Reading pre20th century works

For your assignment today, please choose three authors that interested you from yesterday’s museum exhibit presentations.  If you were absent, please ask a classmate for their notes from yesterday to choose your authors.

For each author, please search to find one nonfiction piece to read by this author.  This could be in the form of an essay, a letter or diary entry, an article or pamphlet, or even a speech.

Read this piece (if it is quite long, read for about a 10 minute section of the piece).

Then, record the following:

• Author, title of the piece and publication date (approximate if need be)
• Author’s purpose and the specific sentences/sections that led you to this conclusion
• Any contributing, relevant info. about context and the author that impacts reader interpretation 
• Explain the author’s effective use of at least three of the following rhetorical techniques:  diction, syntax, tone, arrangement, appeals, figurative language

When done, you should keep these notes.

This assignment will be due completed on Tuesday.