Class 24 THU APR 13
Riddle: The Soccer Penalty Kick
What’s the smartest kick?
To the shooter’s strong side, which the goalie is more likely to guard?
Or to the shooter’s weak side, which the goalie is more likely to block if he guesses right?
The authors of Think Like a Freak give us some details to help us decide.
- The goal is 12 yards away.
- It’s 8 yards wide and 8 feet tall.
- You will kick the ball at 80 miles per hour.
- The kick will arrive at the net in 0.306818 seconds
- I know that because: https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/speed-distance-time-calculator.php/
- The goalie can’t wait for you to kick. He has to guess and fling his body toward his choice before you make contact with the ball.
- Overall, at the elite level, 75% of penalty kicks are successful.
- If he chooses wrong, your odds of success are about 90%.
- You want him to choose wrong.
- Whether you’re left- or right-footed, 57% of goalies will guard your strong side. 41% of the time, they’ll guard your weak side.
Answer in the Reply field below and Post Comment:
- What’s the best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t?
- Why do so few kickers make the most logical choice?
Rewrite Advice
The paragraph is an introduction to the Rebuttal argument. The author argues that fighting in hockey, when it’s retaliatory and conducted by “enforcers” whose job is to dole out justice to bullies who pick fights with star players, actually REDUCES violence and injuries, putting a quick end to the feud by sending the clear message that it will not be tolerated.
The full paragraph is shown below, divided into sentences. Recommended alternatives will be revealed. The replacement sentences, if they’re successful, will:
- Express the author’s convictions in bold, clear language.
- Provide evidence instead of hinting at it.
- Call out the opposition’s flawed conclusions, whatever they are.
No idea comes without a counterargument and this theory remains true in regard to fighting in hockey.
Even the best and truest thesis can be argued, so there are critics of fighting in hockey.
Critics take a surface level look at the violent aspect of the game but fail to appreciate the positivity and safe environment it creates.
They see a drop of blood on the ice, but can’t calculate the carnage that drop of blood prevents.
Without a true deep dive into the understanding of the players’ minds on the ice, the opposition would draw an incorrect impression.
They think the fighter loves the violence, when in fact his role is to prevent it.
Additionally, failing to acknowledge the empirical evidence surrounding fighting is another key flaw in the counterargument.
If they bothered to run the numbers, they’d find that teams with feared enforcers suffer far fewer injuries and lost ice-time than teams that let their players get bullied and pushed around.
While fighting in hockey has advantages both seen and unseen on the ice, critics cite injury, and that hockey glorifies violence leaving a bad example for children and viewers.
They let the hard hits blind them to the benefits of hitting back and retreat to platitudes about teaching kids to misbehave by example.
Writing Advice
- Wield your Statistics
- The Fails for Grammar List
Take Home Task
Exercise
End-of-Semester Schedule
- THU APR 20
- The first draft of your 3000-word Research Position Paper will be due.
- This is the compilation of your three short 1000-word arguments carefully combined into a single well-reasoned research paper that is the culmination of your semester’s work on a single hypothesis.)
- TUE APR 25
- Your Annotated Bibliography is due.
- We will have reviewed its format and requirements on THU APR 20.
- THU APR 27
- Reflective Statements will be due, completing your Portfolio.
- PORTFOLIO DOUBLE-CHECK
- We’ll meet in person at our regular time to Verify your Portfolios for Completion and Compliance. When your Portfolio has been verified, you can schedule your Final Grade Conference.
- Grade Conferences by Appointment, on Zoom
- Conferences will be held on MON MAY 01, TUE MAY 02, WED MAY 03
- Only 4 classes remain.
- After today’s.
- Your Drop Dead Portfolio Deadline is just two weeks away.
- If you’ve been keeping up.
- By now you have posted your 3 short arguments (Definition, Causal, and Rebuttal)
- You have a robust White Paper with purposeful summaries of 10-15 mostly academic sources ready to export to your Annotated Bibliography.
