Tuesday, January 22, 2013

HW DUE THURS. 1/23

12II 1st:

NO HOMEWORK!


12III 2nd/4th:


HW DUE THURS. 1/24: 

1) READ/study the texts in WAR PACKET PART III (graph/Mead text/letter to Hussein), then complete/answer the Qu’s marked for the three texts/readings! 

2) BE READY TO TURN IN THE FINAL DRAFT OF ONE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS EXTENDED PARAGRAPH for ONE of these four assigned texts:

*Jones "The First Day"
*Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech
*excerpt from King's "I Have A Dream" speech
*excerpt from Herman's Coming Out of the Ice

--for your text, pick ONE APPEAL (ethos/pathos/logos) to focus on, and find TWO language devices (tone, syntax, metaphor, antithesis, imagery, specific diction, punctuation, specific repetition, cause-effect, etc. etc.) within that text to SUPPORT YOUR APPEAL toward the AUDIENCE and PURPOSE of that text/the "HOW" of the text


***REMEMBER:
--basic MLA-STYLE  format
--following ALL the suggestions/revisions/improvements to make from your first ext. para. 
--IMPROVE/REVISE IN THE AREAS YOU DID POORLY ON THE FIRST TIME, PLEASE!!!!! 
--PROOFREAD!!! FOR ERRORS!!! *Especially MLA silly errors, plus COMMA SPLICES/FRAGMENTS/RUN-ONs and SEMICOLON ERRORS!!!

**a checklist will be posted on here tomorrow for you to follow as a guide in your writing

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