Feb 24 - Last day of testing!

Yesterday no one was absent and there was no homework, so I didn't blog the assignment.

We tested and we went over our vocab and grammar.

Today when you have read this you completed your last test! Yeah!

Once you've done that, follow this link:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/english/courses/sites/lunsford/pages/defs.htm

This site has complied quotes on rhetoric.

Here are some collected definitions for rhetoric:


1.Rhetoric is the art of using language as a means to persuade.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric)
2.As a course of study, rhetoric trains students to speak and/or write effectively. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric)
3.1: the art of speaking or writing effectively: as a: the study of principles and rules of composition formulated by critics of ancient times b: the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion 2 a: skill in the effective use of speech b: a type or mode of language or speech ; also : insincere or grandiloquent language3: verbal communication : discourse
(m-w.com)
4.Rhetoric is the study of effective speaking and writing. And the art of persuasion. And many other things. (http://rhetoric.byu.edu/encompassing%20terms/rhetoric.htm)

Knowing what rhetoric is and how it functions in different mediums (i.e. National Public Radio, facebook, a photo essay in Newsweek that we will work with today, your textbooks, the NCLB tests, conversation, a formal essay, etc.) will be important for your Essay test coming up for the nine weeks.

When we get back to class we will have a vocab quiz, a grammar worksheet, and then examine the photo essay on Newsweek - don't go looking for it because we will view it together.

HW: 2 sentence response to each photo covering:
1. What is the message intended in the 'framing' of the photo?
2. How is the message conveyed?