1. Finish the poem you started in class today, write a new one, or work on your story. You should write for at least 15 minutes.
AP Language - Tomorrow we will have an on-demand essay
Homework Tonight: Read chapter 4 of Frederick Douglass and answer the following questions in your notebook. For those of you who received less than an 85% on the quiz, you should be briefly summarizing each page of the book to make sure you are understanding the details. Please note tht tonight's reading includes some violence and upsetting material.
After you read and answer the questions, read over the midterm outline. We will discuss it on Friday: Midterm Outline
1. Describe and name the rhetor’s introductory strategy. Does it start with a question? An anecdote? A problem to be solved?
2. Rhetor’s major claim in the chapter: what is the explicit or implicit argument?
3. Intended audience: what evidence do you have that you are correct about who the audience is?
4. Rhetor’s Style and Tone: What terms would you use to describe the overall style? Give a couple of examples. If the rhetor uses metaphors, vivid language, analogies, etc., point out one or two and explain why the rhetor is probably using them and what their effect is meant to be on the intended audience. What is the overall tone of the text?
5. Describe and name the rhetor’s concluding strategy
6. Rhetorical Analysis Thesis Statement that addresses the purpose of the chapter and how the rhetor attempts to achieve that purpose
7. Connections between this text and other texts we’ve read: Does this text support, attacks, agree with, disagree with, give us a new way to think about some earlier text we have encountered in this class or your history class?
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