Multiple Choice Monday

Hi Lovelies,

Below is the "homework" you are expected to complete.  It connects to our Multiple Choice passage from today.  I know you have a lot to do since Outliers needs to be read by Wednesday so I am giving you until MONDAY 3/18 to complete this.  

I have high standards for the work I expect you to do with this piece and I am going to hold you to them because I know you can reach them.  Do not half "butt" this work.  (Since it's due Monday 3/18, it will count as the first significant grade for the new grading period but I hope you are more motivated by the deliberate practice than you are by the carrot I am dangling for you to chase.)

This is good stuff and good for you too. 

You should have started most of this, but I am posting all of the steps and including a delicious link.  

Multiple Choice Deliberate Practice

1.       Read through the passage AND the questions once and annotate (that means define) every unknown  vocabulary word.  

2.       Read through the passage again and annotate for understanding. 

3.       What is the rhetor’s main point in paragraph 1, 2, etc.? (8 total)

4.       How does paragraph 2 connect to paragraph 1? How does paragraph 3 connect to paragraph 2? (continue through to how paragraph 8 connects to paragraph 7)

5.       What is the rhetor’s “big picture” purpose and main point in the passage as a whole?

6.       Did the rhetor convince you? Interest you? Lead you to disagree strongly? How did the rhetor achieve an effect on you as the reader? (Nowhere in this is room for your like or dislike of the text. Your job as a thoughtful consumer is to THINK about what the rhetor’s purpose is and how they are using rhetorical devices/strategies/tools to achieve it [their purpose].)

7.       After accessing the link on the blog and reading the article (Go down the rabbit hole if you want to but at the very least) answer this: Who is the rhetor of this passage and what impact do you think he/she had on their intended audience?

Access THIS LINK.

NOW, go back and answer the 16 questions.  

Thanks for all the effort.

Love and Light,
Beltran

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