It's "Back to School Night" this week, so please mark your family
calendar and ask parents and guardians to come to your classes this
Thursday night, September 24. We'll have a minimum day on Friday
afterwards. Our class will continue with rhetorical analysis and discuss tone, diction, and genre and practice analyzing articles relating to the Apollo 11 space launch. We'll also begin analyzing rhetorical analysis prompts and outlining responses.
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up, share. Collect "AP Setting the Stage" projects. Discuss Grapes of Wrath Chapters 9-10. Discuss and begin Apollo 11 assignment in class, and perform SOAPS and rhetorical analysis on first article together. Notes about tone - how to describe it and how it affects a speech or written passage. Tone exercises.
Due:
Grapes of Wrath "AP Setting the Stage" projects.
The Grapes of Wrath through chapter 10.
Homework:
Study for Current Events Quiz 2 on Thursday which will cover "The 10 Things You Need to Know Today" e-mails from Sunday, September 20 - Wednesday, September 23, (4 days). There will be one reading question from Grapes Chapters 9-10 as well.
Finish Apollo 11 assignment for Thursday.
THURSDAY: Journal warm-up, share. Current events quiz (with one question from Grapes reading). Go through Apollo 11 assignment. Receive "Tone Vocabulary" assignment and list for next week. Notes about diction vs. syntax. Watch a reenactment of the "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury" originally delivered by Queen Elizabeth I and discuss tone, rhetorical appeals, and diction.
Due: Apollo 11 assignment.
Homework:
Complete "Tone Vocabulary" assignment
Read Grapes Chapters 11-12 for Monday.
Read and annotate rhetorical analysis prompt for Monday.
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