September 23-27

This week, we'll continue exploring rhetorical devices, the rhetorical situation, and Frederick Douglass. It's also Open House on Thursday night, so please ask parents and guardians to come out and walk through your schedule and meet your teachers.

TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Go over homework in class. Notes: steps to writing a rhetorical analysis essay. Notes: Diction and connotation/denotation. Connotation exercise in groups.

Due: Read and annotate pages 15 - 20 in the Rhetorical Analysis Packet (the "Culminating Activity") and write out a SOAPS analysis for the 3 articles in your packet in the margins. 

Read the Rhetorical Analysis Packet from the bottom of page 9 through the top of page 13. Annotate as you go along right there in the packet. 

Make sure you can get into the College Board website to sign up for the AP exam, and then pay through the Total Registration website. 

Homework: Study for current events quiz. Click here for a Word doc with all of this week's current events e-mails.

THURSDAY: Journal warm-up. Current events quiz covering TheWeek.com e-mails from Sunday, Sept. 22 - Wednesday, September 26. (The material will also be posted to this website on Wednesday.) Receive special Tone Vocabulary list for next week's quiz. Finish connotation exercise. Notes: rhetorical analysis outline blueprint and working rubric. Go through a practice Rhetorical Analysis prompt example (see sample Alfred M. Green essays under Class Handouts on the right-hand sidebar).

Due: n/a

Homework:  Read and annotate the provided Florence Kelley Rhetorical Analysis passage. Write a rough outline and be ready to share it and have it logged in for credit. 

FRIDAY: (Minimum Day, all classes) Special tone practice activity in groups, have outline checked off for credit.

Due: Outline of Kelley rhetorical analysis passage on paper.

Homework: Type out the full rough draft response to the prompt and upload to Turnitin.com by Monday night, September 30th, at 10:00 p.m. This should be very rough - just put the outline into sentences and include examples of each rhetorical device (what) and how it adds to the effectiveness of the passage (how). A simple intro and conclusion is fine, and the entire essay should be 4-6 paragraphs. We will work with these drafts next week.