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Today's Learning Goal:
 * 1) Practice analytical reading.
 * 2) Using the rhetorical triangle, determine the author's purpose and analyze HOW the author crafts the text.
 * 3) Improve vocabulary, focusing especially on determining meaning through context.

 Bell Ringer Set up and share with me your READING LOG.
 * Read the directions. It walks you through step-by-step.

=Word Study=
 * Explore the meaning of //fallacy//.
 * "A flaw or crack in many of the hypotheses of daily life may be of little or no moment as affecting the general correctness of the conclusions at which we may arrive; but, in scientific inquiry, a fallacy, great or small, is always of importance, and is sure to be in the long run constantly productive of mischievous if not fatal results" (Huxley 613).

**Read Aloud**
 * "What Is Science?"

=Mini-Lesson: Author's Purpose=
 * Rhetorical Triangle
 * [[file:RhetoricalTriangle.pdf]]

** The Reader's Rhetorical Triangle **

Logos
 * Note the claims the author makes, the exigence.
 * Note the data the author provides in support of the claims.
 * Note the conclusions the author draws.

Ethos
 * Note how the author establishes a persona
 * Note how the author establishes credibility
 * Note any revelation of the author's credentials or personal history

Pathos > Source: Mr. Gunnar's English Classes
 * Note the primary audience for the text
 * Note the emotional appeals the author makes
 * Note the author's expectations of the audience

=Other Helpful Sources to Understand Rhetoric=
 * Slideshow from Purdue's Online Writing Lab

=Reading Time=
 * As you read, note HOW the author crafts the text.
 * Do you notice ethos, pathos, logos?
 * Even in fiction, we sometimes see evidence of these persuasive appeals. Check out, tor example, Cassius speech to Brutus in //Julius Caesar.//

=** Homework ** =
 * Re-Read the Huxley essay and jot your thinking:
 * Using two-column notes, capture text details on left side and commentary on the right.
 * In your commentary, note how the details relate to the rhetorical triangle.
 * Record at least five (5) entries. The example at right shows two (2) entries.
 * = Read, read, read! Try to read at least thirty (30) minutes each day. Don't forget to log your reading time. =