Monday,+April+4+Pre+AP

Bell Ringer
Take the quiz on rhetorical devices at the linked website for PRACTICE. Note: Some of these questions use devices that we have not discussed, but this is a nice way to review yourself.

Book Trailer of the Day
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

To Begin...
Let's start by taking the quiz on QuizStar titled "You've Got Style! Stylistic Rhetorical Devices." When you finish, read and journal with your novels.

Mini-Lesson: STAARS and TEARs!
You need to be more than a reader; you need to be a THINKER! When you read a piece of text or listen to a speech, you need to understand not only the message, but HOW the speaker got the message across. When we do this, we call it "Rhetorical Analysis." An easy way to attack this is the STAARS method.

RS - Rhetorical Strategies (Choose one and cite it from the text)
After you complete this, you need to EXPLAIN HOW that rhetorical device contributes to the meaning of the text. Who needs a mechanic that can just name parts of the engine but doesn't know how any of the parts work???? For this we can write a paragraph using the TEAR method. (As in - No More Tears!)

T- Thematic Statement - including a TAG
===E- Evidence - Incorporate quotations from the text in a sentence which restates what you will explain; do not quote an entire sentence from the text; find integral parts of the sentence - the example of the literary element===

R- Response- Your response (without using first-person) to the passage
Look as a class at the example from the essay "The Death of a Moth."

Group Practice
Look at the letter from President Bush to Saddam Hussein prior to the Gulf War. For Analysis- Letter from President Bush to Saddam Hussein

Working with your group, use the handout to plan a STAARS and TEARs assignment. STAARS and TEAR paragraphs

Independent Reading Time
Read in your novel and journal! Keep an eye out for rhetorical devices!