Critical Thinking The answer is right in front of you! You’ll have four minutes. No cheating or talking!

The Puzzle Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you'll make a familiar phrase. For example, "Thighbone/Swallowtail" conceals "High & Low." 1. Gulliver/Clearness 2. Tragicomedy/Pentagon 3. Chinchilla/Magdalene 4. Terrestrial/Ecoterrorist 5. Thundershower/Intellectual

The Answers 1. Gulliver/Clearness 2. Tragicomedy/Pentagon 3. Chinchilla/Magdalene 4. Terrestrial/Ecoterrorist 5. Thundershower/Intellectual 1. Live & Learn 2. Come & Go 3. Hill & Dale 4. Trial & Error 5. Show & Tell

Goals for the Day I can assess and evaluate positive and negative traits of rhetorical analysis essays.

Questions about the Rhetorical Essay

5 Steps to a 5 Open to Chapter 8 – read silently pages 125 to the top of page 127. Practice several of these together with a partner or small group. There are activities with structure, purpose, and tone. Try a few of each.

Homework Read some of the rhetorical prompts on Google classroom. Follow the same procedure we followed with argumentative. Plan how you would write your essay. Read student samples and determine what is done well and what is not. Review the AP Scoring Commentary. Practice writing as needed. Continue reading either chapter 5 and 8 in 5 Steps to a 5 or if you already read those chapters last time, read chapters 6 and 9 on Argumentative essays.

Open the In-class Rhetorical Practice – 2016 Prompt on Classroom. Do NOT read ahead – just look at the prompt. Begin by reading the prompt and writing down the task. What will you need to do in order to fulfill the requirements of the prompt. Now turn and talk with your partner about what you would need to identify within the essay to be successful. Now read the passage and plan how you would support your essay. With your partner, discuss at least five specific pieces of evidence you might use to support/develop your claim.

Assess your potential response with examples from the AP board Scroll down and read through the rubric for this essay. Briefly turn to your partner and discuss whether there is anything you don’t understand in the rubric or anything that confuses you. Scroll down to response 2A and read it silently. As you read note positive traits that you see in the writing. Turn to your partner and discuss what makes this a strong essay? How well does it meet the indicators of the rubric? What score would you give this essay? Discuss your own approach to this essay if you were writing it. What would you do differently after reading this essay? Scroll all the way to the last page and read the AP’s scoring logic.

Look at some other essays Turn to response 2B and read it silently. Note positives and negatives you see in this essay. Turn and talk to your partner about the positives and negatives you found in this essay. What was lacking in this essay that was present in response 2A? What score would you give this essay? Compare this essay to what you envision yourself writing. Is it better or worse? Why? If better, what would you need to do get your essay to this level? If worse, what would you be doing that would be better than this? Scroll all the way to the bottom and read the AP’s scoring logic for this essay.

Examine an inadequate essay Read response 2C silently. Note what is lacking in this essay. Turn and talk to your partner about what prevents this from being a good essay? What would need to be done to improve it? What score would you assign it? How would this compare to your own writing? Discuss what would prevent you from falling into some of the problems this student response has. How can you ensure that your writing is better than this? Scroll to the bottom of the page and read the AP’s scoring logic.