- You’ll have no trouble posting the first draft of your Research Position Paper by THU APR 20.
- Well, maybe a little trouble, but you’ll manage a decent first draft.
- There are no deadlines for your Short Paper Rewrites.
- But when your Portfolio is complete and Verified, on THU APR 27, it will have to include TWO of your THREE short arguments and their Rewrites (Definition/Causal/Rebuttal). You choose which two.
Portfolio Tasks
- Portfolio Task: 3000-word Researched Persuasive Argument
- DUE THU APR 20
- Portfolio Task: Annotated Bibliography
- DUE DATE TUE APR 25
- Portfolio Task: Self-Reflective Statement
- DUE DATE THU APR 27
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Counterintuitive Spring 2023 
The best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t is probably your weak side, softly on the ground, because if you’re right-footed, chances are the goalie is guessing to his right.
If you go to your weak side but softly, I don’t think the goalie has much of a chance.
I would say most kickers don’t make the logical choice since they try to outsmart the kicker. So they won’t go with the statistics.
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You should choose to shoot to your weak side because it increases the chance of the goalie choosing wrong, which increases your odds of scoring to 90%
Professionals often choose wrong because they can make a better shot with their strong side, I would assume.
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David told us to make sure that we should be clearly naming the parties we are arguing against and not to put too many hypotheticals without giving real examples we can easily understand and ass context to. If we overuse, underuse, or misuse our statistics we risk using losing the ability to frame anything in our favor. It doesn’t matter what the actual statistic is what matters is how you frame it to boost your argument. We went over the schedule for the rest of the semester and that we can continue to edit our papers until the end of the semester.
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-Penalty Kicks: Kick the ball down the middle. The goalie is assuming you’re going to kick to either side of the net, so just kick down the middle. Most soccer players don’t do this because its illogical to kick the ball to where the goalie is standing
-Rebuttal Rewrite: Be specific and bold in claims
-Writing Advice: Handle statistics properly and when it matters most
-Writing Advice: Review use of temperature and dredging statistics
-Writing Advice: Make good use of weak statistics
-Writing Advice: Manipulate statistics to benefit your argument
-Writing Advice: Do not lie, but make the best use of statistics
-End of the Road: Revise arguments and white paper
-End of the Road: Choose two arguments for portfolio (Definitive/Causal)
-End of the Road: Continue to edit papers until final conference
-Fails for Grammar: Review grammar in arguments and for own knowledge
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Dude.
Down the middle?!!
THAT is totally counterintuitive.
🙂
How stupid would you look if the goalie stood still and caught your kick?
Is that why nobody does it?
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– The best way to maximize the chances of scoring a penalty kick would be to learn the habits of the goalie you are up against. See which side they favor, and kick to the opposite side. Or you can try your best to fake out the goalie before you kick the ball.
– Express your ideas in a bold and clear way, do not beat around the bush to sound intelligent, it will most likely end up confusing your audience.
– If you have no expectation whatsoever, you will believe what you are told.
– 10% of American women experience infertility between ages 18-45.
– Make the best use of your statistic. No one knows what it means until you tell them what it means. Wield your statistics.
– First draft of 3000-word essay due April 20, annotated bibliography due April 25. Reflective statement due April 27.
– Periods and commas inside the quotes.
– You cannot address your audience using the word “you”, but we can use the word “we.”
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-I think that the best way to improve your odds against somebody who is kicking a penalty shot is to just commit to one area of the goal. Rather than spend time deciding and changing your mind, committing to one area in my opinion is the safest best to avoid screwing up. Most people don’t do this because it is harder to do in the moment.
-We then talked about what makes something a worthwhile counterintuitive thesis.
-We then learned how to take a statistic that may not be so supportive of our argument and turn it into something that can help our argument.
-We were then tasked with selecting which sentence out of five was actually not supportive or good to include.
