.


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Adnan Syed deserves a new, and fair, trial, 42 wrongly convicted men and women say

Baltimore Sun
By MARTY TANKLEFF
APR 18, 2019 

Adnan Syed, of 'Serial' podcast, asks Maryland high court to reconsider decision refusing him a new trial

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The Zodiac Killer Case, 50 Years Later
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The San Francisco Chronicle






One option my students have is to write a newspaper article about the Hae Min Lee murder.  The students like this idea, but most have no idea how to go about writing a newspaper article.  This article about the Zodiac makes strong mentor text.  

Happiness and the Good Life

Yale's Happiness Professor Says Anxiety Is Destroying Her Students
The Psychology of Happiness
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This I Believe Essay: The Essentials to Happiness
Happiness homework:Mediate for 10 minutes a day./Sleep for 8 hours a night./Do something kind for someone./ Write down 5 things that you’re grateful for?

Is Sleep the Most Important Happiness Habit
Can Mindfulness Make You Happier?
Kindness Makes You Happy and Happiness Makes You Kind
Giving Thanks Can Make You Happier 
How Gratitude Changes  You and Your Brain
8 Ways Gratitude Boosts Happiness
Happiness Survey
Perma Proflier 
Authentic Happiness Survey
The happiness Lab
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Happy

Your Brain Is Not For Thinking
Flow and Happiness
The Goal Setting Recipe for Happiness
Sports: A Vehicle for Happiness
Happiness Won't Save You
100 happiness activities 
Americans Most Unhappy People in the World
Boosting well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic  Dr. Santos on Facebook live
8 Ways to Create Flow According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Why winning the $850 Mega Millions jackpot could make you miserable
Yale Class on Happiness to be Offered for Free to High School Students
A Journey Into the Anxious Teenage Mind

Man Up: The New Masculinity 
Essential Question: What does it mean to be a "man"?
Alternate Title: Manhood: An Investigation

Unit under construction: Activities 
Masculinity Survey
Masculinity Word Splash 
Labeling Jobs
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Man Up Read Alouds
Case Study and Biographical Sketch of a Man
Interview a Man
Man Up Data Set
Genre Project: Turn interview into Podcast/Write children's story 
Unit under construction: Text Set
The Crisis of Men and Boys
by David Brooks
NyTimes
This I Believe: Myths of Manhood
Are We Facing a Mental Health Crisis For Boys
Guys We Have a Problem: How American Masculinity Creates Lonely Men
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Man Up
Slate Podcast

Manhood, Race, and Culture
30 Great manhood quotes
Tupac Resurrection Script
What is a man    Esquire  2009
Advice For Young Men that went Viral in 1850           Slate
Martin Walked Into a Twisted World            Espn
 What Does It Mean to Be a Man: This Professor Might Have All the Answers              Esquire 2015
Are You Man Enough              Esquire  2018
The Art of Manliness website
Pharrell on Evolving Masculinity and “Spiritual Warfare”       GQ
Introducing GQ’s New Masculinity Issue, Starring Pharrell      GQ
Voices of a New Masculinity
The State of Masculinity Now: A GQ Survey  
Masculinity
a short story by ANTONIO ORTUÑO | FROM:SPANISH
The Miseducation of the American Boy
The Atlantic
Ben Gorden  where is my mind
What we are not teaching boys about being human
Donald Trump, the most Unmanly President 
Drag queen celebs weigh in on Harry Styles ‘Vogue’ dress backlash: ‘Men should be allowed to be feminine’

Scam Culture: The Rhetoric of the MLM 

Unit Under Construction
word splash 
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The Psychology of the Cult
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What Makes a Cult a Cult
The Psychology behind Cults
Op-Ed: Why QAnon’s similarity to other cults makes it a significant national security threat
RIverside Murders: Catfish murders
MLM-The Truth Website
The Case (for and) Against Multi-level Marketing 
Trump University: Yes, It was a Massive Scam
We're All 'Experts' Now.  That's Not a Good Thing.
Pyramid Scheme Alert
​The Dream Podcast
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