Friday, January 6

Vocabulary quiz.
Homework check.
Discussed student examples of rhetorical strategies, including:

• Imagery
• Allusions
• Rhetorical questions
• Emotionally loaded language/words or elevated language/word choices
• Repeated words
• Repeated sentence structures (parallel structure)

Discussed types of appeals, impact of strategies on audience.
Students selected their sense of most important or interesting types of strategies.
Began outlining an essay of about 1500 words, analyzing Patrick Henry's speech.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, January 6: "The Right to Be Free" vocabulary unit 1 quiz.
TUESDAY, January 17: Midterm Exam.