We've been learning rhetorical analysis terms and practicing rhetorical analysis for different types of passages. This week, we'll focus on close reading and analysis of text and developing a thesis statement and writing a close analysis essay.
MONDAY: Journal warm-up, share. Finish Apollo 11 review, turn in. Go over practice prompt and view class examples of annotating/identifying rhetorical devices. Read actual exam responses and the score them, comparing with actual scores. (Tone Vocabulary check-off). Hyperbole, allusion notes.
Due: Tone Vocabulary, annotated Maria Stewart prompt with rhetorical devices noted, and Grapes through Chapter 12.
Homework: Read and annotate Steinbeck's "Starvation Under the Orange Trees" article and Peikoff's "Health Care is Not a Right." Which has the better argument? Which do you personally agree with?
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up, share. From articles you read for homework, discuss and debate which is the more persuasive article and whether or not the government should provide health care.
Notes: and video - irony.
Due: "Starvation Under the Orange Trees" and "Health Care is Not a Right" articles read and annotated.
Homework: Read Virginia Woolf "Death of the Moth" passage and outline an essay response for practice in class only (we won't be writing this one out in full).
Study for Vocab quiz - Left hand column on "Tone Vocabulary" handout.
FRIDAY: Journal warm-up, share. Vocab quiz over first column of "Tone Vocabulary" sheet. Go over Death of the Moth example. Thesis statements - 3 main types. Receive Rhetorical Analysis Essay Checklist and PSTD FIRST mnemonic sheet for use with analyzing passages.
Due: Please have "Death of the Moth" read and annotated for today's class. CORRECTION: I'll collect journals next Thursday for points. With the move to the computer lab, I forgot to announce it.
Homework: Read and annotate Marriage Proposal prompt. Upload an outline and rough draft by Monday night, October 5 at 11:00 p.m. to Turnitin.com.
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