Class #6: SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT NOTE: Monday, September 26, 2016

WEDNESDAY ASSIGNMENT NOTE (STUFF DUE MONDAY): 

Narratives were to be delivered to Google Classroom. 

Revisions of Formal Essay #1 to be turned in via hard copy in class. 

IN-CLASS:

Usage Quiz

Rhetorical Device Scavenger Hunt Group Challenge 

1. Get in your families.

2. Use the remainder of class to find, identify, define and illustrate the importance of the rhetorical devices listed below:


3. You can go to anywhere on campus that suits you. Or, stay here in the classroom and use your own devices to complete this task.

4. For Wednesday, you must have the following recorded in writing (typed, one per family turned in) Using this article from Sports Illustrated, identify how the author uses the devices listed below.

In other words, for each device, you must:
a. Define each.
b. Identify how each is used in the article. Extra credit will be given for those whom have examples NO OTHER family was able to find. Cite the examples.    
c. Describe how each might also be used in our own writing.

You will be graded not only on the assignment turned in, but on your ability to share what you have learned with the class as a whole.

Use the remaining class period. This will minimize required meeting time for each family.

The devices: adjunction, allusion, anaphora, apostrophes, colloquialisms, dialogue, hyperbole, metaphor, repetition and simile.

We will begin class on Wednesday with a discussion on this assignment. Have a hard copy (again, only one per family necessary) with you in class.

READ: This interesting article on commentary and criticism from The New Yorker about New York Times restaurant critic. It's important to me that during class we get a sense of the ways in which written argument comes into view as part of the "real world." This article reveals the nuanced, provocative world of someone who writes incredibly important reviews (arguments for or against the consumption of something) for a living. I want you to consider Peter Wells, his life, his job and the idea that his rhetoric can make or break someone's life!! Oi...the pressure.

WRITE: Informal Essay #2: Watch the presidential debate tonight (or stream them tomorrow). Choose one issue that comes up during the debate. CITE each candidate's side of the given issue (use direct quotation from the candidate...you may research this from another source). Then, in a paragraph or so, state your own opinion on the issue. Turn the assignment in on Google classroom by this coming Friday at 11:59 p.m.