Is this a great country?

AP studs took notes today on the nuts and bolts of a rhetorical analysis.

I have copied the notes below:

Read the prompt carefully

BAT (Circle or underline the background and task)

Draw Triangle and label it

Annotate your passage

First paragraph – one sentence – make sure you include the purpose - use your triangle for the information

Do NOT write a laundry of devices in your first paragraph

Discussion  - introduce and embed a quote – explain or comment on the quote – describe the effect of the quote on the audience -  connect that effect to the author’s purpose

Conclusion – forget about it!

PUNCHLIST  After you write the analysis for the second time, go and relax.  Then, later, much later, review this second draft according to the following punchlist:

Blue or black ink

Naked diction – “emotional diction”

Naked tone – “Aggressive tone”

Describe the author’s writing in present tense – “Banneker states”

Pronouns – fix three ambiguous pronouns

No first or second person 

This – Find three of them and follow it with a noun

Rubric

First draft

Blue or black ink

Annotated prompt and passage

Clean introduction

Discussion guidelines

Punchlist

If you have ANY questions about these notes, please do not hesitate to ask me in class tomorrow.

Tomorrow you will write a rhetorical analysis on Obama's immigration speech.  If you missed watching the speech today, simply click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VbnTB7hfsI

Your book (Handmaid's Tale) annotations, and your five discussion questions with page number references are due Monday, December 8, 2014.

Your re-write of the Banneker rhetorical analysis is due Tuesday, December 9, 2014.

Seventh period wrote two pages in their journals in response to the prompt below and read through page 54 of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.