1. Pieces Read “The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde (Worksheet)
“Indian Education” Sherman Alexie (Close Reading Questions)
“Two Ways to Belong in America by Bharati Mukherjee (SOAPStone)
“Learning to Read” by Malcolm X (SOAPStone)
“A Chinaman’s Chance” by Eric Liu (Close Reading Questions)

2. Possible Strategies to Analyze
Rhetorical Appeals
ethos
logos
pathos
Stylistic Choices
diction
punctuation
sentence structure
organizational structure
Rhetorical Devices
allusion
analogy
anaphora
asyndeton
hyperbole
metaphor
parallelism
personification
polysyndeton
repetition
rhetorical question
simile
symbolism

3. _______________________ in ______________________________________ uses __________________ and _________________ in order to ______________________ his audience of __________________ that _____________________________________.
(name of author)
(title of piece)
(strategy #1)
(strategy #2)
(purpose)
(audience)
(argument)