When 2 Passages Collide

For 1 & 3, we started off with finishing up our rhetorical analysis q & a to ascertain tips for hooks, picking out strategies, and overall preparedness for processing, close reading, and writing the prompt. Afterwards, you received your scoring sheet, an approximation of what you would score on the exam. Then, we looked at the argumentation essay, in which our leaders shared their examples from expected to surprising.

For 1, 3, & 7, we read 2 passages, one of an nineteenth century commentary on society and one a parody of said commentary, to look for authorial purposes and strategies that create such reasoning. For homework, you have a 3 paragraph mini-essay - intro, 2 body - to practice rhetorical analysis. If you were absent, you will need to see me before class as you will be working on this assignment during class time to catch up.

And, last call, for t-shirt money - I will be setting up the purchase orders for this shirts tomorrow during AP Lit testing.