Review Time!

Calendar:
Monday: RA Review- Ben Banneker Lesson
Wednesday: Argument Review
Friday: Multiple Choice Review
Tuesday: Review, Refresh, Relax
Wednesday: Exam Day!

1. Review Rhetorical Analysis rubric and sample essays
2. Give your essay a score and explain WHY you gave it the score you did
3. Tips for Rhetorical Analysis:

• You must understand the meaning of the passage, the author's purpose in writing the passage, and the effect of the passage on the intended audience before you begin writing
• Next, decide what rhetorical devices the writer uses to convey meaning to the reader
• Does the writer uses particular phrases or details to appeal to the emotions or the logic of his or her intended audience?
• Are the paragraphs arranged so that each paragraph contributes to the desired effect?
• Do any stylistic devices (imagery, diction, figurative language, etc.) contribute to the overall effect and purpose?

4. Banneker close reading

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.

The Lives of a Cell

Obj: I can analyze the structure of a text by completing a says/does analysis.

1. Rhetorical Terms Review: Quiz next class!

2. "The Lives of a Cell" Says/Does Analysis: Pick out rhetorical strategies (diction, imagery, arrangement, etc.) and note how they work to generate his comparison of earth to a cell.

HW: Synthesis Essay and Study for Quiz on Terms

Synthesis Prompt : Consider the focus of the excerpts from Dillard and Thoreau, Thomas’s essay, and the White letter. Write an essay in which you defend, challenge or qualify Thomas’s claim that “man is embedded in nature.” Refer to at least three of the texts for support.

The Battle of the Ants

Obj: I can read a text closely and discuss analysis questions. I can review rhetorical terms by finding and creating examples to teach the class.

1. Review Synthesis Essay
2.  Discuss Thoreau
3. Read Gilbert White's letter and annotate 1st and 2nd reading questions- discuss
4. Rhetorical Terms Review

HW: Read and annotate "Lives of a Cell" and complete slides for rhetorical terms review

Emerson and Thoreau

Obj: I can recognize the strengths and weaknesses of my partner's essay. I can read a text closely and answer analysis questions.

1. Sharing essays
2. How can we tighten our language?

• Edit paragraph
• Confusing antecedents

3. What is Transcendentalism?
4. Discuss "big ideas" from Emerson's Nature
5. Read Thoreau and divide up 2nd reading Q's

HW: Read Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne and complete 1st and 2nd reading questions

Environmental Responsibility

Obj: I can analyze texts by reading closely and answering questions on rhetoric and style.

1. John Francis Ted Talk: Environmental Responsibility

What is your reaction to John Francis and the way he chose to live his life? Explain what you think about the effectiveness of this speech as a whole.

2. Discuss Dillard Excerpt

Describe your initial response to the Dillard excerpt. Be specific. How did it make you feel? What does it make you think about? How would you have felt had you been watching the events from a distance?

Look over your annotations of the text. You’re each going to get a question to specifically focus on and share out about. Then, we will discuss the piece as a whole in the end. 

1. Find images that suggest beauty. Explain the incongruity of finding beauty in a moth.
2. Who was Polyphemus? Explain the allusion to him in the moth’s name? Where else does this come up in the text?
3. What does Dillard’s comparison of the moth to a bear in paragraph 3 (lines 22-30) suggest and how does it suggest that?
4. Find the sequence of causes and effects that lead to the irreconcilable change in the moth. Paraphrase these events.
5. Since Dillard tells about the activities of children and a teacher, what do such subjects suggest about unintended consequences?
6. Explain the significance of the repetition in the last sentence.
7. Dillard relates a childhood event through adult eyes. What does this point of view suggest and how so?
8. Explain the similarities of this seemingly small event in the larger context of human interaction with the natural world.

HW: Choose ONE of the following and write an essay that answers the prompt, and bring a printed copy to class on Monday.

Argument--Write your own description of a similar chain of events focused on another aspect of human interaction with the natural world. Arrange your essay using the Dillard excerpt as a guide. Include specific details, images, and incongruities.

Analysis--Write an essay in which you analyze how Dillard’s rhetorical strategies convey her attitude regarding innocence and interference with natural cycles.

What is our Responsibility to the Natural World?

Obj: I can identify my strengths and weaknesses as a writer. I can analyze a visual text and discuss how a photographer can convey a meaning/message through a photograph. I can write an on demand prompt using my personal beliefs and experiences as a guide for writing.

1. Rhetorical Terms Presentations!
2. R.A. Reflection: Review the last two rhetorical analysis essays you wrote. What were their strengths and weaknesses? Which parts of this type of writing comes easily to you, and which parts do you struggle with?
3. Synthesis Self-Assessment

4. We are beginning our Nature Unit today!

• Earth from Apollo 17
• Writing Prompt: What is our responsibility to the natural world?
• Ted Talk: John Francis Walks the Earth

HW: Read and annotate Annie Dillard excerpt. Be ready to discuss the following next time:

• Her attitude toward the subject
• Rhetorical strategies that convey her attitude