In class a newspaper article was brought up about how a Great Bridge High School teacher showed a class Macbeth without parent permission. A student named Morgan, did not like seeing the nudity or graphic images in the movie. She felt uncomfortable because the other students in the class were making noising during the nudity scene. Morgan had a problem with the movie from the beginning because she learned about Polanski, the director of Macbeth, in theater class. Director Polanski was arrested for a rape case from a long time ago with a 13 year old in 1977. She then went home and told her father what had happened in school, the father was not happy. He then called the school because he wanted the teacher to have consequences for his actions.
When reading this article i was shocked because this was my high school i graduated from and knew the teacher who showed it because he showed it to us too. We handled it maturely and did not care about having parent permission because we were getting out of work. I am surprised that he got caught with this and has consequences for his actions.
This week we have read about the Toulmin Model and what it is composed of. First, the claim is a thesis, proposition, or a conclusion. Subclaims are the reasons, main ideas, and arguments. The support is evidence, opinions, and data. And the warrants are assumptions, general principals, and widely held values. We use these to explain and understand an article.
In this article the Claim is teacher shows a video to senior students that are mature enough but the dad does not agree. The support would be: 1. They are seniors 2. They have the access to worse things 3. Almost 18. The Warrants in this article would be the teacher assuming the students are mature enough to handle a movie like this.
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