-We finished class by reviewing the things that will cause us to fail for our grammar.
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For today’s riddle: The soccer penalty kick, asks where should the shooter take the penalty and where the goalie is going to dive, the thing is from the angle it looks like it’s going to the left, but it could be going middle from the perspective of the player. The best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t would either be dead center in the middle or either corner of the net, before you take the shot you must look at the direction the goalie’s body is leaning or the direction his eyes are going, you have to outsmart the person in front of you and by doing that it has to deal with body language. Most kickers decide to go to their dominant side and hit the ball as hard as they can to increase the speed and decrease the reaction time the goalie has to make a decision. If you’re going to use numbers for your claim you must understand what you could do with that numbers. In the example of the glass of water, you could make it seem either positive or negative, depending on how you see it, you can prove anything given the numbers or intention. We went over different rules that could be looked at to help someone, it provides an explanation of how you would have to use the rule and in what way.
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Dude.
Dead center?!!
THAT is totally counterintuitive.
🙂
How stupid would you look if the goalie stood still and caught your kick?
Is that why nobody does it?
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Soccer Riddle:
1. The best way to improve your odds of successfully making a penalty kick would be to kick the ball directly to the center of the goal. The goalie likely will dive to his left or right, so a centered kick would be un-intercepted.
2. So few kickers make this choice possibly because it veers from the norms established in this game. Overwhelmingly kickers stick to the same pattern, either kicking to the dominant or non-dominant side.
Glass Half Full – How to Express Statistics:
-“As high as 50%”
-“Has sunk to 50%”
-Continue to Rewrite Short Arguments, even after Portfolio deadline
*Research Paper DUE: THU APR 20*
*Annotated Bibliography DUE: TUE APR 25*
*Self-Reflective Statement DUE: THU APR 27*
**Portfolio DUE: THU APR 27**
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Dude.
“directly to the center of the goal”?!!
THAT is totally counterintuitive.
🙂
How stupid would you look if the goalie stood still and caught your kick?
Is that why nobody does it?
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-To increase your chances of successfully scoring a penalty kick, it’s beneficial to observe the tendencies of the opposing goalie. Identify which side they prefer to defend and aim for the opposite side. Alternatively, try to deceive the goalie before taking the shot.
-To effectively communicate your ideas, it’s important to be direct and avoid unnecessary complexity. Using convoluted language may confuse your audience instead of impressing them.
-If you approach a situation with no preconceived notions, you’re more susceptible to believing what you’re told.
-Approximately 10% of women in America between the ages of 18 and 45 experience infertility.
-Utilize your statistical data to its full potential by providing context and explanation. -The significance of statistics may not be apparent without proper interpretation.
-The initial draft of a 3000-word essay is due on April 20th
-Annotated bibliography due on April 25th
-The reflective statement is due on April 27th.
-Use punctuation marks like periods and commas inside quotation marks.
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A song long lead up only works when we know that there is a pay off coming. We have to know where we are going. We cannot spend five paragraphs not mentioning any conclusion. We have to let the audience know the conclusion that we hope to achieve.
Riddle: Professional players get to play the championship game by crushing professional players beforehand. They play for the entire regulation, and both teams do not score at all. Watchers love that since there is so much action.
Riddle: What’s the best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t? The best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t is to kick it in the direction where the goalie is {?}, or use a different leg to kick {?}. Why do so few kickers make the most logical choice? So few kickers make the most logical choice because many of them think they can read the goalie’s mind.
If you are having trouble with your rebuttal argument, just publish it in the blog and ask for help in the post so that Professor Hodges knows about your issue. When you actually write up your argument, put it in feedback please and ask for specific feedback.
When beginning your rebuttal arguments, state who your opponent is and what you believe in as an author. That way, your audience will know what you are arguing about as soon as possible. In other words, it will grab their attention instantly.
Use research material to your best advantage. Fully understand what you are talking about in your pieces so you can give enough detail/knowledge to your audience.
