Critical Thinking You’ll have 3 minutes today. You’ll need to explain this one, so put your name on it and turn it in so that I can read your explanation. No talking or cheating!

The PROBLEM A man needs to cross a river in a canoe.  With him, he has a bag of grain, a chicken, and a fox.  He can only carry one of the three at a time.  If he leaves the grain and the chicken, the chicken will eat the grain.  If he takes the grain, the fox will eat the chicken. How does he successfully cross the river with his load?

The Solution The man first takes the chicken across, leaving it on the other side.  He returns alone in the canoe and picks up the bag of grain.  After bringing across the grain, he takes the chicken back to the original side, dropping him off, and picking up the fox.  After bringing the fox to the other side, and leaving it with the grain, the man returns back to the original side, retrieving the chicken, and making his 3rd and final trip crossing the river.  At no point was the fox left alone with the chicken, or the chicken with the grain.

Goals for the Day I can improve the speed with which I analyze the rhetorical situation and organize for writing.

Vocabulary – Week 13 Vocabulary quiz #13 on Friday. Check definitions: OBDURATE: AHB dur ut Stubborn; inflexible Leanna was so obdurate that she was unable to change her way of thinking on even the most minor issues.

Read the essay What are the positive and negative features? What is the thesis? How are the body paragraphs organized? Topic sentences? How are claims about the strategies used introduced? Is their evidence of the strategy provided? Is there an explanation of how or why the author uses each strategy? What scores would you give each?

Pre-writing – Rhetorical Analysis Use the See-Think-Wander strategy to begin analyzing the text. Consider the SOAPSTone carefully. Move through some of the exercises we completed last week. What does the prompt require you to do? What strategies does Luce use to prepare her audience? What quotes will you use to support your claims? How or why does she use the strategies you claim she uses? Ideally, begin preparing for how you would write this essay.

Homework Read the information about appositive phrases in your textbook on page 269-272 and complete exercises 1 and 2 on page 272-273. Albert Assignment: Give Me Liberty (Patrick Henry, 1775) Due next Tuesday before leaving for Thanksgiving break. Be prepared for vocabulary #13 quiz on Friday. Read student essays, score justification, scorer’s report – come with questions on Friday. AP EXAM next Tuesday – AP Multiple Choice ½ exam (2 passages - 30 min) and Rhetorical Analysis (45 min).

Rhetorical Analysis Essay You’ll have 40 minutes to complete the following essay. You might consider using your time: 5-8 minutes to read and annotate the text. 8-10 minutes to pre-write and organize your essay. 25-30 minutes to write. 1-3 minutes to proofread and edit. Be sure that you read the prompt closely – identify what exactly the prompt asks you to do. This prompt is slightly different from what we’ve seen before, but the exact same principles will be applied.

Comments on Rhetorical Analysis Essays? What surprised you? How close were you on the scores? Share at least two takeaways from your analysis of the student essays.