I hope everyone enjoyed the three-day weekend! This week, we'll continue the introduction to rhetorical analysis by reviewing the basics we learned last week and adding ethos, logos, and pathos, along with a few other terms. We'll meet more members of the Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath and take our first current events quiz.
MONDAY: Labor Day, no school.
TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Discuss Chapter One questions worksheet from The Grapes of Wrath. Look at Steinbeck's purpose and the structure and dialect of The Grapes of Wrath. Dialect exercise.
Rhetorical analysis review. Logos, ethos, and pathos notes and examples, class exercises.
Due: Chapters 1-4 of The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter One questions answered.
Homework: Study for current events quiz on Thursday - current events information will be taken from the "10 Things You Need to Know Today" e-mails from Sunday through Wednesday morning. Read Chapter 5 from Grapes of Wrath and come to class with an example of logos, ethos, or pathos to share.
THURSDAY: Journal warm-up. First current events quiz covering "The 10 Things You Need to Know Today" e-mail summaries from TheWeek.com from Sunday, September 6 through Wednesday, September 9th.
Review ethos, logos, pathos and share class examples. Add more
rhetorical terms with examples. Introduce rhetorical glossary
assignment.
Discuss Syrian refugee crisis and perform SOAPS analysis on two articles with differing opinions about what the USA should do, if anything.
Receive vocab/grammar list for the following week's quiz next Friday.
Due: Chapter 5 of The Grapes of Wrath. Sample of ethos, logos, pathos.
Homework: Glossary assignment for Monday - be ready to share before turning in. Read Chapter 6 of The Grapes of Wrath for Monday.
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