Week 3, September 20-24

Monday, September 20

Goals: Confirm text breakdown through SOAPSTone method; application of three appeals; intro to rhetoric in visuals

Tasks:

• Picture and Paragraph Due
• SOAPSTone Due—Discuss answers
• Ad Due
• Intro to visual rhetoric—pages 10-12 (political cartoons), pages 49-51 (ads)
• Analyze ads with partner

Tuesday, September 21

Goals: Intro to rhetoric in visuals; free response writing with rhetorical strategy application (through journals)

Tasks:

• Discuss ad analysis
• Political cartoon dissection
• Intro to bi-weekly journals
• HW: Read pages 38-41 in Lang of Comp.
• Note: vocab quiz next Tuesday (Sept. 28)

Wednesday, September 22 (Late arrival)

Goals: Close reading transferred to analysis writing (tone and rhetorical strategies)

Tasks:

• Discuss pages 38-41
• Writing about close reading: JFK’s Inagural Address (p. 51-55)
• HW: Questions (Diction 1-2, Syntax 1-2, 5-6),  read through page 57

Thursday, September 23

Goals: Identifying key rhetorical strategies in speeches; clarifying author’s purpose

Tasks:

• Questions due—discuss answers
• JFK’s tone
• Prompt breakdown, p. 57
• HW: Brainstorm (list or bubble)

Friday, September 24

Goals: Organization in writing; balance in answering prompts

Tasks:

• Brainstorm due
• Balance in strategies in purpose—arranging paragraphs
• Sample paragraphs
• Work day (write at least thesis and one body paragraph)
• HW: Rough draft due Monday (typed)