Seeking the Rhetorical Strategies

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1: After our vocabulary quiz, we spent some quality time looking at passages from The Outliers, identifying rhetorical strategies, and discussing the purposes of these strategies. I have already been bragging about our epiphany regarding the usage of cause & effect, anaphora, and enumeration and how the author builds from vague evidence to specific ethos creating a more formal tone with each and every section! (By the way, that sure sounds like an outline for an essay to me.) To end the show, we began reading about Julie, the Superstar from The Overachievers, and analyzing the author's presentation of her character and situation. We will finish Julie's classification tomorrow and then you will be working on analyzing another character from The Overachievers.

3: After our vocabulary quiz, we finished up our paper meetings. Hopefully, you will take the feedback and advisement to heart and consider ways to improve your rhetorical analysis writing skills for our next diagnostic prompt. To end the hour, we started analyzing passages from The Outliers. By looking for specific strategies and explaining how these strategies work in the passage, you are completing rhetorical analysis. We will finish these passages tomorrow -- don't forget the one about cause and effect with hockey players! We will also start vocabulary unit 12 vocab experts amongst other items on the docket.

7: With a tornado drill and largest class size, we almost finished our meetings today. I will meet with the last three people tomorrow and then we will spend time analyzing passages for rhetorical strategies. Following our vocabulary quiz, you copied down unit 12 vocabulary. Since the bell rang before I could assign your vocab expert word, you will have to wait until tomorrow to find out your new responsibility. Lots to do tomorrow!