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Hey guys--
SOORRYYY I totally forgot to post even after I talked to Cristy who reminded me. I'm a loser and officially the black sheep of period 1. Ok, so yesterday was yet another delicious day in english class. If only I could remember what we did. Oh dear. This is the problem with having a 7-second attention span...OH!! YES. Yesterday, we were introduced to our new BFFAEAEAEAE and the rest of our lives, the Toulmin Model. It's a superfun and efficient way to organize any kind of writing, specifically, our term papers. First you need to identify each of the elements included in the Toulmin Model, including the claim, support, warrant, backing, qualifier, reservation, and rebuttal. Then you follow a formula to create the basic argument for your essay in the form of usually one sentence, possibly more than one. DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT YOUR THESIS SENTENCE. After being enlightened by Toulmin, we did a few examples in which we had to write Toulmin models based on the elements given to us and then identify the elements based on Toulmin sentences already written. We were assigned three "claims" (one of fact, one of value, and one of opinion) for which we had to write the rest of the elements of the Toulmin model and then write a Toulmin sentence for each. I suppose that is pretty useless to those of you who weren't in class on Monday, however, because we already went over those in class today. Again, sooooooooooooo sorry. Just another blonde/senior moment. Of which I have a lot.