We took your diction work from yesterday and used it to write sample "mini-paragraphs" of diction analysis.
We looked at two sample essays and what separates the excellent from the average. We looked at how to talk about diction and did a short exercise in using diction adjectives. You'll use these to revisit your "Cripple" essays on Tuesday.
Awesome meeting with JP from Real Life Poets today about getting a spoken word group up and running here at CPHS. If you didn't sign up, but you're interested, join us on Tuesday the 22nd at 8am.
We'll go over the sample essays, and how you graded them, on Monday. no make up work for today. Today we looked at how rhetorical analysis has a place in the "real world" by analyzing two news articles that talk about the rhetoric of race. You did a SOAPS analysis of the two articles with a focus on determining the author's purpose.
Today we looked at how word choice reveals tone and how tone can reveal purpose. We read a prompt from the 1992 AP Language exam, identified the author's purpose and tone. You wrote thesis statements based on your analysis.
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