“They think the fighter loves the violence, when in fact his role is to prevent it.” Be wary when you start sounding like this. Write clearly. Be specific.
“You got to know how to use the bat.” Meaning — you got to know the statistics regarding the subject you are writing about.
Important to note:
Portfolio Task: 3000-word Researched Persuasive Argument
DUE THU APR 20
Portfolio Task: Annotated Bibliography
DUE DATE TUE APR 25
Portfolio Task: Self-Reflective Statement
DUE DATE THU APR 27
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May 1st, 2nd, 3rd is when grade conferences take place.
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Class Notes 4/13:
-Soccer Riddle: There really isn’t a whole lot of strategy to penalty kicks. The kick is from so close that the goalie and shooter really have no time to decide where the ball is going that it’s pure random chance whether or not it’s a score or a save. The best way to score is to just give hit your best shot and be 100% confident in your choice. any second guessing could really make you alter your shot accidentally. Most people don’t make the most logical choices because they over think it.
-Rewrite Advice for Rebuttal: Express the authors convictions in bold, clear language; Provide evidence instead of hinting at it; Call out the authors flawed conclusions, whatever they are.
-We used the hockey fighting thesis to further understand how to compel our rebuttal argument
-Make sure to be as specific as possible if you’re trying to push a claim across. Don’t use vague language because then it leaves your claim somewhat open to varying interpretation.
-Wield your statistics: Whatever stats your present, make sure they have relevance in your argument.
-Schedule: Full research paper due in a week; annotated bibliography is due 4/25; course reflective statement due 4/27
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The only thing we know for sure is that only about 2% of the time will the goalie remain in the middle.
🙂
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– The best way to increase your chances of scoring is to evaluate the goalies weakest side and shot there, you also need to notice how the goalie is standing because they usually give off hints on where they plan to go.
– If you want a strong argument you need to clearly get your point across and try to avoid unnecessary words.
– #5 was the sentence that was useless since they didn’t state to point clearly. They kind of went around it.
– The 3000 word essay draft is due April 20th
– Annotated Bibliography due April 25th
– The Self-Reflective statement due on April 27th
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The best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t is probably using your opposite foot.
Post your rebuttal argument even if you have nothing. Ask for writing advice.
If the hook is there you can keep your readers following along.
As soon as your portfolio is complete, you can make a conference appointment.
The portfolio deadline is just two weeks away.
The first draft of the 3000-word essay is due April 20, an annotated bibliography is due April 25, and the reflective statement is due April 27.
You can still revise and make changes to your papers all the way before your appointment.
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Riddle: The Soccer Penalty Kick
What’s the best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t? The best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie won’t be would be where your weakest at. 41% of the time, the goalie will guard your weak side rather than your strong side.
Rewrite Advice: Even the best and truest thesis can be argued.
A rebuttal needs to:
Express the author’s convictions in bold, clear language
Provide the evidence instead of hinting at it
Call out the opposition’s flawed conclusions, whatever they are
Writing Advice: Statistics are tools. Having them is pointless if you don’t know what to use them for.
End of Semester Schedule:
Thursday, April 20, 2023, out first draft of our 3000 word research paper will be due.
This is the combination of our three short 1000-word arguments
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, our Annotated Bibliographies are due
On Thursday, April 20, we will discuss formatting and requirements for this Portfolio Assignment
Thursday, April 27, 2023, our Reflective Statements will be due (this assignment will complete the Portfolio)
This will also be our last in-person class
Portfolios will be double-checked during our scheduled class time. Once our Portfolio’s have been verified complete by Professor, we will be allowed to schedule for a final conference during Finals Week (Monday, May 1, Tuesday, May 2, and Wednesday, May 3)
There are only four classes left after today’s.
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And only about 2% of the time will he guard the middle.
🙂
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RIDDLE: the soccer penalty kick What is the best place to be as a goalie?
1.What’s the best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t?
