Animal farm review

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should check out a new book from the library by Friday.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. MC practice
2. Animal Farm Review

Homework:

1. Work on your book review. It is due tomorrow.
2. YOU ONLY HAVE UNTIL WEDNESDAY NIGHT TO REWRITE AN ESSAY!

Animal Farm chapter 6

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should check out a new book from the library by Friday.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Read Animal Farm chapter 6.
2. Identify the shared beliefs, values, needs of the animals on the farm.
3. Identify how the Pigs use these beliefs, values, and needs to manipulate the animals.
4. How does the pig's word choice or diction play into their ability to persuade/manipulate the other animals?

Homework:

1. Work on your book review. It is due tomorrow.
2. YOU ONLY HAVE UNTIL WEDNESDAY NIGHT TO REWRITE AN ESSAY!

Picture Day

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 24th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Start your book review.
2. Picture day.

Homework:

1. Work on your book review. It is due on Wednesday.

Grade 3rd timed writing

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 24th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Color code your second timed writing.
1. Give yourself a rubric and percentage grade.
2. Create three writing goals for Friday's timed writing

Homework:

1. None

Analysis of Squealer's speech

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 24th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Group Analysis of a Speech
1. How do the writer’s rhetorical choices achieve their purpose and relate to the audience’s emotions and values?
2. Who or what is the writer, audience, message, purpose, and context that comprise this rhetorical situation?
3. How does the writer’s word choice reflect their biases and possibly affect their credibility with a particular audience?
4. What perspectives on the subject might the audience have due to their shared and/or individual beliefs, values, needs, and backgrounds?
2. MC practice

Homework:

1. Rhetorical Device weekly #1 due October 1st

Timeline of the Novel

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 24th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Create a timeline of the events in the novel so far.
2. Read chapter 5 with a partner.

Homework:

1. Rhetorical Device weekly #1 due on October 1st

Animal Farm chapter 4

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 24th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Read chapter 4 of Animal Farm
2. Create a map of the characters
1. Name, type, symbol of
2. How are the characters connected?
1. napoleon
2. snowball
3. old major
4. squealer
5. boxer
6. mr. jones
7. benjamin
8. Mr. pilkington
9. mollie
10. clover
11. moses
12. muriel
3. Rhetorical Device weekly explanation

Homework:

1. Rhetorical Device weekly #1

RA of Squealer's chapter 3 speech

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 24th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. English Journal #2: Squealer's Speech in Chapter 3
1. Write a paragraph that identifies a rhetorical choice he makes in his speech at the end of the chapter.
2. Give evidence for this choice and explain its effect on the audience and how it relates to the context of the events on the farm.

Homework:

1. AP Classroom: Unit 1 progress check

Squealer's Speech in Chapter 3

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 24th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Group Discussion of Squealer's speech
1. What rhetorical choices does Squealer make?
2. Where do you see persuasion, violence, or manipulation?
3. Is he using ethos, pathos, or logos?
2. Class discussion
3. English Journal
4. Write it Right A4

Homework:

1. Word Journal P
2. Write it right A4
3. AP Classroom: Unit 1 progress check

Animal Farm Chapter 3

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 24th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Group Analysis of a Speech
1. How do the writer’s rhetorical choices achieve their purpose and relate to the audience’s emotions and values?
2. Who or what is the writer, audience, message, purpose, and context that comprise this rhetorical situation?
3. How does the writer’s word choice reflect their biases and possibly affect their credibility with a particular audience?
4. What perspectives on the subject might the audience have due to their shared and/or individual beliefs, values, needs, and backgrounds?

Homework:

1. Word Journal O
2. Write it right Sentence Variety

Calibration Day

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 24th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Today we will read sample essays from the timed writing on Friday.
1. Your group will read the essays and then score them separately
2. Your group will then agree on a common score for each essay

Homework:

1. Word Journal N
2. Write it right E3

Catch Up Day

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 17th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Catch Up Day

Homework:

1. Word Journal M
2. Write it right D3

The Rules

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 17th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Finish Reading Animal Farm chapter 2
2. The rhetorical situation for the rules of Animalism
1. Create a one pager that analyzes the rhetorical situation surrounding the rules of Animalism.

Homework:

1. Word Journal M
2. Write it right C3

Animal Farm chapter 2

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 17th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. MC practice.
2. Read chapter 2 of Animal Farm.

Homework:

1. Word Journal K/L
2. Write it right B3

Color code timed writing

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: We will read for ten minutes. You should finish your book by the 17th.

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Color code your second timed writing.
1. Give yourself a rubric and percentage grade.
2. Create three writing goals for Friday's timed writing

Homework:

1. Word Journal J
2. Write it right A3

Finishing Animal Farm chapter 1

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: None

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Introduction to Animal Farm: The Rhetoric of Tyranny
1. 3 Ways to use power
1. Persuasion
2. Violence
3. Manipulation
2. Ethos, Pathos, Logos
1. Logos- reasoned account
2. Ethos- character of the person
3. Pathos- creation of certain emotions
3. Final Day for Posters
1. Symbol for Tyranny
2. Definition of Persuasion, Violence, and Manipulation
3. Connect Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to the words in step 2
2. English Journal #1 Old Major's speech
1. Write a paragraph that explains the Rhetorical Situation.
2. Add a few sentences about the shared beliefs and values between Old Major and the rest of the farm animals.

Homework:

1. None

Animal Farm Chapter 1

Big Idea: Rhetorical Analysis

Learning Target: spotting uses of rhetoric

Reading: None

Argue ideas, not things!

Agenda:

1. Introduction to Animal Farm: The Rhetoric of Tyranny
1. 3 Ways to use power
1. Persuasion
2. Violence
3. Manipulation
2. Ethos, Pathos, Logos
1. Logos- reasoned account
2. Ethos- character of the person
3. Pathos- creation of certain emotions
3. Poster instructions
1. Symbol for Tyranny
2. Definition of Persuasion, Violence, and Manipulation
3. Connect Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to the words in step 2
2. Finish reviewing Write it Right: Sentence Variety.
   
   
   
3. Start reading Animal Farm chapter 1
1. Context and Exigence for Old Major's speech
2. Speaker and Audience for Old Major's speech

Homework:

1. WIR Sentence Variety