The Multiple Choice World

One week left to complete your Lucy readings and logs. Previous blogs have more detailed reminders.

1: We started off by sharing our Queen and Earl rhetorical analyses. Then, we jumped into multiple choice passages, which we will be completing throughout the remainder of the course. After going over general strategies, we discussed the importance of close reading a passage just as you would a rhetorical analysis passage. While this may seem to eat away at the time, it actually helps you save time when completing the question portion. For homework, time yourself - be honest this is a practice activity and your first AP-style passage - 12 minutes and complete the MC. We will go over the answers and other items tomorrow.

3 & 7:We watched/listened to/annotated the transcripts for Queen Elizabeth II's statement on Princess Diana's sudden death and Earl Spencer's eulogy for his late sister.

Transcript links: http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/famous-speeches-by-women/queen-elizabeth-ii-speech.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/world/brother-s-eulogy-for-diana-the-very-essence-of-compassion.html
Video links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xc8ta-AtEM&t=255s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VUy-wBwBvw

You were then assigned one of the speeches, in which you will analyze the syntax, diction, tone, pathos, logos, and ethos for the given speech.

Absentees, you can still do this at home! Create a chart on notebook paper. Column one will be rhetorical strategies, column two will be text evidence from the transcript, and column three will be analysis of the strategy. Do six rows - one for syntax, one for diction, one for tone, one for pathos, one for logos, and one for ethos. Izzy, you will be responsible for Earl Spencer's speech; Morgan, you will be responsible for Elizabeth II"s speech; Charlie R. you will be responsible for Earl Spencer's speech. In seventh hour, Crews, you will be responsible for Elizabeth II's speech.