Your best way of improving your odds seems like kicking it straight in the middle of the goal because they will be choosing a side.
2.Why do so few kickers make the most logical choice?
So few kickers make the logical choice because the goalie would be right where you are aiming before you kick.
REBUTTAL ADVICE
If you haven’t posted yet just put whatever you can. notes, questions, paragraphs.
Put it under feedback (be specific)
Fighting in hockey
Is it necessary? This writer believes so
Claim: “fighting in hockey, when it’s retaliatory and conducted by “enforcers” whose job is to dole out justice to bullies who pick fights with star players, actually REDUCES violence and injuries, putting a quick end to the feud by sending the clear message that it will not be tolerated.”
Their rebuttal needs…
1.Express the author’s convictions in bold, clear language.
2.Provide evidence instead of hinting at it.
3.Call out the opposition’s flawed conclusions, whatever they are.
“They see a drop of blood on the ice, but can’t calculate the carnage that drop of blood prevents.”
—–If we don’t use tangible effects in our writing we are missing a major aspect in our essay.
BASEBALL EXAMPLE
Baseball player holds his bat in strange but effective ways.
Advice: know how to use your bat effectively
STATISTIC WORDING
Instead of saying “50% of our readers agree with us”
You could make 50% positive or negative with how you say it…
How to make it sound better!!
– A full 50%
– As high as 50%
– Has improved to 50%
– Proud to announce we have achieved 50%
– At 50%, the perfect balance
MINOR IN-CLASS TASK: Find the useless sentence in the list below.
#5…Though African-Americans lag behind by a few points, American women who wish to become pregnant have achieved a remarkable 90% fertility rate.
This sentence tells us nothing about African-American statistics, only American women. It also is very vague, what kind of American women?
END OF SEMESTER SCHEDULE
— Thursday april 20: first draft of your 3000 word research position paper is due (put them together nicely, do not through them together)
— TUE APR 25 Your Annotated Bibliography is due. We will have reviewed its format and requirements on THU APR 20.
— THU APR 27 Reflective Statements will be due, completing your Portfolio. PORTFOLIO DOUBLE-CHECK
— Grade Conferences by Appointment, on Zoom- Conferences will be held on MON MAY 01, TUE MAY 02, WED MAY 03
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Dude.
Straight in the middle?!!
THAT is totally counterintuitive.
🙂
How stupid would you look if the goalie stood still and caught your kick?
Is that why nobody does it?
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Riddle:
1. I think the best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t is to simply kick differently from the way you normally kick. For example, if you tend to kick towards the left then instead kick towards the right. This will throw off the goalie because they will expect you to kick as you normally do.
2. I think it is because they are so used to kicking in one way that when they are put on the spot, they just go with what they know.
Rewrite Advice
– You want to make sure your paragraphs….
1. Express the author’s convictions in bold and clear language
2. Provide evidence instead of hinting at it
3. Call out the oppositions flawed conclusions, whatever they are.
Writing Advice
– Your statistics are tools; they can be useless if you do not know how to use them.
– You can take statistics and either make them sound good or bad depending on your argument.
– You need to give context so that the reader understands whether or not your statistic is considered high or low or what they should make of it.
End of Semester
– Thursday April 20th: The first draft of our 3,000 Research Position Paper due
– Tuesday April 25th: Annotated Bibliography due
– Thursday April 27th: Reflective Statements due
– May 1,2,3: Final Grade Conferences
– You can revise things up until about April 30th
***Do your rewrites and request regrades ASAP***
Fails for Grammer
– Refer to this page when you need a refresher on grammar rules
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You can tease people if they know where you’re going and the goal is in mind. If it’s just running on and on with no end goal in mind you’ll lose the reader
Riddle: Soccer Penalty Kick: The goal is 12 yards away. It’s 8 yards wide and 8 feet tall. The ball will be kicked at 80 miles per hour. A goalie has .3 seconds to decide.
