September 18 - 22

This is an important week (am I saying that every week?!) for our rhetorical analysis unit.  We will add three extremely helpful rhetorical devices to your list, as well as defining a counterargument.  I'm looking forward to the examples that students generate in class this week.

MONDAY/TUESDAY: Journal warm-up.  Collect imagery examples and share them with the class.  Go over SOAPS of Beyoncé speech.  Notes: logos, ethos, pathos - definitions and what each does for an argument.  Read examples of each.  Watch video examples and try to identify them as a class.

Due: 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.

Homework: For Thursday/Friday

1. Please read and annotate page 7 of the Rhetorical Analysis packet.  Note where Morrison uses logos, ethos, and pathos in her effort to persuade voters.  Is this an effective letter in your opinion?
2. Read another 10 pages in your independent reading book.  (This brings the total independent reading up to 65 pages.)

WEDNESDAY: (4th and 6th 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: For Friday

1. Please read and annotate page 7 of the Rhetorical Analysis packet.  Note where Morrison uses logos, ethos, and pathos in her effort to persuade voters.  Is this an effective letter in your opinion?
2. Read another 10 pages in your independent reading book.  (This brings the total independent reading up to 65 pages.)

THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Journal warm-up.  Quiz covering Vocabulary sheet #2, grammar, and logos, ethos, pathos.  Receive Vocab #3 and 4.  Review Morrison's letter, noting what each instance of logos, ethos, and pathos does for her argument. Notes: counterargument.  Read Alice Water's argument on page 6 of the Rhetorical Analysis Basics Packet together.  Group activity: logos, ethos, pathos skits. Last few minutes: portfolio retrieval.

Due:

1. Please read and annotate page 7 of the Rhetorical Analysis packet.  Note where Morrison uses logos, ethos, and pathos in her effort to persuade voters.  Is this an effective letter in your opinion?
2. Read another 10 pages in your independent reading book.  (This brings the total independent reading up to 65 pages.)

Homework:
1. Please complete the Rhetorical Analysis Assignment for President Carter's passage.

3. Please read another 20 pages of your independent reading book (up to about page 85).