AP English III Dec 5 and 6 - We started SAT revision practice today.
 
We also wrote a rhetorical analysis timed write over a passage from Huck Finn
 
Huck Finn analysis activities II due today also ( MC practice; rhetorical paragraph; argument paragraph)

Pre-AP English II Week of April 16 - We begin The Tempest by Shakespeare today. We read Act I and completed the following annotations in groups:
Annotations The Tempest:
 
Act I: Starting with Prospero: “'Tis time
I should informe thee farther: Lend thy hand
And plucke my Magick garment from me” and end with the entrance of Ariel.
 
Act I: Ariel “is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, Which is not yet perform'd me.” to Yes, Caliban her son
 
Act I: Enter Caliban to To Prospero: O, slave; hence!
 
Act I: Prospero : “Follow me. Speak not you for him; he's a traitor” to the end of the act”

Style Analysis Paragraph Example - Kincaid develops Britain as only a map in her head to depict the ownership that Britain holds over the island of Antigua. Jamaica Kincaid utilizes a parallel structure that effectively portrays the fragility at which the concept of England was handled “gently, beautifully, delicately,” just like porcelain the map of England is laid out. Kincaid develops an idealistic view that foreigners relate England with. With those words, Kincaid portrays how England is presented to the people of Antigua as a delicate majestic country creating an ethical appeal of superiority. Kincaid creatively illustrates the bias that England has instilled into people’s heart: a bias the views England as the superior ultimatum. Kincaid intricately develops the idea of England as “a very special jewel.” She utilizes this metaphor to portray the idea of beauty and elegance that shadowed the word England. It further illustrates the idealistic view that is planted in the minds of people. Kincaid utilizes an anaphora to emphasize the control England had over the actions of the people. England controlled “our sense of reality, our sense of what was meaningful…” Kincaid develops the rising conflict between England and Antigua as a passive one, but one that is evidently present. England has distorted their sense of reality to their own benefit.
 

Pre-AP II: Literary Paragraph Model -

Model Rhetorical Analysis paragraph II - Holmes’s high opinion of himself is clearly reinforced by the actions of those around him. Larson portrays Holmes’s dastardly plans as simple and straightforward: “lure…justify…burn…[and] collect.” The rapid succession of these verbs in a single sentence without a hint of complication implies Holmes’s carefree attitude: no questions, no conflict. Even the destroying of surplus material is a “happy dividend,” an extra gift at the end of the party. Yes, Holmes’s opinion of himself is indeed high. His greatest moments are not just great by human standards but “transcendent,” almost otherworldly. Larson clearly establishes the narration of the scene through the eyes of Holmes as evidenced by phrases such as “Holmes was…beginning to feel,” and “Holmes knew…” By shortly after including “his techniques were too new, his skills too great” we get the impression that Holmes has not only an inflated ego, but also an air of infallibility. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that his act is bought hook, line, and sinker, or, as Larson tells us, by “a cup of coffee, a free meal in his restaurant, [and] a fine black cigar.” Larson closes the section by telling us that Holmes “filled [the Wilmette house] with love.” As readers, we now understand that “the Wilmette House” may be a metaphor for everything and everyone that Holmes touched, but that the word “love” is drenched in ulterior motive and dripping with sarcasm.

Model Rhetorical Paragraph - Setting his novel in Chicago during the late eighteen hundreds, Erik Larson develops the main conflict of Chicago’s gradual decline as a city with honorable moral values. He instructs us that “There was diphtheria, typhus, cholera, influenza. And there was murder.” Larson here provides some of the conflicts making Chicago such a horrific scene, with this list depicting sickness, motor car hazards, and murder. Chicago was declining and even worse, thousands of people were coming to live in these dirtied streets. Larson even flat-out tells us that Chicago is falling into the depths of evil using a vernacular to identify the city as “degrading” and “wicked”. The words he chooses in this chapter all have the connotation that Chicago is becoming more and more of an atrocious place to live, setting the scene for the entrance of an evil character’s entrance, HH Holmes

Frederick Douglass Rhetorical Paragraphs -

Rhetorical Analysisi Timed Write: On Seeing England for the First Time -

Excerpt models: Process Analysis, Description, Classification, and Extended Definition -

Rhetorical Analysis Paragraph example from Chronicles of Ice - In this essay, Ehrlich personifies the thoughts of a glacier in order to spur a change in the way consumptive citizens view wildlife and nature. The author personifies a glacier to being, “an archivist and historian” documenting that a loss of a glacier directly translates into “losing history”. This determined assertion implies that glaciers are tools that prevent the rapidly developing world from destroying the future through our industrial pollution. She establishes the importance of a historian, so we can understand that a glacier not only serves an aesthetic purpose for its beauty, but also for its education al value, and that new perspective is a persuasive device rendering pathos and logos for the world to think twice when making harmful decisions towards the environment. The “smokestack and tailpipe society” are metaphors that make a strong claim every individual to think about how they have contributed to forming this industrial wasteland.
 
This received a score 7

Model Rhetorical Analysis Essay: "On Seeing England for the First Time" Jamaica Kincaide -

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Model rhetorical paragraph, Devil in the White City -

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