Chief Seattle

LT: I can demonstrate my knowledge of rhetorical terms. I can read a text closely and pick out rhetorical strategies that contribute to the author's purpose.

1. Rhetorical Terms Quiz
2. Chief Seattle- Read, annotate and complete 1st reading Q's in partners

HW over break:

• Chief Seattle Rhetorical Analysis (TIMED 40 Min)
• Prompt: Analyze the rhetorical strategies that contribute to the author's purpose
• Reminders!
• → Your #1 overall goal--always--is purpose. What is the meaning of the piece? What did the author sit down to say? 
• → Then you explore HOW the author did so… Strategies (big ideas: E, P, L, tone shifts, recurring devices--paragraph worthy AND linking to MEANING always!)
• → Then sprinkle in the little things (rhetorical devices)... word choice, images, specific details that create _________ (a specific tone, an effect on the reader)
• → Use many quotes! Short ones, or “lists” of phrases are great!
• → Make your ending about the essay’s ending… 
• Water Synthesis (TIMED 1 hour)
• 1. Your essay should be clear, organized, logical, and thoughtful.
  2. In developing each of your major points, make certain to:
  1. Relate it to the thesis/claim
  2. Use specific examples (personal and otherwise)
  3. Use selected sources to support the major point
  4. Incorporate sources into the development of your point by using
  1. Attribution and introduction of cited sources
  2. Transitions
  3. Mix of direct quotations, summary and paraphrase.
  3. The synthesis essay asks you to be familiar with both analysis and argument.