DO Now-2/15/18 Hand in any Late materials that pertain to Quarter 3. Place these items on my desk!! Take out your copy of our new text, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. If you didn’t receive The text it is inside the box on the sidebar. If you were absent, Read silently, “A Few Words about this Book”, “Prologue Lesson 1”, “Lesson 2”, and “Lesson 3”. Annotate for important information relating to our new reading. Get back into your groups from yesterdays class and take out your paper with your responses.

objective I can Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

Group Work Group #1 Group #2 Why does Skloot include repeated references to both Henrietta’s health and the doctor’s responses? What words or phrases does Skloot use to communicate Henrietta’s decline in health? Based on Skloot’s explanation of “benevolent deception”, what is meant by the word benevolent in this context? How does the description of Henrietta’s treatment, help you understand the meaning of the word vain in this context? How does Skloot’s description of the time period further develop the idea that Henrietta might have “deferred to anything her doctors said” ? What phrase did doctors use to describe Henrietta? The word specimen can be defined as “a sample of a substance or material for examination or study.” Why might the doctor use that word to refer to a patient? Why might Skloot have included this historical description when explaining Henrietta’s declining health? What is the impact of the word specimen in describing Henrietta? How does Skloot distinguish what the doctors knew and what they told the Lacks family?

Exit Ticket How does the use of Rhetorical devices advance Skloot’s purpose in this excerpt?