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=Today's Learning Goals:=
 * 1) Define rhetorical devices that pertain to repetition.
 * 2) Pre-Write for a complete style analysis essay.

=(15 minutes) Bell Ringer= Add these terms to your binders. For each, include the definition and an example. Note that each is some form of repetition. When you've added them to your binder, test your knowledge (Open the PPT show.)
 * 1) anaphora
 * 2) anadiplosis
 * 3) epistrophe
 * 4) polysyndeton
 * 5) epanalepsis
 * 6) symploce


 * Resources:**
 * University of Kentucky's Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
 * The Forest of Rhetoric
 * Virtual Salt
 * American Rhetoric
 * English Grammar Online

=(30 minutes) Task 1: America Needs It's Nerds=
 * 1) Read Aloud the text.
 * 2) Discuss online.
 * Post at least five (5) comments on the text, and at least (3) comments responding to what someone else says.
 * Comment on the author's tone and purpose.
 * Notice how the author uses appeals to ethos, pathos, logos.
 * Analyze the author's diction.
 * Analyze the author's syntax.
 * Agree or disagree with the author or with a peer's comments.
 * Make connections to other texts, ideas, issues.
 * Ask questions.

=(20 minutes) Task 2: Complete the graphic organizers for DICTION and SYNTAX.=

While you work, I'll be conducting writing conferences over the syntax paragraphs on "Gettysburg Address."

=(25 minutes) Task 3: Independent Reading/Writing=
 * Read or work on your thINK.
 * Don't forget your thINK must be posted and the link added to the assignment page by midnight tonight!