Directions: Use the next five minutes to study for your vocab quiz. At the end of the study period, your vocab worksheet will be collected so that the quiz can begin.
Directions: Log in to our Google Classroom. Read the new article posted, then answer the following questions:
1. What is the message of the article? 2. What is the purpose of the article? 3. Which rhetorical strategies and devices were used most? 4. Which overall topic does this relate to? Why? Directions: Add your answer to the following question at the end of the Rhetorical Mode Practice from yesterday:
7. What patterns do you notice in how the following modes are paired with others? What is usually the purpose? a) Expository b) Narrative c) Descriptive d) Argumentative Directions: Review the posted visual text, then answer the following questions:
1. What is the message of this visual text? 2. What is the purpose of creating this message? 3. Which strategy and/or structure is most effective? Why? Image is available at: https://twistedsifter.com/2018/06/population-of-canada-in-quarters/ Directions: Use the next five minutes to discuss the events from chapters 1-5 of Catcher in the Rye to prepare for a reading comprehension quiz.
With the information provided about rhetorical modes, complete the following practice: For each of the following texts, identify which mode(s) were used and explain how they were utilized: 1) “Best in Class” (Talbot, pg. 223) A) (one of the 4 main modes, with explanation of how it was used) B) (additional modes, with explanation of how it was used) 2) “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” (Prose, pg. 176) A) (one of the 4 main modes, with explanation of how it was used) B) (additional modes, with explanation of how it was used) 3) “This is Water…” (Foster Wallace, pg. 232) A) (one of the 4 main modes, with explanation of how it was used) B) (additional modes, with explanation of how it was used) 4) “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (King, pg. 280) A) (one of the 4 main modes, with explanation of how it was used) B) (additional modes, with explanation of how it was used) 5) “Small Change…” (Gladwell, pg. 344) A) (one of the 4 main modes, with explanation of how it was used) B) (additional modes, with explanation of how it was used) 6) “Where I Lived…” (Thoreau, pg. 296) A) (one of the 4 main modes, with explanation of how it was used) B) (additional modes, with explanation of how it was used) |
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