Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Editing your Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Using Literary Tense in your Writing

To do list...

Please be sure that you are spending time tonight doing the following:

Studying the vocabulary words (see previous post); quiz on these on Monday!

Planning and writing your rough draft of your rhetorical analysis essay, due tomorrow!

"Speaker" Essay Prompt due tomorrow!

Tonight, please write a draft in response to the prompt below.

PROMPT: Consider each of the following quotation prompts from F. Scott Fitzgerald and choose ONE to respond to in a fully developed essay, using references to the book, including direct quotes.

Quotation A:  "That was always my experience—a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton.... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works."  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald                                    

Judging from this quotation, why do you think F.Scott Fitzgerald chose Nick as his narrator?  How is the story easier for him to tell through Nick's eyes than any other character's eyes in the novel?  Who else could have been his narrator and why?

Quotation B:  "It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald                                                                   

 This was what F. S. Fitzgerald wrote about the Jazz Age, the time period in which The Great Gatsby is set.  How do you see each of these descriptions reflected in his writing about the setting and the people of this time in the novel?

Rubric for this essay:  ___+4 thesis and development of main points, ___+4 direct quotes and text ref. used in support of main points, ___+4 grammar and mechanics, prewriting (+2)



Also, check out the vocabulary list for your quiz next week on Monday, 12/3.  These words are from the rhetorical terms list given out earlier in the month, they were used in Gatsby activities, and/or were used in Chapter 7 in Everyday Use.

abstract

caricature

concrete lang.

connotation 

denotation

diction

explication

exposition

extended metaphor*

figurative lang.

imagery

mode

mood

motif*

narration 

personification 

point of view

regionalism

setting

style

symbolism

syntax

voice

new historicism

summary narration 

scenic narration

stock setting

flashback

apostrophe 

soliloquy

omniscient narration

limited narration

dramatic narration

narrative intrusion

Enjoy Thanksgiving break!

Please enjoy your week off for this Thanksgiving break!  This year, I am thankful for such kind, hardworking students who are thoroughly invested in their education and making a difference in the world!  Great work so far in class; stay motivated, and get some time to enjoy reading the remainder of the book and responding with the activities.  See you on Monday, 11/26!

Characterization and Setting

First, we will be taking a short quiz to assess for understanding of reading in ch. 1-3.

Next, we will be doing the following characterization activities:
Activity 2, analyzing the description of Tom Buchanan (see previous posting for this activity description sheet) and then....
Characterization Analysis activity

These activities will help us to focus on aspects of characterization utilized by Fitzgerald, such as details and diction or word choice.

This activity will be continued tomorrow in class; your assignment is to continue reading up to the end of ch. 6 for Friday.

Good afternoon AP scholars!

Welcome to class!  For today, you will be following the posting from yesterday, involving the webquest.  When you are done with the webquest, you may begin reading in the novel.  Webquest is due tomorrow... see you then!

The Great Gatsby begins...

In preparation for our one and only class novel of the year, please complete the following webquest, linked below.  This webquest is intended to give you deeper knowledge about the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald himself, and the context in which F. Scott Fitzgerald lived and set his novel.  If possible, use headphones for the video links, as this could be distracting to others... or just wait until you are at home for this part.  If you finish before the end of the class period, you may read in the book.
Enjoy this web opportunity and hopefully you will learn a lot from the experience!  This web quest should be completed by Fri., 11/9.

The Great Gatsby Webquest

Webquest answer sheet

Also, please check out the reading schedule and due dates for The Great Gatsby here:
activities and reading schedule