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=Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of class, students will be able to... = = Due Today: =
 * analyze text as evidenced by producing a rhetorical precis, one pager or poem to demonstrate understanding.
 * None

HOMEWORK: = Important Deadlines/Reminders: None = AGENDA: = **1. Rhetorical Analysis: The Essay** =
 * **Due Block Day Dec 7 and 8:** Mini Research Paper Revisions and Final Meta-cognition
 * **Due Block Day Dec 7 and 8:** All Make Up Work
 * 1) Pre-Reading Steps
 * 2) Number Paragraphs
 * 3) Read silently once through
 * 4) Annotate EVERY paragraph to identify claims, types of evidence, rhetorical devices (every sentence is either a claim or evidence)
 * 5) Chunk the text (intro, body parts, shifts, conclusion)

**Rhetorical Analysis Prompt **

Rhetorical analysis is an important process in comprehending an author’s text and in understanding the moves an author makes in his/her writing. In practicing rhetorical analysis, one can also comprehend how to improve her/his //own// writing and grow as an intellectual.


 * Directions **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">: Write an essay to analyze a text for the author’s philosophical assumptions, the structure, and the rhetorical strategies. Be sure to briefly summarize the text for context and to introduce the paper’s intent.