September 13-17

Welcome to our third week already!  I'm looking forward to slightly cooler temperatures and continuing to delve into the world of rhetorical analysis with more terms and more practice on an even wider variety of sources (speeches, visuals, the Republican debate, and actual AP prompts).  

MONDAY: Journal warm-up.  Share answers to Glossary assignment.  Add more rhetorical terms to notes (from Grapes of Wrath and other sources - personification, diction, connotation, denotation).  Read a variety of other passages in class, perform SOAPS analysis and identify rhetorical devices.

Due: Grapes Chapter 6 read, Glossary Assignment
Homework: Read Grapes of Wrath Chapters 7-8


WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up.  The Grapes of Wrath: discuss how a work of fiction can make an impact on society, and Steinbeck's Nobel Prize speech.  Discussion: are some books dangerous, and if so, should they be banned?  Four corner debate.


Due: Grapes, Chapters 7-8
Homework:  Study for vocab quiz, begin assignments for Tuesday.

For Tuesday, 9/22 - Grapes of Wrath Chapters 9-10, "Setting the Stage" assignment.



FRIDAY: Journal warm-up.  Vocab quiz.  OPTICS analysis of visual texts.  Watch short video clips of the Republican Debate from Wednesday, September 16 and analyze the effectiveness of the rhetorical strategies we observe.

Due: n/a
Homework: For Tuesday, 9/22:

• Grapes of Wrath Chapters 9-10
• "Setting the Stage" assignment 
• Read current events e-mails, "The 10 Things You Need to Know Today"; next week's quiz will cover e-mails from Sunday, 9/20 -Wednesday, 9/23.