11th Grade

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
Sacbee

I Make Video Games. I Won't Let My Daughter Play Them.
NYTimes

The Question We've Stopped Asking about Teen-agers and Social Media: Should they be using these services at all?
The New Yorker

Juul Settles Multistate Youth Vaping Inquiry for $438.5 Million
New York Times

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

9 Ways to Spot Junk Science
Men's Health

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

No, It's Not Your Opinion. You're Just Wrong
Houston Press Op Ed

Thank You for Smoking Movie Review
Roger Ebert

How to write an Op-Ed: Harvard
Op-Ed Tips and Tricks

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

ACLU: Know Your Rights

Harvard's Project Implicit: An Implicit Bias Quiz

Black Surfers Reclaim Their Place on the Waves
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

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

Serial Podcast Case Is Declined by Supreme Court
11/25/19
New York Times
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.

"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.

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

The Zodiac Killer Case, 50 Years Later
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.