Thanks so much for all of the participation during the brief, one-week Warriors Don't Cry unit. I can see we're going to have a great year after hearing so many interesting discussions already.
This
is an important week in the class as we begin to learn the basics of
rhetorical analysis. Rhetorical Analysis is the first style of essay
we'll be working on, and just so happens to be the same approach that
you'll use if you're writing the SAT essay this year. Here's the
agenda:
MONDAY/TUESDAY: Journal warm-up. Receive Basics of Rhetorical Analysis
packet. Go over Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle. Small group triangle
activity. Learn the SOAPS method of analyzing a passage and work with President
Bush's 9/11 speech. If time, do "story rounds" activity with
vocabulary words.
Due: What makes you a warrior? assignment
Read first 25 pages from your Independent Reading book.
Homework:
For Thursday or Friday, please read pages 1 and 2 from the Rhetorical Analysis packet. Do a SOAPS on a piece of paper for Bruni's Where You Go Is Not Who You Are. Study for vocabulary quiz.
WEDNESDAY:
(2nd only) Journal warm-up. Current event day. Should schools use cameras for security or not? Read and/or view
different perspectives, "stakeholder" style discussion and debate, vote.
Due: n/a
Homework: Please read pages 1 and 2 from the Rhetorical Analysis packet. Do a SOAPS on a piece of paper for Bruni's Where You Go Is Not Who You Are.
THURSDAY/FRIDAY:
Journal warm-up. Weekly quiz covering Vocab #1, grammar, a couple of Where You Go summer reading questions. Review
SOAPS with Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be example. Types of imagery and its effects on an argument/passage. Definitions,
imagery activity.
Due: Please read pages 1 and 2 from the Rhetorical Analysis packet. Do a SOAPS on a piece of paper for Bruni's Where You Go Is Not Who You Are.
Homework: Write a SOAPS analysis on a piece of paper for next class for Beyoncé's speech about Hurricane Harvey at Houston's St. John's Church.
Read another 20 pages of your independent reading book, and find 2 examples of imagery (visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory) to bring to class to share.
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