September 11-15

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

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: (3rd 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, 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.

Find one good example of a persuasive text or visual that includes one or more of the five types of imagery (visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and/or tactile).  Please bring this for next class.