If you’re the kick you should use your weak foot since it is less likely to be guessed by the goalie.
If you’re the goalie and you known which is the kickers dominant side you should go to where his dominant side is because of the odds of him going to that side
Rewrite Advice: Rebuttal needs to do 3 things: 1 Express the author’s convictions in bold, clear language. 2 Provide evidence instead of hinting at it. 3 Call out the opposition’s flawed conclusions, whatever they are.
Writing Advice: Using statistics is a tool and able to be used to help support. You can change a statistic to be positive or negative in order to help your argument.
***DUE DATES***
3000-word Researched Persuasive Argument: DUE THU APR 20
Annotated Bibliography: DUE TUE APR 25
Self-Reflective Statement: DUE THU APR 27
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Riddle of the day conclusion: The best way to land a kick in soccer is to use your weak side to mislead the goalie into exposing the goal. Professionals should look at statistics to improve their gameplay against opponents.
Express ideas in a clear/confident way sound intelligent to not confuse the audience.
If you have no expectations, you will believe whatever you are told.
Michele Obama- talks about the statistics of infertility in women in America. approximately 10%
wield the statistics correctly, a statistic could benefit your writing exponentially however you must give it meaning for the audience.
Useless sentence (4): It already explains information about African-American women and does not provide any new statistics relevant to the topic.
In the conclusion of today’s class we go over our last assignments that are due and sadly we only have 4 in person classes left 😦
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Soccer Penalty kick
1. the best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t is perhaps towards the middle of the net since the goalie is probably going head towards the side of your dominated leg
2. A few kickers make the most logical choice because they could be intimated by the fact that the goalie is already in the middle.
Rewrite Advice:
– Express the author’s conviction in clear language
– provide the evidence instead of hinting towards it
– Call out the opposition flawed conclusions
-use your materials to your best advantage
Writing Advice
– Don’t just put the statistics you are using anywhere in your essay because then the statistics will become pointless if not used properly
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Dude.
“towards the middle”?!!
THAT is totally counterintuitive.
🙂
How stupid would you look if the goalie stood still and caught your kick?
Is that why nobody does it?
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Riddle: Soccer Penalty Kick
1. Most goalies will favor one side or the other, and will most likely anticipate for players to kick the ball either right or left. For best results, kick the ball straight into the middle of the goal.
2. Oftentimes, the most logical choice would seem like the most obvious, and when trying to utilize the element of surprise, the obvious doesn’t seem like a good strategy.
Rewrite Advice
– express convictions with bold, clear language
– provide proper evidence instead of just hinting at it
– call out your opposition’s flawed conclusions
– when using statistics: they should be delivered with confidence, blatantly object the opposition, etc.
– can frame statistics however you want (no one knows what it means until you tell them what it means)
End of Semester Schedule
– 4/20: 3000 word research position paper will be due (compilation of 3 1000 word argument essays)
– 4/25: annotated bibliography
– 4/27: reflective statements, which complete the portfolio + PORTFOLIO DOUBLE CHECK
– Grade conferences will be held on 5/01 to 5/03 on Zoom (after portfolio has been verified)
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Today, we first went over a riddle about what the smartest kick is and I believe it would be to aim for the side the goalie is weak on. There may be a chance he guesses right but what’s the odds of that, it wouldn’t make sense to aim on the stronger side because you’d be basically handing the ball over, nor would it make sense to aim at the middle because that is where the goalie is standing.
We went over our schedule for the next couple of weeks, assignments that are coming up and how to potentially revise our short essays. We also looked over some grammar and how to use words properly.
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Riddle: The Soccer Penalty Kick:
– The best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t is to kick the ball directly in the middle since the goalie will not expect this, or kick with your nondominant foot since the goalie will be more likely to jump towards the side where you would kick the ball with your dominant foot.
