Today we completed two SAT QODs. You also perused your folder and completed a self-assessment for your writing. We then read and discussed the letter from the clergymen to Dr. King and then began to discuss the magnificent "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." You submitted your annotations for that piece. Finally, you received a homework assignment that is due on Friday, January 25, 2013 a copy of which appears below:
Homework due Friday, January 25, 2013
For your homework due Friday, you will write a rhetorical analysis of a portion of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” To complete this assignment, please do the following:
1. Choose at least one panel of your handout to analyze. One panel corresponds to two pages of text. You may analyze more of the text if you would like, but four pages of text is the maximum length that you may choose to analyze.
2. Your first paragraph, as always, will state Dr. King’s purpose. Please describe this purpose as specifically as possible.
3. Now discuss the salient (relevant) features of Dr. King’s text, embedding quotes as you go. Please note that a feature is NOT salient unless it helps Dr. King achieve his purpose.
4. Features that you may choose to discuss include the following: diction (describe it!), sentence structure (syntax), figurative language, tone, tone shifts, ethos, pathos, logos, and repetition.
5. Remember your rhetorical triangle. In other words, at the end of your discussion of each feature, describe the effect (or is it affect?J) of Dr. King’s rhetoric on his intended audience, and explain how this rhetorical feature helps Dr. King achieve his purpose. (Speaker, audience, purpose – you may want to have these three words tattooed somewhere on your person.)
6. Your analysis MUST extend to at least both sides of one page. You may type your analysis, but a handwritten one is acceptable. Since this is not an in-class assignment, please make sure that you take the time to pre-write, revise, and re-write your paper. Of course, you should always pre-write, even for an in-class, timed writing.
7. A homework grade is a major grade. Many of you did not pass last semester because of failure to submit homework. You are too smart to repeat past mistakes.
8. As always, please give this assignment your best effort – make yourself proud!
9. Penultimately, but not least, please see me for any help.
10. Last, but not least, you are welcome for giving you such a thought provoking and challenging assignment.
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