AF: Rhetorical Analysis -- How I'm counting up to 40

Don't forget:  I'd like a hard copy (paper and ink) of your essay to work with, so please print out a copy for me when you come back after the break.

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OK, just to clarify, this is what I will be looking for when I crack into this during our break...

*Spotlight on Rhetoric:  :)  Thank you for your participation
First Read -- 5 Think Questions:  5 points available (If you get 3/5, that's what I'll capture here.)
Rhetorical Strategies - one paragraph of analysis (6), with 2 peer reviews x 2 (4) = 10 points
Diction/Syntax - same paragraph to analyze, this time for diction/syntax (6) with 2 peer reviews (4) = 10 points
Tone/POV - a different paragraph to analyze, another paragraph to write, no peer review - 5 points
*Rhetorical Analysis Prewrite:  :)  Yes/No in my notes  (Summative assessment)
*Evidence and Elaboration:  :)  Yes/No in my notes  (Summative assessment)
Thesis Statement:  Write your thesis statement (I prefer that you focus on your selected text, but will accept a good thesis for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) - thesis statement, 2 peer reviews = 10 points

*The things that don't earn points are still important.  Summative assessments help me to see your emerging understanding.  It's just a mini-ungraded test in the middle of a unit.

So you're a college-bound junior:  don't confine your work to those things that give you a point.  I'd like to you to figure out how to write these kinds of essays, and I need to see what you are able to see.  Rhetorical analysis is a skill that does not come naturally at first, but you can learn to do it by reading carefully and thinking about what is happening in the text.  So please, do all of this work because it is good for you and it will help us both.  (The carrot.)  And a "NO" in my notes for incomplete work will have a nasty impact on your overall score.  (The stick.)