1. Rhetorical Modes: Description

2. Rhetorical Modes: Description
What it does:
Paints a picture with senses; details (imagery)
Establishes mood/atmosphere
Establishes empathy; connection to text
How to use:
Focus on a dominant impression
Make sure all details support the Dom. Imp.
Create memorable images for the reader through diction
Appeal to all the senses

3. Rhetorical Modes: Description
Rewrite to make more vivid
(use figurative language when possible)
The hospital smelled bad.
His face had many wrinkles, indicating old age.
The leaves falling on the ground is lovely.
The squirrels chased each other up and down the trees as if…
The suitcase fell from the rack of our car and crashed in the highway causing…

4. “The Libido for the Ugly”
Read & Annotate the text (do together)
Focus for reading:
* Adjectives
* Dominant impression in all 9 paragraphs
* Imagery
* Senses

5. “The Libido for the Ugly”
Step One:
Call of by 5’s
Answer on your own paper the question under Strats (245)
Step Two:
Get with the other people who had the same #
Compare your answers; adjust as needed
Step Three:
Each group “teaches” the class & explains their answers
Groups take notes on their papers; turn-in when done

6. Homework Read “Hell” (246 – 249) DO: The facts 1-5
DO: The Strategies 1-5

7. Description vs. Narration* *

8. My Favorite Mistake Did you know when you go It’s the perfect ending
To the bad day
I was just beginning
When you go
All I know is
You’re my favorite mistake.

9. “A Mistake That Should Last a Lifetime”
Step One:
Read the text & answer surface questions
1. What is the writer’s mistake?
2. What details does she recall leading up to the mistake?
3. Looking back at the event, what are the writer’s thoughts today?
4. What lasting impression does the writer take from the experience?
Step Two:
Re-read the text & color code
1. Yellow: indicates where the author recalls the incident
2. Pink: shows where the author reflects on what the incident
means to her today

10. Your Favorite Mistake Graphic Organizer & model “Down” Draft & model
“Up” draft for class on Thursday
Final draft due Friday

11. Night Research Questions
From index card, Choose ONE question
Research information to answer the question
Write a “research brief”
A. 3rd person, formal tone
B. Address the question
C. State the info your sites gave you & cite
(use in text citations)
D. Create Works Cited page