The Rhetorical World

From poem to short story to non-fiction text, you are slowly ingratiating yourselves into the world of rhetorical analysis, where strategies flourish and purpose surrounds every part of the text. After copying vocab unit 12 down for our start of round 2 of vocab experts tomorrow, each class read, wrote, reviewed, or learned about all the qualities of rhetorical analysis.

1: Returning back to The Outliers, we read the passage with a focused eye on strategies - big ticket and safe ones - to find a plethora of means for Gladwell to exemplify his outlier concept. As noted, you want, ideally, to move from noticing an authorial pattern to actually identifying it as a strategy. If you are stuck in between that ideal, you should be studying your terms, creating a toolbox, reviewing on a regular basis, or a combination of the aforementioned strategies to becoming a stronger rhetorical analyst. You also heard a lot of tips regarding writing, which you should definitely take to your pen! We will continue with these tips, which will then lead to the return of the prompts and your paper meetings. Remember, 1-4 is where you are supposed to be for now, so take any feedback for what it is intended: to make your writing improve, your scores improve, and your overall understanding of texts improve. Anybody just catch that strategy in the last sentence?

3: Returning to "Story of an Hour," we finished reading the text and finding strategies that convey Chopin's study of gender roles, expectations, and reactions in the late nineteenth century. Utilizing that knowledge, you worked in a groups to find a team purpose and write individual paragraphs on one of the strategies. Feedback is in progress for this part of our rhetorical analysis practices. Tomorrow, we will go back to The Outliers passage, performing the same exercise of identifying strategies on a larger text. Perhaps you would want to increase your ethos of strategy names and definitions to better help with your participation tomorrow?

7: Returning to The Outliers, which we over-analyzed last class and uncovered a plethora of strategies just awaiting attention, we then delineated all the important expectations, tips, and writing skills necessary for an AP and collegiate writer. Phew - there are a lot! That means you always have something to work on in your writing, whether it be organization, content, mechanics, or any other facet that makes you a better writer and better prepared for the test. Paper meetings should be starting tomorrow!