1. Multiple Choice Practice: The Brudenells
Read the passage and give it a try.
Please have your “Syntax for the Superior Student” out and ready to turn in.

2. Review answers.
Put the text and questions (with correct answers marked) in the multiple choice section of your binder.
Did you save the mood and tone handout?

3. The Santa Ana Winds Read and annotate.
Share with a partner. What kinds of things did you mark?

4. #9 Close Reading to Analysis
1. Active Reading:
Mark unfamiliar words
Questions, reactions, connections
Understand the content: think about rhetorical situation (triangle, SOAPStone).
2. Noticing for Analysis
Diction: types of words (formal, informal, colloquial, slang), powerful words, connotations
Syntax: constructions- parallel, compound, complex. Length, type.
Devices: rhetorical, figurative language, imagery, details
Shifts

5. #9 Close Reading to Analysis
3. Determining Effect/ Impact:
Consider HOW the author’s choices create effects.
Why did the author choose to use that specific diction or syntax? What is the function of that imagery or metaphor?
How do these choices appeal to ETHOS, LOGOS, PATHOS?
How do these choices help to support the ARGUMENT being made?

6. Reminders Current event due tomorrow. Handout.
College Essay first draft- due Thursday.
Tonight: Please read Complete activity on page 43, ON PAPER TO TURN IN.