– So few kickers make the most logical choice because they think of the unexpected and they don’t do the usual, which is kicking the ball with their dominant foot. So, they try to think of ways they can fake out the goalie and try to assume where the goalie is going to dive for the ball.
Rewrite Advice: The paragraph is an introduction to the rebuttal argument. We want our paragraphs to express the author’s convictions in bold, clear language, provide evidence instead of hinting at it, and call out the opposition’s flawed conclusions, whatever they are.
No idea comes without a counterargument.
Even the best and truest thesis can be argued.
Always acknowledge the empirical evidence within your argument.
“We can’t just have a bat, we have to know how to use the bat.” Wield Your Statistics: they are tools. Statistics without direction and velocity are useless. Always remember, having them is pointless if you don’t know how to use them.
We all handle statistics differently.
We will always find an approach for handling statistics that makes us comfortable. Some essentials are common to all good writers: they face forward, adopt a comfortable stance, stare down the opposition, deliver with confidence, and know how to use spin.
My Number is a Good Number or My Number is a Bad Number: Readers need to be told how your number compares to the range of possible numbers. The statistic by itself means nothing until you place it into context. Our readers are at our mercy to interpret the value of the numbers that we share. They count on us to guide them to an understanding of the importance of the evidence that we present to them.
For example, we can turn 50% into a good number or a bad number, we just have to add context to it.
The Fails For Grammar List has 14 rules that we should follow within our writing. We can always refer back to that list to check if our grammar or punctuation is correct.
Remember, we can always revise!
Our end of semester schedule is posted with all of our assignments and deadlines that we have coming up, so we can keep checking that list to make sure we aren’t missing any deadlines and that we are on the right path to our final portfolio.
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Dude.
“towards the middle”?!!
THAT is totally counterintuitive.
🙂
How stupid would you look if the goalie stood still and caught your kick?
Is that why nobody does it?
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I was not here for class but I have some notes right here.
There was a debate on what would be the smartest kick to do. You obviously don’t want to go for the middle because the goalie is most likely to catch the ball in the middle, so it is best to take your best shot either on the left side or the right side. What ever side it is, it needs to be the weaker side. You want to make the goalie choose the wrong side.
For the rebuttal argument, you want to be very clear with your argument and provide the necessary evidence, and you want to really drive the point home to the people you are going up against.
If the opposing side has weak sides or viewpoints or statistics, you want to take advantage of that as much possible, and whatever points they have on the other side, you want to manipulate them.
Thursday April 20th is the due date of the 3000 word persuasive research argument
April 25th is the due date of the annotated bibliography
April 27th is the due date of the self reflective statement.
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In the smartest kick would be for the kicker to hit the ball furthest from the goalkeeper.
On April 25th is the annotated bibliography
On April 27th is the self-reflective statement.
For the rebuttal, we have to make the argument as clear as possible and try to disprove the people who might disagree with your stance.
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-the best way to increase your odds of getting a goal is kicking it where the goalie least expects it to go
– if you want advice on what you have so far, post it and get some feedback.
– hook is how you grab your readers attention and from there you have to keep their attention.
– be bold and clear with your claim and ideas
– make your statistics and sources work for you, tell the reader what you want them to mean.
– no “you”, more “we”
– make conference appointment when portfolio is complete.
– portfolio due soon so start getting it together.
The first draft of the research paper is due April 20
-annotated bibliography is due April 25
-reflective statement is due April 27.
– you can continue to revise your work up until your portfolio appointment.
– check grammar errors
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Riddle: 1. The best option is to fake him out and go for your bad side because the majority of goalies guard your strong side. 2. Few kickers make the logical choice because they are not confident with their bad side sp they assume their chances of making it in are worse than using their dominant side.
Rewrite advice: You want to express your claim boldly with clear language, you want to provide the evidence instead of just hinting at language, and you want to call out your opponent’s flawed conclusions.
Writing advice: Grammer fails are a big way to mess up your essay. Look at the document provided by the professor if you need help on avoiding grammar fails.
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