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Calendars
    - August 2011

Rhetoric Resources
    - Resources of Language handout

Rhetoric at Play
    - Sarcasm Society

    - Editorial Mentor Texts
        - Mitch Albom
        - Bill O'Reilly
        - Leonard Pitts
        - Rick Reilly
        - Andy Rooney

    -Arts & Letters Daily

    - American Rhetoric 

10th Grade Goals:
    - Improve Reading Comprehension
    - Deepen Critical Reading Abilities
    - Further Develop Writing Skills
    - Improve Decision Making Skills

Annotation
    - What do I annotate?
    - Sample annotation

Socratic Circle Discussions

Other Instructions
    - Bubbl.us

Semester 1 - Narration

Notes
    - Terminology powerpoint - How authors influence their audiences

Quickwrites

Unit 1 - Connotation vs Denotation
    - connotation vs denotation practice

    -Writing Assignment - Love, Money, or Pride
            - assignment sheet

Unit 2 - What is Your Story
    - Writing Assignment - Memory Narrative
            - assignment sheet
            - graphic organizer
            - rubric

Unit 3 - The Horror Genre
    - Socratic Circle
        "The Black Cat" - Edgar Allen Poe
            - text
            - Socratic Circle questions

    - Writing Assignment - Scary Setting
            - Stephen King examples
            - assignment sheet
            - graphic organizer
            - rubric

    - Socratic Circle
        "The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson
            - text
            - Socratic Circle questions
            - bubbl.us brainstorming

Semester 2 - Persuasion

 Notes
    - Rhetoric powerpoint - the classical appeals expanded
    - Rhetoric intro notes

    - Still unclear? Here are some more notes: pathos, ethos

 Quickwrites
   - Quickwrite #1 - Using a letter format AND all 10 vocabulary words from week 1 (underline words), convince your parents that they should buy you a brand new car. (10 min)
    - Quickwrite #2 - Smart Car ad (10 min)
    - Quickwrite #3 - Convince me that we should not have a vocab quiz this week (10 min)

Rhetorical Analysis
    - "Megan Meier and the Myspace 'Joke'" - by Leonard Pitts
    - explication assignment
           - introduction & conclusion paragraph process
            - sample intro paragraph
        - body paragraphs
            - revision strategies
            - sample body paragraph

   - "Take Action to End Hunger Now" - by Leonard Pitts
  - in-class essay graphic organizer

   - SuperSize Me - Morgan Spurlock
        - note-taking chart
        - in-class essay graphic organizer

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