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Sorry I can't be with you today. I'm in Melbourne again, learning! Please note there are only SEVEN (7) class periods remaining this nine weeks. You must use today's period wisely: work diligently!

=Today's Learning Goals:=
 * Analyze the rhetorical strategies and devices an author uses to construct Atext, and determine the author's tone and purpose.
 * Discuss a text online.

=Task 1: In small groups, read and analyze essay.=


 * **Read and annotate the essay**--the print copy the sub gives you. Highlight, underline, circle, jot notes in margin--whatever works for you.
 * **Pre-Write** to gather ideas for your rhetorical analysis.
 * Make a two-column chart and brainstorm TONE words.
 * Make a two-column chart (Diction/CM) to pull out words/phrases, their connotations, and their importance to the author's purpose.
 * Make a two-column chart (CD/CM) to pull out FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE and what meaning it adds to the text.
 * Make a three-column chart (ethos/pathos/logos) and pull out any details that might go in each.
 * **Craft a TONE THESIS**.

=Task 2: Analyze the AP 9-point rubric and the sample student essays.=
 * Use the grading score sheet (half-page hand-out the sub will give you) to analyze the essays.
 * Rank each of the three essays according to the sheet, and give each a score (from 1-9).
 * Then, read the AP scorer's remarks (last page) to see if your scores matched theirs.
 * Notice WHY the essays receive the scores they do.
 * Pay attention to the list of skills/strategies on the half-page scoring guide.

Staple together your pre-writing and annotated essay, and turn in to the sub. Make certain your name is on it!

=Task 3: Spend 10-15 minutes reading and adding to online discussion.=
 * Students from Fort Smith should have posted by now. Try to engage them in conversation.

=Task 4: Independent Work Time=
 * You may read: you should be finished with BNW by next class.
 * You may work on your annotated bibliography.